Traffic Crash!

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   leakeemposted 11 years ago

   My traffic just crashed! Is anyone experiencing the same? Is there anything I can or should do? What's up? Is google trying another apocalyptic algorithm? did HP change something?
   
   Heeeelp!

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      Jenn-Anneposted 11 years agoin reply to this

      My traffic for the last couple days has been bad. I'm hoping it is just the holiday weekend.

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   viryaboposted 11 years ago

   Don't despair. There must be a few hundreds of us experiencing the same. Its almost crazy here these days, and its becoming such an effort to keep our chins up.
   And its a shame that we mostly dont know what to do about it.

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   Healthy Pursuitsposted 11 years ago

   HubPages has just made their featured/noindexed hub choices active. I think it will make a difference for a while, with a dip now, and hopefully a rise later. I've seen a drop off of 1/3, but consider it very temporary.

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      leakeemposted 11 years agoin reply to this

      My account also lost about 1/3 of the normal traffic. Maybe it's really the new feature.

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      David 470posted 11 years agoin reply to this

      Wait I am confused. What do you mean featured/nonindexed?
      
      My traffic has been pretty bad lately compared to how it used to be....The latest hubs I wrote are not performing well either...

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   Lauryallanposted 11 years ago

   Yeah I thought I was the only one. Just checked my stast and my traffic is crazy low today. This is the lowest I have ever seen my daily HP traffic since the beginning of the year.

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   paradigmsearchposted 11 years ago

   Mine has actually improved somewhat. Is it because of the 9 hubs I killed? I have no idea.

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   IzzyMposted 11 years ago

   From what I can see, no-one on this thread has had a visitation from the Google bots since the new feature was introduced, so traffic changes are something else.

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      PaulGoodman67posted 11 years agoin reply to this

      Yes, I agree Izzy.  Plus it's a weird time in the USA - Labor Day weekend, which is similar to the August Bank Holiday in the UK, followed by many kids and students starting school again.  Very difficult to judge traffic.  Though if you've lost more than 50% traffic, it might be a Google/HP problem... difficult to say for sure.

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   paradigmsearchposted 11 years ago

   Both Pinterest and Twitter are busy little beavers today.

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   leakeemposted 11 years ago

   Something interesting happened two days ago. My pageviews doubled! and it's getting consistent. I wonder what caused that.

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   denisemaiposted 11 years ago

   Mine spiked on Labor Day weekend and crashed on Wednesday. I lost ALL of my Google traffic. That's a bummer for me because most of my traffic comes from Google. I can find many of my articles at the top of searches but my most popular titles are buried in Google Purgatory somewhere. I'm frustrated and am not sure what to do about it. Gahhh!

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