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Hubpages after current Google algo update

by gittar1122
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Google just made its last algorithm update global.

Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: High-quality sites algorithm goes global, incorporates user feedback

Most of poor quality content sites facing big drop in rankings. But one thing I noticed is Hubpages, affected badly after this update.

Most of hubs lost ranking after this update and even it includes quality hubpages as well.

Did you noticed the same??
#algo #current #google #hubpages #update
  • Profile picture of the author GoodnightSweetRatRace
    Originally Posted by gittar1122 View Post

    Google just made its last algorithm update global.

    Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: High-quality sites algorithm goes global, incorporates user feedback

    Most of poor quality content sites facing big drop in rankings. But one thing I noticed is Hubpages, affected badly after this update.

    Most of hubs lost ranking after this update and even it includes quality hubpages as well.

    Did you noticed the same??
    Yup,

    One of my hubs that was ranked #2 bringing in 30-50 UV's per day is now bottom of page 3.

    I'm focusing 100% of my efforts into my websites I own now. Having said that even my websites have been badly affected
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    • Profile picture of the author paulgl
      That's kind of misleading. It was not hub, eza, or any site like it that got
      hit. What got hit was thin-lousy-content on it. The content that was
      quality, is still there. The junk got hit. Your site moving to page 3 is
      probably just normal fluctuations. Hardly a hit. A hit would be not in the
      top 500, or a de-index. But that would not be hub taking a hit, it would
      be your article.

      I wish people would stop taking things out of context

      Paul
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  • Profile picture of the author jhonsean
    If the hubpages are mostly affected in this updates I would suggest to build more quality links to improve more in rankings.
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    • Profile picture of the author GuerrillaIM
      I just checked my hubs that were ranking page 1. None of them are on page 1 anymore

      Oldest hub had been ranking steady for over a year.

      Luckily I don't rely on the hubs at all, I just use them to grab longtails and filter traffic back to me.
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      • Profile picture of the author jasondinner
        Despite whether or not Hubpages or the thin-content on Hubpages was penalized, would you still consider them a good site to get a back link from?
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  • Profile picture of the author GuerrillaIM
    Right now I only see evidence that the actual thin content is penalized by not ranking so well. All my sites that have been optimized with links from articles and web 2.0 sites are still rankings, it's just the articles pointing to the site that seem to have lost ranking.
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  • Profile picture of the author gittar1122
    Poor content sites again hit by Google in this update but I noticed some of high quality hubs which were in top 3, are now on second or third page of Google. It may be possible Google pushed back those hubs due to any other reason.
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  • Profile picture of the author Auto Bid
    I can't understand why this hub pages got negative rankings, as hubpages always provide a do follow link and which never passses any link juice to its outbound going link and why they are dropped down in ranking
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  • Profile picture of the author prismkuet
    Its true that Hub pages faced down in ranking.
    Never come back to hub pages....
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  • Profile picture of the author dabbler
    It's not just the thin content that got hit. G has said that having thin or 'shallow' content could driving down rankings of the entire site.

    However, google's buddies eHow, wikiHow, etc. have bushels of thin, actually ridiculous content, which has gotten a big boost!
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  • Profile picture of the author roomservice
    I had a hub that ranked steady #8 for months. After the last update it got hit hard!
    It's on the 5th page now.
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    • Profile picture of the author paulgl
      Only thin lousy hubs got the slip.
      Big difference in saying all hub pages got slapped.

      You could say that about any website. Pick one.
      The thin stuff got slapped. Not the site, the thin stuff
      on the site.

      Every page that was thin was ripe for a hit.

      Because Hub might have let more thin stuff in obviously means the
      ratio might be higher. But just the ratio. Not a blatant statement
      about hubpages.

      You cannot say everything on hub got hit. It didn't.

      Paul
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      • Profile picture of the author GoodnightSweetRatRace
        Originally Posted by paulgl View Post

        Only thin lousy hubs got the slip.
        Big difference in saying all hub pages got slapped.

        You could say that about any website. Pick one.
        The thin stuff got slapped. Not the site, the thin stuff
        on the site.

        Every page that was thin was ripe for a hit.

        Because Hub might have let more thin stuff in obviously means the
        ratio might be higher. But just the ratio. Not a blatant statement
        about hubpages.

        You cannot say everything on hub got hit. It didn't.

        Paul
        I guess my 1,100 word article was thin.

        I guess one of my competitors hubs who was ranking for a similar keyword with over 1000+ positive comments was thin aswell.

        Do some research buddy.
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