What's the current situation between Google and Hubpages?

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   Mazzy Boleroposted 11 years ago

   What's the current situation between Google and Hubpages?
   
   I lost virtually all of what little Google traffic I had on 29 September, and it isn't coming back. I just did a little experiment, searching for one hub which had been on page 1 of Google - couldn't find it at all now - after looking through 20 pages I gave up!   Tried the actual titles of three others - links I'd put on Redgage and Xomba showed up on page 1 but the actual articles on Hubpages didn't show up in Google results at all.  Why should that be?  What is going on?

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   davenmidtownposted 11 years ago

   Mazzy: it seems something here has really gone amiss. I have moved my non-performing hubs to another site and found that they are all performing just fine. I am currently in the process of moving the rest of my hubs elsewhere. The whole ZzZ thing and not allowing the hub to be crawled for more than ads is just not working for me. Something has been broken in this platform and while hubpages offers the most in terms of writing gadgets... that does not mean much if your hub can not be found.
   
   Best-o-Luck Mate!

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      Mazzy Boleroposted 11 years agoin reply to this

      Thanks, Dave.  I didn't know about not allowing the hub to be crawled for more than ads. What does that mean?  I like Hubpages so it's a shame this is happening.

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      davenmidtownposted 11 years agoin reply to this

      You publish a hub and it it inactive for 24 hours, during that time google would normally crawl it and place it... now it is only crawled for ad content, they it sleeps for the remaining 24 hours, and wakes up... in weeks google crawls it again or no

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      Mazzy Boleroposted 11 years agoin reply to this

      Thanks for that, Dave, I didn't know that. However, that would surely only affect new hubs?  I'm not sure what the inactive period is for - if they are monitoring hubs why not do it the same way other sites do?

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   Goody5posted 11 years ago

   I've looked into the same thing and you will find most of your answers right here - http://goody5.hubpages.com/hub/Google-vs-the-Hub-Pages I think this will answer most of your question. Keep on hubbing 

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      Mazzy Boleroposted 11 years agoin reply to this

      That's a very interesting article, especially the statistics, but while it tells me what is happening, it isn't telling me why.  Has Google sent Hubpages to Coventry? If so, what's the point of keeping on hubbing?

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   Insane Mundaneposted 11 years ago

   It doesn't seem to be as strong as it was in the past, but either way, Google will send more traffic here than Yahoo! & Bing.  Some of my own websites actually get more traffic from Bing and Yahoo!, but it isn't like that here...

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