Significant Traffic Increase.

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   sabrebIadeposted 12 years ago

   BTW...I dont know if anyone has checked Quantcast lately but HP is up 5%.
   That's a steady rise since November 22nd.
   
   Oddly enough..it looks like Squido has slowly risen since the 22nd as well.

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      wjack2010posted 12 years agoin reply to this

      9% now for HubPages

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   mybestreviewsposted 12 years ago

   I have only been with Hubpages for about 3 months. I joined when big G was stomping all over our hubs. My views have never been much to brag about and were going no where fast.
   
   The last couple days Google must have decided they like me. My traffic has increased 5 times normal and the traffic sources page reflects 5 times the Google traffic. I hope this is a trend that is going to continue. I am finally getting Ebay and Amazon click throughs as well. Just waiting for that elusive Amazon sale.
   
   Wishing the best of luck to everyone.

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      Sapperposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      I'm convinced that Amazon sales are a myth, and that everyone is in on the joke to convince me that they actually exist.

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   midget38posted 12 years ago

   Not too sure what happened, but it's good! :-)

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   prettydarkhorseposted 12 years ago

   Now if habee, Marye Audet, Patty Inglish, mistyhorizon2003 can drop by here to give us some insights on what is happening to their hubs right now!! :-)
   
   Paul E can always drop by again to share some more data too :-)

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      mistyhorizon2003posted 12 years agoin reply to this

      My traffic is up too Pretty, I would say by about a third (which is still a long way off where it was last year, but is at least an improvement).

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         prettydarkhorseposted 12 years agoin reply to this

         That is good :-) Any particular observation about hubs which are getting some traffic again? Did you do something with those hubs?

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            mistyhorizon2003posted 12 years agoin reply to this

            Well the same hubs that were always my most successful are still at the top, they are just getting more views, but no, I didn't do anything to them. Each of my top seven hubs are all still getting three figure views between 100 and 400 today (but at least two of those were getting three figure views a day last year).

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               prettydarkhorseposted 12 years agoin reply to this

               Thank Cindy for responding. Any other hubs which does not get any views b4 but is showing some love right now? Your hubs are well written and long BTW! :-)

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                  mistyhorizon2003posted 12 years agoin reply to this

                  There are a about a dozen formerly very low traffic hubs that are showing traffic rises and red 'arrows' but I wouldn't say their views are up by a great deal, and I still have plenty of hubs that are on very low views that haven't changed at all. I suspect it is only about my first twenty hubs that are making up most of the overall improvement in figures, and as you know I have 280 hubs right now.

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                     moonlakeposted 12 years agoin reply to this

                     I'm seeing hubs getting traffic that I never see get traffic. I have no idea why.

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                        mistyhorizon2003posted 12 years agoin reply to this

                        Very strange all round. I have a good few with zero views, and they are good quality hubs, but on the plus side I have 9 hubs today which are well into three figures, only problem is that overall my traffic is down a little compared to yesterday.

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                           prettydarkhorseposted 12 years agoin reply to this

                           Maybe that is the normal decline in views during weekend (Thursday is the new start of weekend, LOL). I looked at quantcast and it seems that we hurdle the plunge after Sept 28, we are back to where we are b4 that! Same level as of this time last year. :-)

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                              mistyhorizon2003posted 12 years agoin reply to this

                              Hope you're right PDH

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                                 prettydarkhorseposted 12 years agoin reply to this

                                 I am sometimes right, :-)
                                 they said there was an update 21st or 22nd Nov. http://www.seroundtable.com/google-pand … 16017.html

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                                    Sapperposted 12 years agoin reply to this

                                    I guess they didn't announce it because it was so "small." Or at least small in terms of the other ones lately.

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                                    Greekgeekposted 12 years agoin reply to this

                                    There seems to be two different updates in the past two weeks.
                                    
                                    On November 16-17, people all across the web reported traffic upheavals. That's when Squidoo traffic dropped a little closer to Hubpages.
                                    
                                    On November 20, Google misleadingly denied that there had been a Panda update, but said there would be one "soon." Apparently "soon" was within minutes of that denial. That's when Hubpages traffic went up a bit, although still a little behind Squidoo. So, for once, a Panda update treated Hubpages nicely instead of clobbering it. Or, to be more accurate, I think it removed part of the downranking that it had put on Hubpages during the September 27 Panda update.
                                    
                                    I still wish I knew what that Nov 16/17 update was. From my own stats I'm leaning tentatively towards the "image search algorithm changed" theory, but it's so blinking hard to rule out all the other possible factors that could be causing traffic changes. It really helps when Google tells us about an algorithm change, but so often they don't.

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                                       prettydarkhorseposted 12 years agoin reply to this

                                       They just say that there will be updates and changes from time to time, thousands of them within the year and that small number of content will be affected say .8 percent but that is huge in terms of overall Internet content. :-)

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                                          Greekgeekposted 12 years agoin reply to this

                                          Yes, there are many more they don't announce. But at least when they announce one, they usually give some clues about what it's looking for and why. The why is the most important thing for me;  I want to know what Google thinks web users want and, more importantly, what web users want to avoid. Google has more expertise and data than I do about web user search behavior, so I figure I'll trust their wisdom on that.
                                          
                                          I don't want to write to the algorithm too much, because it's always changing; the key is to learn from Google what it is readers want from you and provide it, so that hopefully Google will rank your stuff well. A suble but important distinction, in my opinion.
                                          
                                          However, PS is playfully pointing out that I'm far too obsessed about traaaaaffic. I wish I could go back to the mentality I had as a kid when my stuffed animals were the only ones who ever got to read my stuff. Then again, they didn't pay very well.

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                                             Will Apseposted 12 years agoin reply to this

                                             I think Google's attitude is that it wants people to write for the reader, or perhaps themselves, rather than the search engines. It is trying to find good content for its users rather than tell writers what it should be.
                                             
                                             So, I use read times as a guide to which kind of content is performing for users and move in that direction. Then I hope Google can work out that I am getting it right (when I do).

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                                             prettydarkhorseposted 12 years agoin reply to this

                                             Most of the time after an update, and upon checking keywords it is hit and miss so it is a long process (learning process from both the reader and G) actually a symbiotic relationship between the publisher, the searcher and G! I suspect this is forever tweaking and updating at Googles end, so we should not expect that the number of views is stagnant. :-)

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   paradigmsearchposted 12 years ago

   Just thought I would toss in this worthy redux.
   
   

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   sabrebIadeposted 12 years ago

   HP is showing a 0% on Quantcast right now which means level.
   I'll take level over dropping any day!
   Annnnnd....we are not 11% down like another site is.

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      wildernessposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      Interesting.  I've started my normal mid-week slide, although yesterday still ended up 50% over last Tuesday.

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   WriteAngledposted 12 years ago

   Actually, my traffic is doing very well on Squidoo.

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   Len Cannonposted 12 years ago

   I dunno, I'm seeing a pretty standard holiday increase, exactly as I expected earlier in the thread.
   
   Between 3 and 4 times my "average" views from Thanksgiving, through Black Friday, to Cyber Monday and then settling into about 2 times my average in the days afterwards and continuing similarly through until around December 20th or thereabouts.
   
   If it is notable enough for Paul to mention, I guess something's going on.  It just seems to be following the exact pattern I've seen every year on HubPages.

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      SmartAndFunposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      My views are up nicely across the board, whether the hubs have anything to do with the holidays or not, so I see this as a good overall sign. How long will it last? That is the million dollar question.

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   Will Apseposted 12 years ago

   Traffic to my main sub has dropped back a long way in the last two days but is still around fifty per cent better than a couple of months ago. I will be disappointed if it falls much more.
   
   Traffic to my newer subs is still outrageously good. They are too young to be affected by Panda, one way or another, I reckon.
   
   As far as income is concerned, I am well up on last year for the holiday period.

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    ologsinquitoposted 12 years ago

    I just joined HP about six weeks ago, so it's way to early for me to comment. But I think I'm seeing a few page hits that aren't my own visits.

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