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HubPages Nofollow Guide HubRank Minimum
Brian E Nelson
It turns out that while I have ranked my various online properties and businesses just fine, I never bothered to rank for my NAME!
Well, good thing I know a little something about Internet publishing, SEO, and getting ranked higher by Google and other search engines. So, here comes a little linkage for indexing and SERP power. Brian Nelson personal website has an e-card, baby. You may now continue to the article you actually wanted to be reading.
HubPages Link Building Rules
Many newcomers to HubPages arrive after reading about the possibilities of both publishing writing online, and building links back to other websites or articles that they have authored.
The front page is inviting enough. It says that there are just three easy steps to building your first Hub. What could be simpler? However, there is a bit more to reaping the benefits of being published on HubPages than just clicking through 3 simple steps.
Check out some of my other tips for using HubPages effectively:
HubPage Nofollow Link Procedure
To help cut down on both blatant spammers and the number of "one and done" authors, HubPages adds a HTML tag to all outbound links created by new authors on their Hubs. The added tag is known as nofollow and it is added to the code of each link inside the <a> tags. The code is rel="nofollow", and it makes the links inserted into a Hub not count for the purposes of search engine ranking. Google, Yahoo/Microsoft, and other major search engines have all agreed to treat the nofollow tag in this manner.
New authors (like me) are often unaware of this procedure and its application to their hubs. New Hubbers who do notice the addition of nofollow tags to their links may become confused. After all, if HubPages is a good place to build backlinks, then there must be a way to link to a website without having that link nofollowed.
Fortunately, it is relatively easy to have all the links in your Hubs un-nofollowed, or more accurately, dofollow.
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To have the HubPages nofollow tag removed from your links, two criteria must be met. First, the author's score, known as HubRank, must be above 75. Second, the individual Hub must have a HubScore over 40. (The HubPages guides say that this number is typically 50, but has been lowered to 40. No word on if the required Hub ranking will be raised back to 50 in the future.)
The author's HubPage score or HubRank is displayed in the lower-right corner of the picture uploaded to the author's HubPage profile.
Some author's become discouraged upon learning of these requirements. However, if you are truly interested in building up even a small portfolio of quality writing on HubPages, these scores will be easy to obtain.
Typically, a 500 word Hub using the standard Photo-Text-Layout garners a starting HubScore of 50. This ranking will fluctuate up and down based upon things like how much traffic it receives and the number of people who vote it up or down. If the published material is legitimate in any way, and does not have an excessive number of outgoing links, chances are its score will not drop below the 40 minimum required for having its links un-nofollwed
That leaves the HubPage author score, or HubRank as the only real issue. HubRank is based upon several factors such as number of hubs published, the traffic those hubs receive, the number of people who are your fans, and your "participation" in the HubPages community. While this sounds difficult, it too can be achieved with relatively little time and effort.
DoFollow HubPages Links
An author who writes 7 to 10 useful Hubs -- those that are not entirely self-serving or link filled -- can expect their HubRank to increase over time to somewhere close to 75 if not all the way to 75. Covering the remaining distance in HubRank is then simply a matter of making a three to five useful comments every three or four days, and becoming a fan of a handful of other Hubbers.
Update: A new metric called HubKarma also affects your HubRank now. Find out what is hubkarma and then find out how to raise hubkarma fast and easy.
Often, the comments made on another Hub will lead to another Hubber leaving a comment on one your hubs. Click on that person's link, thank them for their comment and make a nice comment on one of the hubs. Then, become that author's fan. All of these things count as "participating" and are likely enough to put the HubRank over 75. Ideally, one or more people will also become fans of yours, thereby putting the icing on the cake and keeping your score above 75 for at least long enough to determine if HubPages is something that you would like to continue persuing.
If so, then simply drop by every so often and create a few new hubs. One new hub should be sufficient if done weekly, while three or four hubs might be required if only creating new hubs each month. Either way, make sure to drop by and leave comments on your Fans hubs. This not only cements their decision to become a fan, it counts as ongoing participation in HubPages.
Follow along with these steps and you'll be writing HubPage Hubs with fully followed links in no time.
Sound advice? What are your tips for new Hubbers?
Comments
I am new to hubpages and thanks for providing the useful information. Now i know that one should work on a quality and rest will come automatically.
my author's score is 84 and individual post score is 67 but still getting nofollow tag.
Thank you for this info. It eased my mind
This almost makes perfect sense; but, then again, looking at this hub the one and only outbound link that you have is nofollow. All of your other links seem okay, but those are all inbound links, so I'd expect those to be fine anyway. So it's a nice theory but I'm not totally convinced.
Thank you. You have cleared up the confusion I have been in about nofollow links. I didn't know what they were or how to avoid them and you have filled me in nicely in both areas.
I just started with my first Hub. I was worried about the nofollow tag. I'm happy to have come across this eye-opener article. Thanks.
Very helpful hub. Thanks for the info! :)
Thank you for the explanation. I haven't used Hubpages for a while.
I have no clue it is a good place to build links, and I have good score from my university writings!
I joined Hubpages in 2010 and got discouraged due to the nofollow link issue. Thanks for clarifying it.
Thanks for clarifying up how to achieve scores for an individual hub as well as the score for the author.
Nice and informative hub. I got all my doubts cleared after reading my hub.
a lot of hoops to jump through
Thanks, appreciate the advice
This if very good advice! I didn't even realize that my links were nofollow.
very useful!
Thanks for explaining the reason behind this.
thank you for this!
Great read, i was really confused on the ranking but this cleared it up 100% thanks :-)
this is a very good read! helpful!
Thanks for the clear explanation, being a newbie I had been wondering if it was possible to have dofollow links.
Thanks for the clear information! Voted up and useful!
I was wondering about how that worked, thanks!
Thx for the tips! Perfect for the newbie :)
Very helpful, thank you!
Thanks for th einfo, just what I was looking ofr
I was closely watching the progress of my hubscore and as soon as it reached 75, all my hubpages href links got their nofollow removed.
So yes, you need at least a hubscore of +75.
Thank you again!
Very informative. I was looking for free article directories and I found a list of these, and those of them who do rewrite or not the link tag to insert the nofollow code. Hubpages was one of these free directories but when I wrote my first hub, I went to the source code to check for something else and I found the nofollow code. I was a bit disappointed at first but not really surprised because I find it a bit very easy to create hubpages, add links and having the page got indexed into Google with no catch hiding somewhere.
I then started my research and found this hub. Again, very informative, thanks!
Thanks for clearing my doubts.
Very useful article, was stunned when I saw the nofollow rel tag in the source, great explanation here! Thanks :)
The nofollow frustrate me, my score is 45
thanks for the insight much appreciated. i just found out i have to work so lets get going.
- Author
All your existing hubs get the nofollow. Of course, the contrary is true. If your author score drops below 75, they go back to no follow.
Good explanation, I think I finally understand how this works. Thanks!
Thank you for the information, greatly needed and appreciated.....cheers
Very useful article, clear those doubts from a newbie's head, thanks!
Question: So after my author score goes above 75, and assuming my hub's are socred above 40, will my existing hubs with no-follow links turn into do-follow? Or will do-follow only be applied to future hubs?
I noticed that my links here on Hubpages are now nofollow, I hope I can make them dofollow again. Good article, thank you!
thanks mate , really informative
This hub has good information.
very helpful, thanks for the hints
Very useful information. Thanks!
Very good read, thanks for this excellent Hub.
The single most helpful guidance I have so far found for those (like myself) new to HubPages! Thank you! (Voted it up, and as Useful.)
Very helpful hub! I'm a new hubber and this hub answered some questions I had. Thanks a lot.
ty vm, this was exactly what I have been looking for, 75 is a bit too high tho :S
Thanks, the tips are really informative. With hubs like that, I hope, I'll soon understand all the details of hubbing!
Lovely hub. Perfect answer, thanks!
nice hub, interesting read - thanks for your insight about HubRank.
When dose Hubpages give Dofollow link ?? after 75 Score ?
Thanks for the explanation Hub Llama, I was wondering about nofollow on hubpages
I see why I have zero nofollow links I have a score of 78 in the corner of my avitar. All my hubs are above 50.
I put my hubpage in Firefox and used the Search Status Plugin. It gives a report of the links as well as letting you hover over a link and see if it is a nofollow link. None of my links showed up as nofollow and the report stated there were zero nofollow links on the hubpage.
I really was fooled into thinking I was accomplishing something here. This article really helps me out.
This is a great hub. I like the fact that even though you don't say it, making backlinks, getting better HubScores, and creating quality hubs are all worth it if you're trying to make a legitimate career out of it. Thanks!
This helps a ton, now I need to meet people through HubPages.
Nice hub. One of the best I've seen in my short time on Hubpages.
Thanks. super helpful. =)
Very useful information. Thanks for writing on this.
This was really helpful!
The system is pretty fair, I was fearing those nofollow links would stay like that forever...
Excellent page and well written too - thumbs up many thanks
great tips, I Just created my first hub and this was a good introduction
Great info!
Okay as a newbie I was a little confused, I haved learned something new again today and I thank you for that. Silly me, I didn't even notice the vote up down thing, guess its time for glasses!
What a great hub! I was not aware of the no follow/ do follow details of HubPages.
I have 16 Hubs, I'm pretty active and I believe my hubs are written well. My individual hub scores remain above 60 and my personal hubscore is at 95 right now. It doesn't take much to raise these scores.
Thank you so much for writing such an informative post.
~Allie
Super useful information. Thank you.
great information. clarifies the issue.
Thank you for such clear explanations!
I was wondering about this. Thanks for creating this guide
Great thx for the cool info :)
I wouldn't have known this if not for you. You've given me a clear direction to aim at. Thanks!
really useful. i'm new here and this really helps.
This seems like a lot of work to maintain your backlinks. I understand they want to keep spam out, but a quality article shouldn't have nofollow links just because the author hasn't updated anything in a while.
Exactly what I was looking for -- thanks for the information!
- Author
eztranslation,
When your score goes over 75, all of your links are followed. Don't forget, hubpages are generated on the fly (that's how the ads change as well) so there is no static HTML to update, only an if/then statement in the code that displays the page.
- Author
eztranslation,
When your score goes over 75, all of your links are followed. Don't forget, hubpages are generated on the fly (that's how the ads change as well) so there is no static HTML to update, only an if/then statement in the code that displays the page.
Super helpful! I can't believe no one mentioned this before. Do you know if your hub score increases to over 75 does it go back and fix the nofollows on your other hubs?
Very useful post. Explains why my links are nofollow. Thanks.
Thank you that was very interesting.
Sounds like it makes sense. Ill try it out and see if it works.
Thanks for this post. I just realised the links on hubpages nofollow today.
Did a research on it and stumbled across your hub. Very well-explained.
Thanks again.
- Ian
Thankyou very much. I actually had no idea about this beforehand but I checked the links on my hubs and sure enough... nofollow. I'll be doing my best to participate in the hub community from here on in.
Another well done hub with excellent information. I sure enjoy your writing!
Thank you for this very helpful hub. The nofollow setting was puzzling me. Now I know what I need to do.
Thanks for the info. No Follow is such a pain!
Thanks , it is very useful, just here in hubpages and made one post,it is nofollow links. i will do more post to remove the nofollow tag.
I must say Google is still taking its time to index my links from HP, but its' a nice place to write anyway :)
Very informative hub.
As a newcomer to Hubpages, I have been somewhat confused about hubranks and hubscores. Thanks for the clear and concise explanation. Great hub.
Thanks a bunch for this very useful information ... very helpful. I love it when others openly share information like this (makes the Web a nicer place). From a fellow Denverite...
Very useful.
thanks, i'm new here,it is very useful
This information was helpful - was wondering how this worked.
This is exactly what I was needing to know as I'm trying to figure out the difference between some links as being nofollow and some being dofollow. Thanks for this info!
Thank you! This post was very helpful, I am pretty active at posting, but realize I probably need to participate more in the community. Very helpful post.
Great article, I was wondering how that all worked
Thanks a lot! Very informative.
A very nice article. I was quite confused as none of my hubs were giving any link juice to my websites. Your article cleared a lot of doubts of mine. I will follow your advice and according involve myself more in the hub community. For starters I am leaving this comment to let you know how much I look your article. Great job, vote up for you.
Thanks, that is exactly the information I was searching for. I have been writing several Hubs and I was wondering why the backlinks were no follow. Now I figured out. Excellent job!
It does seem activity is key here, my ranking was a lot higher and I went away for away and now it is LOW. Lesson learned... don't leave hubpages for a long period of time!
Thanks I was wondering how to get rid of nofollow.
A clear and helpful explanation of a topic that confuses some new useres - many thanks!
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