You’d Better Balance Out Those Hubs!
April 24th, 2008 | 
Author: Since I started using Hub Pages, I’ve come to realize that in this community, it’s not just ‘netiquette rules that say you should have an even mix of personal and self promotional pages. The Hub staff have a trick up their sleeve!
If every one of your Hub Pages links to your domain (even if it adheres to the rule of no more than 2 links to a single domain), they’ll initiate a nofollow tag in your page, so that all that link love you were hoping to get across the board is disabled!
This is reason enough to add an even balance of Hub Pages that are just good, valuable content (with no outgoing links). But aside form that, it’s just the right thing to do socially, and this is a social network.
Not only will the community itself see you as a spammy type if all your Hubs link out to promote your domain, but your own visitors who go looking around your Hub account will view you that way, too. People like to be given a bone once in awhile.
It’s the same when you have a list of subscribers. You can’t sell, sell, sell 100% of the time. You have to give, give, give! This goes for everything you do online. Your Squidoo lenses, your forum posts (do you always ask for help but never give)? Make sure you’re doing your part to make the World Wide Web an information resource and not just one big marketing campaign.
Tiff 
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April 24th, 2008 7:59 pm
Yep! that is my experience with hub pages and squidoo, I wish I would have started off on the right track to start with, but people make mistakes and I made a ton of them and being a one man marketing campaigner just didn’t pay off, so changing tack and going the way of promoting free content towards niche topics that interest you and even others goes a long way online.
I like your blog by the way and I have subscribed.
Cheers now!