Which Niche should I submit to?

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   paperfacetsposted 7 years ago

   I have a Hub that is now ready for niche submission. I hope it passes and is accepted. But I am wondering which niche is the best gamble to take? Should it go the Owlcation editor or the ReelRunDown editor? I would like the best bet because I have a different Hub I want to submit in my 2 week window.
   
   https://hubpages.com/literature/book-and-film-gift

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   lobobrandonposted 7 years ago

   I would pick ReelRunDown. But don't worry too much about it. If by chance you submit to a wrong niche site the team moves it to the website it belongs once accepted.

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   paperfacetsposted 7 years ago

   Thanks for the suggestion. I have found that the Team does not have the across niche referral system working site wide. That is why I am thinking this is a bet on my part and I do worry about it. I had to submit a Hub twice to get it in a ncihe site. It was a toss up. Should I submit to Toughnickel or to FeltMagnet? So, I think the system is not embraced by all the editors even though, it is a whole site policy.
   The last submission I thought could go into FeltMagnet or WeGotKids. but there was no indication that both niches had a look at it.

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      lobobrandonposted 7 years agoin reply to this

      Someone from the staff would be able to give you a better answer. But I would say if you submit it to Owlcation, the editors are Owlcation are going to say nope this does not belong to us and they move it to RellRunDown and an editor there would look into it and approve it if it meets the guidelines. If not, it's rejected and you can work on it again, etc.
      
      I assume that you worked on something before submitting again? If yes, that small change was the reason it was accepted the second time around. The team makes notes on the reasons the hub is rejected from a niche site. I always wished they shared those notes with the authors to make everyone's life easy.

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         paperfacetsposted 7 years agoin reply to this

         Oh yes, I make changes. My Hubs are not written on stone. There is a hundred ways to say the cat does not like water, so to speak.

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   Kierstin Gunsbergposted 7 years ago

   Lobobrandon is right, wherever you submit it, if the editors think it would do better on a different niche site they just move it there instead.
   
   Unless you've had a lot of sales off it you might experiment with taking the Amazon capsule off because those aren't as welcome by the editors as they used to be.

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      paperfacetsposted 7 years agoin reply to this

      I believe that is not my experince like I mentioned above.

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   Kierstin Gunsbergposted 7 years ago

   Also, I don't know if each site has it's own editors. I think the team of editors all work together on all of the niche sites. I could be wrong, it's just what I've noticed with my own submissions.

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      lobobrandonposted 7 years agoin reply to this

      Interesting. I always thought the editors specialised in a few niche sites (considering the number of editors was lower than the number of niche sites). Also, the queue for Owlcation was always longer, if the tasks were shared, the time for an article to be accepted to every niche site would probably be similar.

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         Shesabutterflyposted 7 years agoin reply to this

         This has been my experience. The editor I was recently talking with only deals with Letterpile content and had to contact an Owlcation editor to answer some of my questions.
         
         I've only dealt with one editor when I submit to Delishably, but I honestly doubt she's the only editor for that niche.
         
         I've been in contact with 4 different editors and they do not seem to know much about the editing/accepting policies of the other niche sites. However, they can contact other editors and I have had editors move different articles to other niche sites.

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            lobobrandonposted 7 years agoin reply to this

            Okie I've never had the cross niche question session. Hehe

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            paperfacetsposted 7 years agoin reply to this

            She'sabutterfly, I did get one email from an editor that indicated they referred the Hub to another niche, but I did not get that kind of consideration with another Hub. That Hub actually was accepted on another niche after I did some edits, but the process did take a few months of waiting. The email said after 60 days I could resubmit. So if editors are doing communications between themselves it does move Hubs faster into the earning side of HP. If they don't...well. It is not a very tight process.

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               Shesabutterflyposted 7 years agoin reply to this

               That's true. I submitted an article 3 or 4 times before an editor decided it should be on a different niche and transferred it to their editors. Kind of a waste of my time as I don't think it belongs there but nothing I can do about it at this point.
               
               It would be a lot easier if it was the standard. Would save us writers some time and give us some certainties on what needs to be done to get the articles moved to niche sites.

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   Kenna McHughposted 7 years ago

   That happened to me. I submitted to one niche and it was moved over to another. After a bit. I figured it out, submitted one-for-one, you will, too.

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   Kierstin Gunsbergposted 7 years ago

   Lobobrandon - I could be totally wrong! I don't know for sure, it was just my guess.

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      lobobrandonposted 7 years agoin reply to this

      I'm not sure either, just my guess haha.

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