How Do I Change A Hub's URL?

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   Leah Helensdottrposted 13 years ago

   I started to create a hub a few days ago about the origin of the nursery rhyme "Ring Around The Rosy."  I changed my mind, deleted all of the content, and started a new hub, "How Mom Quelled the Great Panic."  I just published it, and noticed that the scary-sounding URL from the deleted-content hub is there instead of the correct URL.  How can I fix this?

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   Website Examinerposted 13 years ago

   While you can easily change the title for a hub, there is no way to change the URL.

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      Leah Helensdottrposted 13 years agoin reply to this

      Ack!  Can I delete the hub? I could copy the content onto my computer and then create a new hub.

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         Website Examinerposted 13 years agoin reply to this

         You can delete the old one, but it has already been indexed by the search engines. Therefore, you could run into duplicate content issues. So you may want to leave the hub unpublished for awhile first.

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            Leah Helensdottrposted 13 years agoin reply to this

            Okay.  I've unpublished it (it was only published for about 15 minutes) and copied the content to my computer.  How long is "awhile"?

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               Website Examinerposted 13 years agoin reply to this

               Until the old hub is no longer indexed by the search engines, which is what would trigger the duplicate content filter. Or you could contact HubPages, explain what you are doing, and ask them to help you out.

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                  Leah Helensdottrposted 13 years agoin reply to this

                  Can you give me an idea how long that will take?  A day?  A month?  A year? How can I check to see if it's happened?  And I thought I WAS contacting Hubpages by asking my question in this forum, so I'm confused.  Could you please tell me the correct way to contact them?  Thanks!

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                     Website Examinerposted 13 years agoin reply to this

                     The hub is no longer indexed when you search for it and it neither shows up in the search engines nor in their cached versions of the content. It could take 1 month. Contacting HubPages: team@hubpages.com. Using the forums is not contacting them.

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                        Leah Helensdottrposted 13 years agoin reply to this

                        Excellent!  Thank you so much for your help.

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                           Website Examinerposted 13 years agoin reply to this

                           You are very welcome!

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   Uninvited Writerposted 13 years ago

   It's no big deal if the title of your hub and URL are different. People find it both ways. I have several that do well that have a different title than the URL.

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      Leah Helensdottrposted 13 years agoin reply to this

      Thanks for that helpful info, UW.  Unfortunately, the URL is kind of scary-sounding, and it leads to a hub about my very nice mother!  I should have been more careful...

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