Hub removed from network and sent back to Hubpages domain?

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   Daniel Mollatposted 7 years ago

   I got an email from the editors saying:
   "We have reviewed your article, This is How I Trade Stock Options (Follow My Actual Trades), and, unfortunately, the article does not meet our quality bar"
   
   The editors don't tell me why it now failed to meet standards when it has been in a niche site for several weeks already. How do I edit my work if I don't know what the problem is?
   
   Any suggestions?

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   Beth Eaglescliffeposted 7 years ago

   Delete your self-promoting link "If you are not a HubPages member you must join the site to receive my notices. Sign up here, it’s FREE."
   Delete the logo "Follow my options trade" which is also self-promoting. 
   
   Also make sure there are no similar self-promoting comments in your answers to Q&As. (I haven't read through them all).

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   DrMark1961posted 7 years ago

   This article looks like a blog. It does not look anything like the magazine-style evergreen articles that are on the rest of your profile.
   If this article is not accepted after you make the changes that Beth Eaglescliffe suggested, I recommend that you set up a blogspot or wordpress blog and transfer that information over there. If you are not interested in making money off of that blog, you do not need to monetize it. if you are looking to make a profit off of it, you can add adesense or affiliate links.

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   Daniel Mollatposted 7 years ago

   Thank you all for your suggestions. I will work on them and hopefully get the hub back to a network site.
   
   I would like to make a comment that HP editors should be more helpful to us hubbers by telling us exactly what is wrong with a particular article so we can get directly to the errors and make corrections. Our customer service editors have to be aware that they are there to help us and not just tell us that there is a problem with our article.
   
   It looks to me that they depend on other hubbers to do the work for them. In many cases, other hubbers try to help with calculated guesses on problem solutions. When these don't work they again come up with another set of suggestions to resolve an issue. This could go on and on until finally, one remedy works. WHY DOESN'T HP's CUSTOMER SERVICE GO DIRECTLY TO THE PROBLEM AND TELL US WHAT WE NEED TO DO TO CORRECT IT?
   
   I see this issue come up many times with other hubbers' being told the same thing about problems with their hubs yet not telling them directly what the issue is.
   
   This is not how Customer service is supposed to work!!!

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      DrMark1961posted 7 years agoin reply to this

      This is how the real word works.
      If you had a client that asked you to work solely on his trades 20 hours a week, and paid you an annual salary of $500 for all your efforts, would you accept?
      That is kind of what is happening. HP is a business. You have not bought a product from them, you have not paid them anything, and they are not obligated to hire employees or spend their time providing you with customer service.
      
      I am not sure how much you have earned here, but if you get a $60 payment that means Hubpages is getting $40.  That does not pay for a lot of service. They will send you an email.

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   theraggededgeposted 7 years ago

   Daniel, I took a look.
   
   Get rid of that generic image. They do nothing for any article. If you have plenty of tables, you don't need images.
   
   Reduce the number of links to your other articles.
   
   You can't use H2 headings for paragraphs. Use bullet points or conventional sub-titles followed by text.
   
   Like DrMark says, this is more like a blog than an article. It might work, but it may not be approved to go back to ToughNickel.
   
   Hope that helps.

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   psycheskinnerposted 7 years ago

   He aren't HP customers, we are their content providers.  They provide the rules, and people in this forums have pointed out which rules you have broken.
   
   HP needs to turn a profit and if they hired enough staff to provide what you are requesting, there would be no profit left.

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   nomadspiritposted 7 years ago

   Wouldn't you be better served having this on your own website?
   It reads like an ongoing blog that needs weekly (probably even daily) updates and a following. HP isn't the best forum for developing a following- its better suited to getting unique, organic readers who find your articles through the search engines. What you have written sounds like the kind of thing that you would want people following and checking back regularly to get updates on how your stocks are progressing- hence your directions to become a member of Hubpages. Also, giving such a direction would go over a lot better on a website that you own!
   
   I do have a question? Did your article make it to the niche site as published now? Or did you make some edits after publishing which then got it rejected?

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      Daniel Mollatposted 7 years agoin reply to this

      Yes, the original version of the hub made it to the niche "Toughnickle" but now has been removed and placed in the Hubpages domain. I didn't do anything to the original hub other than post updates to my trades.
      
      What you are seeing now is the edited version after I made corrections to the original hub as suggested by hubbers here.
      I'm hoping this new corrected version will place it back to Toutchnickle.

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         nomadspiritposted 7 years agoin reply to this

         I see.
         It doesn't read like something the editors should have accepted- not because of the quality, but because of its nature. Since others have pointed out that problem already I wont go into it further except to say that if we are all right then no amount of editing will fix it. This may be why the editors didn't suggest any changes.
         I once wrote something that was passed from niche to niche with both sets of editors rejecting it without giving suggestions for changes. When I did push and get a response they basically said that while it was well written it just wasn't the type of article what they were looking for. This is the kind of problem that editing can't fix and it seems like your article may fall into that category.
         I do understand your frustration at being published and then rejected because someone made a mistake and initially accepted an article that didn't fit the criteria for the niche sites.
         
         I am not sure if there is any way to turn this around into an evergreen article that doesn't need daily updating-- it seems as if that may defeat your goals, but if there is any way maybe that could work.
         All the best with your article.

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   Daniel Mollatposted 7 years ago

   Yes, we are content providers and therefore it behooves the editors to tell us what we could be doing wrong when we have committed an error. When your child does something wrong don't you tell him/her what was done wrong?
   People here have suggested what rules I may have broken but we don't know 100% if these are in fact the actual rules that I broke. Or maybe these are some and there may be other rules I've violated and have not been seen by hubbers who are trying to help me. I have made corrections to the hub following the suggestions but I wonder if these corrections are enough? Or are there other issues that are in question?

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      theraggededgeposted 7 years agoin reply to this

      It's nothing to do with 'rules' and everything to do with quality. If the hub is badly formatted or untidy then it won't make it.
      
      As it depends on daily updates, that will have an effect too. There's no guarantee that you will continue to update it, therefore it cannot be considered 'evergreen'. It's out of date within days.
      
      If you stopped working on it now, would it still be of value 12 months hence?

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         Daniel Mollatposted 7 years agoin reply to this

         If I stopped working on it now the article would be totally of no value and I would delete the article completely. The article is only useful for as long as it is updated regularly and this is what those following the article are only interested in.

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            theraggededgeposted 7 years agoin reply to this

            Therefore it is not suitable for ToughNickel. It's not even suitable for HubPages.

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   psycheskinnerposted 7 years ago

   This is a content site, not the New Yorker.  We told you what rule you had broken.  That's how the system works.  If you want a strong editorial hand, you need to write for a publication that uses a different profit model.

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