Fix It 101: The Things To Fix To Help with Hubscores

If you have 350 hubs and your personal hub score is a 1 does this mean you have a problem with quality content? The simple answer is that to both Google and hubpages yes. There is such a thing as spam and a drive to writea million hubs is not going to help. Google dislikes spam. So do most readers. the question that the hubber asked is why do they have this problem? They only want to make money.

A Money trap where more is better... but they don't understand the basics to hubpages. Quality content always trumps poor content and poor effort. or both, or duplicate content. Their score should alone tell them something, but they aren't giving much effort into their writing. They do have some good hubs, but not many. This is a business and we all look for the best, or at least I hope we all do.

They are wondering why this is the case. Why do they have so many hubs and such a poor score? I'll say three things are the biggest problem: Lack of links, lack of quality content, and just lack of something interesting.

If I was to give some advice, the very first thing I would say to this hub writer is this STOP WRITING HUBS NOW! no matter now many more hubs you write, your hub score will not go up. It really can't go down.

What it looks like to a casual reader is a whole bunch of spam. The topic which was chosen for many of the hubs are "photo galleries." Okay not that this is a bad thing, but they aren't something most people would look for. In fact I can probably find all their photos everywhere on the Internet. The quality of many of the photos would be consideredstock photos. This is a business go for original and quality photos in a photo gallery.

Now, normally I am not a stickler for grammar, or for spelling, I know I make a lot of mistakes, but really, if I can see them, so can other who have a better grasp of the English language than I do. Please, use the edit and spell check button. Not that you might find all your mistakes, but at least some need to be caught. If I can see them, others definitely will.

Next.. anything that has a hub score of 55 or below has to go NOW. Delete it, don't bother fixing it. See, right now with a quick check most of the hubs written are below a 60 and there are no comments. Or just one or two.  Not anything I would personally read either, these are a couple hundred of the same photo gallery.

Also, Because there are only one or two comments, this means that there is no interactivity. Sorry no interactivity, no return visits. Frankly there was one hub which really interested me, but because I had to look so hard, and because there was really no effort on returning comments I didn't bother to write one.

But really to increase your hub score, deleting all hubs  below a score of 55 will do that, (somewhat) but also adding a few comments below your photos. The fact of the matter is most of the photos are not the greatest quality. So the impression is that it looks like spam. Impressions do matter.

Yes, you need to care about what you write, be passionate about it!

Look at the traffic sources, and then try to find out what works and what doesn't. I took a quick look at this hubber'soverall hubs, and for the most part I would say that they have very little traffic, and are wondering what is going on. For one thing they have a lot of followers, ( for teh quality of hubs out there) but probably not too much traffic. I suspect most of their milestones are on the lower end.. except for possibly the number of hubs they have written. (This is of course an educated guess)

Beyond the obvious, there are few things which might help your hub score.

-- comment on others hubs, Do NOT EVER comment "your hub is great" or anything like that. In this case the hub score is so low that a whole bunch of spam like comments will be taken for that--spam.

-- find your three best scoring hubs and fix them up and add links to them. Only the three best scoring hubs.

-- Action means also deleting hubs, since I began this hub, this particular hubber has published another 7 hubs.. not the way to go. More is NOT better. ( edit: they have in fact now deleted about 50 hubs, but still haven't done much in terms of improving any of the other hubs)

-- Word count, no words no word count, it will be listed as a poor word count hub, this isn't a good thing.  They probably also have many flagged as duplicate, and these hubs need to be deleted.  They drop scores.

How to publish a good hub:

Okay giving out some "secrets" here-- well if you have read my hubs you'll know them but this is for others who just began to read my hubs:

--A good hub has anywhere between 300- 1,500 words of written text in it, this can be under the text module or as a caption under a photo. Otherwise in general it is of poor quality.

-- A good hub has a score of 60 after any length of time. Anything less usually should signal a warning flag to a writer. ( So something that was written say 6 months ago and has a hub score of 50... well that needs to be fixed up.)

--A good hub has links to it from beyond hubpages, use the social networking sites to your advantage to begin with. Yes this means actual work to some, but really it takes only 5 seconds.

--A good hub uses the power of an idea and keywords to get traffic.

--A good hub has something for everyone

--A good writer can understand that some people like a hub, and some don't but everyone has a voice. Negative comments should be welcomed.

--A good writer understands that this is a passion and a business and that often they write to help, not to make money.

--A good writer accepts that sometimes things simply don't work out, but they keep trying to improve.

-- A good hub has a score of 60 or more.

-- A good hub has interaction, a poll a comment that is replied to, something for everyone.

--A good hub doesn't just seem pasted together. It also doesn't look like it is trying to be a "make money" hub, product reviews are okay, but see Great hub writers of product reviews to see how they do these.

-- a good writer has a personal hub score of 75 or more... anything less is BAD NEWS. It is easy to get a score of 75 or more, if you interact and write high quality hubs.

Okay I could go on, but really this is the basics, content, traffic links, keywords, quality. They all work together and leave a great impression with the readers.

If they are looking to make money with Google, this isn't the way to go: I know I am sounding harsh but in all honesty. to have this low a hub score and the types of hubs that they have sends a very bad signal to other writers on hubpages.

I would be very surprised if google is looking with kindness on these hubs.

See Google, like all search engines, looks for quality, traffic and links, but I suspect that quality is the big thing on google. It is simple to add links to a lot of places, but often it is the quality that counts. (Remember this when you are about to publish a hub: Quality counts.)

Not quantity, which is I think the mentality of this writer. If a writer focuses on money they will do anything to get it, and then their writing will suffer. I know I make mistakes and I know that I am trying to fix them, the key point is that I am trying to fix my mistakes. their hubs speak volumes, photo galleries of ladies, and some very weak titles.

Trust me, Google is smart, and this isn't the way to go about making money. Please write out a basic business plan and then follow it. Make sure it isn't vague and that you focus on writing and quality and linking. Set a time frame and a certain number of hours you are willing to devote to improving your online presence. This will help with two things: money and Google keywords.

This is a business, not something that you can write spam on.

One last word--

I normally don't write these hubs, but this is not the first time I have seen such question in the answers section on hubpages. ( usually it links with "I'm not making money and my score is.. why is this?")

So this is both an attempt to help and to warn what do happen if you are focused on "fast cash" and not quality or anything else. One view is enough and one view was all I needed to make me not want to look for some good things.

Of course as a bonus this makes me want to write better and to improve my own writing. I have to succeed and work better. I really should publish better hubs!

To our success on hubpages.