Who to Follow?
In some way I'm getting increasingly stuck in following other Hubbers. From time to time I'm followed by a newbee and when it's worthwhile, I follow back. But this goes as fast as thick dung. I see some Hubbers following over thousands of other Hubbers. Where did they find all these people?
A while ago HP had a feature at the right side with suggestions who to follow, but this disappeared.
How to do this now or am I missing something crucial?
Why isn't there a list of Hubbers that you can browse through? Or am I supposed to browse whole day on HP to find other Hubbers? How do you do this?
It is up to you how you use the follow feature.
You can follow authors whose Hubs you find interesting as well as follow topics, Hubs, questions, and forum threads.
You can see what you are following here.
http://hubpages.com/my/activity/topics-following
It isn't the same thing as following on Facebook or other social media sites, so you don't need to follow anyone unless you would like updates related to the content they publish here.
You may want to check out the site feed and look for content that is on interest to you or select Explore and Hubs from the navigation menu at the top of the site to find content as well.
>> I see some Hubbers following over thousands of other Hubbers. >>Where did they find all these people?
This are usually people who are just following a large number of random authors, partially because they don't understand the purpose of following on the site.
At the risk of sounding like a total snob, I only follow those whose writings interest me and who show some semblance of basic writing abilitiy....which is why I have 400 something followers but I only follow 70 something of them back. I wouldn't have time to read hubs by 400 followers anyway.
by Sally Gulbrandsen 9 years ago
There seems to be an increasing number of people signing up on HubPages whose only activity here, is to add followers to their account, sometimes in their hundreds. As I understand it, we are penalized for doing precisely this so what is their real purpose in doing this. Am I...
by DdraigX 13 years ago
Just a quick question, as above, does having followers help your hubs/hubscore?
by Kent Peligrino 10 years ago
Hello,I am new here in HubPages. Just signed up for an account a few days ago and I barely got any followers. I would like to know some tips on how to increase my number of followers aside of course, from writing a great hub and following other hubbers.
by Paul Swendson 13 years ago
I joined Hubpages about three weeks ago. At the moment, my Hubscore is 86, I'm getting about 30-40 views/day, and the periodic comments I've received have been mostly positive. But I have a grand total of one follower. Is there something I am missing, or is this typical for new people like me?
by TANJIM ARAFAT SAJIB 12 years ago
Before following someone, at least you should read his/her hub or profile. I think, there are many reason rather than his or her beautiful face to follow him/her.
by Karen A Szklany 12 years ago
Hi All, So, this might not seem in the spirit of hub pages comeraderie, but I am a little uncomfortable with having a particular member follow me. The name is ZAGOOTO, and he has no profile information, no hubs, but 11 followers. Who on earth is this person? Why is he "following" people...
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