Feedback on my First Hub Please and a question about urls

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   KylePaulposted 4 years ago

   Hi
   
   I just published my first hub and got a notice saying it has to undergo a quality assessment which is fine with me but I would really appreciate it if any experienced hubbers could take a look and let me know what they think as I may be missing something that is required.
   
   The hub is here https://hubpages.com/relationships/11-L … Interested
   
   Also is there a way to change the URL of the hub? I only ended up including 8 tips instead of the intended 11 as when editing I went over the suggested word limit so I stopped writing at 8.
   
   Thanks in advance!

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   theraggededgeposted 4 years ago

   Hi there,
   
   No, you can't change the URL. But at least you have learned never to include a number in the URL. Same goes for dates (years).
   
   I think you have too many images. How many generic photos do you need? Reduce the number to two or three, max.
   
   I like that you include your own personal experience but don't do it too much. It looks a little bit 'blog-like'.
   
   There's a big white space at the end of Tip 1. Go into the capsule, place your cursor at the very end of the text and press Delete a couple of times.
   
   Your paragraphs are choppy. It's a good idea to have a mix of short and long (not too long) paragraphs. There are several sentences that belong together without a paragraph break.
   
   There's no closing paragraph. It just ends at tip 8. Maybe use a poll or something that brings the article to a more natural ending?
   
   Good luck.

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   KylePaulposted 4 years ago

   Hi
   
   Thanks for your detailed reply.
   
   If I can't change the URL then I guess it would be okay to add 3 more tips to make 11? I'm trying to be conscious of the word count.
   
   I felt there were too many images but I read that I needed to break up the content with a lot of images, I will remove some.
   
   Okay, less blog-like, that's good to know.
   
   Was trying something new with the paragraphs but not going for choppy so I will rearrange those.
   
   Again I left it at tip 8 because of the word count, I will add a closing paragraph.
   
   Very helpful advice, thanks again.

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   theraggededgeposted 4 years ago

   You are most welcome

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   AliciaCposted 4 years ago

   Hi. I'm wondering if you're concerned about word count because there's a message about creating an article between 700 and 1250 words on our article when we're creating it. That doesn't mean that we can't go above 1250 words. The range is just a recommended minimum length for an article. Most of my articles are much longer than the upper limit in the message.

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   Marisa Writesposted 4 years ago

   I'm not sure why the message is still saying "700 to 1250".  It's old advice.   I wouldn't bother publishing a Hub of less than 1,000 words, and we've often been told that the "sweet spot" is about 1,500 words.  Hubs of up to 3,000 words have done well.
   
   That's one big difference between blogging and HubPages.  Think of a Hub as a stand-alone, information-rich, magazine-style article, not a blog post.
   
   You can't change the URL once the Hub is published.  Notice that you can (and should) edit the URL before it's published, rather than just accepting the auto-generated version - a shorter URL is better, preferably without hyphens. And avoid numbers.
   
   These days, what's in your URL isn't that important.  Google places far more importance on your title.  You'll find plenty of successful Hubs whose URL bears little resemblance to the eventual title (because the Hubber has experimented to find the best title after writing it).

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   KylePaulposted 4 years ago

   Hi
   
   Thanks for your replies, yes I was concerned about word count because of the message in the editor.
   Good to know thats only a guideline/old advice.
   
   The article was unplublished so I guess it wasn't up to standards with a message that says needs improvement.
   
   The message doesnt indicate which areas need improvement so I think perhaps I will have to completly rewrite it bearing in mind the advice given here to make it less blog like..
   
   Thank you all for taking the time to reply, I have another question however..
   
   The article has a score of 61, this is out of 100 I assume? Does it need to be above a certain score to get published? Is the score given manually after review or is it generated on a set of criteria?
   
   Sorry for all the questions, Im a little confused about how this all works and I would really like to get my articles published in the future.
   
   Thanks again

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      Marisa Writesposted 4 years agoin reply to this

      HubScore is partly based on traffic, so a new Hub can't have a really high score since it's had no traffic yet.  It's the QAP (quality assessment process) that determines whether a Hub gets published or not - not the score.
      
      There will normally be a special link in the email which you can post on these forums, so we can see and advise what's wrong.   
      
      Anticipating another question - your HubberScore is irrelevant to your success, because you make money from external visitors, not from the HubPages community. But people tend to stress about it, so here's how your HubberScore is computed:
      
      "Some of the things we look at when computing your Hubberscore, in no particular order:
      
      1.  your participation in the HubPages community, such as: reading and commenting on other people's hubs; forum activity;
      2.  total number of published hubs
      3.  the hub scores of your published hubs
      4.  the total traffic across all your published hubs
      5.  how recently you've published
      6.  your fans
      
      A lot of people think the HubberScore is a reflection of the quality of your writing, but as you can see from the above, it's much more nebulous than that.

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   theraggededgeposted 4 years ago

   The hub scores are not that important... unless it is really low. That's when the article will be unpublished. 60+ is okay for a new article.
   
   We don't know the criteria, but the quality of writing seems to be a big factor.

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