Jun 09 2009
Still not sure about Hubs
I ended up making 6 hubs and stopped. 3 Hubs were just quick and junkie and 3 were made for Adsense with decent content. 2 of the 3 good sites are sandboxed. I think they got sanboxed because I started linking them with 2-3 PR blog comments, about 20 links each. I think it was a mistake to not mix up the links. You should probably not start your linking with blog comments either. You should start your linking with the best quality links that are available to you. If high quality links are not available then make sure you mix them up(comments, articles, directories, replies, forum post) don’t add too fast and make sure you vary the anchor text.
Anyway, I’m still not sure I want to build a bunch of Hubpages and here is one reason why. If I am going to build 100 pages I would rather utilize that time building a site on my domain that can rank for 100’s of keywords. All 100 pages would be in the same niche and each page would gain authority from the content of the entire site. I have heard gurus say that Google ranks pages not sites, That’s not totally true! I have seen too many “pages” that were ranked top 3 that had average content and 3 backlinks, however the mothership “site” was a PR 5 with a 25K pages and 15k backlinks. It is true that G ranks pages but a page attached to, or is a subdomain of a huge authority site is going to get rank preference. I don’t know how much authority Hubpages can give my Hubs or how long it will last.
I do think Hubpages are a great idea if you have a very unique niche and 800 pages(or less) of content are all you need. If I get the time and can find some small niches I might add some Hubs in that capacity. I will hire writers for that content because all of my time now is spent building in my big niche.
