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HubPages as a Platform

by cerava
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Hello Warriors,

I've been itching to ask this question: in your opinion is HubPages viable as a means to achieve (1) increased traffic, (2) increase income and (3) increase/establish credibility? What strategies or approaches would you recommend?

Thank you in advanced for your feedbacks.
#hubpages #platform
  • Profile picture of the author gvannorman
    Right now I am using hubpages as a way to get my writing published. I have yet to make a penny from their, but I have only 30 hubs. I will be building more in the coming days, as a means to get backlinks to my blog that I am setting up.
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    • Profile picture of the author erictan678
      Originally Posted by gvannorman View Post

      Right now I am using hubpages as a way to get my writing published. I have yet to make a penny from their, but I have only 30 hubs. I will be building more in the coming days, as a means to get backlinks to my blog that I am setting up.

      Got my first online dollar there with Amazon sales. It seems that the layout and presentation of Hubpages is ideal for product reviews, though i did not follow down that path...
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  • Profile picture of the author Shazia Mirza
    Hubpages only allow dofollow links when ur hub reaches a certain level.

    To reach that certain level, u need a bunch of pics, vids and social media exposure

    So hubpages not to great for SEO purposes.
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  • Profile picture of the author officer_iron
    I love Hubpages. I make revenue from Adsense on Hubpages and I have under 30 Hubs. Hubs get indexed extremely quickly and you can add your blog to the rss module to get some love for it. Hubpages is a great thing.
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  • Profile picture of the author BloggingPro
    Originally Posted by cerava View Post

    Hello Warriors,

    I've been itching to ask this question: in your opinion is HubPages viable as a means to achieve (1) increased traffic, (2) increase income and (3) increase/establish credibility? What strategies or approaches would you recommend?

    Thank you in advanced for your feedbacks.
    1.] If you are using HubPages to drive traffic to say your money site than yes it can work out to be very beneficial for you. You would simply be article marketing at that point.

    2.] I have seen a large increase of Adsense income with my Hubs. I have quite a large network of Hubs and they are all targeted to go after minimally searched keywords. At last check 72% of them ranked number one for the targeted keyword.

    3.] Credibility in what ways? Are you speaking strictly of internet presence or in terms of HubPages alone? Those with high hubscores and profile scores are definitely looked at within the Hubpages community as authority sources.

    My success with HubPages can be attributed to writing unique content and going after the aforementioned minimally searched keywords (1000 global searches or less a month). It took a long time to write all of those articles, but it was worth it for me.
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  • Profile picture of the author Andrea Wilson
    I surely get traffic from my hubs right now. But I dont see a sudden increase of earnings from them. But I dont have lots of hubs yet so I cant completely say what will happen in the future. Im yet to make a strategy or whatsoever.

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  • Profile picture of the author bluez
    In my view, hubpages are good in ranking your desired keywords whereas making revenues from your hub shouldn't be your top priority. Most of our hubpages rank way much better than squidoo. Do not just build your hub and leave it there and expecting it to rank well. You still need to create backlinks to your hubs.
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    • Profile picture of the author robvegas626
      I find Hubpages to be very frustrating. What you need to remember is that each of your "hubs" needs to maintain a score of 75 or more in order for your links to be do-follow. Reaching a 75 score, and then maintaining it, seems to require you to constantly participate in the Hubpages community (commenting on other people's hubs, etc.) and find ways to drive traffic to your hub.

      For me, it's just not worth it -- I don't have time every to mess around every day with Hub Pages. I think their requirements are way too strict. Giving them a really good, original article ought to be enough for a 75 score, yet my hubs always start out with low scores and it takes too much effort to get them up to the 75.
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      • Profile picture of the author Vogin
        Hubpages are but one site of the family consisting of article directory / social site hybrids.

        The sooner you realize this, the better. You may be able to make a few buck on AdSense/affiliate stuff, but these are typical sites where the classic employee's formula applies:

        • more time = more money
        Time is limited, hence revenue is limited...
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      • Profile picture of the author erictan678
        Originally Posted by robvegas626 View Post

        I find Hubpages to be very frustrating. What you need to remember is that each of your "hubs" needs to maintain a score of 75 or more in order for your links to be do-follow. Reaching a 75 score, and then maintaining it, seems to require you to constantly participate in the Hubpages community (commenting on other people's hubs, etc.) and find ways to drive traffic to your hub.

        For me, it's just not worth it -- I don't have time every to mess around every day with Hub Pages. I think their requirements are way too strict. Giving them a really good, original article ought to be enough for a 75 score, yet my hubs always start out with low scores and it takes too much effort to get them up to the 75.

        I had an account that stayed between 77 to 83 points at all times without me touching it. It only had about 13 hubs and most of the scores were not that high either. I think you have to add many news modules, relevant links and also internal links (hub karma). When I removed or decreased some of the news and relevant links modules, the account score fell

        Also, the hubs had almost no traffic from hubpages itself but a few of them were search engine optimized to have a few visitors per day from the search engines
        ....my experience anyway
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      • Profile picture of the author gvannorman
        Originally Posted by robvegas626 View Post

        I find Hubpages to be very frustrating. What you need to remember is that each of your "hubs" needs to maintain a score of 75 or more in order for your links to be do-follow. Reaching a 75 score, and then maintaining it, seems to require you to constantly participate in the Hubpages community (commenting on other people's hubs, etc.) and find ways to drive traffic to your hub.

        For me, it's just not worth it -- I don't have time every to mess around every day with Hub Pages. I think their requirements are way too strict. Giving them a really good, original article ought to be enough for a 75 score, yet my hubs always start out with low scores and it takes too much effort to get them up to the 75.
        Your article need to be above a hub score of 50, your hubber score needs to be above 75 in order for your links to be dofollow.

        If you want to raise your hubber score then write good unique content for each of your hubs. If you want your hub score to be higher then the same things needs to be done. There are people who make a nice amount of extra money with hubpages. It can be done. I am actually working on a blog right now and will be building hubs to help drive traffic to it.
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  • Profile picture of the author [NUX]Brett
    I use hub pages, but i made a text tab. Put some info in there which is static and contains links etc. Below it is an RSS tab which pulls from my blog. So effectively I don't put any effort into this site, yet it does help in some way. Which is great.
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  • Profile picture of the author x3xsolxdierx3x
    Originally Posted by cerava View Post

    Hello Warriors,

    I've been itching to ask this question: in your opinion is HubPages viable as a means to achieve (1) increased traffic, (2) increase income and (3) increase/establish credibility? What strategies or approaches would you recommend?

    Thank you in advanced for your feedbacks.
    Yes, to all your questions. It is a high authority website, and, because of the effort of the collective, content generally ranks very high.

    Strategies? I would recommend doing keyword research prior to writing.
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  • Profile picture of the author cerava
    Thank you, everyone, for your reply. You feedbacks have all been beneficial in one direction or another, depending on application. The insight is valuable.

    Apparently there are two approaches - seemingly opposite - which goes towards the same direction. Here, I'm referring to the maintenance of the Hubs. On one hand, there's the claim that Hubs must be regularly maintained to achieve the desired outcome. On the other side of the coin, users have expressed the lack of such need (i.e. leaving it on its own).

    What I find curious is how do you maintain your hub? By supplementing it with a follow-up Hub or by tweaking the one you've already have at present?
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  • Profile picture of the author TomBuck
    I love hubpages and I use them for everything. I have about 20 and mainly used them for promoting product reviews. They rank high when doing no seo which is always a bonus and I you can add adsense easily. So my vote is thumbs up for hubpages.
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