Has the 24 hour pending period/noindex changed your writing habits?
I know many people have left hubpages, other have stopped writing on current events.
How has it affected you?
I have been transferring my hubs from an old profile. Because of the 24 hour pending process and noindex, I am waiting longer to publish them and spacing them out. I want to separate related topics and not have them all be noindex when google starts searching.
I know many people have left hubpages, other have stopped writing on current events.
Not particularly. I've never been one to write on topics based on events that are current or "coming soon" (I gather that those who write about "hot" current events, stories in the news and such are the ones who get hardest hit by the "idling" period), so I just keep on truckin' and throwin' my stuff out there whenever I can find the time.
I mainly write for backlinks, so no. However, if I was on HP to make money, I would have left. I used to get between 10 and 30 views in the first 24 hours, now I'm lucky to get 10 in the first week on any hub I've posted since they changed it.
No, I'm doing the same thing; I also don't write on current events, and I never have put out that many hubs consecutively: I've always wrote them about a week or more apart. I take quite a bit of time on a hub, getting everything together. That's funny Fat Freddy's Cat commented, because I just dug up my old Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers comics and I've been reading them.
No, i think it is better for us if our blogs or hubs are relevant,unique and point wise described then it will be indexed fast and automatically up in the search engines
It hasn't changed my writing habits - I just write when I feel like it, about what I think about at the time. I've only once or twice written about something which has an immediacy, like Malala, the little girl who was shot in the head in Pakistan because she disobeyed the Taliban. And stories like that are seldom so time-limited that a 24-hour delay will kill them off. They are mostly ongoing stories, of the "what happened next" variety.
After all, if your story is so urgent, why aren't you selling it to the daily newspapers, instead of writing about it on HubPages?
I admit I don't understand all the tech stuff related to the pending period, etc., but to me, I don't see where it makes much difference if you get published immediately or have to wait a day or two, except perhaps if you're writing about a current event that is time sensitive.
I'm actually thinking of publishing more per week. The Hubs I have been publishing lately seem to sit in a pending state for 24-48 hours. I currently try to limit myself to 3 hubs every 6-7 days. Might change it to 4 a week.
It hasn't affected me in the slightest, other than making me hopeful that some of the more obvious dreck will be weeded out before it can be indexed. A site full of poorly written, error filled garbage that exists only to try to push readers to someone's commercial site reflects badly on the writers that *are* trying to write well or share information that they've got some degree of passion about.
Unless you're writing current - breaking - news, a wait for indexing isn't going to be a problem. And to be honest, if you want to write news, Hubpages has never really been the best venue for you; there are thousands of sites out there that specialize in that (and thousands of people trying to hop on the latest hot story - and to be honest, very few of the people writing 'news' are doing anything other than repackaging someone else's reporting).
Everyone's publishing schedule is different, but there's no reason to delay publishing a finished article based on when google starts searching, because it doesn't really start searching - it crawls 24/7, and there's no way for anyone to know when its little bots are going to hit next. You may as well publish - sure, an article may be pending for 24 hours or so, but it's still going to be 'live' before an article that's never been published.
by Warren Clark 11 years ago
I find it kind of ridiculous that I have been waiting for a couple weeks now for one of my hubpages to be published. What was the longest time you have ever had it take to get a hubpage to publish?
by Kate Swanson 11 years ago
Right now, while a Hub is pending, it doesn't show ads, it has a "no follow" tag etc. However our followers get notified and they may share the Hub during that time. It would be nice if that notification could be delayed, too.
by Kenna McHugh 7 months ago
Angst, I wish the revenue reports were up-to-date!!
by Paul Odien Pruel 11 years ago
Why HubPages is keeping a hub on pending status for five days?Five days ago, I published a hub but til now this is still on pending status. The hub score has reached so far to 78 with 63 views and received one comment. If this hub did not meet the HubPages standard - why the site is keeping it on...
by Simon Cook 11 years ago
There is a lot of anger and/or frustration relating to the 'pending' system and most of it is down to the fact that it's not clear why there are exceptions - this is justified and there should be open-ness. (Note this only is aimed at new hubs, not hubs that become un-featured later)One way to do...
by Susan W 10 years ago
On my account, it still says that the earnings are still pending and that there are some technical problems on HubPages. Is it on yours as well?
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