Fall in Traffic Triggers Downward Spiral of Motivation, Ruins Subs

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   janderson99posted 11 years ago

   Traffic falls + Loss of Popularity =>More and More Idled Hubs => Less Traffic => Low Morale => What's the Point - overall traffic is lowest in 2 years => Death by a thousand cuts => Torture
   
   

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      Barbara Kayposted 11 years agoin reply to this

      I tried something different on a hub that was getting no Google traffic. I just added 2013 to the title. I'm not getting tons of traffic, but now it is getting some from Google. I thought It was an easy fix. It is worth a try on any hub that it would fit.

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   paradigmsearchposted 11 years ago

   HubPages is still hanging in at 100 US rank.

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      Dale Hydeposted 11 years agoin reply to this

      You mean like hanging with a hangman's noose?  haha!
      
      I have no doubt they are up there where you say.  Over the time I have been here your figures and facts seem pretty well founded.   I would say they are down however from where they used to be as I have seen some pretty depressing figures of late, lol.

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   psycheskinnerposted 11 years ago

   Internet traffic goes up over the winter.  So it could be good news

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   Will Apseposted 11 years ago

   It ain't easy. But culling the poor performers might help.
   
   I have said it before but a fresh new sub is a good way to give your morale a boost. Find a few topics with a good chance of immediate lift off -- check the news, perhaps, look at upcoming events where interest is likely to be massive, find product launches etc etc -- and you can get a lot of traffic very quickly.
   
   Of course, Panda might wreck that new sub in time too... But, equally, it might tide you over until your main sub improves.

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      janderson99posted 11 years agoin reply to this

      I guess that's why you stopped adding new hubs 2 months ago!

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         paradigmsearchposted 11 years agoin reply to this

         Me, too, actually. Excluding my latest fiasco.

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            Jean Bakulaposted 11 years agoin reply to this

            I'm not adding anymore either, unless I see more traffic. I just looked and have 3 red arrows on 138 hubs. I wrote my last bunch of hubs just because I felt creative, they just flowed so easily. But they could also flow easily someplace where people are actually reading them!

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         Will Apseposted 11 years agoin reply to this

         I would not have taken the trouble of writing what I did if it was not true.
         
         I got myself a new sub. And though, I have not done a lot with it, it should make close to a couple of hundred dollars this month, fingers crossed.
         
         The problem is that most people here are so lost when it comes to getting traffic and making a buck, that it does not really matter what anyone says.

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            PaulGoodman67posted 11 years agoin reply to this

            Yes, in the old days I think it paid to have one massive profile with hundreds of hubs.  Nowadays, it's better not to put all your eggs in one basket and have numerous profiles of a size of maybe 50-100 hubs.  A concentration of quality works better than a swathe of variable quality.
            
            There is plenty of BS, as well as good advice on here.  It took me time to work out what was good and bad.  Good advice may not always be the stuff that you want to hear, but the important thing is that it works.

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            agilitymachposted 11 years agoin reply to this

            Interesting.  Maybe I'll add a new sub when I have time and put some of my low performers in there with 2013 in the titles. It can't hurt.

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   tillsontitanposted 11 years ago

   I've actually seen a slight increase in traffic in the last two weeks or so.  For me its more about the joy of writing and staying here with my friends and community.  Do I like making money?  Who doesn't....but that's not what its all about.  Stay...keep writing...watch what happens.

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   tirelesstravelerposted 11 years ago

   Can't get time to write. Worked almost full time all summer, monitoring HP to keep scores up and hubs featured.  In July the motivation was really low. Now the as weather is cooling down it's time to get serious. Can anyone write when it's hot?

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