Traffic Glimmerings of Hope
Same here.
btw, 100K+ views in 16 months is awesome. WTG!
Hi paradigm. Two days ago you were excited about your traffic. No sign of any stats updates since then.
I think you jinxed us. You'll have to stop getting excited.
Well my traffic went up a little yesterday while HP's traffic went down a little.
HubPages is going to permanently discontinue the daily traffic stats updates before the end of the year. In the interim they are doing the frequent delays as training for us to make GA our daily habit in place of the HP page. I put the odds of this prediction being true at better that 80%. The only question is will the new schedule be once a week or once a month.
My traffic range is still definitely stuck at the new, lower post phantom level. Let us hope this is also the summer level as opposed to another significant drop being imminent. Still exceeded HP payout this month even with my frequent scampering's over to straight AdSense. Come to think of it, today is payday for last month. I have hereby just perked up.
Re: that 10K views. Forget the stats page, you should be salivating over the earnings page!
As for my stats prediction, it's just a prediction.Ya know HP wants to. If my post initiates a riot, then maybe that desire will not translate into action. Even better, HP might be moved to initiate a denial.
When I made my prediction, the whole riot-denial scenario hadn't even occurred to me. I was just making a prediction. Hark! Have I changed history here?
I suspect you'll never know, paradigm ... unless of course they do stop giving regular updates, in which case the answer would be 'no'. lol.
My prediction (for what it is worth) is that one day we'll see that magical "updated 7 minutes ago" message again. It is in their interests to keep us all glued to HP for the latest updates. I doubt they'd want us to only log in once a week.
I was concerned enough about this issue to email the team to ask about it. Here's their response:
Thanks for your email. It looks like you've been given some incorrect information. I'm pleased to let you know that we have no plans to discontinue stats updates. The stats sometimes take a while to update due to delays with our advertising partners (rather than issues with our own systems), so there isn't really much we can do about those occasional delays, but we certainly don't intend to discontinue the stats or stop updating them.
That settles any questions anybody on HP should have, and I'm glad I asked.Alas, note the wording. If anything, it supports my prediction of traffic stats updating being changed to at least a weekly basis. Hourly traffic stats updating is already long gone. It now looks like daily traffic stats updating is on the same path.
There is also something odd about their reply, they may have misunderstood you. As far as I know, advertising partner data has absolutely nothing to do with our daily traffic stats calculations and updating; remember how traffic stats used to update several times a day. The advertising data is only used for our daily earnings page calculations and updating. I think whoever answered your inquiry thought you were asking about earnings stats, not traffic stats.
The plot thickens. And I am now boosting the probability of my prediction of conversion from daily to weekly traffic reporting from 80% to 87%.
edit: And now that I think about it, who the heck said anything about discontinuing stats updates? I certainly didn't. An odd reply indeed...
Catherine, a gentle reminder that we're not supposed to be too specific about earnings and cpms etc ... but I don't know exactly how much information is too much information. (Just in case you're tempted to write more about what's happening on your account right now.)
Me thinks I better go back and bold that word, "prediction".
Congratulations on your good run, Catherine.
And our PayPal payments have arrove.
I clicked once, but my message appeared twice. Does that mean it was worth repeating? lol.
Changed it now.Your hubs have the potential for generating income, Catherine ... even if you're not watching them.
Hope is one of life's essentials.ROFL. That's very funny, Catherine. Thanks for the compliment.
I never set out to advertise anything. I simply write about my experience, and things I personally use and find useful. The majority of my hubs (including my most recent one) don't actually promote any products at all.
Now you've made it to earning in consecutive months, you'll find it much easier. (Remember though to keep watching for stolen content and filing DMCAs.)
When it comes to assessing the income you generate vs time put in, try to keep an eye on the big picture. People in sweat shops might be making more per hour than you are ... but they are only paid once for each hour.
They are not paid next month for a shirt they made last month, and they won't still be making money from it next year - or the year after that.
One person pays them one wage once for everything they create. You have the potential for hundreds, thousands, or tens of thousands of people to contribute to your payment for the time you spend writing hubs ... year after year.
Hope this thought helps feed your glimmer of hope.
It is now Wednesday in Australia. Not long until Friday again. There's not much of a window left for stats this week.
The absence of anything new or interesting in feed or forums is depressing. I have a new hub nearly ready to publish so I might finish it off now and put it up.
Somebody has to keep writing ...
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