When deleted hubs are not deleted according to other sites

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   Tenerife Islanderposted 11 years ago

   I was moving a hub of mine that is a low performer here over to Squidoo and had as far as I was concerned deleted it here, however, now after republishing it at Squidoo, I have found it has been locked as duplicate content that already exists. If I look in my account files here it says it is deleted and I do not have this posted anywhere else!
   
   I can see this is going to be a new source of problems for me if I decided to move other hubs.

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      LeanManposted 11 years agoin reply to this

      Your hub will exist in Google for a few weeks after you remove it.. you could also have copies out there on the internet if someone had copied it...
      
      Just take a couple of full lines from your hub and search them on google and you will see if it is just your hub (which will eventually vanish) or another copy..
      
      If it is just your hub you can delete it from google using webmaster tools.

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         Tenerife Islanderposted 11 years agoin reply to this

         It all seems an awful lot of hassle just to attempt to get some traffic for my writings!  Thanks for the info! I suppose I have been lucky so far with others I have moved!
         
         I don't know anything about Webmaster Tools or where to find them!

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            Dale Hydeposted 11 years agoin reply to this

            Webmaster Tools is a great thing to explore and learn how to use.  Below should get you to the starting point:
            
            https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/

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               Tenerife Islanderposted 11 years agoin reply to this

               Thanks, Dale! I had never heard of it before.

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            ateinposted 11 years agoin reply to this

            This is the link to Google webmaster central . You will need a Google account which you can create.
            
            http://www.google.com/webmasters/
            
            The hub link given below explains how to link your  hubpages subdomain to google webmaster central so that you can keep tabs on your traffic . Also it will provide you with tools to remove your hub from the google results and google webcache .
            
            http://hubpages.com/learningcenter/How- … ster-Tools
            
            But prior to that you might need to set up a google analytics account. Link below tells you how to do it .
            
            http://hubpages.com/learningcenter/sett … -analytics
            
            If you do not want to link HP and google analytics then you should just request removal of webpage at google webmaster central.
            
            These links might help
            
            http://support.google.com/webmasters/bi … wer=164734
            
            http://support.google.com/webmasters/bi … er=1663660
            
            http://support.google.com/webmasters/bi … er=1663691

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               Tenerife Islanderposted 11 years agoin reply to this

               Thank you for this info!  It seems very complicated to me though. I just tried adding my site and verifying it and it failed. I don't see how I can add the meta tag here anyway if that is what is needed.

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                  ateinposted 11 years agoin reply to this

                  That is why you should link your HP subdomain to Google analytics account. Then there is no need to add meta tag .All you have to do is enter the url of your subdomain in webmaster central and your subdomain will be verified. Under optimization you can request for removal of url in your sub domain .
                  
                  Alternately you can just wait for some time and your deleted hub might disappear from google results

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                     Tenerife Islanderposted 11 years agoin reply to this

                     I have a Google analytics number but it wouldn't accept it for my subdomain and again it was not able to verify it and I gave up!
                     
                     I have just found out how to do it and my site is verified!

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   IzzyMposted 11 years ago

   Also if you do find copies, you can still file a DMCA using the wayback machine.

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      Tenerife Islanderposted 11 years agoin reply to this

      Izzy, I am so fed up of having to do this for hubs on my other sites and I just had one guy being rude about it and, after taking down my stolen work, posting on his blog saying "has the spirit of friendship between bloggers become extinct?" I just answered that saying I am just trying to make some money and have had enough!

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