What's HUB and SPOKE?

Thanks for brief answers

[Mr_Muff]

What's the meaning of these two words?

HUB

SPOKE

I'm a newbie here, so I am trying to understand...

Thanks a lot...

[tigger]

try using the site search above that should help you

[Mr_Muff]

ok, I didn't know about it...

sorry about that

anyway, thanks

[fathom]

A common crosslinking or theming strategy.

Hub - a repository of external links.

Spoke - hierarchy link structure down a continuous common theme >> Cars > Car Parts > Car Engines > V8 Block > Pistons << would be one spoke.

Another spoke might be "Trucks" using similar topics.

[Mr_Muff]

OK

now I see what a spoke is...

but I am still not sure about HUB..?

Could you give me some example?

Is any directory a HUB?

Thanks

[ciml]

Sometimes the phrase 'hub and spoke' is used for domain linking styles. Imagine a bicycle wheel with one 'hub' domain linking to its satellites (on at the end of each 'spoke' link), and each of them linking back just to the hub.

This is different from heavy cross linking (where 50 domains would each links to all of the other 49). Heavy cross linking was a common factor in the late 2001/early 2002 PageRank penalties.

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The word 'hub' is also used in 'hub and authority' models. Here, the hub is quite different. An authority is linked from a lot of good pages, a hub links to a lot of good pages.

[Mr_Muff]

bloody english :)

but i think i got it...

thanks a lot!