I'd like feedback on my article: Top 10 Best Soap and Body Wash

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   Bills Placeposted 8 months ago

   Hi Hubbers,
   
   I'd like some help with passing the Quality Assessment Process. Will you please give feedback on my article? What can I do to improve? I've already updated it 3 times, but keep getting the same email. Thanks!
   
   
   Here is my article: Top 10 Best Soap and Body Wash

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      Miebakagh57posted 8 months agoin reply to this

      Hi Bill, the first thing I found distkrbing is that you put the title of the article in a pinkish photographic frame. Removed the frame.                                      Second, they's too much promotional with the Amazon capsules. One or two is enough.                                     Did you use the proaucts? Tell your readers your experience, and the benefits you get.                                               Then they is the problem of using bullet points again towards the end of the read. Instead, use numerals 1,2,3,4,5 and varied the listing.

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         Bills Placeposted 8 months agoin reply to this

         Thanks, redoing the top image now as I didn't know they had updated with overlay rules earlier this year, been inactive for a while.

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            Miebakagh57posted 8 months agoin reply to this

            Okay, and welcome back.

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   AliciaCposted 8 months ago

   Advertisements for four similar Amazon products looks too promotional to me. In addition, with the exception of the Amazon products, you should show the products in your own home to add proof that you’ve used them.
   
   It would be good to write about the products before advertising them instead of after so readers know what to look for in their own lives.

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      Bills Placeposted 8 months agoin reply to this

      Thanks for the advice, if/when the girlfriend uses them again, I'll have to remember to update the images. These are some she's used in the past and no longer have the bottles.
      
      I've also reduced the number of Amazon capsules.

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   Gregory DeVictorposted 8 months ago

   Bill, your top image cannot have any text overlay, and it also must be in a landscape format. HP changed the rules back in late March of this year. If you still have the HP newsletter from March 29, 2023, everything is explained in detail. You can still have text overlay for any other image in your article, but NOT for the first one.
   
   I also agree with what Linda C. said above. Periodically, I read reviews for products that I might consider buying. However, if I think the reviews are a bit too promotional, I go elsewhere. I am looking for facts and not a sales pitch.

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      Bills Placeposted 8 months agoin reply to this

      Thank you, it probably went into my spam folder or got overlooked. It's probably been 2 years or more since I've tried to be active on here. I've changed the image and made some edits, will try again see what happens.

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      melbelposted 8 months agoin reply to this

      I didn't know about the text overlay thing. I'm going to have to do a lot of editing. Thanks for sharing!

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         PaulGoodman67posted 8 months agoin reply to this

         It was an official announcement four months ago. I'm not sure if it's a "strict rule" but it's certainly the official advice. https://hubpages.com/community/forum/35 … guidelines
         
         I think a lot of articles still haven't been updated. I guess the editors have a lot going on and a lot of hubbers haven't seen the announcement. Or maybe, like me, they just haven't done them all yet.

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   Kenna McHughposted 8 months ago

   Hey Bill, most of these soaps are for the more feminine side of life. I don't think luxurious is something you'd experience with the these body soaps. How about reviewing masculine body washes? You're a man. There are plenty of soaps for just men on the market. It would be more believable for the reader. As a woman, why would I read about feminine soap and body washes written by a man?

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      Bills Placeposted 8 months agoin reply to this

      I've used a couple, but most were used by the girlfriend, and I used her opinions. I was thinking of also doing one on body wash for men.

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   melbelposted 8 months ago

   I would recommend making the title plural since you're talking about more than one soap and more than one body wash

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      Bills Placeposted 8 months agoin reply to this

      Oh good catch, running over to edit that now!

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   Bills Placeposted 8 months ago

   Update: It got featured (finally)!
   
   In an effort to figure out what exactly was causing it not to be featured, I made 1-2 suggested edits from all of you at a time, then waited.
   
   Round 1: Removed two of the four Amazon capsules and updated the top image. - Not featured.
   
   Round 2: Updated top image again, made title plural. - Not featured
   
   Round 3: Removed one more Amazon capsule. - Nope
   
   Round 4: Rewrote the product capsules to be longer, more in-depth, and reference if I had personally tried the product or the girlfriend. - Still not featured.
   
   Round 5: I removed the only Amazon capsule left and one of the two polls. - It got featured!
   
   Now I'm confused because I've seen articles on network sites with multiple Amazon capsules and less content per product. Could it really have been the two polls on one hub?
   
   I'm curious, but now that it's featured, I don't really want to touch it. What's your opinion, based on the edits above?

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      Miebakagh57posted 8 months agoin reply to this

      Congratulations, Bill, for the success story.                                      I re-read the article. And I noticed that two of my suggestions had effects.                                      Critically, your stuff contained some complex sentences, grammar, and sentence errors. That need to be breakdown, and corrected. Critically again, you've got to update you're written-up periodically when the products makers make further improvements on each products, and when you want to submit same to a niche site.                                              Upon this and seriously, I would suggest you go online and download grammarly at www.grammarly.com and get either the free or premium paid version. Pass your story through the tool, and it'll check and correct the errors.                                        Congratulations once again.

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