I've got a few hubs in the works that are unpublished, but somehow they are getting page views. I'm sure they aren't published (some of them are just titles to develop for later) and they show up in red on the "my accounts" page. I'm perplexed. Anyone else had this happen?
The same thing happens to me. I think this occurs when you click on them to open and edit or view.
I do the same thing too - start one with only a title or a picture.
It amuses / amazes me when I have one with only a title and a video and it gets a score of 57 when I create it, but one with 800 words only gets a 46 when I start it. It would be interesting to see how that can happen.
They are your views. Every time you go to the page or edit the hub, then it counts as a view.
No one can see an unpublished hub except for Staff. And, they don't go to your hubs unless there's a problem.
Yes it has happened with me too > I guess Cagsil has explained it well.
Hi Memphis Yankee. What you are seeing are your own page views. Every time you bring up your hub to edit and add things, that's a view. It happened to me too, and many others.
Don't worry. By the time you publish your hub your score should be a little higher than usual.
so glad you asked this I was starting to worry about views on my unpublished hub. I wonder does it hurt our score by editing a little each day. thanks to all who answered this was my next question. blessings and happy hubbing!
You may find that by not publishing the hub straight away the hubscore will rise before you publish it, if not do n't blame me , it works for me most times.
peace 2uesday, yes i noticed this trend, not sure what it means but as long as it's rising.
@Cagsil thanks that makes me feel better. 1
Thank you. My highest score (at present) for an unpublished/never published hub is 70, sadly it is not one that will see the light of day yet, so it may drop again.
by Sally Gulbrandsen 10 years ago
I know that our own views are counted on the stats page but I have not opened this hub to edit it today and yet I can see that I have had four visits!
by fireatwill41 15 years ago
This really isn't a problem, but rather something I am interested in finding out. I have a few unpublished hubs with little to no content in them, and the thing is, one of these hubs outranks one of my published hubs! I am wondering why that happens and if it is any indication of how good the hub...
by Faith Reaper 12 years ago
How can a hub I have not published have a higher score than ones I have published?I just noticed this, and thought it was kind of funny, so does it have to do with the amount of words used, as there are a lot in this unpublished hub, and I may have to break it down into more than one hub. ...
by kirstenblog 15 years ago
I am pretty excited to be able to start out with this score I know score is not really all that big a deal but I can't help but wonder if this one might hit 100?I would love a hub to reach a score of 100 even if its just for a day, would be a real feather in my cap from the point of view of my...
by American Tiger 14 years ago
I really don't mind, terribly. They seem to vote them up, even before I've finished with them.The last Hub I published I was a few days working on, and it had over 20 views and a HubScore of like, 70, before I posted it.Is there a Super Secret Insiders Club you pay to get into ~so you can read...
by Katie McMurray 14 years ago
I constantly look for ways to improve a hub, old, new or middle aged. It seems each time I'm brought back to a hub, by a new comment or notice any opportunity to change it I do so.Now when we do that, the hub is no longer active until reviewed. It becomes unpublished. Most of my changes...
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