Do you notice that once you fix one sleeping hub more tend to crop up?

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   StephanieBCrosbyposted 12 years ago

   Do you notice that once you fix one sleeping hub more tend to crop up?
   
   It seems every time I get around to updating a hub so it can be active and taken off the sleeping status, two or more hubs miraculously have fallen asleep. Is HP trying to keep me more active? Or is it just a coincidence? Very freaky nevertheless. What would account for this phenomenon?

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   xstaticposted 12 years ago

   Hard to say, but my older Hubs were dozing away and came back to life with revision. I still have some sleepy ones though.

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      StephanieBCrosbyposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      That's about where I am.

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   Goody5posted 12 years ago

   Yes I have, but as you take them out of the idled hub status it's gets more under control. They still pop up from time to time down the road, but it's not as frequent. It's just something that we are all going to have to live with for now. Keep on hubbing 

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      StephanieBCrosbyposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      Of my 78 hubs I think I am at 4 or 5 that are idling. But I was upset when I updated one and 2 more replaced it. Thanks for the encouragement!

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   CrescentSkiesposted 12 years ago

   I only have 12 hubs and none of them are sleeping for some reason my hubs always seem to get at least a "trickle" of traffic.

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      StephanieBCrosbyposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      I thought the same thing. These hubs were getting some traffic, especially at the start of the fall semester with some of my topic focus and then they just started going one here and one there. Then like 3 or 4 at a time.

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   tussinposted 12 years ago

   It's coincidence.  You probably just lost a lot of traffic over the last few months so a lot of your hubs are going into idle.  Make a minor edit to each one of them and they will spring back to life again.

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      StephanieBCrosbyposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      That is probably what happened. But the progression was just odd to me.

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   Xenonlitposted 12 years ago

   I find that they are helpful things, those sleeper symbols. I've been revising older articles and retweeting and marketing them while waiting for them to be indexed again.
   
   Writers can expect to go through older articles for two main reasons, one being to update the information and the other to improve the article.
   
   Most of my cooking articles are complete and will last a while. Others came from my news writing and the information is not  of lasting interest. I will delete some of those.

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      StephanieBCrosbyposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      You are better than me. Even though I know purging parts that may not be helpful, I cannot bring myself to delete a whole hub. I do find revising them is useful. But it seems I will need to dedicate a day to revision alone.

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   teaches12345posted 12 years ago

   I just saw one  on my account today that is asleep.  I am going to have to go in and tweek it. The good thing is that when I go back to look at these articles, I can understand where they do need some help.  The seasonal posts, like holiday hubs, will tend to lose hits until the circle is complete through the year.

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      StephanieBCrosbyposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      I agree. While many of the sleeping hubs are either recipe hubs or very specific ones about literature, they can certainly use revision and updating or another picture or the like.

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