My Top Earning Article Took a Tumble
Yup
Good luck with that.
CURSE YOU FRED! (shakes fist)
I think the new design had an impact (and this is always expected when a change is made). I lost some views too, but they seem to be crawling back.
I said "expertise" not a degree. Not everybody with a degree is an expert - far from it! However those that write extensively and knowledgeably with genuine new content on a topic and create websites which others link to do tend to get regarded as experts i.e. genuinely useful. Plus they know which people are associated with which websites.
Don't forget Google has a complete picture of our activity on the net and knows rather more about the sites we create - and how well they are received - plus those we visit then many of us would think is healthy!
I have a seasonal niche. My views spike in summer and drop in winter. I know why my niche is seasonal. You have a lot of articles about pregnancy and babies. I wouldn't have thought that was seasonal.
OMG Will. I did not prophesize a doom-laden scenario
What I was trying to say is that whatever this update is, it has passed through a major part of the ENGLISH search if not the entire search index. And we are only seeing drops in healdove, some are even saying their rankings have not changed just traffic (Probably long tail terms took a hit). So it is highly unlikely that Healdove was hit by any "Site-related" issues.
I'm sure type of articles (quality) are similar throughout the niche sites. The only issue if there is one could be offsite stuff. And as I pointed out, when I quickly compared healdove and caloriebee, I noticed a possibility of many site wide anchors pointing to healdove which COULD be the issue. Obviously someone with all the data needs to jump in and do an actual comparison and see what could be fixed, if anything at all.
I think maybe you need to refresh your understanding of 'monopoly'!
Google has a near monopoly on search - that's a fact and has been a fact for a very long time. The only thing that is going to happen to Google is that those who might search using Google might also make increasing of use other places to find out what they need to know. These are most likely to relate to other sites they use a lot - like Facebook.
Amazon is a very long way from having a monopoly of the retail market online although it is a very significant player.
People who know what they want have always gone direct to Amazon. The reason the percentage is going up is because more people are buying online.
The bonus of using Google is that sometimes you get to the right product faster because of the sometimes archaic categorisations of products by Amazon and Amazon sellers.
Local businesses are folding because they were too slow getting to grips with the fact that consumer buying was moving online - despite all the warnings and the trend reports - because online retailers often offered - for some goods and products - better choice, better prices and better delivery times.
Those retailers that have got to grips with the realities of the 21st century have made sure that they also offer an online service.
I don't know about you but I make a lot of use of online retailers who are NOT part of Amazon - and I find them via Google and the ones that deliver a good service are bookmarked for future use in my browser.
What helps me enormously are those people (eg bloggers) who address common needs and requirements and produce curated/selected lists of products they know and/or have used and/or have tested with comments and recommendations. My sites which did that did extremely well on Squidoo. They've died a death on HubPages.
HubPages never set out to be that sort of site and hence is not set up to compete - especially when they have staff working for them who seem to delight in removing most of the Amazon modules irrespective of what the text says. (Quite how a business model works when income producing models are removed by people who are not experts in that field is beyond me!)
If HubPages wants to compete in this world it needs to have a good long hard think about whether the options it offers to members are the right ones - and whether it's keeping up with the trends for online retail - and where the advertising money is going (which is a whole other topic!)
Um... I think there's been a mistake in my earnings. They quadrupled for yesterday. I think I might have to contact someone... but I don't want to
Could it be an Amazon sale? Because I don't see any increase and if it's a bug it's usually all across the board
Then go back and delete your comment here before a staff member sees it Yes I did, thanks
Ad program. As I said, Amazon earnings still pending for yesterday, i.e. it shows zero with an asterisk. Been here long enough to know the difference
I thought that maybe they'd allocated the earnings to the wrong column.
I've had about five hubs moved to niche sites in the last week, so perhaps that's it? Traffic has dropped a little but not massively. As per the topic of the thread, my top two have lost a couple of hundred daily views.It's not pending. No asterisk. It's nicely stuck. May it continue
Maybe we all got a raise! Woohoo, I hope so!
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