HubPages Acquiring Key Content from Squidoo
Paul,
Thank you. With all that's going on, I'm on information overload and forgot I read that
- annmackiemillerposted 9 years ago
0 Thanks, Linda. Unfortunately that page doesn't appear to address my question about how to deal with html symbols and accented letters (e.g., my pave vs. pavé example), which aren't covered by the allowed html tags. But it's a very helpful page and I've bookmarked it for future reference.
- mumsgatherposted 9 years ago0
- mumsgatherposted 9 years ago0
Understood and noted, Paul and Linda. Thank you for your amazingly quick response.
I was just re-reading the Squidoo HQ updated FAQ on the transfer and realized that the latest update says "You won’t be able to edit Squidoo pages starting on Friday, August 22, 2014." Could Paul or another official HubPages staff member please confirm whether I am interpreting this correctly to mean that today, Thursday 8/21, is the last day we will be able to edit our lenses prior to the transfer? (If so, I guess I'll be pulling an all-nighter again tonight.)
Thanks very much!thanks, 'report' it is
Marisa, you've been a real sweetheart as well as extraordinarily helpful to those of us who are joining HubPages from Squidoo as a result of the merger/acquisition. We are anxious to learn the ropes correctly right from the start so we can not only fit into the established HP culture but also hit the ground running successfully, which will be to everyone's benefit. So thank you for helping us to learn the correct terminology, rules, processes and etiquette.
Understood and thanks very much, Marisa. I'm sure I can figure out a solution that works within the 2-link per domain limit.
I'm certainly not trying to buck the system here, Sue! I just wanted to know whether there was a process for requesting an exemption (only with a strong reason, of course) at the discretion of one of the editors. It seems there isn't, and that's fine - I'm happy to come up with a way to provide the same level of helpful information within the established framework.
LOL N....I picked my name with the 2 after it, so I am KathyMcGraw2
Had to do something as I already have the other version for a few years now well I was this close to add a 2 too
and I think it would have been better than "hubs". I wanted to keep fanfreluche as it is my pen name since over 14 years..
Hi Valerie,
With the Group feature two related articles will appear at the bottom of each hub as "previous" and "next".
Find out more on how Hub Groups work here:
http://hubpages.com/faq/#hubgroups
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All the other related hubs further down the page belong to other hubbers although one or two of your own may also appear there but we have no control over those.- stargazer00posted 9 years ago0
Thanks very much, Marina. That's a very helpful as is the page about flags that you shared with me. The resources I link to are very reputable and well known and respected within the metal clay artist community, but not necessarily well known by a wider audience, although Google would recognize them as reputable, high authority sites. In the metal clay community, however, the only way for metal clay product suppliers to differentiate themselves is to provide valuable reference material as well as products on their site, so they have become key reference resources as well. So although my links to those sites would be to extremely helpful information resources rather than products, I'm hoping that they will not be "interpreted" by the program that does the vetting and flagging of hub links as promotional. I guess the only way to find out is to wait until the transfer and see what happens. If necessary I can direct readers to those product supply sites and give them the names of the articles and let them try to find them, but since sometimes the articles can be hard to find (since these are first and foremost e-commerce or manufacturers' sites) it will be much more helpful if I can continue to give them direct links to the articles. I'm sure there will be a solution.
And thanks again for your kind help!
Sooo, me and my one featured lens will get to find out what boot camp is all about...
Titia...
I am just seeing this and have an idea. Go ahead and put each of the zazzle items you have the pictures on, just don't link them. Then put one link to your Zazzle store that has these. Maybe if your store has a lot of other things you can put just this grouping in a new store and put that one link
Oh, and of course tell a bit about them
Yeah, well probably because the Squidoo folks didn't think to tell Hubpages this info.
ICP - we can use a gallery. I just wrote a hub about it
Titia,
Good minds think alikeAfter what I just read about images, I think many lenses will "be a lot of work" so join the club
Yeah, yeah, it was harder the first time around when I had 800 lenses. Talk about maddening. Don't envy Katinka and others who still have big accounts. 250 lenses this time was a snap compared to it.
Thank you Paul...
And yes, hosting images at Squidoo might have been the best option for transferring, but like I said, we didn't even know this would be an issue and can no longer make any changes to our lenses for over a week now.
That is why I thought give us 2 weeks to fix this stuff, then apply the 4 months Fair to all concerned.
The default Hubs > Statistics panel of the dashboard lists hubs by Hubscore as the default (best to worst). Click the top of the "Published" or "Changed" columns to sort by original publish date or most recent update. (Hubpages is importing original publish dates for lenses). Or sort by traffic to tackle your popular ones first.
"Export as csv" makes a tidy list you can import into a spreadsheet and use as a to-do list.
There's also some handy options hidden away in the double row of tabs (beige row, grey row) at top.
Hubs > Groups Create new groups, add "orphaned hubs" (scroll down) to existing groups. You can also add a hub you're editing to groups in the "Display Options" pane in the workshop sidebar.
Note: Hubpages asks us to limit groups to hubs that are logically and closely relevant to one another. Each grouped hub gets a "Next" and "Previous" link at the bottom, passing traffic to the adjacent hubs in the group, like a mini webring. Therefore, we can't set up groups for our own organizational purposes. (i.e. no "hubs I need to work on" group.)
Also, in that beige "Filter" area, there's a lot of useful ways to sort your hubs. For example...
Designation > Not Featured - Engagement
...lists all hubs that have fallen out of "Featured" status because not enough traffic or reader engagement
Designation > Not Featured - Quality
... lists all hubs that need more work to pass QAP.
capsule > Amazon
...lists all hubs with an Amazon capsule.
...er yes. What was the question?
(I should probably add this to my blog, shouldn't I)OH. *wipes egg off face*
Looks like it's using first-published date, newest to oldest. And no, I can't see any way of sorting it, although that doesn't mean there isn't one.
Veteran hubbers? Help?
