HubPages are pages that have a lot of link-juice through internal links and forward it internally. The term "hub" comes from English and means "node". HubPages are internal nodes.
Hubpages have a lot of information on a topic and are strong from SEO perspective because they have a lot of relevant incoming links. This generates good search engine rankings. A HubPage is also a number of out-of-the- box links to related pages to provide users with more detailed information.
HubPages has become one of the largest networks of amateur online content on the web. They have attained this rank through a combination of their own growth and acquiring other content hubs, primarily including Squidoo.
HubPages is a focal center for content on the web for one reason; they pay writers. More importantly, they accept virtually anyone, on the premise that the best content floats to the top and earns the most for the authors. Content that doesn’t meet expectations settles to the bottom and is either quietly removed or largely ignored.
Those familiar with SEO might wonder about this strategy. Wouldn’t such an unfiltered and variable quality feed lead to massive SEO penalties? Well, you’d be right; HubPages was hit notoriously hard by Panda, and struggled for years to recover. Part of their solution was to filter their worst performing content onto
subdomains, reserving their main domain for only the best content.
The end result of this strategy is that the main HubPages site is full of great content, and that great content reinforces the quality and search ranking for the rest of the content on the main site. Meanwhile, poor content is shuttled off to branch sites, where it quietly dies under the grip of Google penalties.
When it comes to driving traffic to a website, a lot of things matter. Things such as incoming links, high ranking in search results as well as community traffic all have the potential to increase traffic to a website. So if you have a highly trafficked Hubapges account, you can rub on a little of that traffic on your website.
I recall a situation whereby I had a popular forum in an education niche and also had over 2000 subscribers. The traffic was mostly organic and didn't really care much about subscribers. I was able to use that traffic from the old website to create a new website with more organic traffic. So you can make a relatively new or lowly trafficked website popular by simply taking some magic from a more popular website like Hubpages.
2 Things you can get from Hubpages
Since Hubpages allows you to include links when writing and publishing a hub, you can include links to external websites such as yours but there is a limit to it. For such links to be dofollow, ie. rankable by search engines, you need to have a high Hubber score(around 75+) and this is practically easy if you write a good number of hubs with high traffic.
The benefits of dofollow links are that search engines like Google would see it as a valid incoming link and would rank your website higher in search results.
So, Hubpages allows you to include backlinks in your hubs and this can help improve your traffic over a small period of time
So, Hubpages allows you to include backlinks in your hubs and this can help improve your traffic over a small period of time
- Nofollow links
These are links to your website you can add on Hubpages which would not be crawled by Google as a valid backlink since they are marked nofollow to search bots. Nofollow links are commonly the case with links you add to your Hubs if you have a hubscore below 75.
Even if the links on your Hubs are nofollow links, you can still utlize it to boost more traffic to your site from human visitors. So, unlike dofollow links which focuses on appealing to search engines, optimizing your nofollow links is focused on appealing to humans.
When focusing on human action rather than search engines to improve traffic to your Hubs, you should make use of links that can attract human visitors to your site. For example, if you are writing a hub about Movie legends, you can include a link like "See the complete list" rather than just hyper-linking the word "legends".
Your should be able to encourage visitors to your hubs to click on links that actually go directly to your blog and this helps your traffic even if they were nofollow links.
Include your blog url on your Hubpages profile to also boost your traffic.
I hope you have been helpful!!!
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