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   Sophia Angeliqueposted 12 years ago

   I'm trying to publish an article. It keeps telling me that I'm connected to forbidden sites, but there is no indication of forbidden sites. In addition, I've only used mainstream links like Forbes Magazine, Fiscal Times, the BBC, the New York Times, etc. How do I find out which site is forbidden???? There is absolutely no yellow highlight or anythinge else.

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   paradigmsearchposted 12 years ago

   I know it's a pain in the neck, but pick one suspect at a time and break the link. And don't forget the photo links, if any.

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      Sophia Angeliqueposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      I've already done that with both videos and they seem okay. they're all news sites. And, yes, it is a pain in the butt!

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         paradigmsearchposted 12 years agoin reply to this

         Start with the non U.S. ones...

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   paradigmsearchposted 12 years ago

   BTW, I've seen other posts here of false positives. So you are not alone.

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      Sophia Angeliqueposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      Well, I know this. I'm about to stop writing for HP if this persists. I get that there a lot of people who abuse the rules, but the trick is to put someone full time on weeding them out and not to accept sub-par writers - not to attempt to write software that wastes the time of professional writers.

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         Sophia Angeliqueposted 12 years agoin reply to this

         Could this be one?
         
         http://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/ … aa80cd389f

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            paradigmsearchposted 12 years agoin reply to this

            Wouldn't be the first time a politician's website was hacked...

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            Sophia Angeliqueposted 12 years agoin reply to this

            Found it. It was this one...
            
            http://townhall.com/columnists/johnhawk … page/full/
            
            I don't even being to understand what's wrong with publishing that one!

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               paradigmsearchposted 12 years agoin reply to this

               I no longer try to solve the mysteries of the universe anymore...
               
               Break the link for now, maybe retry in a few days?

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                  Sophia Angeliqueposted 12 years agoin reply to this

                  Done. It's published! Thanks for the assistance.

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                     paradigmsearchposted 12 years agoin reply to this

                     Awesome Hub!!!
                     
                     Are you aware of this in "Edit Profile"?
                     
                     "Show Idle Hubs on my profile:
                     Showing Idle Hubs may diminish your search traffic. What are Idle Hubs?
                     Yes  No"
                     
                     Or is your hub already not in pending mode?

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                        Sophia Angeliqueposted 12 years agoin reply to this

                        You told me about this last time so I took it out of pending mode! So it's up! thanks a lot. Glad you like the hub. I spent the entire morning researching it and writing it.

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                           paradigmsearchposted 12 years agoin reply to this

                           Alas, my memory is going along with everything else.
                           
                           How did you take your hub out of pending mode? The swirly thing is really gone?

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                           Glenn Stokposted 12 years agoin reply to this

                           You can't take it out of pending mode yourself.
                           
                           I just checked your last hub you published over an hour ago and it's still NOINDEX. That means "pending"

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                              janderson99posted 12 years agoin reply to this

                              So what's your own secret way to bypass pending? I've tried a few tricks, but nothing works so far.

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                                 paradigmsearchposted 12 years agoin reply to this

                                 I lit a candle and put it on top of my computer overnight once....
                                 
                                 Didn't work.

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                                    janderson99posted 12 years agoin reply to this

                                    I tried to get a kiss from Prince but he refused. He said he did not kiss hubs and wheels.

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                                 Glenn Stokposted 12 years agoin reply to this

                                 I didn't know if you were asking me. But like I said, You can't take it out of pending mode yourself.

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                              paradigmsearchposted 12 years agoin reply to this

                              That's what I suspected...
                              
                              @Sophia:
                              
                              http://hubpages.com/faq/#IdleHub
                              
                              "Show Idle Hubs on my profile:
                              Showing Idle Hubs may diminish your search traffic. What are Idle Hubs?
                              Yes  No"

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                              Sophia Angeliqueposted 12 years agoin reply to this

                              Actually, I obviously have no idea what 'pending' means. The last time I complained that I had published my article and it didn't appear on my profile page, some people said some things about pending and someone explained to me how I could set my settings so that they could get on my profile page immediately.
                              
                              So long as it's on my profile page, I'm happy.
                              
                              I'm assuming that 'pending' therefore means waiting for a search engine to index it. If that is so, I really don't care whether I have to wait for 24 hours. There is so little traffic for HP these days that waiting a day makes no difference.

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                                 paradigmsearchposted 12 years agoin reply to this

                                 Ya really need to understand about the deadliness of the noindex tag... See my earlier post with the "@Sophia" and link in it.

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                                    Sophia Angeliqueposted 12 years agoin reply to this

                                    I read that. I have five or six idle hubs and I will either delete them or transfer them or do something with them at some point.. My average hub score is 77. I don't think it's a train smash.

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                                       paradigmsearchposted 12 years agoin reply to this

                                       Here's another one.
                                       
                                       http://hubpages.com/learningcenter/Feat … -Idle-Hubs
                                       
                                       Bottom line is you do not want pending or Z'd hubs showing up on your profile page.
                                       
                                       Set that back to "no", and let them show up there on their own after/if/when the noindex tag is auto-removed.
                                       
                                       ""Show Idle Hubs on my profile:
                                       Showing Idle Hubs may diminish your search traffic. What are Idle Hubs?
                                       Yes  No"

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                                          Sophia Angeliqueposted 12 years agoin reply to this

                                          PS, thank you for your kind thoughts, but,  yes I do want my idle hubs to show up on my profile page. I am proud of everything i write, and I write them for a reason. If it effects the degree of traffic to my hub, then so be it. However, as it is such a small percentage, I truly doubt it. That said, I am moving those hubs that don't do well here. The ones I wrote to help other hubbers also feature as idle hubs so I will need to delete them. I'm sorry about that because many people have been helped by them.

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                                             paradigmsearchposted 12 years agoin reply to this

                                             I just finished reading one of your hubs. You are right and should be proud of them. And, yes. Your hubs do help people. If you find a good home for the ones you are moving, let me know. There's some I need to move myself. The ones I've already moved to my various blogs just collect dust. Gotta be a better option...

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                                             Marisa Wrightposted 12 years agoin reply to this

                                             Sophia, it's precisely because you're proud of what you write, that you don't want idled or pending Hubs showing on your profile page.
                                             
                                             If a pending Hub is on your profile page, or if you share it on Facebook or anywhere else, Google's robots will come and visit it.  While it's in "pending" or "idle", it has a "noindex" tag attached to it.  When the Google robot encounters the noindex tag, it runs away screaming and won't come back for several weeks.  Which means that Hub won't appear in the search engine results for a very long time - and your Hubs do not deserve that fate.
                                             
                                             That's why many of us are up in arms about new Hubs being placed in "pending", even for five minutes.

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                                                Sophia Angeliqueposted 12 years agoin reply to this

                                                Marisa, When I write something, I want it published immediately because I wrote it for a reason.
                                                
                                                I will give you an example of a reason.
                                                
                                                I have approximately 2500 followers on G+. Topics are discussed rapidly and change rapidly. They are time sensitive. Yesterday, we were discussing if America could become another Greece. So I wrote an article about it. Waiting 24 hours would have missed the peak.
                                                
                                                That said, thank you for the warning. Obviously, I can't use Hubpages for this anymore. I'll also find another home for the handfull of idling hubs I have and delete anything that was HP specific.
                                                
                                                I have deleted all hubs that were idling so there is nothing more on my hp that are in that state. It solves the issue.

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                                                   paradigmsearchposted 12 years agoin reply to this

                                                   Add another one to that.

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                                                      Sophia Angeliqueposted 12 years agoin reply to this

                                                      I am deeply flattered PS! You do know my name is Tessa Schlesinger?

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                                                         paradigmsearchposted 12 years agoin reply to this

                                                         Into Google search your name went... You have been very busy... In fact, you have worked your b**t off. If anyone deserves success, it is you. I look forward to the day that I can say that I knew you when.

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                                                            Sophia Angeliqueposted 12 years agoin reply to this

                                                            PS!, you've just made me laugh! Yes, I have been working my b... off. Well trying to work it off. Unhappily, it's still very much there...

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                                                   Marisa Wrightposted 12 years agoin reply to this

                                                   You may have missed Greekgeek's several forum posts on just this issue. You are right, it's no longer possible to use HubPages to publish articles which are time-sensitive, because the "idle" period is too unpredictable.    Which is a great pity.
                                                   
                                                   I'm playing around with other sites.  One, which I came across yesterday, is Newsvine.   I have no idea of the earnings potential - it's not a site that is much talked about.  However, I have a suspicion that's because it's not a place to write for backlinks - it could still be a good place to write for revenue and reputation, if you write about current news. Worth checking out?

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                                                      Sophia Angeliqueposted 12 years agoin reply to this

                                                      Thank you, Marisa, that's very useful. I actually did do a search for a content site to see where else i could publish. I will check this out. Much appreciated.

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                                                         Marisa Wrightposted 12 years agoin reply to this

                                                         Other alternatives are Seekyt, Infobarrel. ThisisFreelance, PubWages, Xobba, Zujava and Wizzley.
                                                         
                                                         Squidoo is an obvious option because it's the one site where people are still making good money - however I've always found it too demanding myself.

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                                                            Sophia Angeliqueposted 12 years agoin reply to this

                                                            Marisa, thank you. I am on Wizzley. You can find me under 'Tess.' What I've taken to doing is allocating the kind of things I write to various sites. So I have various blogs on capitalism, government, easy life, writing, etc. and then I have content sites that cover decorating, travel, general, etc. and then I have my books when I sell on Amazon and Barnes and Noble. Well, trying to.   Why is Squidoo too demanding?

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                                                               Marisa Wrightposted 12 years agoin reply to this

                                                               Phew, I would be exhausted trying to write on so many blogs!  Right now, I'm consolidating my blogs rather than expanding, because everyone is telling me Google is favouring "authority" sites:  so the goal is to create a significant body of work on one broad topic. 
                                                               
                                                               I'm doing the opposite with my "anything and everything" articles - I'm spreading them over all the sites I just mentioned, on the principle of not putting all my eggs in one basket I don't control. 
                                                               
                                                               As for Squidoo, Greekgeek's Hub explains it best:
                                                               http://greekgeek.hubpages.com/hub/how-i … on-squidoo
                                                               
                                                               For travel, you might want to look at Travellerspoint - though you need to have a lot of material on there before you get paid much.

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                                                                  Sophia Angeliqueposted 12 years agoin reply to this

                                                                  Marisa, they are specific. That's one of the reasons I started moving my stuff around. The issue that I find very difficult is that I dont' want to write specifically about one thing all the time. But, yes, Google is looking for specialists!

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                     Glenn Stokposted 12 years agoin reply to this

                     I just read your hub. Really very well done.  I am in total agreement with you and I just added a more detailed comment in it about why I agree with you.  Good luck with it.

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                        Sophia Angeliqueposted 12 years agoin reply to this

                        Thank you.

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               sunforgedposted 12 years agoin reply to this

               That site opens with a full page ad popup and auto-play video in the sidebar. Both are common tactics of aggressive marketing sites and spam sites ... I kind of recall seeing a mention of that sort listed in the why they might block an external link list at one point

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                  Marisa Wrightposted 12 years agoin reply to this

                  I had a similar problem and the reason was the same, so you're right - if you link to a site with a popup and video, it will be regarded as "forbidden" whoever they are.

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                  Sophia Angeliqueposted 12 years agoin reply to this

                  Well, for some reason, it didn't open up with a full ad for me. I don't know what that was, but it didn't - three times.

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                     rebekahELLEposted 12 years agoin reply to this

                     Possibly because it was already in your browser cache.  It opened with a full ad for me also.

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                        Sophia Angeliqueposted 12 years agoin reply to this

                        thanks for explaining.

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         paradigmsearchposted 12 years agoin reply to this

         Nah, you love it here too much.
         
         Besides, HP just let 3 employees go...

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   kschangposted 12 years ago

   You can always create separate online identities for different areas of expertise.

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      Sophia Angeliqueposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      It's not the name that's difficult' it's the intellectual energy of being forced to write on one topic all the time when one's mind is involved in many. Because Google wants specialists, that means that one puts different topics on different sites. It doesn't matter if it's by the same person; in fact it's better so that Google can recognise one! I just find it diffiicult to write about one topic all the time...

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         Marisa Wrightposted 12 years agoin reply to this

         I'm lucky, I tend to be a bit of a one-trick pony - most of my stuff is about dancing!

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            Sophia Angeliqueposted 12 years agoin reply to this

            You are, indeed,  lucky. I have a thousand interests and my mind goes from one thing to another. I would go nuts writing about one thing all the time. I have, however, decided that from now on, I'm only writing fantasy romance in terms of fiction.

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               Marisa Wrightposted 12 years agoin reply to this

               Ooh, interesting!   On another topic, I posted about guest blogging on another thread and if you're writing about travel, the post may interest you:
               
               http://hubpages.com/forum/topic/105720#post2248099
               
               The blog lists a lot of resources for travel blogs.

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                  Sophia Angeliqueposted 12 years agoin reply to this

                  Marisa,
                  
                  This is a good suggestion, and in time, I will use it.
                  
                  I do want to say here that I have been working towards a certain goal and that is simply to earn my income from books. I have always been considered a good author and, currently, have a request from a main stream publisher for one of my books.  I believe that done in the right way, writing books will bring me a quicker and easier income than writing on content sites and blogs do. They do, already.
                  
                  What I have forced myself to do over the past year is try to interact more with others in order to build up exposure. As I am  introverted to the extreme, this has not been easy!
                  
                  Also, because I naturally think about many things, I write about those things because it is a form of release for me. I don't speak about them because my thought speed is too slow for ordinary conversation and I find conversation very stressful. It's less stressful on forums and social networking sites than in the real world, but it's still stressful for me because I can't take a day or a week to reply to something.
                  
                  That said, I do have a web persona now and, at this point, within the next few months, it's a matter of writing one or two ebooks every month. After I finish my Civil War II series (another three episodes to go), I will be focusing on fantasy romance because it gives me enormous leeway to integrate all my fields of knowledge and enjoyment.
                  
                  So, at that time, I will be looking to write on guest blogs. The only other guest blog writing I would do is write about writing. My Sprice of Writing Blog is read by quite a few, and I try to keep the articles on it as helpful to emerging writers as possible.
                  
                  Incidentally, I had an invite from Huffington Post to speak about Capitalism on one of their panels because they liked what I said on my blog Capitalism and YOU.
                  
                  

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