If one of your hubs is idled, what do you do?

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   pstraubie48posted 12 years ago

   If one of your hubs is idled, what do you do?
   
   Do you delete it,  or do you unpublish it, work on it, and republish it?
   
   

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   JThomp42posted 12 years ago

   All you must do is a little simple editing. After this, it will become featured again within 24 to 48 hours.

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   Becky Katzposted 12 years ago

   I will edit it to satisfy the hub gods and it will be pending for around 12-24 hours. Only one letter needs to be changed to make the hub gods happy so just check your spelling and readability. I have changed a sentence to make it flow a little better. I rarely delete because I am not very prolific. If you really do not like the hub, unpublish and rewrite or delete.

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   Goody5posted 12 years ago

   It's absolutely no problem to get your idled hub featured again, and back into the lime light once again here at the Hub Pages. I have a quick fix for idled hubs that will do the trick for you - http://goody5.hubpages.com/hub/Quick-fi … led-status I hope this helps you out, and please remember that you never need to delete or unpublish an idled hub.

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   duffsmomposted 12 years ago

   Since most of mine are recipes or poems, and I am not concerned with the money making aspect of Hubpages, and I don't want to make any text changes - I simply go in and add a comma, or change my copyright notice a tiny bit and then republish and in a day or so, it's back.

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   FatFreddysCatposted 12 years ago

   I just open 'em, give 'em a few tweaks (move some words around, change a line or two, maybe add a pic, a poll, or a video) and throw'em back out there again.

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   The Dirt Farmerposted 12 years ago

   I've been (a few at a time) editing my idle hubs to add polls (gee, I wish they were more attractive looking), more pictures, tables, etc. while keeping an eye on the new "hub-o-meter of hotness" in the upper left corner of the page while in editing mode. I'm hoping my idle hubs will become un-idle ... someday!

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   ryanjhoeposted 12 years ago

   I usually edit it and then tried to publish it again and hope it become acceptable for hubpages.

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   joym7posted 12 years ago

   just adding few other things and editing a few paragraph and will through it back on the hubpages.

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    Abby Campbellposted 12 years ago

    I advertise my hubs on a variety of areas: Facebook Pages and group, Pinterest, and Google +1 groups. I also have a website where I syndicate my hub's titles and summaries. One click, and the reader is brought into my HubPages. By advertising on my website, I am able to tag each hub with my own words and phrases. Hopefully, this brings more traffic. I have never had one of my hubs unfeatured, but I've only been writing for HubPages for two months.

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    cat on a soapboxposted 12 years ago

    I look at idled hubs as a way to rethink first impressions. The title may need better key words to drive traffic. Could the photo be better?   I may go in and edit quite a bit of info or add significant text. I look at it as a way to fine-tune my hubs. Poetry idles faster than informative topics, and I write a lot of haiku. There's the challenge!

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