Not featured due to quality. Trying to understand why?

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   goodhabits4kidsposted 7 years ago

   My first submission rated 66 but not featured due to quality. I am trying to understand what went wrong.
   
   The content is original.
   It is a 1400 word article with pics & table
   It was copy edited before, so the flow and the grammar and the spelling should be ok.
   
   Can it be because i included my web site address at the end of the article? Anyone who can help me understand?

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      promisemposted 7 years agoin reply to this

      I suggest doing a Google or Bing search on "keyword tool" to find a site that will give you keyword ideas related to your hub.
      
      Use the keyword phrase that best describes your article in the title, summary, first paragraph and once or twice more later in the article.
      
      Use at least three or four images. Wikimedia.org has quite a few photos that can be republished as long as you use the license information with the photo.
      
      Short sentences and short paragraphs receive higher rankings with "ease of reading" scores used by search engines.
      
      Try to write in the third person as much as possible and minimize "I" and "you".

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         goodhabits4kidsposted 7 years agoin reply to this

         Thank you for your suggestions! Will surely look into those.

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            goodhabits4kidsposted 7 years agoin reply to this

            Got featured! Thanks for all your suggestions!

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      galleryofgraceposted 7 years agoin reply to this

      Self promotion is against the rules. Best remove your website link before it gets unfeatured again.

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         goodhabits4kidsposted 7 years agoin reply to this

         Thanks for the heads up galleryofgrace! I am a newbie and don't know many of the rules.
         
         By the way, it wasn't intended for self promotion. I mentioned it for others to find and comment, as the article was not published at the time being and there was no other way to find it. At least that was the case I read in other posts.
         
         But since it got featured I may remove it anyway.

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            goodhabits4kidsposted 7 years agoin reply to this

            Can you help me how I can remove it?
            
            I only have the options reply / report / permalink & no delete

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   goodhabits4kidsposted 7 years ago

   Well - the link is: http://hubpages.com/family/Lets-talk-ab … nd-talents
   
   Thank you so much for all your help

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      theraggededgeposted 7 years agoin reply to this

      Hi there, welcome.
      
      It's a nicely written hub.
      
      Suggestions:
      
      More images. They must be copyright-free. i.e. Creative Commons license or your own. Make sure to add the source or the hub won't pass QAP. The image that you are using us appropriate but of poor quality. You want something that is worth pinning on Pinterest. Preferably several.
      
      Change the title to something people are actually searching for. No-one is looking for 'Let's talk about superpowers' are they? All the searches on 'superpowers' are to do with comic books and movies. You can use Google Adsense Keyword tool for researching keywords.
      
      For example, the phrase 'gifted and talented' generates 9,900 average monthly searches, so if you could incorporate that into the title, making sure it is succinct and descriptive of the article, it might garner some search engine traffic (which is what you want).
      
      Rewrite the beginning. The article is about gifted children and their potential. It's not really about superpowers, so the intro is irrelevant to the actual content. You could mention superpowers in passing, I suppose, but it's a different topic all together.
      
      Hope that helps a little.

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         goodhabits4kidsposted 7 years agoin reply to this

         Thank you theraggededge. Much appreciated!

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            goodhabits4kidsposted 7 years agoin reply to this

            I got featured! Thanks for your suggestions!

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   psycheskinnerposted 7 years ago

   I suggest changing the title to a directly accurate one.  Hubpages wants the title to indicate what the material is and use the right keywords.  e.g. "Identifying and Encouraging Gifted Children"

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      goodhabits4kidsposted 7 years agoin reply to this

      Thanks psycheskinner!

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         goodhabits4kidsposted 7 years agoin reply to this

         Thanks! Changed the headline and a few other things. Guess what, got featured today. Thanks for your suggestions!

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   mchllhwgtposted 7 years ago

   I really enjoyed your hub. Sorry I can't be of more help as just new myself but I just wanted to say I thought what you wrote and how you wrote was great.

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      goodhabits4kidsposted 7 years agoin reply to this

      Thank you for your message!
      
      Made a few changes as suggested: changed headline, added more pictures and video, removed links to my website
      
      Let's see what hubpages would think

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         goodhabits4kidsposted 7 years agoin reply to this

         Guess what - got featured today! Thanks for your encouragement!

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            theraggededgeposted 7 years agoin reply to this

            Excellent. Now on to the next one

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               goodhabits4kidsposted 7 years agoin reply to this

               Thanks for your support!

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            mchllhwgtposted 7 years agoin reply to this

            Yey! Congratulations. Well done.

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