Is HubPages in trouble? Are they at risk of closing site?
Cardisa,
First of all - relax!
Sensationalism is a common human practice because it affords publicity to those who create the rumors, those who spread them, those who embellish them and - in their own eyes at least - those who give them substance.
Google Panda, Amazon changes through legislation and a hundred million other things affect the way in which the Web and Planet Earth operate every single day. I haven't read the Hub you refer to, I have no interest in reading it and I have absolutely no intentions of reading it.
For now, I am off to create a Hub about the dark cloud I saw tonight and the weird shadow it cast on me as I was out walking the dog. I believe it was all the fault of the Amazon cluster in the Google Panda subdomain, combined with the effect of Mars and Uranus...
I'll still be writing Hubs this time next year - what about you??Cardisa,
Keep going! If there are points of concern, you will hear it from Hub Pages staff. This is a great place to write and I can honestly say (although my official knowledge is the same as yours) that I do not for one solitary second believe that Hub Pages is in danger of closing its doors.
The forums here are great for many, many reasons but when it comes to an issue like this, take the official word as gospel and the remainder with a pinch of salt.
Want a laugh to cheer you up? This reminds me of a comedy sketch on British TV a few years ago. A ship has sunk and the survivors are all gathered on one small lifeboat. A ship's officer decides to cheer the people up by getting them to sing. He raises his hands and declares that all should begin after him. He begins:
"We're all going to die, we're all going to die, ee-aye-ah-dee-oh, we're all going to die..."
Be positive and keep writing your Hubs
I'm sorry Shades, I called you Mark.........OMG......so sorry! Please forgive me
Always the sane, rational voice of reason.
Well, the voice of reason anyway.Having your own sites is cool. Having some stuff here is good too. Frankly, having your own site and committing to it is probably smarter than committing to someone else's (like here). There's not promise anything will last forever, though, so back up your sites from time to time incase you have to make them somewhere else. Antying beyond that it out of the scope of my experience. I just write sarcasm, what do I know?
The voice of something anyway.
Just be the voice of reason for now. I'm hearing enough other voices at the moment. At least one of them needs to be reasonable.
Hi
Did it?
There are still such hubs, though, aren't there? ~ Indeed, I have a few and have not been told to remove them.
- blake4dposted 12 years ago
0I will just say that I hope HP figures it out for themselves. But Amazon has had this coming more than any online company in history, they have many questionable practices with their online business model, with your fraud department, and some states are now putting this together. Amazon has its moments of good will but for the most part any independent person that blindly supports Amazon without questioning their practices internally - has not made enough money through them to know what their real agendas are. You as an affiliate or a seller, or anything else they put their banner on are just a vehicle. If all the states blacklisted them they would likely blame it on the irresponsibility of the small businesses. In this case HP will probably be smart to drop them.
Oh and by the way Google Adsense will loose HP more writers in the long haul than Amazon. I suggest HP use its affiliation with paypal and drop the advertisers they currently use. Google is a much bigger problem. Good luck HubPages.
Thats my 2 cents. Blake4d
Excellent way of stating it!
Like you, I learned more from the other Hubbers than from the staff, when I came on board. I think that at the time, there was so much that was brand new and rather overwhelming for me, that I needed to take it in in little bites. Being able to ask experts (
- or not ) and receive immediate answers was just perfect for me. Through all of these months, as I have gone back into the Learning Center from time to time, I have been able to understand all of it much better, and for me that has been the result of the combination of LC materials and what I have learned from other Hubbers.
HubPages is not going anywhere and they did not lose the entire Amazon account. Read the thread regarding Amazon and the California law that was passed by the governor. I agree with Izzym go directly to the learning center. Up in the right hand corner of next to your "my profile" is the "help" area. I only see HP growing and getting better as each your passes.
I remember when the forums were only alive until eight or nine at night. HP has grown in leaps and bounds and despite changes they are standing strong.Yes Izzy, but I tend to hang in here at the forums whenever I find time. I'm writing no more here... trying to break the ice at about.com (completed the first step there) along with developing my own site. How are you Izzy?
They offer monthly compensation ($500) if selected.
http://beaguide.about.com/gdcomp.htm
I'm fine ta for asking. Got six new websites up and 30 new blogs, so I've been busy
I think HP will get through this just fine. I am hanging on because I believe in them. It's had some changes, no doubt, but I think it will bounce back! Life would be boring if we didn't spice it up with takeovers, leftovers, panda or yodi bear, we are just living the dream....drama, that is the spice of life
- Where To Buyposted 12 years ago0
I imagine the best they can hope for right about now is finding someone who wants to buy them out since nothing they've done so far seems to be helping. This graph shows global traffic as of yesterday:
I KNOW you know something that we don't!
If you can't spill, so be it, but it is lifting my heart, all the sameI just wish someone would let us know SOMETHING!
I've been writing primarily sales hubs, with Amazon capsules, but I don't want to do anymore until I know if I'll even be able to keep using them...
- Where To Buyposted 12 years ago0
Here is the way I saw it from the beginning:
All I can say for sure is all of our hubs are thrown in the same pot of soup. Most of us bring the necessary ingredients and some even bring even better ones. Pretty soon people with no idea how to cook are throwing stuff in the soup. As less good ingredients are thrown in and tons of crappy ingredients are thrown in, the product becomes gross. Who would want that product? Most people wouldn't touch it. That includes the big daddy; Google.
There are ways to prevent it and there are ways to dull it down. Hubpages having moderators deleting content 1 by 1 is their way to dull it down. And to this point there has been little to no success. I've also heard that RSS feeds and Amazon adds hurt, but after removing them there was no evidence of any improvements. Either way if they keep choosing to dull it down, or completely fix the problem, 1 thing remains for sure. Hubpages will be fixed.. not closed down.
I've been reading what Paul says very closely(and other Hubpages workers). He has said a few things that have brought me hope. And over the past couple months, I too have been fed up just like the majority, no doubt. Mainly with the lack of them telling us what is really going on and a solid plan.
Thinking about quitting and removing hubs never crossed my mind and it shouldn't have with most people. Having your own site is always better, but these hubs in all honestly were very easy and can always draw you more income. Make a new hub(article) or on the new site similar to the one on Hubpages and compliment them, it will only increase traffic and income. The internet and Google needs us the people and sites like Hubpages, however Google did have every right to kick Hubpages butt from all the crappy content. If you hubhopped it was hard to find a decent hub. And it wasn't us to blame, that easily can be put on Hubpages, which is why I believe people are so mad. They now know that crappy content is an Achilles heel. Same way if you were a soup store and had crappy soup mixed with your good ones.
Getting the crap out of the soup is all Hubpages needs to do. Or they can just make a whole new batch and bring the good material over. Which it looks to me like they are doing something similar(read Paul's posts below). Who knows how many pots there need to be and all that mess, only time will actually tell, but I like this idea as I have thought of it in my head before.
The same reason Hubpages does not release all it's info is the same reason our military doesn't share their secrets.
They just need to remove the garbage of the site, they don't need to figure out a way to colonize Saturn
Please take the time to read these.
http://hubpages.com/forum/topic/77717#post1681455
http://blog.hubpages.com/2011/06/prepar … ess-panda/
http://hubpages.com/forum/topic/77245Mike, I agree with you 100%.
About the hub hopping thing, I too found that hub hopping brought me terrible content. I stopped doing that along time ago....well I tried it one day last week and the same thing happened...bad grammar, ridiculous content.....
I don't want to leave HP, even though I am not earning any thing....well a total of about $6.00 in five months.
Not wise?
Some of us make a very good living online. I would never take a job I had to actually go to again.
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