Why Does My Hub Outrank A Site

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I built a hub 3 weeks ago and I checked it's stats. I don't get much traffic to it. Only about 600-700 visitors a month with about 20% of them going to my site. So I am using it to start a list. Anyway, with my hub I am on the first page of google and first postition. But why would my hub outrank a PR 4 site.

I did not think I knew what I was doing. I was just doing this for practice. All I did was write a good quality hub, wrote some articles for article direcories and got some backlinks to it. Within 3 weeks I was on the first page of google on first position.
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  • For several reasons:

    1. Hubpage is an authority site.
    2. Lots of site are losing their grip so easily.
    3. Probably your ranking could just be Google love for a few days before you vanish to nowhere.
  • If SERP went by PR.. ranking would be completely screwed.

    The hub page gets a little boost from the primary domain while your site's page exists on it's own merits.
  • Google definitely has some respect for hubs, they tend to rank well, and are semi-moderated.

    The fact that you didn't know what you were doing is probably one of the reasons it's ranking well. You didn't have any bad SEO habits ingrained in your article writing technique that could've worked against your favor.

    I'm not sure to what extent PR is taken into account in the algorithm, but my gut feeling and experience tells me it's quite small. A site with No PR can outrank a site with PR 6. If you look at the SERPs for most keywords you will see low PR sites outranking ones with higher PR. There are many factors that are taken into account.
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    Simple, Hubpages had backlinks pointing at thousands of pages long before you ever heard about the site or created your own Hub.

    Hub also has almost 6 million pages indexed in G SERPs, I'm sure whatever your Hub subject was, it's already been done or very similar Hubs have existed for a long time (relevancy).

    No magic involved, just lots of pages/links.

    [example]
    Notice 13,000 hits related to: "car" "oil" site:hubpages.com
  • Agreed. I've seen hubpages and lenses get a major boost in the SERPs after googles recently changes. As well as all authority sites.
  • Yes its because Hubpages is not only a high PR site but also considered as an authority site. There are indeed cases when your page will only be ranked #1 for a while. You can do some linkbuilding on your page to make it stay on the #1 spot. But if its not giving you any significant traffic or any help for your website then just be thankful it ranked #1 on Google SERP.
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    • Hi reddawn5297,

      First, let me say Google doesn't rank websites, they rank individual web pages.

      Second, they rank pages based on relevancy, not PR.

      Third, relevancy signals are amplified by page authority of inbound links.

      Fourth, QDF, the freshness factor, is likely having a short-term influence on your Hubpage ranking.
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    Why Does My Hub Outrank A Site

    I built a hub 3 weeks ago and I checked it's stats. I don't get much traffic to it. Only about 600-700 visitors a month with about 20% of them going to my site. So I am using it to start a list. Anyway, with my hub I am on the first page of google and first postition. But why would my hub outrank a PR 4 site. I did not think I knew what I was doing. I was just doing this for practice. All I did was write a good quality hub, wrote some articles for article direcories and got some backlinks to it. Within 3 weeks I was on the first page of google on first position.