Dear fellow Hubbers,
Greetings!
I would like to perform a hefty makeover on one of my hubs: more than a simple manicure. I could just edit, and thereby save the views and comments; I could delete and start fresh, and so find a better URL; or I could unpublish, perform the makeover, and re-publish. I’m not sure what is best.
Thanks for any input…
Are any of the page views from Google and Bing? If it's featured and getting search traffic, then I would just keep it published and edit.
Yes, it is featured and has page views from Google, though not much. For the time being, maybe I’ll do some editing and wait to see what happens.
That's what I am in the process of doing. I have not unpublished any of my hubs, but are slowly updating and improving all of mine one at a time. Once caught up, I am ready for new and fresh ideas.
Yup! I am doing the same thing. It feels good, and the stats are improving.
by Don Bobbitt 5 years ago
We all know that we must keep our Articles fresh and up to date, right? Well, I'm sitting here staring at one of mine with the subject, "Idle Hubs". My problem is that for a while it managed to gather several thousand Views. But now, the whole Idle Hub scenario has been eliminated. SO, my...
by Rael Casalme 14 years ago
I can't seem to delete my comment on another person's hubCan we? or at least edit it?
by Larry Rankin 10 years ago
Can you delete and republish blogs that have become un-featured due to lack of traffic?I've recently had a lot of blogs lose their featured status due to lack of traffic. I was wondering if there are any policies against deleting blogs that are no longer featured and publishing them again? So...
by Cuttler 13 years ago
One of my hubs was recently idled. It wasn't performing well, and had zero traffic for some while. In my quest for a Google Ad-sense account, should I or should I not delete it?
by Marina 12 years ago
This week we will begin assessing older Hubs that haven't yet gone through the Quality Assessment Process. Instead of only holding newly-published Hubs to the heightened quality bar introduced in March, ALL published Hubs will need to meet minimum quality requirements in order to remain or become...
by Nathan Bernardo 13 years ago
How many times do you edit an idled Hub before deleting it? Or do you keep it idled so that links to it are still good? Also, for what reasons do you either leave it idled or delete it or still try to fix it? I have one Hub which I've edited a few times, and this last time after I edited it, it...
Copyright © 2026 The Arena Media Brands, LLC and respective content providers on this website. HubPages® is a registered trademark of The Arena Platform, Inc. Other product and company names shown may be trademarks of their respective owners. The Arena Media Brands, LLC and respective content providers to this website may receive compensation for some links to products and services on this website.
Copyright © 2026 Maven Media Brands, LLC and respective owners.
As a user in the EEA, your approval is needed on a few things. To provide a better website experience, hubpages.com uses cookies (and other similar technologies) and may collect, process, and share personal data. Please choose which areas of our service you consent to our doing so.
For more information on managing or withdrawing consents and how we handle data, visit our Privacy Policy at: https://corp.maven.io/privacy-policy
Show Details| Necessary | |
|---|---|
| HubPages Device ID | This is used to identify particular browsers or devices when the access the service, and is used for security reasons. |
| Login | This is necessary to sign in to the HubPages Service. |
| Google Recaptcha | This is used to prevent bots and spam. (Privacy Policy) |
| Akismet | This is used to detect comment spam. (Privacy Policy) |
| HubPages Google Analytics | This is used to provide data on traffic to our website, all personally identifyable data is anonymized. (Privacy Policy) |
| HubPages Traffic Pixel | This is used to collect data on traffic to articles and other pages on our site. Unless you are signed in to a HubPages account, all personally identifiable information is anonymized. |
| Amazon Web Services | This is a cloud services platform that we used to host our service. (Privacy Policy) |
| Cloudflare | This is a cloud CDN service that we use to efficiently deliver files required for our service to operate such as javascript, cascading style sheets, images, and videos. (Privacy Policy) |
| Google Hosted Libraries | Javascript software libraries such as jQuery are loaded at endpoints on the googleapis.com or gstatic.com domains, for performance and efficiency reasons. (Privacy Policy) |
| Features | |
|---|---|
| Google Custom Search | This is feature allows you to search the site. (Privacy Policy) |
| Google Maps | Some articles have Google Maps embedded in them. (Privacy Policy) |
| Google Charts | This is used to display charts and graphs on articles and the author center. (Privacy Policy) |
| Google AdSense Host API | This service allows you to sign up for or associate a Google AdSense account with HubPages, so that you can earn money from ads on your articles. No data is shared unless you engage with this feature. (Privacy Policy) |
| Google YouTube | Some articles have YouTube videos embedded in them. (Privacy Policy) |
| Vimeo | Some articles have Vimeo videos embedded in them. (Privacy Policy) |
| Paypal | This is used for a registered author who enrolls in the HubPages Earnings program and requests to be paid via PayPal. No data is shared with Paypal unless you engage with this feature. (Privacy Policy) |
| Facebook Login | You can use this to streamline signing up for, or signing in to your Hubpages account. No data is shared with Facebook unless you engage with this feature. (Privacy Policy) |
| Maven | This supports the Maven widget and search functionality. (Privacy Policy) |
| Marketing | |
|---|---|
| Google AdSense | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
| Google DoubleClick | Google provides ad serving technology and runs an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
| Index Exchange | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
| Sovrn | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
| Facebook Ads | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
| Amazon Unified Ad Marketplace | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
| AppNexus | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
| Openx | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
| Rubicon Project | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
| TripleLift | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
| Say Media | We partner with Say Media to deliver ad campaigns on our sites. (Privacy Policy) |
| Remarketing Pixels | We may use remarketing pixels from advertising networks such as Google AdWords, Bing Ads, and Facebook in order to advertise the HubPages Service to people that have visited our sites. |
| Conversion Tracking Pixels | We may use conversion tracking pixels from advertising networks such as Google AdWords, Bing Ads, and Facebook in order to identify when an advertisement has successfully resulted in the desired action, such as signing up for the HubPages Service or publishing an article on the HubPages Service. |
| Statistics | |
|---|---|
| Author Google Analytics | This is used to provide traffic data and reports to the authors of articles on the HubPages Service. (Privacy Policy) |
| Comscore | ComScore is a media measurement and analytics company providing marketing data and analytics to enterprises, media and advertising agencies, and publishers. Non-consent will result in ComScore only processing obfuscated personal data. (Privacy Policy) |
| Amazon Tracking Pixel | Some articles display amazon products as part of the Amazon Affiliate program, this pixel provides traffic statistics for those products (Privacy Policy) |
| Clicksco | This is a data management platform studying reader behavior (Privacy Policy) |



