Grrr is hubpages stupid?

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   visitmaniacposted 12 years ago

   Hubpages allows you to add your RSS feed at the bottom of some of your hubs? So I did this about a year ago and they are now being flagged for to many links from the RSS feed. WTH gives now!

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      relacheposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      Google decided to come down hard on duplicated content, so HubPages has followed suit.  This has been going on since February, so if you haven't been paying attention, it's no one's responsibility but your own.

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   psycheskinnerposted 12 years ago

   The search algorithms change, so the rules change.

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      visitmaniacposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      makes it a real pain in the butt to go back in and edit them all for that. They should be allowed since they are from a year or more ago if you ask me. Pretty much the reason i stopped using these content places in the first place looks like im done again

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   psycheskinnerposted 12 years ago

   The larger percent of hubs not meet the new rules, the lower hubpages page rank sinks.  Online content is a moving target.

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      visitmaniacposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      yes I know that but i dont change my own blog posts from years ago because of new search engine stuff. I can understand the new ones.

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         psycheskinnerposted 12 years agoin reply to this

         Blog posts don't have an rss feed on the bottom of each post.  You can effectively change them all by changing the template.

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   mistyhorizon2003posted 12 years ago

   You can't use RSS feeds to your content unless it is relevant to the topic of the hub it is on. This means it is no longer allowed to place RSS feeds to your own 'latest Hubs'. Annoying I know as I spent ages deleting all of mine a few months back.

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      wildernessposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      You can, but as you say they have to be relevant.  You can use tags to accomplish that.

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      Eaglekiwiposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      Oops forgot that bit-back I go.
      
      Oh no I hit the publish now ..
      
      Tippy toes out for a sandwich

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   Mighty Momposted 12 years ago

   Two ways to deal with it.
   Either take a hard line and refuse to update on principle, or
   bite the bullet and be grateful that Hub Pages is on top of all the algo changes for us.
   
   BTW, I'm currently going through all my hubs fixing the "broken" links created through the Hub Karma program. I'm not complaining. It's actually a good opportunity to back and read stuff I wrote months and months ago!

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   Topnewhottoysposted 12 years ago

   isn't the possibility of "bad sites" popping up in RSS feeds part of the problem now that HP has cracked down on external link destinations?

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   SubmissionWorkposted 12 years ago

   Hubpages penalised by the Google as content farm recently and now hubpages simply wants to gain their authority again.
   
   So this kind of steps are obvious.

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   Maddie Ruudposted 12 years ago

   Actually, the Hubs were not removed for too many links, but for links to a prohibited site.  It may have simply taken a while for the domain to come to our attention.

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      Topnewhottoysposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      Yes that's why I removed all my RSS feeds, (in my alter-ego account), because RSS feeds are dynamic, and although you may start off with acceptable links, when the feed updates and shows a prohibited link - bam! You get unpublished.

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