Why all of a sudden is it I cannot get more than 47 putting up a new hub?

It seems (for me at least) that when putting up a hub the score is around 50 or so and then it changes over time based on different factors. Not sure what they are though.

I wouldn't let the initial score for a hub bother me. Most of my hubs start off around 47-55 and rise over the course of a week. According to your profile you have over 700 followers.It probably only takes so many views or comments to help raise a hub score.

Either way if you have something you want to say then by all means say it. I would never let the score of the hub determine if what I have to say is worth publishing. I personally look at my hubs as a body of my work.

In a similar question, the hubber Luis explained it. I will try. When you create a new hub the system checks the title and based on the uniqueness and the originality the scores are produced.

The topic category also has a little to do with it if that topic has not been extensively covered. What I do is let the hub incubate for a couple of days to gain a few points before publishing. When I get the idea I create the hub and work on it there in HP, that drives up the scores so by the time you publish the scores will have improved.

Also, when you create the title, save it unpublished and look at the score, anything below 50 means the title isn't unique enough. Luis was better at answering this! I hope I didn't confuse you.

Two main issues seem to affect a hub's starting score: The words in the tittle must be high search words and the hub must be quality. For example a hub titled; "Shiitaki Mushroom Recipes" may not score high since the words in the tittle are commonly used ones and not in any particular niche. However if the tittle was : "Shittaki Mushroom Recipes New York Style" then the score may start higher since it is a niche topic (New York).

Another example is "Costumes and Photography Tips" started with a score of 47. When I changed it to "Cosplay Photography Tips" it jumped to 54. As Ambassador Butler said (and believe me I hate to admit that anything he says is correct), the hub will rapidly increase in score if it is a quality piece.

I normally hit the publish button and my story pops up with a 50 or so. I had no idea the title played a role in this decision. Today I published a hub entitled, "I Don't Like to Leave Meat in a Car." and I received a 46.

I am thinking, perhaps, HubPages is a vegetarian?

Pollyanna: It seems as of late, I've been having this trouble with the last couple of hubs that I tried to publish. In my case, my ADS were disabled, because a filter had screened this one particular hub of mine, saying that it was over promotional. However this Pub, is not over promotional, because it is related to infectious disease, carried by an insect.To add I have not finished this hub yet, but am still working on it.

There are a lot of reasons to why Hubpages could be doing this, and I believe it is mainly for legal ones, so they can basically protect themselves. Hope I provided some feedback in helping you with your question.Jl.

I'm still a pretty new Hubber, but it seems that even if your hub does start out with a low score, it can go up by a handful of points depending on how many times it is read and such. My first hub started out at 47 points, and is now at 63. I'm not sure if this information is correct.

This was just my observation.

I am new to hubpages and didn't even know what a hubscore was to begin with. While trying to figure it out I came across a very helpful article on what hubscore is, and how it is calculated. Check it out, it helped me out, maybe it will help you too.

darkside.hubpages.com/hub/HubscoreGood Luck.

I find that if I leave my article unpublished for a few days before submiting it, then it rises well above 50. So by the time I actualy publish it, it will have a high score :).

Its cause of the new system they have in place. If the topic that you are writing about is good and unique (based on title), you will have a bigger score. But it dosent matter cause overtime the score will go up if it is a good article and get views and so on.

Pollyanna: I have witnessed the same problem. I think they are scoring on a different curve than before.

I don't know, however I did learn a lot from the answers from so many high profile hubbers. Especially title. I didn't know it affected it so much and will rethink a few hubs.

And, now I wonder since I can't use Amazon because of the Calif decision it may be affecting scores. Thank you for asking this question - great learning experience.

From what I have noticed about my hubs is that a hub score fluctuates according to the number of traffic to that hub; that is the more times a hub is viewed the higher its hub score is. If the hub is published in less than three days from the day it was created, its starting hub score would usually be around 60 - 70 something. But if you take too many days to work on that single hub then its starting score will definitely be below 50 due to it not receiving any traffic, as I mentioned above.

I never concern myself over the starting score, and don't even notice what they are. I think if I held hubs back because of a low initial score, then I possibly wouldn't publish too much! The initial scores can only be based on HubPage's prediction of how well your hub will do, and before it's published they really only have limited data.

Which is probably why a mid-point score is probably a fair estimate! I find that hub scores generally build up over time (although sometimes they dip first). The point at which they level off, in the longer term, depends on various (unknown) factors, but in general must depend on how they are received once they are released into the "wider world".

Most hubs are now starting at 50, well mine are. So depending on the traffic, the topic and how good it is, that effects your score. All my hubs are fluctuating up and down every week.

I think the hub score is a good thing over all but it can also be discouraging to everyone here.

My hubs have all started pretty high and then either maintained or dropped and settled, or gone up. I think it has to do with quality and I think the originality of the title is also something that is taken into account. I'm not an "ideal" hubber, I guess, but I haven't had any problem keeping my scores high.

Most of the time I forget my hubs even get individual scores because I'm too busy look at my general hub score.

Try changing the way you format your hubs, and work on the overall lay out of your hubs. Use as much original information as you can, but also have backlinks placed throughout your article to support your writings. Include an image that is not pixeled and don't have too many Amazon products for sale.

Try that and keep tweaking your format until you find the right balances. Good luck.

He has not written even one hub yet he has gone on and on about these 3 hubs he has written - the score they started out with - the daily views they get - giving advise, etc. Etc. I don't get it.

Some really useful answers to this question - thank you. It made me go off and change the title of my latest hub...

Ive been getting the same problem to as of late. It seems as if the longer ive been around the lower my scores are at first but they do go up over time. Like everyone says though, I think a good portion of it has to deal with originality with your content and title.

Out of all the hubpages you published,you need relative traffic flowing to all of them. You must also link the related hubpages and enable the feature of showing similar hubpages that aren't yours. This improves KARMA and also impact your score.

Traffic and good hub connection are the keys here. Peace!

I don't understand Ambassador Butler going on about how good his Hub's are he hasn't even written any. As for your problems with Hub Scores then I wrote a little hub on it myself oneit.hubpages.com/hub/How-does-the-Hub-Pag The way I see it is if you write original hubs that not many people have spoken about then you're more likely to have a higher hub score. In particular pay close attention to the Titles this is the key area.

Use uncommon words but ones that people will search on to find your particular hub. Then concentrate on getting more and more traffic to your hub.

Yeah - I had that problem for a period of some days or week(s) as well. I thought 50 was the baseline, and your score improved or declined based on popular consensus. But for a few hubs, yeah - my starting point was exactly 47.Weird.

I think it really does depend on what you have wrote your hub about.

I guess it means your hub has real content. It seems the higher the score goes to garbage hubs.

It's so weird! I can't figure it out either. Not that I'm helping you, I'm just lamenting with you!

I started one on Friday that started as a 47. Then on Saturday, I started one at a 54. Why?

It makes no sense. None of the ratings make sense. I'm one confused hubber, but keep hubbing anyway.

Why? Because I do!

Thanks for this information. I did not know that there was so much changing in HubPages on the scores.

Polly has been here well over a year and never gets lower than 50 so I understand her question and no it does not make sense. IF YOU WERE 50 GOOD to start last year, why not now, especially with all the people you bring in and not for making money not having ads. It is not right.

I agree totally, they have something up their sleeve.

I agree with lovebuglena. I noticed that several of my hubs that I previously made have increased in their rating, just as my overall score increased as well.

I have had this issue too. I have been mostly working on hubs making them longer putting less links, at least a few pictures, correct spelling mistakes, write about something unique, these things seem to help.

Hub Score depends on the topic, if you chose an interesting topic you may start above 50 as well, it happened in my case.

I started a writing a hub, not published yet, and it had a hub score of 47. It only had a hub title but no content added at all. I checked a few days later, having done no additional work on the hub, and the hub score was 50.It is still unpublished.

So, I think that hubs now start of at 47, and then over a day or so increase to 50. Where the hubscore goes from there, or course, will depend on the quality of the hub.

I am having the same problem with getting much over 50. I thought all my hubs were just prroly written and lacking content but I see I am not alone.

I am new to Hub Pages and I'm working on a couple of hubs, but the more I find out about it, the more unsure I am that I want to publish here. It sounds like it is more like it's a game than a literary website. I don't like games.

Hubscore is your activity in a day, yo can notice the rise of your score if you EDIT, REPUBLISHED THEN PUBLISHED IT. After an hour check your hubscore. The setting of Hubpages Hubscore is TO BE ABLE TO RISE AND RISE YOUR HUBSCORE, You must be active regularly to your account such as ASK QUESTIONS, ANSWER QUESTIONS, FOLLOW OTHER HUBBERS, JOIN THE FORUM, FOLLOW HUBS, AND THE MOST IMPORTANT I REPEAT, THE MOST IMPORTANT IS TO PUBLISH A HUB REGULARLY THAT IS WHY THE HUBBERS WITH MORE THAN 100 OR MORE QUALITY HUBS EARNED WELL.

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