They don’t fit HP’s model and aren’t worth the effort of moving to a stand alone single topic site. Unfortunately, several of my hubs will be left to rot in unfeatured or unpublished status. I’m moving another group of lenses/hubs to a new site of my own that I expect to announce soon. I may even add new ones there since HP is still a platform to publish stand alone articles on a topic and I tend to get writing ideas on a variety of subjects. The hubs that are on HP’s niche sites generally do a little better than those on the main site. I’m a fan of the show that enjoyed watching for new books and researching them for the list so I wanted this to have a new home. Being a book list, the pages had more shopping links than HP permits and had been unfeatured for a while. My first launch of redeployed lenses is the Lost Books List featuring much of the content from my lenses on the TV show Lost. Particularly content that I want freedom to format and update how I want without wondering if an edit will cause it to lose featured status. Not all, only those pages which don’t fit HubPages’ rules, particularly on number of Amazon links, or content that can justify and support being on its own site. So I’m finally doing what a lot of other former lensmasters had been recommending, moving some of my content to my own sites. This can effectively discourage authors from maintaining their hubs by fixing broken links, adding content, etc…the opposite of what HP staff should want. That’s because editing a hub sends it through the arbitrary quality assurance process where it may get dinged because of a new interpretation of what makes a quality hub, even if it’s been featured for over three years with no issues. To make matters worse, you never know when editing a hub will cause that hub to become unfeatured (meaning it won’t be crawled by search engines or featured on other hubs). This is mainly because my hubs don’t get anywhere near the amount of traffic they did as lenses and HubPages tightly limits the number of Amazon and other affiliate links. My annual earnings on HubPages have been less than what my typical monthly earnings were on Squidoo, even in its final months. While I don’t miss the frequent rearranging of deck chairs that SquidHQ required of lensmasters in its last two years, I do miss the revenue and freedom to publish curated lists. It’s been three years since Squidoo ran aground and our lenses were transferred to HubPages. Posted in Launched, Tales | Tagged fantasy football, hub pages, hubs, launch, lenses, squidoo, strategy | Leave a reply Charting A New Course Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District, used under Creative Commons. So please check out the new site when you’re looking for some good fantasy football advice! The effort is worth it because my content is now fully under my control and the old lenses provide a solid foundation to expand and grow in the future. Plus the time spent on logistical and technical issues with managing my own site. I way underestimated the time involved to convert each hub into a blog post. My hubs about other fantasy sports will also stay as hubs. There are a few other lenses such as Fantasy Team Name Ideas that apply to most fantasy sports and a couple football ones that will remain as hubs for now. No concerns about an unexpected sale or shuttering of the site, either. Freedom to write and format as I want link to other sites and products that I want to and not be concerned that a minor update will result in the content being unfeatured by HP. The main reason for moving this content off of HP was freedom. In addition to the old stuff, I’ve also written several new articles for the blog. That’s nearly 8% of my active lenses when Squidoo ran aground and includes my only “Lens of the Day” winner. It’s also the biggest move affecting eight of my fantasy football related lenses. This is the second step in my strategy to move lenses to their own sites. These now have a home on my new blog, Tackle Fantasy Football. The latest group of lenses/hubs I’ve moved off of HubPages are my prized fantasy football lenses.
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