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Smells Like HubPages
By Sandy Mertens
New rules on Hubpages have made me love Squidoo even more! Having never really understood HubPages and their point system, I have asked for help with some of the masters there. I followed their advice with getting more involved with the forums, groups, contest, commenting voting up hubs, keywords, adding more content, staying active on HubPages and promoting as much as I can. My score remains in the low 80s. For a very short time, my hubscore was in the low 90s. If your score is not 100 or near that, no one will find you from the main page. I can't help but feel that HubPages is a good old boys club, if you are not in it, too bad for you. I know people with a few hubs and a high score on their main page. These people are not as active on HubPages either. Scoring does not mean you don't have well written content. I have seen many hubs from popular hubbers with near perfect scores that were short and substandard. Yet the score on their hub was high. Now I am not trying to take apart any particular hubber. There are many talented writers there. However, the scoring does not add up. I have been following one hubber who happens to be a doctor. She writes about all different medical problems in terms a layperson can understand. Her hubs are always well written and informative. At the time that I am writing this, her score is 1. That is right! A single digest number score. Maybe she hasn't participated as much as I have or added as many pretty pictures in her hub. But does she deserve a 1 in her main profile page? New rules added to HubPages will make it harder to enjoy this social network site. 1. All duplicate content hubs will be eliminated from their site. Fair enough, I believe in originality and not duplicate content. Out of my 80 hubs, one is label duplicate. It is a recipe hub. The article links the editors sent me where not even close to my recipe. There were similarities, but all recipes will have this. I love this recipe and I am sure the people on Squidoo will too! 2. There is now a limit to how many Amazon and eBay products that one can have listed in your hubs. These also reflex on the word content verses products in your hub. Nothing wrong with that unless your article is about those products and Squidoo recently enforced a limit to Amazon and eBay products as well. But Squidoo is more flexible if your main purpose is to have a product lens. In fact, selling Amazon products is encouraged. I have many gift hubs that now have this warning. If I don't fix it by March 25, 2011, these hubs of mine may not be in existence. Not a new change but something you should know, HubPages only allows two links to an outside site, unless you were able to RSS it. While Squidoo, it is nine. If you are a Zazzler it is hard to promote your shop on HubPages. On Squidoo the link limit does not apply to Zazzle products. You can promote and brag away. It looks like a lot of overhauling on HubPages or moving my hubs to friendlier places.
Sandyspider (Sandy Mertens) is a writer, creates graphic art, networker, internet addict and marketer. She has two Zazzle shops showing her sense of humor and creativity. See her work and two of the network sites plus her main website directory here. If you would like to join Squidoo (a separate referral link) or would like some customize products contact Sandy at sandy@sandyspider.com Funnyjokes on Zazzle Sandyspider on Zazzle Sandyspider on Squidoo Sandyspider on HubPages Sandyspider.com
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Thanks for this detailed critique. I'm glad I'm not a hubber. Actually, I tried it once, but got no pageviews or traffic, nor, despite frenetic networking activity, fans, so I gave up and quit.
 | | nick Mar 16, 2011 17:51 |  appreciated |
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Thanks Nick. I just got done fixing 24 hubs so they wouldn't be deleted with their new rules. And I have one yet I will be moving to Squidoo. I think for me, HubPages will only be good as a blogging site.
Thank you for sharing this information, Sandy.
You have put in the hard work, and it's too bad that the house has to change the rules.
I hope that it all works out for you, and please keep us posted. It's valuable,knowing where not to tread!!
Best to you.
Frederick
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Thanks Frederick. It just seems like there are too many sites that don't want you to get out ahead online.
I didn't know things had gotten worse on Hubpages, Sandy. That's too bad. (And to think I've just signed up, though I'm still hub-less!)
Thanks for the info!
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Seems like stuff like this is happening all over. I had signed up at Xombia some months ago. Had about 60-70 bookmarks that led to Squidoo and HubPages. Now they have changed their rules that only articles will be accepted. All my bookmarks are gone, along with other people who have bookmarked.
you are correct sandy. once i had some problem with hubpages, i left there once for all. one by one i have moved more than 40 hubs to squidoo. i am not under estimating hubpages but in my point of view squidoo is more convenient than hubpages. take care.
sukkran
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I did move one hub somewhere else. Maybe in time I will move them somewhere else. Squidoo is much better.
This is a big recommendation for Squidoo. It was a lot of work learning HTML but very enjoyable to see the outcome. I love writing but I also like to make the site attractive. I am not a member of HP .. now I am happy I didn't sign in. Thank you for your honest opinion.
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A lot of the big earners there are not happy right now.
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