My traffic has dropped in the last few days hopefully it recovers.
Mine has dropped, too. I just noticed the 'update' time now says something about having information from two hours ago and earlier. ???
My traffic is back to where it was. It was only down for two days.
I lost 2/3 of my traffic a week or so ago, but it bounced back within 2 days. It is quite the roller coaster.
To elaborate on what I posted a while ago: I have lost 30% of my traffic between this past Tuesday (March 19) and today (Saturday, March 23). Although, to be fair, this past Tuesday was a record-high for me in views, so I'm thinking it's closer to a 15% dip. Still the lowest point that I have been during the last 30 days.
But, also as mentioned a while ago, if my traffic holds, I should recover by tomorrow.
March Madness, Spring break, Holy Week what else. Carnival Roller Coaster
Armageddon, Big Bang perhaps or Killing Me Softly :-)
There's a slight upward trend in visits to my site (not hubs) which results to a better amount clickthrough for my adsense. No PR changes yet though.
Someone mentioned Spring Break as a cause. For those of us that have certain types of how-to and educational hubs (me, for example), I think this makes sense.
Was that the trend during other spring breaks?
Good idea! I went and checked. I was quasi-doomed beginning March 15, 2012. And total-doomed beginning March 23, 2012.
All the king's horses and all the king's men...
Janderson - did you get my message about the site that appears to have copied your recipe? Check the thread here about 'Taking recipes from Hubs' - just wanted to give you a heads-up.
Yes, Thanks for that I will submit the DMCA ,
Cheers,
I did not notice any changes on my stats except the normal weekend fluctuations.
My usual Sunday traffic-rise has begun! I did not expect that this particular week. Yours truly is starting to perk right up! I may even celebrate and write something.
Things are back to normal for me over here.
I decided to finally put my squidoo stuff out of its misery, though. Things will probably never be back to normal over there. Random purges, page executions, nobody sure what the overlords want, the overlords not sure what they want... messy.
Time for the peasants to load up their carts and move along.
Will, I just got a page at Squidoo that said it was inadequate content and it is a long one. It was a money maker too. Then a couple that aren't making money are just fine with them. I don't get it. I'm not doing any more work over there for sure.
I'm not even giving squidoo a capital letter any more.
I have managed to save my best lenses, which is a relief, despite the falling traffic over there and the excess of official warnings. Rather than tell you specifics, such as there's a 50 words per Amazon capsule and the filters will penalize you if you don't abide, Squidoo instead gives you general advice on writing an article and lets the filters roam free (along with a 5 day deadline before a third of all your work is locked in my case!). There's also a panicky atmosphere there at present. It's messy, like Will says. I think I may have survived though.
Generally I like both HP and Squidoo nowadays, although HP is definitely back in the ascendancy. HP is a roller coaster, whereas Squidoo is consistent - consistently good, or consistently bad. They will recover, I'm sure.
If ever both HP and Squidoo start doing well at the same time, I will be laughing!
To me the difference between Squidoo and HP is that HP has genuinely grasped the fact that quality matters. HP has also developed a system to measure quality which seems to work (despite your mTurk experiences, lol).
This was something I was doubtful about until Paul Edmondson's recent post about the correlation they are finding between quality (as they are measuring it) and traffic. Quite an achievement given the numbers involved.
They are even using the same quality measures to assess other sites (I would guess sites like eHow). A little convergence with eHow would be nice, traffic-wise.
Squidoo, on the other hand, have missed the boat on quality control and now they are scrambling for quick fixes, upsetting far too many people in the process.
Obviously, I hope Squidoo survives but I can't see them prospering until they get a lot more serious about the long term issues.
Yes, I was surprised by how decent the traffic was over there at Squidoo, given how slack they seemed to be (compared to how strict HP have become, anyway). Now Google have hit them hard.
I don't think the problems stem so much from general users, or even the writers who are more particularly focused on earnings. Rather, it's the spinners who open multiple accounts and create low quality pages on an industrial scale. I am not sure how you can stop that, unless you delay the indexing of new pages whilst you vet the new material, like HP does.
Actually, Squidoo do delay indexing, come to think of it, but their vetting seems to have been less rigorous. There is software out there for counting words and calculating keyword density, but sophisticated spinning seems difficult to detect, unless you have a human element.
It's healthy that HP and Squidoo take different approaches to the same problems, however. It gives you choices as a writer and keeps everyone (HP, Squidoo, and Google) on their toes!
Having just found copied work at Squidoo, I'm not impressed with who they let in their door. A hub of mine, and another (a recipe) by a good writer here were stolen. And, after nosing around, I discovered the same person has an account here. No telling how many other hubs were stolen and used in different accounts over there.
The word "panda" used to have such a fuzzy, warm feeling....
by Kate Swanson 10 years ago
For anyone seeing a sudden dip or rise in traffic, be aware that Panda is rampaging again:http://searchengineland.com/panda-update-rolling-204313This may be good news for some who lost traffic in the August update, and it will be bad news for others.
by Paul Edmondson 11 years ago
There was a tweet from Matt Cutts announcing a multi-week algorithm update that will last through the week of July 4th. I haven't heard if this is the Panda softening or something else...Just a heads up that it's rolling out.
by Dr. John Anderson 11 years ago
Looks like HP and Squidoo have both suffered a 20% decline in pages views from the latest Google Panda Hit - early days of course. Ho Hum! What a bum!
by Ness 12 years ago
I used to get in the hundreds daily for traffic, now in the last week I have been getting a mere handful. Today is at 5, one day last week was less! Thats overall traffic for all my hubs Ive checked my Google page 1 hubs and they are no longer page 1. I couldnt even find them up to page 5 (didnt...
by Paul Edmondson 11 years ago
Hubbers, I'm sorry that we can't tell you why your traffic is going down or why Google was showing Hubs on hubpages.com and now has reverted to showing them on the subdomain. We are similarly frustrated. We do know Google announced a panda update last week. We also can see Hubs...
by SpaceShanty 10 years ago
All my views are way down, how is everyone else doing?
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