Excited about Hubpages again

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   Janet21posted 11 years ago

   After Penguin/Panda hit in 2011 my HP traffic and earnings took a dive.  So, I left HP and concentrated on my other online endeavors.  I did keep my hubs here, though.  About 6 months ago I decided to revisit my hubs to see what I could do.  I deleted some hubs, updated all of them and changed titles using the title tuner function.   
   
   A few weeks ago my traffic started increasing significantly.   I am not sure if it was due to the changes I made, a new google update or a combination of both.  But, my traffic is now up over 300%.  It is still not at my all-time high, but I am happy nonetheless.
   
   My earnings are increasing, my traffic is increasing and I now look forward to checking my HP dashboard each day.
   
   I am not sure how my hubs will handle the next google update and what my HP future holds, but for now things are looking good.

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      Simone Smithposted 11 years agoin reply to this

      Janet21, that made my morning. I love it when Hubbers see upticks and traffic and feel encouraged- and my stars and garters, what an uptick! Congratulations.

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         Joy56posted 11 years agoin reply to this

         i am so happy to hear that i honestly believe hub pages is just too good to stay away from for any length of time

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      Cardisaposted 11 years agoin reply to this

      The same thing happened to me along with some bad vibes here. But my love is returning to the site  and I have started checking in everyday as well. I know a part of the issue had to do with grief due to the loss of my brother and grandfather but I am feeling quite optimistic about hubbing these days.

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   FlutterbyBandsposted 11 years ago

   You're definitely and inspiration to us beginner hubbers! Thank you for sharing

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   baja2013posted 11 years ago

   Always is nice to hear good news. Motivation increases rapidly!

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   NateB11posted 11 years ago

   Very encouraging. I've noticed a better trend in traffic, also; in my case I think it has to do with my subdomain and hubs aging and so indexing, plus just that I have more hubs; I'm pretty new, will be a year for me here at the end of the month.
   
   Anyway, congratulations! It's good to hear you're hubs are doing well.

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   LuisEGonzalezposted 11 years ago

   Well not 300% but I have noticed an increase of around 100% with my little humble hubs...............
   
   Actually it's more like an 86% increase...........math was never my forte!

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   Amy Pirozzoloposted 11 years ago

   What's Penguin/Panda?

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      Cardisaposted 11 years agoin reply to this

      It's an algorithmic update Google applies to its search engine with certain criteria for content published online.

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   faythefposted 11 years ago

   It is nice to hear encouraging words..thank you for sharing

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   Careermommyposted 11 years ago

   Janet2, that's encouraging for the newer folks.  You hubs look amazing.  I'm not surprised you're getting so many hits!

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   Janet21posted 11 years ago

   Thanks everyone!

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    delleaposted 11 years ago

    That's great news Janet21! I'm a new hubber here and so far all of my hubs have been featured. I've wanted to write for years, but have limited myself to my computer and broadband hubs... i wanted to expand on those topics but wanted to write about other things as well, so I came back to HubPages. I tried HP a long time ago but abandoned it due to other priorities, now I'm finding that my male mid-life crisis is getting back into writing and composing music. My wife seems supportive because she knows how busy I've been with other things. I get modest traffic now on my hubs but I'm hoping that more people will follow me and share my hubs with others... I would love to have HP as an additional income stream (we have financial issues like everyone else) but I am a long way off from that level yet, need to keep writing!

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    ThePartyAnimalposted 11 years ago

    Wow that is good to hear and thanks for the update. Even though I have slowed down with my pages and posts lately due to other online ventures I think I will have to also update my pages and get back on the ball. I just looked and also see a nice increase in traffic - wooo hooo.

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       Janet21posted 11 years agoin reply to this

       Hi Nicole!

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    Joanne M Olivieriposted 11 years ago

    That's great news and thanks for the information.  I've always wondered about the title tuner but never used it.  I'll take a look at it now.

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       Janet21posted 11 years agoin reply to this

       I have heard that changing your title could mess up your rankings with google.  Not sure if that is fact or rumor.  So, I generally don't change titles on my pages.   However, my HP traffic was so bad, I figured what the heck, it can't hurt.   And, it didn't.

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    lovebuglenaposted 11 years ago

    How can traffic increase by 300%?

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       Janet21posted 11 years agoin reply to this

       My daily traffic is three times what it was a few weeks ago, so I equated that to 300%.  Is that not correct?  Since I wrote this post, it is now more than four times higher.  I was down to 300 visitors a day, now I am up to 1300/day.   My all-time high was close to 2000+/day.

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