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Hubpage and Xanga NoFollow Links ?

by stig
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I spent some time creating several accounts with Squidoo, Hubpages, Xanga, Wordpress, Weebly, and Blogger for backlinks.

What I've found is that Hubpages and Xanga consistently force any links to NoFollow. No problems with Squidoo, Wordpress, or Weebly.

Can anyone shed light on this ?
#hubpage #hubpages #links #nofollow #nofollow links #xanga
  • Profile picture of the author stig
    Just an addition to the original post, I also have found that none of my links in any Blogspot post seem to be visible to any link checkers I've tried. I can clearly see the links and they are functional, but I've tried three different link checkers and all report 0 links. I presume that means that they won't be crawled or spidered either.

    Has anyone had this experience with Blogspot ?
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    • Profile picture of the author daveGmac
      I wonder how long you have been waiting for the links to appear...... sometimes it takes a few weeks.
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  • Profile picture of the author trevord92
    Remember that most link checkers like Majestic, AHrefs etc are privately owned.

    They crawl round but are more likely to be blocked by robots.txt than mainstream search engines like Google.

    Spend less time worrying about that and more time getting more links!
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  • Profile picture of the author TrafficMystic
    you need a mix of follow and no follow sites.. Even though it's no follow it still counts as part of your link profile..
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  • Profile picture of the author socialbookmark
    However dofollow links are better as they juice pagerank, but nofollow ones are still counting and you can see them in Google webmaster tools. Also there are still some dofollow websites you can use for making backlinks. Just needs some search
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  • Profile picture of the author petemcal
    For hubpages your links only go dofollow after you have gained so much reputation points. This is based on a number of internal ranking factors.

    As I understand it your overall account points need to be above 75 and each hub needs to be above 65 for your links to be dofollow.
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  • Profile picture of the author kimseo
    Originally Posted by stig View Post

    I spent some time creating several accounts with Squidoo, Hubpages, Xanga, Wordpress, Weebly, and Blogger for backlinks.

    What I've found is that Hubpages and Xanga consistently force any links to NoFollow. No problems with Squidoo, Wordpress, or Weebly.

    Can anyone shed light on this ?
    Hubpages gives you dofollow backlinks only when you accumulate the minimum required hubscore. E.g. your profile hubscore should be more than 70 to get dofollow links
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    • Profile picture of the author stig
      Thanks for the comments guys, yeah I reviewed to rules for Hubpages and you're exactly right. You score needs to be above 70 then all your links will automatically change to DoFollow. The more you participate on Hubpages the higher your score will rise.

      The Blogspot issue is another story. I'm still not sure what's going on there. The hyper links are visible when you view the post and they function properly. But when I run them through a link checker ( like NoFollow Link Checker Tool) the links are not detected at all.
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  • Profile picture of the author uzojvp
    But it seems hubpages does not allow wordpress links at all. because i just posted an article with my internal page link embeded and they unpublished my post and ask me to remove my link.. its not a link from adult or clickbank, it a normal internal page link..Please why. or who has encountered this problem before?
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    • Profile picture of the author stig
      I've found both Hubpages and Squidoo are very picky about links promoting any site too much. I've had them ask me to revise or remove links if I referenced the same site more than once in the main text body. But they will also have you remove links to external sites that exist primarily for lead generation. I've even had such sites black listed by them.

      On the other hand, my personal experience has been that Hubpages are not ranking as well as Wordpress, Xanga, Weebly, or Squidoo anyway.. so it might not be worth the hassle using them. I don't think I've ever had any content rejected by Wordpress, Xanga, or Weebly.
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    • Profile picture of the author kimseo
      Originally Posted by uzojvp View Post

      But it seems hubpages does not allow wordpress links at all. because i just posted an article with my internal page link embeded and they unpublished my post and ask me to remove my link.. its not a link from adult or clickbank, it a normal internal page link..Please why. or who has encountered this problem before?
      Sorry but it sound weird to me. I have published more than 20 articles on hubpages (with wordpress site links) but never encountered such issue with hubpages. I am assuming that it must be some other issue e.g. quality or content, duplicate content or too many links
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