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Hubpages sucks! Are they hypocrites or just incompetents?

A few days ago i though about following the crowds and created a couple hubs on hubages.com. The hub was aimed to SEO, article writing, automation tools, etc.

Couple days after it was published, and after was getting a few good comments, i got an email saying that as a result of a moderator report, my hub was unpublished for breaking the TOS.  Particularly, for "Promotion of automated marketing tools or programs".

I was pretty confused, because before publishing that hub i searched in Google for similar hubs (using a query like: keyword site:hubpages.com) and were a few thousands of them.

In a moment of weakness, i thought to email hubpages support. I honestly though it was a mistake.  After all, the hub was not even promoting anything. It was purely informative, with no affiliate links, no kind of backlinks our out links, even with the build in ads turned off.

So, i asked, what was wrong with my hub? How come there are 5000 more hubs showing for the same keyword, some of them plain salespages or reviews with affiliate links?

What did i get in reply?

Hello,
Your HubPages account has been permanently banned as a result of rules violations. Your account cannot be reinstated....

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Categories : Internet Marketing Articles,Product Reviews Tags : OBVIOUSLY, SEO, TOS

Directory Submission Service – A comparative review

When it comes to SEO the first step of an offline SEO strategy is free directory submission. Although most of the directory submissions comes free of charge or require a reciprocal link, it is a tedious and time consuming process. For a novice website owner it will take hours and hours to manually submit to the popular directories under the right category. It is an obvious fact that automated directory submission is SPAM and anyone with little SEO knowledge will not touch automated directory submissions with a 10 feet pole. There are SEO submission companies mainly from India who does the manual directory submissions ranging from $12 to $25 per 100 submissions.There are so many stories where the website owners get ripped off by fraudulent SEO companies who claim to submit the website to 1000’s of directories and they just provide a list of web directories with categories where they submitted to. You have no idea on if they had really submitted the website there in the right category.  The important aspect of a SEO job is reports and gone are the days where a SEO company tells a client that his strategy is secret.After trying several directory submission companies,...

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