Current status of HubPages

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Hi,

I was wondering if any SEOs know where HubPages currently stand in terms of ranking sites? I have some hubs with 95 score and I'm wondering if including links would help, harm or not even affect the ranking? Although from page source, I see links are dofollow on all of my hubs, even the lowest ones with 72 rank.

Anybody has any definite answers for this one?

Thank you!
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  • Squidoo was just bought out by hub, so I joined.

    I got a ton of google search traffic on squidoo. I am waiting to see
    if this actually works, as all lenses will have a 301.

    This might prop up hub.

    However, I don't ever join these programs for google traffic alone,
    and I doubt many do either. I will have dozens of followers out of the
    gate due to squidooers networking together. I assume your own efforts
    and internal setups are the bulk of traffic people get overall.

    I will only use hub as a sideline.

    I joined bubblews a few months ago, and have had 4 straight payouts.

    Squidoo, hub, bubblews, etc...any one of these is probably not high priority
    for google.

    Paul
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  • @paulgl, thanks for sharing, good to know!

    So even if it's not high priority, do you think it has any impact at all, or zero whatsoever? Because since I do already have high scored hubs, I can just point some links to sites that matter (IF that will bring positive stuff in terms of SERPs). Right now, I'm only pointing this to sites that I'm not too worried about if they get penalized for having links from HubPages.

    Thoughts?
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    • Well, here's the thing. Virtually all of my bubblews articles, all 300+, are
      indexed by google. I backlink sparingly. I created one hub, and that's
      indexed. I'm waiting for lenses to be transferred.

      If everything gets indexed, I can't see how it hurts. Helping would be
      another matter. But if google indexes everything I do at bubblews, how
      much more so at hub? If google indexes it, it's got to count somehow,
      even though it might be just a smidgeon. But again, I am not joining for
      the SEO benefit. In fact, I am staying away from that mentality as it
      gets you thinking about certain things when writing.

      If bubblews, squidoo, and hub were considered garbage, then google would
      be reluctant to index the stuff, if at all.

      If anyone else has any ideas, I'm all ears.

      Paul
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  • Only good for a 301 once the site is good! For a quick start, you need maybe to pay somebody to write QUALITY content before you get a good ranking!
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    Paul,

    why do you doubt of indexing of hubpages's content? I think they will get indexed in future without any doubts.

    Even a newbie create a website, the site is indexed in Google...... also a poor quality site with too many spelling and grammar mistakes sites are being shown in Google.... while Hubpages content is moderated, go through a quality check..

    so it is useless to discuss indexing of Hubpages..

    On the web, on any web property you create content, it will get indexed soon or later....

    Instead of discussing indexing, we should discuss how strong the content ranking is..

    Also, on hubpages, you are assigned a sub domain, and sub-domain is considered as a new domain, the more work you do on your profile creating several articles in several months and years, the more benefit you get.

    But such thing is not with Ezinearticles, your content is not put on a sub-domain, but your content is put on the main domain of Ezinearticles, and you get good benefit too.

    If anyone wants to get link juice, Ezinearticle is still the best source of link building...
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    • I have no opinion on hub yet. Have no experience with it except one lousy hub. It got
      indexed. I'm sure if I do a search for some unique phrase, it will rank #1. But how
      useful is that?

      Just because google indexes a page, in no way, shape, or form means they count
      any or all links on it.

      You were writing some decent stuff until that line. If that's your best source, man, we
      can end the conversation right there, cuz EZA is DOA.

      I had to check the calendar to see if it was 2007. Yup. Still holding at 2014.

      Paul
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  • From another point of view, does the site you want to link to directly relate to the Hubpage it's linking from? If not, the link/Hub will get flagged. And, you will risk your Hub for a backlink. If the site you are linking to is very relevant to what you are saying or in some way you can add a module making it apply, then you might try this backlink to see if it helps/hurts your site. Since Hubpages is considered a well established article directory, there is no reason to think such a backlink could be harmful.
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    • You have no idea what you're talking about, do you?

      Yes, there is a reason - it's an article directory. And I'm asking for proof, or at least solid experience, which shows that such links, in fact, do NOT hurt SEO. What you're saying is just presumptions; you don't know whether that's true or not.
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    Current status of HubPages

    Hi, I was wondering if any SEOs know where HubPages currently stand in terms of ranking sites? I have some hubs with 95 score and I'm wondering if including links would help, harm or not even affect the ranking? Although from page source, I see links are dofollow on all of my hubs, even the lowest ones with 72 rank.