Fix It 202: When to Leave a Hub Alone or Unpublished on Hubpages. Save Before You Publish!

This is another great request, but it is also something that I have touched upon a few times in my hubs, but haven't gone into details. Well now is a very good time to do so, details are a part of this online business. The question is how long should you leave a hub alone before publishing it, for all of hubpages and search engines to find?

This is a business and we all want to showcase our work, sometimes it is a good idea to leave a hub alone for a day to look at it again with different eyes. I do this myself so I will say I am partial to writing a good hub and leaving it be-- for a few days until the over all content is better.

This does not mean that I will make money on a hub by leaving it unpublished for a while, but more to gain a perspective on what my writing should be like. It also helps me to "see" what others might find. It gives me the time to expand on a hub that needs help. All before I publish it.

How long Is Just right? Now this is a topic I have debated for a while, but really, I believe that about a day or two is long enough. It gives perspective on what the writing says. Of course you need to hit save unpublished to get this benefit. Also by writing the whole draft ( the text part) you can see how the text has developed.

I also put all the capsules I am going to use together and simply write the text and add a picture and then I hit save unpublished. I do not add links or books from amazon until the next day. I also use the preview button with care.

This allows for a sense of how the text looks as I have typed, more often than not I can even "see" more mistakes. The important thing is to add the links I am going to use with care. That usually takes about 5 minutes for me to add, but then I also have a lot of hubs to choose from.

I do go and spell check after I type everything out. Then I leave it be.

So... how does that help me? This is a good question, you see by leaving it for a day you can re-read it and look at it as a piece of your business and not as the writer of this "wonderful" hub. If you think that there might be a link that should be added, and you want to keep traffic coming, you need to do this as you have it unpublished.

Also, it gives you the chance to maximize your traffic, as most people-- hub followers-- will only look at a hub once. You also want them to share it with their followers and get the word out on a very great hub. This is a new feature, and it is very effective, since If I like a hub, I can hit "share it" and then push the "share it with followers" button and this can maximize traffic and also sometimes links and money.

When you look at a hub a day later, you can "see" things you might have missed. A key point, a keyword you wanted but did not add, which links are the best based on this hub, and also it give you a chance to push a hub quickly through social networking sites after you have edited it. Also I can see if I am heading in the correct direction as even when you save unpublished that hub score can go up and down, if it goes down you still have time to fix the problems.

You initial traffic is important, as you need to make a good impression and you can always find a few mistakes which you missed by doing this.

Fine but I can have it edited later on! Yes you can but you really only have one chance to do things right for thefirst group, for example you need to get links and it is a lot harder to get them later than right away. Besides hubpages is like a community of small businesses, and we all want to look our best, so getting that extra day to edit helps a lot.

It is not so much the spelling but the work involved in getting an audience to come back, sometimes the benefit to leaving things alone are really too great, if it is not evergreen content, often people will hit publish. This would apply to breaking news and your commentary on it.

Even then letting your work be for an hour can make all the difference between looking professional and not. There will be the occasional spelling mishap, but for the most part reading out loud as you write helps with that.

The balance is when you leave it for a while to check on if your hub is actually worth publishing, by this i mean have you made a plan for adding low and high quality links to your hub over the course of many weeks or do you simply want to publish that hub now in hopes that you will make money fast?

Leaving it alone also give you a chance to look at some keyword tools and make ceetain you will get target traffic long term.

If I wait what other benefits will it do for me? I think of more links to work with this hub when I leave it alone for a day. Normally I can suggest Stumble Upon, and other social networking sites to give me, say four or five instant links to my articles, but often I think of a blog post where I can include the link to a hub.

With nearly 150 hubs, I still find older hubs which need a lot of work, which would have been easier to fix then as opposed to now. I can also make sure that everything in my hub is okay and for the time looks correct.

Again checking for little things the next day also has the added benefit of seeing where this hub will head. For the most part all hubs begin at the hub score of 50, but like any business this can go up and down. Again by adding more interactive things you can create a hub where people stay longer.

The Last Word-- really how long you save it is up to you, but there are some benefits to saving unpublished, it gives time and perspective whereas otherwise if you just hit publish you will not have.

The most important thing is to write the hub and to get it publish, as like any business a hub needs people and links and everything else to grow. The more people see this hub the more likely you will find that you are heading in the right direction in terms of your goals.

It is important that you love what you do and that you do the best you can and that you keep writing, but also allow yourself that time to grow your business to be the best it can be. People will come back and look around to others hubs as long as you keep giving them your best and that you keep building links and great hubs.

To your success.