The majority of my articles/hubs get transferred to the niche sites, but a few do not sometimes. How do I know if an editor has read through them? I remember reading notes from the editors in the past if something needed to be revised, but I don't see that anymore. Do I have to submit my hubs manually eventually?
Sometimes it's frustrating because I might have a hub or two that does not get transferred and I do not know what to do. It makes me feel like working on some of my hubs was all in vain because I know hubs have virtually no hope to get significant traffic on Hubpages only. Things on HP are so much different compared to early 2010s when I literally had Hubs on other accounts get views within 36 hrs or climb to first page of Google -- even had some go viral practically. The process to get published often takes much longer that it did in the past. It seems my glory days on HP are long beyond me, but I digress.
Interesting thread and helpful to see HP staff cannot differentiate between professional articles and amateur or spammy articles. I can’t believe Luke recommends sharing the articles on social media. It shows they are not versed in writing for the Internet. Though social media helps, 85% of the traffic comes from Google.
I have some articles with thousands of views and one that consistently ranks well as a Discover article. I have submitted the Discover article twice to no avail.
I wouldn’t want to delete it because of the high stats — I’d lose them.
The deleting, reloading and resubmitting seems to apply to newer articles that the writer knows are niche quality. Still, it sounds like a gamble.
That is so much silly work when an editorial process can’t differentiate the good from the bad.
I suspect that no one at HP is looking into this glitch. It’s one big “situation normal: all fouled up.”
Ah! Kain you have touched on a mystery akin to what is the meaning of life? I have been in a long-standing conversation with HubPages to try to determine what criteria are used to move submissions from HubPages to Discover. I raised the issue because I noticed numerous articles on Discover with very spammy elements and bad grammar, while some of my own offerings that suffered from neither of those deficiencies remained on HubPages.
From Luke I got this explanation "Articles are moved to Discover based on their traffic. It looks like (article title deleted by me to protect the guilty) has had more views than the articles that are still on HubPages. I would recommend sharing your articles on social media . . ."
However, I know of one member of our community with an article stuck on HubPages that has more than 10 thousand views.
I have used the strategy of deleting articles from HubPages, tweaking them ever so slightly and resubmitting. The results have been amazing; not only do they go on to Discover almost instantly but, in several cases, they have been moved to niches without involvement.
Conclusion: articles are moved from one location to another based on capricious, arbitrary, and unchallengeable decisions made by either algorithms or editors.
lol I actually considered deleting my articles (keeping words and photos of course) then copy and pasting and repuploading the photos to a new hub. I was not aware other people were doing this. I thought it might have been against rules or something.
If someone is getting decent views on HP alone, then I'd imagine it would improve more when on the niche sites.
I submitted two articles this month and have yet to hear back from the editors. They neither accepted nor rejected it, and I received no email saying that they're in the editing queue. The interesting thing is that I wrote them an email three days ago asking about the status of the submission, but they never responded back.
They've placed 5 of my articles in their editing queue for the last 6 or 7 months. And I haven't seen any progress on those articles either.
Editors seems to be very busy!
Yes, I am not sure how the process works. Also, do these editors work remotely or are they apart of HP staff in California? I have so many questions lol.
I know the niche sites have been around for a while now. I joined HP before HP earning program and niche sites were a thing. So much has changed. I will say that the HP earning program contributed to a lot of my past successes more than Adsense ever did.
Yes, Misbah I also have 3 articles in the editing queue for 4 months now. Looks like the queue is a parking space where articles tend to be forgotten !!!
Exactly, Ravi, it looks like they have forgotten. The interesting thing is that they were having a new game of site mismatch upon submission to niche, and now they don't respond back for the submitted articles. It's been a month and I haven't received a response.
He's an HP staff that Rupert Tayor referred to in his comment post in this thread. The point is HP staff represent HubPages. They should know about the Internet, not give incorrect advice.
Interesting thread indeed. The editors seems to lack skill in rapid reading. And whether they're busy or not, it can account for the long waiting of articles in files. Seriously, 'rapid reading' is a trick one should learn in an English class. That I go through. An editor that much. But its pitiable that some editors lack the trade. Critically, I submitted, one of my nutrition-health-based article to a niche site. That was three months ago. I'll do another submission this week. Giving them some time, in the hope that an editor will get to it.
by Kyler J Falk 3 years ago
I've had four articles receiving constant organic traffic that usually would have been transferred to LevelSkip within a day or so of submitting them. Anyone else feeling like transfers are moving slower, or am I just impatient and perturbed by the lower earnings due to being in Discovery limbo?
by Dina 4 years ago
Hi,Do more experienced Hubbers have any useful tips for getting your article moved to a niche site? I kept seeing advice that goes something like "make sure you write a high-quality article" but it just seems so vague to me. I have 9 articles now and the only one that was moved to a niche...
by Misbah Sheikh 2 years ago
Hello Beautiful souls,I currently have 161 featured articles on HP. The majority of them are already on Network sites. A few of them have been in the editors' queue for about 9/10 months. Actually, there were more than 161 articles. Over the course of two months, I deleted nearly ten of my...
by Cholee Clay 6 years ago
I'm curious if anyone knows if the new editors that were hired have completed the training and are on their own now, or if article standards have changed for some reason? The last few months I've had some very old and not updated articles moved to niche sites. I'm happy more of my articles are...
by Doneta Wrate 5 years ago
I have submitted 4 hubs to nich sites and not heard back anything yet. Do they tell you something through notifications or are you expected to find it in your emails?
by Eric Dockett 2 years ago
I don’t want to make too big a deal of this. My interactions with editors over the past few years have been very positive and I appreciate their work. There are some excellent people on the HP editorial staff today.However, I think there is always room for improvement, suggestions, and constructive...
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