How much has changed in the last couple of years? Not sure if anyone here would even remember me. Are things getting better or worse? Just wondering.
@Pawpawwrites,
Hey! I remember you. I believe that you are one of my followers. Where have you been for so long?
Things are a lot better on HP these days. Just start publishing your hubs again and find out.
Glad you are back!
Glad to hear that things are going well. I've been working on a couple of books, and doing youtube a lot. I was just wondering how things were going here. I also remember you, even though my memory isn't what it used to be.
@Pawpawwrites,
That sounds so interesting. Like I said, you were missed and now we are glad that you are back.
Enjoy.
So nice to see you & I've pleased to hear you're still writing. Sill haven't been able to catch up on articles due to other obligations, but hanging in there. I have no doubt you'll be back up & running with fantastic articles as in the past. Have to check out your You Tube channel. Is Nature's Cool the channel? Love the Midwest Gardener Channel.
I'm glad to hear that you are hanging in there. Sometimes that is about the best a person can do. The Midwest Gardener Channel is the one I spend most of my time on. The other one is mine too though. I was amazed at how fast I was able to grow the gardening one. It's kept me pretty busy in the summer, and I really enjoy it too. Been growing lots of things to feed the less fortunate, so it's a win win situation.
Welcome back. I remember your name but notice that you have no writing featured at the moment! I think you will find many changes around here.
Pawpawwrites - you can fix the featured (in your profile) so even the ones that are unfeatured for traffic, etc. will at least show up on your profile.
@Pawpawwrites Welcome back! Things are pretty great here. Good luck with your hubs.
You don't have any hubs. I wanted to look at them so that I can see what you wrote then and what would be different now. Did you remove all your hubs or did you never write any?
I deleted all my hubs. I decided that my time was better invested elsewhere. I'm really glad to hear that it seems to be working out for so many people.
well, I have a ton of unpublished hubs (former lenses) that I need to move elsewhere. Earnings are a bit discouraging here.
I'm doing some light blogging over at Niume, a community blogging site. Let me know if you'd like a referral. It's not much of an earner either.
Thanks so much for the offer of a referral. That's very kind of you. I'm glad that you have options and have found another place that works for you too. I'm too busy trying to finish my second novel to do much writing other than that right now.
I'm sorry I left previously, but make no mistake, I didn't leave because of hubpages but because of the constant trolling of Republicans and Christians.
Now I've learnt how to deal with trolls, and while the first time I was here it took me three months to get my first pay out and a pretty rapid rise after that, it's been a bit slower now but I'm still earning every month now.
I also love the fact that there are niche sites, and while not every article is selected, enough are for it to be a worthwhile experience.
Sorry to hear that you had problems with trolls. I never could understand what anyone gets out of doing that. Glad that you are receiving a steady payout. That's great!
After a long, long drought, things are definitely getting better, IF you're able to write content that's good enough to be transferred to the niche sites.
That's the biggest change on HubPages - it's not just one site any longer. They've created several new sites, each specialising in a broad subject area. They created them by cherry-picking the best Hubs from HubPages and transferring them to the new sites.
When you write a new Hub, it's published on the main site, but it's also automatically considered for the new sites within the first few weeks. If it doesn't get moved within a month or so, it's not considered good enough to be moved. If you want to get it moved (and you do, because that's where the money is), then you need to improve it substantially. Once you've done that, you can resubmit it manually (but you can submit only one Hub every two weeks).
The first thing I'd suggest you do is go to your Profile, click "Edit Profile", scroll down to the place where it says "Show Only Featured Hubs" and change it to "no". That way, at least other Hubbers can see your old Hubs. No one else can right now, not even Google, so you've got some work to do!
Next, go to my profile and find my Hub on "The Basic HubPages Rules" on the slider. Read it. It summarises all the rules as they stand today, which may be slightly different to what they were when you left.
Good luck!
Thank you very much for trying to be so helpful. At the moment, I have just too many other things to work on, but it is nice to know that there have been some improvements made. Thanks again for your kindness.
Hi Marisa,
I have been busy writing on my own website and have recently started paying attention to HP. As to the best hubs with most traffic being moved...many of my larger traffic ones are still on HP. I have started working on my hubs but at a rate of them being moved only every 2 weeks...it will take forever to get most of mine moved over to niche sites.
Question...if we make changes to our old hubs...adding bios, etc. will they be noticed and moved without our having to submit them?
Another question about Flipboard. I just started using it today for the niche ones that have been moved. Am I doing this correctly? For name, I am typing my own name. Should I instead be writing the name of the niche site like Dengarden?
Thanks for any help. I tried searching and could not find a forum where this was addressed.
Hubs for the niche sites were first picked based on traffic. The good quality high traffic hubs were moved.
Even now they are still going through the backlog to find good hubs, but with lower levels of traffic. However, the quality of these hubs has to be a lot higher than the ones picked solely on traffic merits. New hubs are automatically considered, but old hubs in most cases are going to have to be personally submitted.
It initially began with a hubber being able to submit one hub in 60 days. Now it's one in 14 days. Over time as the backlog is cleared, I think the time frame can go even lower, so people such as you with hundreds of hubs, have the opportunity to get them moved. Until then you have the time to fix them to the niche website standards - amazon capsules, heading structure, images being full width (and not pixelated), etc.
I remember your name, though very vague. But I do remember your profile pic. Welcome back. I don't think we've ever spoken much HP is a great place to be right now.
Thanks to everyone for the welcome back. Glad things are picking up here. Nice to know.
by Rahul Pandey 7 years ago
The hubs that used to get 50-100 visits a day are down to 10-20 now. While most of the hubs have not been hit as hard, others have. Have you been affected by the update, too? What do you suggest to recover from it?
by EmpressFelicity 14 years ago
...from a grand total of £0.00 so far? Any suggestions gratefully received!
by Baraccuza 4 years ago
Many people writing different things. But I and I'm sure that many other people would like to know the potential of hubpages. Thanks for answers.
by Audrey Hunt 10 years ago
Just had a big drop on my profile score. And all my hubs were featured along with a steady 10 Editors Choice. I say 'were' because 3 were just unfeatured and I don't know what to do about that. My views are over 945,000. Boo-hoo. Hubpages doesn't love me anymore!
by Stephen Brno 14 years ago
I read your post about your achievement here after a year of publishing on HP and I am very impressed I quit a year ago after writing 7 hubs. I've been writing for AC, Bukisa, Triond, Break Studios, and Demand Studios instead. I've been making money at these places, I usually average between...
by Shasta Matova 11 years ago
I know that you can choose to display your idle hubs on your profile page, but I don't, because I don't want Google to see them at all and get confused by all those "do not follow." What this means is that my idle hubs are not available for anyone to see, and I have to actively...
Copyright © 2024 The Arena Media Brands, LLC and respective content providers on this website. HubPages® is a registered trademark of The Arena Platform, Inc. Other product and company names shown may be trademarks of their respective owners. The Arena Media Brands, LLC and respective content providers to this website may receive compensation for some links to products and services on this website.
Copyright © 2024 Maven Media Brands, LLC and respective owners.
As a user in the EEA, your approval is needed on a few things. To provide a better website experience, hubpages.com uses cookies (and other similar technologies) and may collect, process, and share personal data. Please choose which areas of our service you consent to our doing so.
For more information on managing or withdrawing consents and how we handle data, visit our Privacy Policy at: https://corp.maven.io/privacy-policy
Show DetailsNecessary | |
---|---|
HubPages Device ID | This is used to identify particular browsers or devices when the access the service, and is used for security reasons. |
Login | This is necessary to sign in to the HubPages Service. |
Google Recaptcha | This is used to prevent bots and spam. (Privacy Policy) |
Akismet | This is used to detect comment spam. (Privacy Policy) |
HubPages Google Analytics | This is used to provide data on traffic to our website, all personally identifyable data is anonymized. (Privacy Policy) |
HubPages Traffic Pixel | This is used to collect data on traffic to articles and other pages on our site. Unless you are signed in to a HubPages account, all personally identifiable information is anonymized. |
Amazon Web Services | This is a cloud services platform that we used to host our service. (Privacy Policy) |
Cloudflare | This is a cloud CDN service that we use to efficiently deliver files required for our service to operate such as javascript, cascading style sheets, images, and videos. (Privacy Policy) |
Google Hosted Libraries | Javascript software libraries such as jQuery are loaded at endpoints on the googleapis.com or gstatic.com domains, for performance and efficiency reasons. (Privacy Policy) |
Features | |
---|---|
Google Custom Search | This is feature allows you to search the site. (Privacy Policy) |
Google Maps | Some articles have Google Maps embedded in them. (Privacy Policy) |
Google Charts | This is used to display charts and graphs on articles and the author center. (Privacy Policy) |
Google AdSense Host API | This service allows you to sign up for or associate a Google AdSense account with HubPages, so that you can earn money from ads on your articles. No data is shared unless you engage with this feature. (Privacy Policy) |
Google YouTube | Some articles have YouTube videos embedded in them. (Privacy Policy) |
Vimeo | Some articles have Vimeo videos embedded in them. (Privacy Policy) |
Paypal | This is used for a registered author who enrolls in the HubPages Earnings program and requests to be paid via PayPal. No data is shared with Paypal unless you engage with this feature. (Privacy Policy) |
Facebook Login | You can use this to streamline signing up for, or signing in to your Hubpages account. No data is shared with Facebook unless you engage with this feature. (Privacy Policy) |
Maven | This supports the Maven widget and search functionality. (Privacy Policy) |
Marketing | |
---|---|
Google AdSense | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Google DoubleClick | Google provides ad serving technology and runs an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Index Exchange | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Sovrn | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Facebook Ads | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Amazon Unified Ad Marketplace | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
AppNexus | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Openx | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Rubicon Project | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
TripleLift | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Say Media | We partner with Say Media to deliver ad campaigns on our sites. (Privacy Policy) |
Remarketing Pixels | We may use remarketing pixels from advertising networks such as Google AdWords, Bing Ads, and Facebook in order to advertise the HubPages Service to people that have visited our sites. |
Conversion Tracking Pixels | We may use conversion tracking pixels from advertising networks such as Google AdWords, Bing Ads, and Facebook in order to identify when an advertisement has successfully resulted in the desired action, such as signing up for the HubPages Service or publishing an article on the HubPages Service. |
Statistics | |
---|---|
Author Google Analytics | This is used to provide traffic data and reports to the authors of articles on the HubPages Service. (Privacy Policy) |
Comscore | ComScore is a media measurement and analytics company providing marketing data and analytics to enterprises, media and advertising agencies, and publishers. Non-consent will result in ComScore only processing obfuscated personal data. (Privacy Policy) |
Amazon Tracking Pixel | Some articles display amazon products as part of the Amazon Affiliate program, this pixel provides traffic statistics for those products (Privacy Policy) |
Clicksco | This is a data management platform studying reader behavior (Privacy Policy) |