I would only use links that are genuinely relevant. If you link from a recipe page to a page on the latest tech it probably won't help your visitors and it won't impress Google.
I would only link to another hub if I recommend it to my readers as a source for additional information. When I use the link tool, I make sure I have read the hub, agree with what it says, and think that it is a high quality article. Otherwise, their bad quality will reflect badly on me.
I would link to a hub that provided additional information which might help my reader. I prefer to provide links to my own hubs since I write on related subjects.
Remember your link takes your reader away to another page.. so make sure that the links your provide are not at the top of your page. Weave them into your content towards the end if they are linking to others hubs.
Hub karma does not do much for you and has gone off the radar for over a year now.. don't worry about that.. your hubscore could be increased with good content and community participation.
by Tony 14 years ago
I have used the "suggest links" option today on my latest two hubs and had a couple of problems, one potentialy quite serious!The first was I clicked on a suggested word which was highlighted and nothing happened, so I double clicked it.. I was redirected to another webpage instead of...
by Liam Hallam 13 years ago
Do you have a source for backlinks, traffic and seo that you'd like to share with the community? Is there somewhere in your particular knowledge area you use to help develop more backlinks?Please share your more unique sources or ideas you have Please don't simply post 'I don't need to backlink!'...
by ExoticHippieQueen 12 years ago
When I'm suggesting links within my hub, and I highlight a word to make a choice for a link, then finish and move on to the next word, I notice that another word I had just highlighted disappears. For every word that I finish highlighting as a link, a nearby linking word in my hub becomes unlnked...
by Heidi Thorne 10 years ago
A reader noted that he would have liked to see the links in my posts open in a new tab/window so that he could easily look at and reference multiple articles at the same time. I don't think this is necessary on all links, of course. But I do think that especially on links that go away from...
by Terri Meredith 14 years ago
When I click on the suggest links for new hubs, I get one or two words highlighted in the first paragraphs and that's it. I also can't highlight my own words or phrases to turn them into a link. I have a lot of hubs, now that can't be linked to any other hubs on HP. Anything...
by Sam 12 years ago
You use to be able to highlight a word or two and get a drop down of related Hubs. That don't happen anymore for me. I might get one 'community' style link, but nothing like it use to be with 8 or 10 related hubs you could choose to link too. I just don't see the significance...
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