I am literally today seeing more than 100 Broken links. These are links to other hubs that Hubpages has removed or the publishers have chosen to remove.
It's not worth the time and effort to manually remove all of these dead links. And dead links kill your page in the eyes of Google. They say to Google this page has no value and is not maintained.
So the marginal boost that may occur is simply not worth all the maintenance.
Until Hubpages comes up with a way to automatically remove the dead links that exist on their own Network is simply is not worth the extra effort.
This sucks for other Hubbers who make quality hubs worth interlinking. But Google is King.
Mike, HubKarma has always been a pointless waste of time. The score means nothing - it doesn't affect your other scores and doesn't help you earn income.
The thing is, if you find a Hub that really adds value to your own Hub, you'll link to it anyway. HubKarma just encourages Hubbers to link for the sake of linking - and then you have hundreds of links. That creates a rod for your back because some of those Hubs are bound to get removed - especially if you didn't check them carefully to make sure you were linking to a high quality Hub that didn't break any TOS.
Hubkarma, hubscore and author score are all close to pointless numbers no matter what reason you give for it.
It's the traffic & earnings that count.
That said, a broken link is an error on the page, and the content on our hubs is our responsibility. IMHO not wanting to fix it suggests not really caring if the hubs are good or not...?
With respect, Mike, I disagree, like the current system. I'd rather be made aware of the broken links and allowed to fix them myself rather than have HubPages use some program to automatically remove them!
100 broken links sounds like a helluva lot!
Are they really broken links you've got, or links that break other rules, such as three or more linking to an external site?
Exactly.
I get a few now and then. If you look for them daily, they are easy to keep up with. Sometimes I can replace them with something just as relevant, sometimes I can't. Sometimes I have to change some wording or even delete a sentence, but so what? It takes a few seconds.
This thread has just reminded me that I've got a hub with over 200 profile page links in it! I think I better go there and peruse it...
by wytegarillaz 14 years ago
Has anyone paid for these backlinks at all and had benefits from them ?I keep seeing the advert so thought I would ask.Thanks
by AMAZING THINKER 11 years ago
I was wondering if the traffic will increase if we link to other hubbers with hubs on related topics. Will google value the links from within HP ie .hubpages.com?? Without links our hubs are never going to rank on search engine results, so why don't we try this. A lot of people write on similar...
by Mike Russo 6 years ago
Have you had this happen to you? I searched for the highlighted broken link but I could not find one. So how do you clear the notice?
by jodijoyous 10 years ago
I had six hubs showing broken links yesterday. I corrected all of them, but two are still showing the broken link icon. And, the edit date hasn't updated. Anyone else seeing this?
by Caren White 21 months ago
Attention Hubbers! Check you hubs IMMEDIATELY. I was reviewing one of my hubs and found a link to another hubbers article. Puzzled, I went to edit mode to remove it but it didn't show up. Obviously, the editors placed it there. I have emailed them to remove...
by Raymond D Choiniere 14 years ago
Hello,I try not to make waves with "How Hubpages Operates" and I am not sure if this singular problem is having a huge effect or not.But, I've noticed that many hubs I had connected to other hubs via "embedded" links(anchored text) have not been coming up or being flagged as...
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