What Google wants to see (and use as a ranking factor) is links from other people who genuinely find your content valuable. That spares me from worrying about Google cracking down on various kinds of spammy backlinks. Personally, I’ve stopped caring whether links on my hubs are DoFollow. My websites, blogs and good articles attract plenty of dofollow links on their own from other people linking to them. Many people actively plant DoFollow links as a way to make their own websites rank better on Google- or so they hope. That means Google won’t count them when assessing the value of the sites they point to. If your overall Hubberscore drops below 85, or an individual Hub’s score drops below 40, then links in your article are set to NoFollow. The only reason Hubscore matters is that it’s Hubpages’ requirement for DoFollow links.
(Especially since I agree that, while it’s a successful article, it’s not my very best work.) Maybe I could figure out why they outrank my HotD if I analyzed them all carefully, but it’s just not important.
Some had more comments, some more traffic, some more user interaction, some more or fewer words, some more or fewer photos. Looking at all my Hubs with better scores, a quick glance showed no obvious patterns. That shows just how futile it is to chase Hubscores. (In that case, I’m judging Hubpages- never mind how it arrives at those scores, are the articles it’s giving 90s to good articles? If Hubpages starts ranking junk above what I consider quality, then I’ll worry.)Īs I mentioned in my previous post, my recent Hub of the Day had a Hubscore of 83. From time to time, I’ll glance at my dash to see which of my articles Hubpages scores as the best, partly to feel a tingle of self-satisfaction, and partly to get a general sense of the kinds of articles Hubpages prioritizes. I feel almost the same way about them as I did about Squidoo points and levels: they’re in-house metrics that have no bearing on my success as an online writer. Many Hubpages members are anxious about Hubscores. There’s something to be said for a really thorough spring cleaning. The Squidoo imports (marked with S) perform better on average than my native Hubpages accounts, because I jettisoned about half my articles when they came across so I’d have breathing room to edit the rest. Surprisingly, that’s nearly all Hubpages.Īnd I’ve got about 2000 followers between Tumblr and Twitter.īelow is the weekly pageview breakdown. Total Traffic for the year across my hubs and blogs where I’ve installed analytics (which doesn’t include this one, oddly enough): 649,600: Pageviews Sep 14, 2014 through Sep 19, 2015 It’s been a year since Squidoo folded and transferred my Squidoo articles across to Hubpages, so I thought I’d check analytics and see what’s happened.
#GEEKY SQUIDOO UPDATE#
(And for anyone who cares, my mythphile blog is on hold while I concentrate on other projects, although I still update it once in a blue moon.) And I converted an old, early 2000 website into a WordPress format, to make it better for mobile. I’ve started a new blog recently, vhswhovian, which is probably of interest to exactly one of you who knows what a Whovian is. From time to time I stop by Hubpages and add a new article or edit some old ones. Tell me if you like it.I’ve been enjoying writing for my own sake, being active on social media, and not worrying about traffic. Naturally I’ve already hooked myself up: ShakespeareStuff.
With Squidoo, everything is build into the dynamic GUI where you drag and drop sections around the page. And if I want to add some Links to a section on other Shakespeare sites, I have to go edit and publish the template by hand. For instance, if I find another RSS feed that I might want to include here, can I do it? I have yet to figure it out. I know that most blog approaches, like this one I’m using, are limited in the “and what else can it do?” sense. Is Squidoo the next big thing? Created by Seth Godin with the premise that “everybody is an expert in something”, Squidoo attempts to take all the best elements of the Web2.0 world (RSS, blogs, flickr, tags, etc…) and wrap it all in a user friendly, build-it-up-from-pieces way so that anybody with a desire to make a place for information on topic X can do so.
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