What Does the Hub Score Mean?
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The Hubscore is a number that hubpages assigns to each page based on a number of factors. The hubscore is meant as an indication of the page's quality and importance and resembles Google's page rank in some ways.
A hubscore is based on a number of factors, such as the originality of the content, rankings by other users, and length of the submission.
For example, the more original the writing, the higher the score. Simply copying and pasting stuff from the internet will result in a lower score. For example, if I had simply copied and pasted the explanation of what a hubscore is which can be found at in the Help section of this site I assume that hubpages would have given me a lower score. :)
I am new at hubpages and I am just experimenting with the site. So far my hubscores have come up in the mid range. Hopefully a ton of visitors will give me a positive rating and skyrocket me to the top of the scores (hint).
But seriously, the hubscoring system appears complicated. In fact there are many other factors to consider. For example, the score is affected by the number of posts you make. But posting lots of hub pages does not necessarily increase your score because, posting lots can be interpreted as spamming.
So the key is to post high quality articles that are spam free and informative.
Useful Links About Hub Scoures
- Why Hub Scores Go Up and Down
A hub article written by me that explains why your hubscore fluctuates. - Ten Tips for Hub Newbies
This is a good article that explains how to write a good hub, which incidentally will result in a higher hub score. - How Hubscore Works
This is a very good summary on how hubs are ranked and the factors that are taken into account.
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thanks for tips Paul :)
Very informative -- the article as well as the comments. Thanks!
Helpful info! I'm new to Hub Pages and your article gave the answer I needed.
I wonder what the numbers mean. One of my hubs is 72 or thereabouts and the other is 84. Which is best and why?
hubscores are also a way to encourage competitive folks to keep excelling! thanks for the tips.
very interesting article, thanks for sheding light on hubscores.
Very well put
Thank you for the information you supplied. I used the search tool to find out about what the score means and I found your hub.
This is the info I needed. I found your info in a google search. I gave a thumbs up.
Thank you,
Garry Nelson
I had the same question as someone above--please clarify what a good score is and is a high score or low score better.
Thanks for your comments and questions. The hubscore is calculated on a scale of 0 to 100, with 100 being the best, so the higher the hubscore the better.
You may also notice that your personal hubscore as well as the hubscore of any article you write will fluctuate a little. In fact it may go up or down a few points within the space of a few hours. The reasons for this are not explained on hubpages.com's FAQ, but I have noticed that some of the factors that influence the hubscore fluctuations include:
1) increase in traffic, especially from search engine referrals. For example, I have noticed that when visitor traffic drops, so does the hubscore.
2) how many recent comments you get. The more recent comments, the higher the score. If you go a long time without any comments, then the score starts to drop. So thanks everyone for your comments. Keep them coming!
3) the relative score of your other published hubs. If you publish a new hub which gets a high score it seems to raise the score of your other hubs too. But if you publish a hub that gets a low score, it seems to drag down the score of your previously published hubs as well as your personal score.
Thanks. That clarified it for me.
nice hub
Great hubpage about hubpage scores. I put up a hubpage myself but didnt know what the score ment. I now know to check in the help tab for more information. Can you put in your hub page if the higher the score or lower the score is best? Im assuming the higher score is better. Thanks for you topic it was a big help to me.
I never realized there was so much to it. I also heard that by answering requests you get extra points.
WOW! I had no idea about any of this information! What great tips!
thanks -- when you're new to the site, it doesn't make sense how the score is computed... hoping people find the green living and organic articles I write to be useful. More to come in a few...
GREAT JOB ON EXPLAINING THAT...
Brilliant, helps you know just what to add when making your own hub!
Yeah, I remember when I started out, I was absolutely confused. I accidently published an article without anything on it! How embarrasing. It immediately decreased to 45...I was getting discouraged, but thanks to your article, I now understand how all of this works! Thanks for posting this information.
wow, a tremendous help!! very well written and informative. thank ya much!
Well I had better comment here, to make sure your score keeps climbing!
Thanks
David
The Adsense Strategist
GREAT TIP !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks for the info
So is high or low the target or what??
Sarabecks - The higher the score the better.
I'm brand new to hubpages and this information was very helpful - thanks!
I was wondering how the score works. Thanks for this information *thumbs up*
I hope that yur hub gets the highest ranking ever check out my hub so I can climb to
Thanks and Welcome to the Hub Community!
Great article. I guess you must write more and leave comments as you read others. I am new here with only a dozen or so hubs. I don't seem to get comments and no fans. I can see the traffic numbers and know some are being looked at How to Tie a shoe lace is popular but no comments. I know this has helped others. Anyway LITS life is too short.
thank you
This was useful to me, thank you!
Thanks for the info, great hub
Thanks this really helped me out, I figured lower scores were best - guess I was wrong!
Woot thanks for the answeer bud you rock :)
This is a very useful read. Thanks for sharing this..
Thanks for the answer it helped out a lot being a newbe of sort . I getting a hubscore of 50 right off is ok ? hmmm. maybe . if it kinda like a grade system them I am kinda sad . well better luck next time around .
Thank you all for the explanation I was wondering what the heck the scoring meant! Alright time to move up the ladder from the 50s haha.
Thanks, I brought my score down because I did 4 post in a day. How often should I post?
I still don't get it I have to admit - so far I have only posted 1 hub (with another in progress). That was four days ago yet I have a pretty high score. So does this mean that people like my hub even no comments have been made. Also I notice our profiles have hubscores - does this mean we are being scored in a similar manner?
Thanks for this.
I was getting frustrated as I kept adding to a page thinking I was making it better and my hubscore kept going down.
Ramon Y - What I have noticed is that when you first publish your hub it usually has a score of about 50. Then it slowly rises to 60 or 70 if the hubscoring system thinks that the writing is good. I assume it looks at things such as originality (no copying from other sites), length, links to other websites etc. This initial rise in score happens even if no one has yet visited your hub. You can tell how many people have visited your site by logging in to your account and then checking the statistics. These will also tell you where people are coming from to your site such as search engines.
After the initial rise in hubscore when it is first published, the main factors in whether the score stays up or goes back down or keeps rising is how much traffic you get, how much feedback it generates, and how many up votes the hub gets.
So if no one visits your hub, the score will go down even if you have written a very good article. This may happen if you have written an article on something that is not of wide interest.
If your score starts falling because of low traffic, try adding links to your hub from other hubs you write, add more tags so that people can find it under different search terms, or try tweaking the title so that it is more relevant.
So as a long winded answer to your question, your current hubscore is probably due mainly to the fact you have written a good hub rich in text. However that score may start falling if the hub does not generate interest and you don't get internet traffic.
Very informative! Thanks for all the helpful information.
Thank you, I'm new to HubPages and my score droped 4 points. I think I might of wrote to many Hubs to fast.
wow your hub received several comments.I think that in itself should help your score.Thank you for producing this hub
This was very usefull and well written to be very understandable! That is very important if you are me :)! Thanks for the information!
Great advice, thanks
very interesting. I'm a newbie.. so these numbers seem very random. I am wondering. Is it a machine, computer algorithm thingy or is it an actual person somewhere making this decision?
Thanks for the info. I was wondering why my hub score keeps dropping.
peggypat - It's definitely a computer program that calculates the hubscore. There would be way to many hubs for any number of humans to read them all and assign a score. But that isnt to say that humans don't affect the score. Fore example when someone upvotes a hub, it registers as a positive factor that raises the score of the hub. And the higher the hubscore for your hubs, the better your hubscore as an author. Also, you can gain a better hubscore if you have a number of people following your hubs, and if you participate in the hubpage community by posting comments, etc.
Thanks for posting this, I'm new to hubpages myself and I was wondering what that number was there for! This is great to know!
very well explained
I am wondering, does hubscore matter when it comes to ranking higher on google? Thank you
I am new here, just trying to figure things out. Your post is helpful, thank you.
Its really helpful..as i was searching what the score means..
Thank you for answering my question. I didn't know what was the hubscore for and you've already solved my doubt. Thank you!
What about the hubscore for each hub? Like my score from my review for tycoon cashflow seems to go up daily... Does that mean people are giving me a thumps up??
I don't understand it? I am new to Hubpages and everything that I read about increasing hub scores in contradicted by this HUB. You have such little content and such a high score - what am I doing wrong.
You are the very first in google search under the terms "What is hub score?" So your theory works !! Good for you! A honest and informative writer !! BRAVO !!
Quotations, this was very useful, thanks :)
Thanks for the info... It's good.
Make quality yout target and hubscore will rise!
@Toronto condos - it is true that quality hubs tend to have a better hub score, but what makes one hub better than another? Remember that the hubscore is assigned by a computer examining various criteria and so the computer does not actually "measure" the quality of your writing - for example, it could no tell Dickens apart from Grisham. So what does the computer program look for to determine if a hub is quality or not? Here are a few more things that will improve your hubscore:
1. you should have at least three links from your hub to relevant hubs written by other people.
2. if people upvote your hub or rate it as "awesome" or "useful" - this is the human component in the system. If enough people like your hub and give it favorable reviews, your hubscore will go up
3. traffic - the more traffic you get from various sources the better your hubscore
4. comments - the more people comment on your hub the better. So keep those comments coming :)
Thank you for good advice... I'm new to hub pages and should have done my homework before "jumping into the pool". I feel that on one hand I'm fighting to increase my fico score and now I have to worry about increasing my hub score. ?#@! :(
I was looking for some sort of valuable information on hub score, as i am new to this portal and looking forward to have a good reputation.
Thanks! I'm brand new to hub pages and was wondering what those numbers meant until I read this! This funnily enough was easier to find than the help page!! :D
Also, if you link too often to the same site outside of HubPages your score can go down. I can see how spammers might abuse this, but it does reduce HubPages' effectiveness as a form of site promotion.
Answering or asking question in this hubpages forums can help in improve the hubscore ? answer me
Appreciate the post, but does a higher hubscore lead to higher visibility? I know that it would attract more hubspace people, but hubspace people don't click on ads. I want to know if a higher hubscore does anything in the background with search engines?
@slc334 - hubscore does lead to more visibility and traffic (to some extent) and is also the result of more traffic, so there is a circular chicken and the egg scenario involved.
For example, if someone uses the hubpages search engine to search for "chocolate" the search results will list the hubs in numericol order (highest to lowest) based on their hubscore. Also, when one is using the "suggest links" feature to create links from their own hub to other hubs and thus earn HubKarma (which also increases hubscore) the suggested hubs will usually be the ones with the highest hubscore. So having a high hubscore means that more people will find you using the hubpages search engine and also that more hubbers will link to you.
As far as I can tell Google and other search engines do not know your hubscore when deciding how to rank you - but because the hubscore is based on factors similar to the criteria used by the search engines to determine quality and therefore rank, if you can get a high hubscore it means that you are probably writing hubs that will do well in the search engine rankings.
Also, because a high hubscore leads to more links to you from other hubbers (since they can more easily find you) it will indirectly improve your SEO since you will eventually have more incoming links, which is something that Google takes into account.
Having said this, I also have some hubs that have high hubscores but get little search engine traffic and hubs like this one that have an average hubscore but get lots of traffic. Finding a niche is important.
Good explanation on getting your hub score up. I've learned a few things from browsing the site and I now have a better idea of the type of topics that hub readers are into.
Thanks for the tip! I had been wondering about my scores, and finally did a search. You were the first result, so good job!
(I am a real person too).
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thanks again quotations:) I like the hub machine pic.
Helpful hub and well put! Thank you for the information.
Thanks, I had no idea what that meant. Nice and informative
Nice hub, thanks for the useful info.
I'm a little confused about your comment of 7 months ago re the 3+ outgoing links to other hubs. From what I know about SEO, incoming links are a positive, and outgoing links are a negative. But maybe Hubpages gives enough credit for outgoing links to other HUBS to offset this. Do you have indications that this is the case?
Very useful! I;'m new to HubPages as well and this was very informative and exactly what I was wanting to know. Thanks!
Thanks for the comments everyone. @ A Little Truth - I don't agree that outgoing links are a negative. A hub that link to useful and relevant high quality sites will be seen as informative and this will help your hubscore and your ranking in the search engines. So if you write a hub about classic Model T automobiles you should definitely link to other sites about this type of automobile. It is unrealistic to expect people to just link to you while you never link to someone else.
OK, thanks for the response, quotations.
I found this through Google- Guess this actually works. :)
I am new to hubpages too and have been wondering about the hub score. this hub is very informative. thanks...
Does anyone know what the maximum score is? 100?
@brian101 - yes, 100 is the highest score you can get.
Thanks. I hadn't seen anyone with higher but wanted to be sure. Best wishes.
Thank you. This was very helpful for me :)
How often or when do the scores get refreshed?
@Dan90017 - I am not sure of the exact schedule, but scores can change several times a day.
So I also made some newbie mistakes - thanks for the informative post, I know what my 45 means now :)
@bread-maker - make sure to also get an image for your profile. Profiles that have no images don't get as many followers. Getting more followers improves your personal hubber's score.
Thanks. Exactly what I was wanting to know.
I'm a hub newbie and don't really have lots of time to wade through tons of information in order to find the one nugget I need. Your article was the EXACT thing I needed, direct, to the point, short!
Thank you!
Thanks for this info.
I actually found this article by typing "hubscore" into Google. First result was this. ;)
Thanks for the feedback and nice to know I rank well with this article. Now if I can only achieve the same result with my other hubs!
Exactly what I was looking for.
Straight forward and to the point! Thanks for the info :)
Great! Thank you for clearing that up! I actually found this answer in a Google search instead of it showing up in my Hub search! Thank you!
Thanks. Simple and easy to understand.
good article! sure helps alot of people wondering what the hub score means!
So hub score is like fixed when an article is posted or it increases as the time goes by with comments and ratings
When you first publish the article (hub) the score is usually around 50. It then rises or falls as the article is evaluated by internal processes. If the article is bad - for example, if it is not long enough, or is too promotional - the score may fall below 50. If the article is deemed to be good based on writing style, content, etc then the score will rise above 50.
How far it continues to rise, and how high the score remains,will be influenced by many other factors including the amount of traffic (hubs that no one visits tend to have lower scores even if they are well written), how many comments they receive (hubs that generate discussions tend to be ranked higher), how many thumbs up they get from readers, etc
The hubscore is never completely fixed and will fluctuate up and down because your ranking is not only influenced by the things mentioned above, but by how good the hub is compared to other hubs. As more hubs are published, and as the hubscores of the other hubs also fluctuate, your relative rank or position will also fluctuate.
This helped me a lot, thank you!
Hey I followed you bud, hopefully you will return the favor.
Paul Edmondson Level 4 Commenter 4 years ago
Several high quality Hubs will increase your author HubScore. Origninal and informative will get you a higher score than a purely commercial offer like a clickbank article. Some traffic from different sources to your Hubs can also increase your score. These are just a few of the pieces of the scoring system.