My HubPages Posts Keep Getting Flagged...

[NightWriter]

I'm slightly annoyed with them. Yet, I think I must be missing something. I never place more than two links in an article. I just got an e-mail message saying that my article on How to Use Valerian Root for Anxiety and Panic Attacks is overly promotional. It has one link in it that goes back to a page at my own site (which is a sales page, of course).

The part I don't get is how it is ever possible to use them for promotional content? Yet, they are frequently recommended by article marketers as a good place to generate traffic.

Do they stop harassing you after you've posted a few articles. I only have about five over there, two of which they've flagged.

I don't want to waste any more time with them, yet I think I'm missing something. What is it?

Does anybody know?

Thanks!

[Ben Roy]

I think the key is that you need a higher content to link ratio than you're used to. You're not going to get away with posting a 400-word article and having a link to a sales page. I had the same problem, and then started using multiple articles in multiple different modules, plus adding in some random other stuff like polls and what not.

You should also note that once a partciular hub has been flagged, that one will be a problem pretty much forever. It will be under a lot more scrutiny.

[Jason Johns]

Hi there,

I think Hubpages really object to commercial content. What if you send it from your website to a landing page / presales page? See what happens if you do that.

All the best

Jason

[InternetMarketingIQ]

I've never had that problem. I have seen it over and over though short crappy articles written by people with no experience with a product then a bunch of affiliate links.

Inexperience with a product one is recommending is very easy to "see through".

So why not review things you actually use, then place a single link to the product.

"To learn more about Acai Berry... "
"If you want to know more..."

Hubpages doesn't object to commercial content at all. They object to poor writing and aggressive promotion.

Hub pages tells you how to increase your score. And you have to comment articles, and answer questions and participate in the community. It takes more time but it's worth it. If you don't then you are wasting your time.

It's all about learning how to leverage the medium.

Build your reputation on HubPages... a high score and you have more leeway.

Publish a few hubs with no affiliate links and make a few bucks with adsense.

But the real key is to play nice... controversy will get your hubs voted down quickly.

There is a lot of junk on hubpages... a ton of inaccurate information written by people who have no idea what they are talking about. But those same people can vote you down so you have to play nice or you might as well not even bother. You can make a lot of money with Hubpages if you do it right... Google loves them!

[NightWriter]

Thanks for the advice. My guess is that my content is not long enough - I'm accustomed to writing 400 to 800 words. And, I do recall that most of the hub pages articles I've seen are far longer.

The problem I'm having with them - that is to say, the reason I'm not fond of them - is that they also want completely unique content. To me a site asking for unique content and then refusing you a single backlink to your own site (that costs them nothing whatsoever) in payment is extremely unreasonable.

Maybe I will cultivate a better relationship with them at some time in the future. At the moment, it looks like a big waste of time.

Added this: They sent me a dopey form e-mail. When I looked carefully at my account, it looks like I was flagged for duplicate content. I deleted one of them and turned the other into the rambling first person kind of blog posty thing I usually see over there.

I do think they go for quantity of word over quality... but, I can churn out rambling first person drivel like that all day. That must be why I see so much of it over there.

[mmurtha]

Hey NightWriterm

Ben's right - it's about content and link ratio, plus they don't like it too much when you post sales pitches, so if that's what you've been doing, it'll have a profound effect on your results. That's assuming that you want your viewers to read what you write, and click thru to your site.