I tried to publish a hub several months ago and it was denied based on being dup

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   Sallie Mullingerposted 9 years ago

   I tried to publish a hub several months ago and it was denied based on being duplicated
   
   It WAS a duplicate from another site but I quickly deleted it from that site and I made several changes and revised the story before offering it up again to be published on HubPages. Yet again, it was STILL denied. Again I made revisions and tried to publish it and it was again denied.
   
   I emailed HubPages and explained that I had deleted it, with no trace of it showing anywhere on the internet because I checked and that I had revised it several times and I got a pat reply that it had to be revised.  I am very frustrated because I have done all I can do to get this hub published.

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   travel_man1971posted 9 years ago

   Hi, Ms. Sallie. It happened to me, too. My fault was I've been commissioned to write a review about a product being sold at Amazon. Unfortunately, when I researched it and published it, there's already a review regarding the product. Another hub of mine was also tagged as duplicate due to my prior article at Blogger.com. I didn't erase it so, I had to give it up and unpublished it from HubPages.

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   peachpurpleposted 9 years ago

   copy a few lines of your decline hub and paste it in google search, if it appears elsewhere, that is your reason for duplicate, you need to changed the hub again

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      Sallie Mullingerposted 9 years agoin reply to this

      Hi Peachpurple: Thank you for your response. I have tried copying and pasting several lines from my Hub into Google and nothing came up. Im beyond frustrated because Im afraid to try publishing again for fear that I will be banned.
      
      Any other ideas?

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      Matthew Meyerposted 9 years agoin reply to this

      You can contact team at hubpages dot com  for further questions.

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   Lady Guinevereposted 9 years ago

   If you have content that has been copied from another source it will be considered duplicate.  You have to have 2/3rds more of your own content or writing in your own words versus the quoted 1/3 of the content that you borrowed from some other site.  That seems to be the ratio now. 
   Your hub also has to have a minimium of 700 words to pass QAP.  Do not add many Amazon or Ebay capsules either.

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      Sallie Mullingerposted 9 years agoin reply to this

      The number of words isnt the issue. And this IS my own content. My words..written a few years ago and posted on another site. I have changed it dramatically AND deleted it from the other site months ago.
      
      I think this is somewhat ridiculous.

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