One of my hubs is eligible to be moved to a niche site, whereas another was moved by the HP team, but a link to this eligible hub was removed because the hub in question isn't on dengarden.
I then went on to notice that the niche sites do not link to HP from the related hubs section. I couldn't find any.
I'm not complaining, I'm just happy that this has finally happened, or am I wrong? Are the niche sites finally being treated as sites of their own? I wouldn't be surprised if the recent uptick in traffic and the massive rise in rankings was due to this change. I hope it was.
Exactly. Me too. I saw some really low-quality stuff in the related sections at one point across the sites and really was wondering why they were there.
Yeah, no one is saying they are bad. But the point of the niche sites was to separate them. Anyway, it seems like it's finally done.
Not that all Hubpages articles are bad, there are many really good ones, but there was some less than stellar stuff mixed in within those ''Related'' sections.
Many weeks ago we scoped related articles to their site.
Amazing. Nice move. Thanks for confirming this, Paul.
A more conservative linking policy has certainly done no harm. And if one niche site gets hit the other niche sites are unaffected.
I never understood the links to HP. We all love HP but it really is just the newbie sandpit these days.
Exactly. Good to hear they've got rid of those links.
Yeah and I'm not just glad they got rid of the HP links, but also links to the other niche sites. At times there were "related articles" on totally unrelated topics from other niche sites, just because they shared a certain set of keywords.
by Shadesbreath 15 years ago
How do I figure out why or where a spike in HP traffic to one of my hubs is suddenly coming from? I'm not complaining, but it's curious, and I'm wondering if there's some sort of glitch or something.
by HubPages 13 months ago
Hi all! In order to strengthen our link architecture, our editing team will now be adding relevant interlinks to articles that come through our editing queues. These interlinks will preferably be added as hyperlinks in the body of the text but may be added as a "recommended reading"...
by Victoria Van Ness 18 months ago
What's the point in keeping us from linking to our own work in our articles? That's how we increase traffic to our articles!
by Glenn Stok 8 years ago
I noticed that hubs in niche sites no longer include the "More by this author" section below the hub. Is this just an oversight or was it a decision to drop it on niche sites?
by Sherry Hewins 8 years ago
Almost without fail, when a hub of mine is moved to a niche site, the views increase. I suppose this makes sense; HP created the niche sites to escape from that "content-farm" label that Google had put them under. That seems unfair to me that an article would suffer simply because it was...
by Don Bobbitt 9 years ago
Of course, HP is playing their cards close to their vest, and rightly so.But, from what I know about fracturing the HP family of writers into these so-called "Niche Sites" is a little like taking a cannon ball and melting it down to pour the liquid into molds for shotgun shot. Each group...
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