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Hubpages removes all my articles

by sidcandid
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I had over 300 articles at Hubpages written over a period of 2 years. They have removed everything and shut down my account. I have lost a major chunk of my online income. Most of my income came from Hubpages and some part from article writing. I have lost a lot of my income. Can you suggest a way out? I have limited SEO and keyword research skills so even if I have 4 domains for almost 8-9 months now have hardly done anything with them. IM is my only source of income. I would appreciate any help or suggestions.
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  • Profile picture of the author SEOFocused
    if hubpages closed you r account, then there must be a reason. i don't think anyone can help you regain your account. if you think your account was wrongfully closed, then see if you can appeal the decision.
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  • Profile picture of the author sirtiman
    I don't like so much about hubpages or squidoo, etc that moderator to watch our articles. Sometimes they do stupid things. Sorry to hear that bad news sidcandid.
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  • Profile picture of the author kindsvater
    Put your articles back up on your own domain.

    There are also plenty of other alternative sites to put your articles on.

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  • Profile picture of the author retsek
    I hope you have a copy of your articles. Register a domain, Install Wordpress and Learn basic SEO. It's not hard.

    If you don't have a copies, then you should check Google Cache before they're gone for good.
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  • Profile picture of the author AnniePot
    Hubpages has a host of rules and regulations and they have been methodically reviewing all their previously published content since Google hit them hard with their Panda algorithm update. It may be simply a case where they arrived at your account and, like many others decided to cancel it for any one of a variety of reasons.

    When a site is striving to regain its status with Google, it is unlikely to delete accounts which have nothing wrong, so it would probably be a good idea to read through their publisher guidelines.
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  • Profile picture of the author feliciayapsl
    Sorry to hear about that.

    It's advisable not to host your articles on 3rd party servers (hubpages, squidoo, etc.). You're at their mercy. Once they close your a/c, you can't do anything about it.

    Why not buy your own domains & put everything there? Since you said you are earning online income already, how do these people find your content? It is through search engines?
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    • Profile picture of the author sidcandid
      Thanks everyone for your useful suggestions. I just wanted to know my 300 articles are in various niches may be even 100 niches. I can certainly buy a domain to put them all into it but how can I put articles from different niches in one site?
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      • Profile picture of the author retsek
        Originally Posted by sidcandid View Post

        Thanks everyone for your useful suggestions. I just wanted to know my 300 articles are in various niches may be even 100 niches. I can certainly buy a domain to put them all into it but how can I put articles from different niches in one site?
        I would recover ONLY the articles that had traffic and categorize them broadly based on topics, eg. health -> fitness, finance ->bankruptcy. Then you register domains for each broad category.
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      • Profile picture of the author PatriciaJ
        Originally Posted by sidcandid View Post

        Thanks everyone for your useful suggestions. I just wanted to know my 300 articles are in various niches may be even 100 niches. I can certainly buy a domain to put them all into it but how can I put articles from different niches in one site?
        Get a domain like topinfo.com add wordpress and have lots of different categories
        Or sub domains
        Or add on domains

        Get your articles on there and then point them to your affiliate links
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  • Profile picture of the author Randall Magwood
    Have you considered writing new content for EzineArticles and Buzzle?
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  • Profile picture of the author money fan
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    Sorry to hear that. Do you have any copies of the articles or are they lost?
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  • Profile picture of the author Media_Mogul
    Sorry to hear this, Sidcandid. It's a good lesson for any of us who use third party sites as part of our strategy to be very careful to adhere to the TOS and have back up copies of everything.
    I believe that I've seen some people question the use of them, but is there a chance you could start a small article directory on your own domain, using WordPress and an article directory plugin. Then you could monetize however you like.
    There's also a lot of talk about guest blogging lately. Maybe you could offer some articles as guest blog posts and have them link back to your properties.
    Best of luck to you.
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  • Profile picture of the author Martin Lee Jr
    If you do decide to use squiddoo or hubpages again in the future I would suggest creating different accounts. I don't believe I have ever had one acct shutdown but I have heard this happen to a lot of people

    Sorry this happened man!

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  • Profile picture of the author cypherslock
    Always do content for your site first. I hated using hubapages, too much of a pain.
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  • Profile picture of the author cbnet
    Sid,

    I just saw your thread. It is a terrible thing to have happened. I can feel the pain through which you have gone through. My best wishes are with you. Pray to God & move forward with greater determination & vigor.

    Regards.................cbnet
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  • Profile picture of the author sbucciarel
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    You cannot rely on any one 3rd party platform for your income. Any one of them can do what Hubpages has done. I would always publish the articles on my own site first and have numerous marketing channels. Diversify so that if one channel is dead, you're income is not dead along with it.
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  • Profile picture of the author sandebdavid
    Never put all your eggs in one basket. Like the others i can only advise you get your own domain and build your site to promote. You create categories according to niche.
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  • Profile picture of the author nicheblogger75
    Originally Posted by sidcandid View Post

    I had over 300 articles at Hubpages written over a period of 2 years. They have removed everything and shut down my account. I have lost a major chunk of my online income. Most of my income came from Hubpages and some part from article writing. I have lost a lot of my income. Can you suggest a way out? I have limited SEO and keyword research skills so even if I have 4 domains for almost 8-9 months now have hardly done anything with them. IM is my only source of income. I would appreciate any help or suggestions.
    Hubpages has gone and lost their mind. They did the same thing to me. And their reason was because I was using them to promote Clickbank, my squeeze pages, and my blogs that in turn promoted Clickbank products!

    WTF? Why ELSE would I bother to use them? I'm an Internet Marketer and all HubPages is to me is an outlet to make more money. Once that's gone, I have no need for them!

    Well, that's how we marketers think I guess. I think they cracked down because they got Google smacked up on the last Panda update. And as we know, when Google speaks, we all cower in the corner and listen (sad, but true)!

    Sorry to hear about your account, but I'd recommend setting up a squeeze page on one of those domains, grabbing an Aweber or GetResponse account, then writing some articles, buying solo ads, and doing ad swaps to build your list.

    I think you'll find you'll make much more money than relying on HubPages.
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