Friday HubPages Traffic Falls Off Cliff - What Happened!?!
May 17, 2014, was the release of the Google Panda 4.0 update.
June 13, 2014, was the date of the Google MetaFilter 2 update (increased traffic to forum sites) and June 12, 2014, was the Google Payday Loan 3.0 update which targeted spammy pages with spammy keyword phrases, spammy page titles and queries.
Google's mobile-friendly algorithm (launched April 21st) completed its roll-out on May 1st, but it can take up to ten days for search results to reflect these changes globally when all affected sites are re-indexed.
My traffic is about what it usually is this time of year for a Friday and Saturday. On Sundays and Mondays, my traffic goes up.
Traffic yesterday to HP was lower than December 25th. In fact, visits haven't been this low since August 23, 2013.
Traffic went down 20% for U.S. views and 18% for global views from the day before. But, that is just one-day's traffic so we can't say that is a trend just yet. According to Quantcast, HP is still the 67th most visited site in the U.S. and #36 globally, so it still compares well to other sites.
In my opinion, the HubPro and EC programs have done nothing to improve traffic site-wide to HP or even to individual Hubs collectively in the programs. Cleaning up the low-quality Hubs still on the site would help, as well as giving greater exposure for highly-trafficked Hubs on Related Hubs, HOTD, Topic pages, etc. Also, as I've mentioned before (to deaf ears), what would help the site gain traction is improvement of content on all Topic pages to make them true landing pages and running PPC ads for them. That would also help in positive branding for HP.
Since HP staff has shifted the emphasis away from traffic, maybe what we are seeing now is the result of that decision.
It's beginning to look like May is going to be the Month of the Traffic Rants.
Change your avatar back. Yours is a case of cat's revenge.
You mean things are that bad??????Cock a Doodle Doo - we're on the wrong horse waiting for a Panda update (cargo cult?). Trends are still within Quota boundaries with the quota algo perhaps overreacting to the viral comb. Perchance it is MobileGeddon reacting to bloated Stella becoming obese.
Are you predicting a forum fight?
Floyd and Manny are multi-millionaires after going 12 rounds. They both win!
Anyway, here we are hoping that things will start looking better.
Maybe most people have other activities they want to do besides be online.
We were in the 80's here yesterday. The lake is very low this spring, so I was able to find some flat rocks to use as stepping stones in a garden. Today is another beautiful day to get outdoors.After a few ups and downs, and the accompanying elation and dejection, I start to feel like I am used to it, and I can take it all in stride. It's not like I ever make a lot of money, not enough to worry over really. Still, it seemed to be building up steadily, then the bottom dropped out, again.
Thanks Maffew, but I'm aware of these things. I can safely say it has not lost rank on any of the searches that bring it traffic.
If Panda has recently assessed that particular hub, I have no complaints. It won't make me a fortune but it should keep ticking away.
You woke up too late. You obviously missed all the excitement a couple of hours ago!
+1 After the weekend carnage, I was surprised to see that Sunday's views and earnings were actually up. Keep hope alive!
My prediction winning streak is now 2 days in a row.
Yep, my Monday GA stats were up again as well. When Quantcast's Monday data comes out, I'm guessing everything will be back to normal or even better. Besides, yesterday HP gave us all something new to rant about anyway.
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I must be feeling optimistic, been working on my new hub all morning.
I'll come up with my next masterful prediction around high noon HP time.
Got distracted from my prediction.
Stay tuned.I ran my 'morning after, quota adjustment model' and it predicts a 10% decline over the next week as 'punishment' for the sustained viral rooster comb traffic. It may take 2 weeks for the Quota-algo to 'get over it' and for traffic to return to average 2015 levels.
Noticed a massive decrease in my traffic. Just relieved to know it's not just me. Will ride out this storm
According to Quantcast, traffic was up again on HP yesterday. It's now back above the one million line.
Hey it's not above the 1M line
But it's up nonetheless 
Oops, I saw just US
We may have dodged a bullet but I am still a little nervous as to what might be coming...
My traffic went down 39% from yesterday's numbers. That's huge!
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