Hubber Score Down Below 75
- andycoolposted 12 years ago
0I have not a clue.
I gave you a follow.
Add a from in your profile. It might be worth a point.
- andycoolposted 12 years ago0
I have to disagree with that. HP has better things to do with their time.
Maybe if someone rounded your followers to 360. A full circle.
You must know there are three categories for every tag... latest, best and hot. Go to the tattoos hot page. This is a secret I'm divulging. You may go topic-wise too... like hot hubs under tattoos.
You'll see recently published hubs that are read the most under hot. Best is dependent on hubscore and latest is the latest published hub.
Tattoos tag is one of the most top-searched keywords in HubPages and generates lots of internal traffic. Now I'm sure the whole thing is manipulated! Follow this and you'll realize. We are puppets here on HP.
The Lyric Writer copies my ideas and the hubs are placed under hot category for long time. But mine are not there too long.
Re-la-che's tattoo hubs pay her lumpsum amount every month even without her otherwise negligible participation in HP. Hers are on best category month after month for nearly four years.
What's inside... go and see... bunch of links and nothing else. If I continue to publish tattoo hubs here a lot of high earners could suffer. That's why my lower score.
Market Manipulation!
Write more hubs on tattoos and break the monopoly of some hubbers!
Done
One would think that more activity would be a good thing. More activity means more traffic, which means a higher Alexis ranking, etc. That's why HP hasn't killed off the religion forums.
However, I think you might be right. When I become unusually prolific in the forums, my score does seem to drop.
When I first noticed that (and others have said they've noticed it too), I used to joke that HubPages was rewarding me for staying away. I've always assumed that writing a new Hub throws off averages or otherwise shakes things up, because writing a new one pretty much (as far as I've seen) always causes an immediate drop by a point (for me, anyway). I usually don't pay a lot of attention to my scores, which have that five-point range. When I had that stretch of all-of-a-sudden reading and commenting a lot (which I just don't usually do very often at all), and I saw my score dip to 94 for the first time in ages; I did think about what I'd been doing differently; and realized that I was pretty much getting my name/face in "zillions" of things on this site - the forums, people's Hubs, Answers, etc. etc.
It was an "honest accident" and certainly not my aim. I was thinking, though, that the system probably has it built in (only a guess) that one person not monopolize (or kind of seem to be monopolizing) everything/everywhere on the site (for a number of reasons). So there's that, but there's also the thing that HP has said if people's activity is "natural" that's what they want and what works best. The forums are the only non-Hub-writing activity that I'm fairly regular with. The rest of the stuff I do fairly infrequently (and still get a decent score). I seem to have noticed (fairly consistently) that if I have extra to be waste on the forums that's when my score drops a little too.
I could be wrong with my guess about any drops I've noticed that coincide with more activity than my usual level (and maybe what happens with one person isn't the same as what happens with another?? Who knows..).
I do know that I saw my score drop consistently from high end to lower than I'd seen it in a long time over those couple/few days when I was reading up a storm (and since I usually only read things I think will interest me, commenting a lot).
I was thinking how, if I'm right (or even kind of right) about this, it's kind of stinky that that the person who has some extra time on her hands for a few days, and who does more on the site than usual, might see a drop in score because she may look like she's "up to something funny". But, "monopolizing" things aside, there's the thing with spam-ish activity; so I can see how they'd have to build something in like that.
Scores aside (and obviously I don't know any more about what goes into them than anyone else does), the one thing I see other people saying they do, and that I suspect may be a problem in general, is wildly changing their ways of doing things as soon as they sense a drop in traffic or in scores. Based only on my own experience here (and with Ad Sense too), I seem to notice that I'm always better off not to make a big changes too fast; and to phase shifts in how I do things very gradually and in small doses. It may only have to do with percentages (changed stuff versus "stable" stuff), but most changes I make result in at least a temporary decrease in Ad Sense earnings (if not score, although I don't do a lot of changing of stuff on here - and mostly because I'm kind of afraid to, after noticing that Google doesn't seem to "like" changes.
Thank you so much Lisa for your detailed discussion. I'm grateful to you. So far as my forum activity is concerned... yes it has come down substantially. Hmmm and yes my other activities like comment posting or answering etc. are not that much as I used to do before. I've very little time for all that so whenever I find some time for HP I spend it on writing hubs. But when I did nothing for nearly four months (from May to August) my score used to hover between 82 - 87.
Now I notice wild swings... I know my score will jump to 78 tomorrow (73 + 5). But again it will fall and it will make a new bear market low!Debbie, we don't know (and I SURELY don't know); and nobody wants us to know, because they don't want people gaming the system. That's why, though, there's no point worrying a whole lot about the ups and downs of scores, as long as nothing extremely drastic goes on with them.
I just do my thing on here and (in spite of not being able to help but notice some things over time, at least when it comes to my own "doings"), I don't pay a lot of attention to the scores. Traffic - yes. Scores - no. Beyond just going with what HP suggests people do (as far as writing, community participation, etc. go), scores aren't within our control. As far as I've ever seen, just doing your thing and being genuine about any participation works, just the way HP tells people it will (unless, of course, some perfectly innocent, but bored, individual has some free time and participates so much he looks spammy ).I certainly don't think participation on the forums or other activity here would make one's score drop drastically. Otherwise, my score would be much lower.
Maybe it's a coincidence, but I've sure noticed that if I do more than my usual activity on the forums (and particularly that time I did a lot of extra commenting on Hubs) the score goes down. If I stay away for a day or so, or at least keep to only a post or two it's back up. Again, I'm not saying I know for a fact that increased activity amounts to making a person look like a spammer; but maybe there's something with unusual activity for any particular Hubber? Again, maybe a coincidence; but I always pretty much know that if I spend too much time on the forums I can count on seeing the drop a couple of points (and if I stay away for little while it goes back up).
OR, maybe it's something like writing a Hub AND being on the forums more than usual - all in a short time.
Something else could be that your 100 score could be more solid than, say, mine. Maybe each person's "combination of things" that go into a score hold up better. Oh well, I'll never know. No point keeping guessing.We'll never know for sure, Lisa! I usually have to publish a new hub to get my score to 100, but not always.
@HP
We want andycool at 75+.I never took HP that seriously... I know the site is not built on honesty. I wouldn't care if my hubberscore falls below even 50... everything's possible here for making profit as usual.
Darn! I wish I had read this before I took time to catch up on all of the forums! I'm out of here.
Andy's op is 3 hours old. Still no change from 73. Tough town, the internet.
- This is the new bear market low... and this will halt for some more time before bouncing back towards 78 on short covering! Then this will stay there for some time before plunging to make a new low!
Thanks SunSeven! That's not true... the tattoojohnny.com link was used in my last 10 or so hubs. Before that the low was 76 and the range was 76 - 85. Bull case when I publish new hubs. For example if I publish couple of new hubs the score would touch even 82 from here. I guess it would touch 80 within 24 hours because of my today's forum participation. But eventually it will make a new low for sure unless the trend changes!
"(S)he may be on to something" - no sir, honestly!
I didn't violate HubPages TOS anyway... you could see that, my hubs are very clearly published like the brightest scorching Sun of the summer.
And you know PC they've just unpublished my three hubs as a penalty. Why, because they contain pixelated images... just before this post they were just fine! But the truth must be told.
They're today's Hitler & Co. and either you should obey them or your hubs will get unpublished. Currently I've 77 published hubs from 80... I believe the number will reduce further for committing this offence.
Edit: One of the three unpublished hubs contains duplicate content. It's been there for nine months. Suddenly mods find it's containing duplicate content.
My Hubber Score is stand still at 73 even after 16 hours of starting this thread! Manually Operated.
Somewhere in somewhere is the statement that same links in multiple hubs is a no-no. I think you've got the answer! Bite the bullet and kill them! I'm reasonably sure at this point. I could be wrong.
I had not seen Jason Menayan's post when I posted previous. That is that. You are home free.
Just a thought - Why has my score crashed from 89 to Hmm what's it now 81? In just 24 hours!!
My traffic has decreased 50% compared to three days back but it's up 76% compared to my usual. So what's the problem?
You can't say that I'm not participating in the forums or Q&A as all here will know that I've been here a bit too much
I came to check my earnings and found my score dangerously crashing. I wasn't supposed to be in the forums till Jan 7th or 8th but this made me come back - let me know what you'll think - check it out again over dinner 12 hours from nowlobobrandon, just another thought, though: I've definitely noticed that my score is often at its best or close-to-best when my traffic is at its worst.
That's not a time or two here or there. That's as often as having the score at its best and also having higher traffic, at least for me. The mystery continues when it comes to Hub Scores.....
I think it's probably your continuous Mixed Messages that ooze from that Avatar!
- andycoolposted 12 years ago0
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