How is Hubpages different than other directories?

[Dano1981]

If anyone can tell me how hubpages is different than most other article directories?

1) I know you can make money from them
2) calling them a "directory" may be inaccurate I realize

I guess my question speaks more to content

I realize that most other directories are OK with the idea that it may your article may have been published elsewhere 1st, as long as you're the original author and are not submitting the same article on their directory multiple times...

They just want to make sure it's not "plagiarized" but as long as the article is in tact, and contributed to the original author (me!) I've learned by reading term (example for articles base and ezine, goartciles, articlealley) that they realize they may not be the 1st placed you published your article, and they make mention of that, and explain that is not an issue....

BUT

but because hubpages seems to be a bit different? does that "view" hold true with them as well? that as long as you are the author and the article is in tact you can post it there too?

Or am I looking at this "all wrong"

if you know the scoop I am open to your interpretation


thank you much!!
Dano~


(and if it's not too much trouble, "associated content" are they the same as well?)

[bigcat1967]

when I do article marketing - I always put my unique articles on hubpages since they don't allow duplications. Then I put the "not so unique" articles on articlebase and EZA.

Hubpages is so different but it is my favorite. Even after the last algo change by G - they are considered a content farm and you aren't going to get as good of a ranking like you did in the past, nor a strong backlink. However, I will still use them since they index very quickly.

[JSProjects]

Hubpages requires 100% unique content. Though I agree with bigcat. Since the recent change they haven't been ranking nearly as well. I had a handful of hubs on page 1 which have since all but vanished from Google.

[seoforgoogle]

Hii Bigcat1967,

Do you have reference of this algo update that says hubpages are not so important. Or where have you read? If you can share here, then please share.

Thanks in advance...

Have a nice day...

[Dano1981]

seo
js
cat

thank you very much!

Thanks for pointing out that they do require 100% unique content. I wasn't sure and their members area is sooo "huge" I kinda feel off the "let me search for the answer" wagon

I know people used to say the same thing about ezine, not that they require 100% "1st run content" but that they still believed it was the best place to run it 1st, nevertheless....

or perhaps they didn't realize that ezine didn't have to be "the 1st" and that ezine was quite alright if you had published it elsewhere 1st


But I get your point that hubpages requires "1st run" if you will

I assume you guys are accurate on that point!

Thank you so much!

Dano~

[kulonuwun]

to have unique content, i usually looking for local content on newspaper or local portal then translate it to english. Hubpages will delete our content if found duplicate. I prefer using hubpages rather than article directory because we can also have money by sharing google adsense revenue.

[Dano1981]

I assume you can post links in a bio or within the article body?

or am I still "not getting it"?

(my mind thinks of things in an "article directory" mindset)
is it way different than directories, other than 100% orig content and HP's ability to incorporate adsense?

it's not like a squidoo where you make all these lens(the hubpages counterpart or equiv)? or do you just submit "articles" like a directory?

I still don't have a "sense" of it?

anyway

Dano~

Originally Posted by kulonuwun

to have unique content, i usually looking for local content on newspaper or local portal then translate it to english. Hubpages will delete our content if found duplicate. I prefer using hubpages rather than article directory because we can also have money by sharing google adsense revenue.

[alexei_aus]

squidoo is nofollow i believe while hubpages is follow

they are not article directory site

[BloggingPro]

Up until last month I was madly in love with Hubpages. It was a great place to create content and get it ranking fast for low competition keywords. I mainly profited from Adsense and affiliate links placed within the text.

I have 368 hubs. All of them are original 100% unique content that was written by me. This is the real deal stuff here. I wrote one article a day for a year and 3 days before I stopped. I had roughly 77% of these hubs ranking on page one for their respective keywords while the others drifted all over.

After the "farmer" update I got slapped hard. I'm sure it was HubPages as a whole, but it was a hard pill to swallow. None--yes thats right not a single one--of my hubs rank anywhere near page one now.

I'm not joking when I say these were 100% original material, literally written in my spare time and I considered them to be a great group of articles. Obviously Google didn't.

Now that being said, HubPages previously allowed content that was posted elsewhere to be posted on their network. The catch was you could not embed any outbound links within the content that existed elsewhere.

The bottom line is this. Until the shock-waves from the most recent algo-update settle I would encourage you to stay away from HubPages. My next plan of action is to buy an aged domain and start all over from scratch. Here's to that success!

[Dano1981]

thank you so much pro,

I really really appreciate your post and your explanations that really hit on what I was trying to understand.

The algo changes, Well? I figure I'm not losing ground if I didn't have any to begin with! my purview or paradigm, but I surely understand about how HP have changed in that sense..

I'm so sorry that you lost all that ground because of the changes
I really really hope you gain back some of it soon....

Dano~

Originally Posted by BloggingPro

Up until last month I was madly in love with Hubpages. It was a great place to create content and get it ranking fast for low competition keywords. I mainly profited from Adsense and affiliate links placed within the text.

I have 368 hubs. All of them are original 100% unique content that was written by me. This is the real deal stuff here. I wrote one article a day for a year and 3 days before I stopped. I had roughly 77% of these hubs ranking on page one for their respective keywords while the others drifted all over.

After the "farmer" update I got slapped hard. I'm sure it was HubPages as a whole, but it was a hard pill to swallow. None--yes thats right not a single one--of my hubs rank anywhere near page one now.

I'm not joking when I say these were 100% original material, literally written in my spare time and I considered them to be a great group of articles. Obviously Google didn't.

Now that being said, HubPages previously allowed content that was posted elsewhere to be posted on their network. The catch was you could not embed any outbound links within the content that existed elsewhere.

The bottom line is this. Until the shock-waves from the most recent algo-update settle I would encourage you to stay away from HubPages. My next plan of action is to buy an aged domain and start all over from scratch. Here's to that success!

[Fraggler]

Originally Posted by BloggingPro

The bottom line is this. Until the shock-waves from the most recent algo-update settle I would encourage you to stay away from HubPages. My next plan of action is to buy an aged domain and start all over from scratch. Here's to that success!

What type of links do you have to the hubs that got 'slapped'?

I ask because the hubs (and even the eza articles) that I had sent a handful of reasonably links to never budged after the update. These links were just from BuildMyRank, so why not crap, they aren't that powerful either.

I realise that the same thing happened to quite a few people but not many people are talking about the link profiles of their pages. It would help clear up so of the panic.

Hubpages itself, despite the issues some are having with its rankings, works great with product related keywords. The Amazon modules make it easy to get some hops and if you place your main affiliate links properly you can avoid losing part of the comission.

[minisite]

Originally Posted by BloggingPro

Up until last month I was madly in love with Hubpages. It was a great place to create content and get it ranking fast for low competition keywords. I mainly profited from Adsense and affiliate links placed within the text.

I have 368 hubs. All of them are original 100% unique content that was written by me. This is the real deal stuff here. I wrote one article a day for a year and 3 days before I stopped. I had roughly 77% of these hubs ranking on page one for their respective keywords while the others drifted all over.

After the "farmer" update I got slapped hard. I'm sure it was HubPages as a whole, but it was a hard pill to swallow. None--yes thats right not a single one--of my hubs rank anywhere near page one now.

I'm not joking when I say these were 100% original material, literally written in my spare time and I considered them to be a great group of articles. Obviously Google didn't.

Now that being said, HubPages previously allowed content that was posted elsewhere to be posted on their network. The catch was you could not embed any outbound links within the content that existed elsewhere.

The bottom line is this. Until the shock-waves from the most recent algo-update settle I would encourage you to stay away from HubPages. My next plan of action is to buy an aged domain and start all over from scratch. Here's to that success!

Are you saying that you don't have an actual website where you publish your original articles? I have read in this forum to publish your article on your website, wait for it to get indexed, and then spin/rewrite it before submitting it to article directories.

[Elion Makkink]

Google loves them because you provide a full content webpage with keywords in the url of the hub!

[asher_gben]

hubpage is good revenue sharing site and easy to rank high on google

[Dano1981]

hey mini,

although I'm still trying to wrap my mind in the understanding of maybe some kind of a paralell that might exist to hubpages that IO already know that maybe I can contrast with and see how it's works, or rather "how it is"?

at any rate, yes you can publish to your site 1st, or publish to a directory 1st then to your site. I've learned that directories (apparently not to be confused with how hubpages operates) are ok with the fact that your stuff is published elsewhere

I even read it in their terms, if you don't believe me go read ezines T&C or faqs as an example. So there is no "forced need' to "spin" unless of course you find value in it's application.

What they want to know is that "you are the publisher of it" and that if you have it posted elsewhere, it should also show you as the same "author" of the article. I've read where their language in their terms is literally "leave the article "completely intact, and don't change a thing"

Danni~

Originally Posted by minisite

Are you saying that you don't have an actual website where you publish your original articles? I have read in this forum to publish your article on your website, wait for it to get indexed, and then spin/rewrite it before submitting it to article directories.