Is it worth sacrificing your hubscore to get more followers?

Honestly, I could give a rats arse about followers. They're nice - and it gives a sense of community - so I would like to build up a small following of followers that I can share a two way relationship with. In the end, however - followers do not bring views.

Google does.

If you have 500 followers, and they ALL visit every hub you publish, once, that is garbage. You get one day of 500 hits then 0 after that if you have no Google love. Getting 500 hits day after day from Google, that's gold.

So no, it isn't worth it. It's not worth your time.

Followers will come with time if you write well and interact with the community. I have thousands, but I myself only follow 12 people.

If you want to go play popularity contests, go do it on social networks, not here.

In my opinion, I guess it depends on how the writer looks at it. Some people are all about getting the most followers, which in theory would result in the most people reading your hubs. But that isn't always true.

Some people follow anyone back who follows them and never reads a single hub written by the writer.

Then there are the people who only care about quality. These are the people that I would think do not mind if they have a low amount of followers. I am by no means saying the first group doesn't have quality writings.

I guess what I am trying to say is that in my eyes the people in this group would be happy even if their hub only reached out to one person.

As for myself... I have around 26 followers and my hub score is an 85. I am fine with both numbers. I do get excited when I get a new follower but I think I feel more excited when I log in and my hub score went up by 5 points.So as I think about it, I do not think it would be worth it.

I follow people that write about topics that interest me. I pretty much have decided not to worry about my hub score because it makes no sense how it fluctuates.

I have noticed the same thing. It does seem true. I've even noticed that by posting more sometimes your high score of say an 80-90 can drop as much 5 or 10 points by posting too much or too much close together.

I do believe however, based on what little knowledge I have of Google Adsense an Amazon that without the increase of followers and subsequent associated hits, you just don't make the profit.

On the other hand, the lower the score the less it seems followers are attracted to your hubs. I was amazed in my reading on the hub that one women with over 2.4K followers and has apparently half of everything she writes removed makes a full time living, follows few and comments on none. She does not reveal her secret and say she will not.It would be interesting to find out.

I wish I could be more help. If you find the answer, let me know.

I wasn't aware it would make scores fall and if true I don't see the fairness in that, not that everything here makes sense. One of the reason most are here is to make some money while satisfying a desire and the more people you have visiting your hub the greater possibility of hits thus money so I question the logic here. I don't have ads yet but I love looking for new arrivals that I may have something in common with.

First off, I don't think anyone is here for a popularity contest. I would also say more followers do bring you special benefits, I think that's obvious. The more followers you have generally means the more traffic from other hubbers you will receive.

Most hubbers get updates when people they follow publish a hub, therefore more views for that hubber. If that's not a benefit I don't know what is. Plus every time a follower comments on one of those hubs, their hub goes to the top of the feed with a new comment, Another benefit that helps get more views (atleast through hubpages).

So to answer my own question I would say, It's only worth it to a small extent. Yes, you want to keep your reputation but following people seems to be a helpful networking tool to connect with other writers, especially for those who aren't trying to make money but just want feedback.

Yes. Everyone knows that this system is screwy and hub scores do not refect the quality of a hub.

Like with everything else that eventually will gets ordained and crowned good, by us also. The one constant and common denominator that remains the only fail safe and ongoing true prerequisite : "Is Time.

Stay true to what you know and believe, giving time its place to do it's usual thing of analyzing and fermenting and aging and crowning the good .

You don't get good after you are already good , you only improve on your greatness. Bad never gets good , truthful good, simply gets better around all bad.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.