How does a hub go from 2 to where did it go?

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   sandra rinckposted 15 years ago

   Last week and for the last 2-4 months my hub on Best Prepaid Pay as You Go Cell Phone Plans was #2-3 in Google.
   
   Today I noticed I didn't get very many views so I looked for it and it got bumped into who knows where.
   
   What could cause this?  Does this happen often?  I is it pretty normal for a hub to run at the top for a while and then seemingly over night it gets bumped into Timbuktu?

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   Mishaposted 15 years ago

   Sandy! Your new old pic made my day!
   
   As for the topic - yeah, things happen. Most likely it will return to usual place after a week or two. Could be a more serious problem of course. Either way just keep building backlinks

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      sandra rinckposted 15 years agoin reply to this

      Glad I could make your day!
      
      I hope that it goes back to its usual spot. It is one of my main money makers.

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   sunforgedposted 15 years ago

   Sandra,
   
   That is completely normal behavior, new content gets a boost in rankings as its treated as news, its then bumped to timbuktu as you said, and is reindexed hopefully very close to its original location in the SERP's
   
   But it is a little odd that it happened 2-4 months in

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   sunforgedposted 15 years ago

   yeah, that hub is deindexed - but at least the tags page and cdn hubs tags are coming up in searches
   
   on other bad news, did you see that adsense has seemed to blacklist the term "panties" and ads are no longer being served on pages with that term?

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      sandra rinckposted 15 years agoin reply to this

      Thanks sf.  No I didn't realize that but I am glad you brought it to my attention.  Thanks!

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   bloodnlatexposted 15 years ago

   That happened to me once the other day.  I didn't know what happened either

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   readytoescapeposted 15 years ago

   I agree with Misha, much more attractive and attention getting, not that the other was bad.
   
   I had the same thing happen with two of my hubs but they were back in about 3 days

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      readytoescapeposted 15 years agoin reply to this

      I did go back and add a common mispelling in the tags

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   bloodnlatexposted 15 years ago

   I love you new pic too Sandra

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      sandra rinckposted 15 years agoin reply to this

      blushing.

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         bloodnlatexposted 15 years agoin reply to this

         Blush away because your goregous, and you are a great writer too...

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            ryankettposted 15 years agoin reply to this

            And she is clearly very attracted to you too, who wouldnt be? Your pic is stunning

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               bloodnlatexposted 15 years agoin reply to this

               They don't call me a ladies man for nothing

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   Nelle Hoxieposted 15 years ago

   Yes this is so normal. It's is especially painful in late November and early December during the Christmas shopping season peak. Google sometimes shakes up the SERPs then and it can ruin a sales trend.

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      sandra rinckposted 15 years agoin reply to this

      Well at least I know it is normal but golly it sucks!!! lol
      
      I need to look up what SERP is. 
      
      And thanks for the tip readytoescape.

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   sunforgedposted 15 years ago

   serp= Search Engine Results Placement

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      sandra rinckposted 15 years agoin reply to this

      lol, I  missed the obvious!

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         sunforgedposted 15 years agoin reply to this

         I dont think that one is so obvious ..i had to think for a bit to figure out the 'P'
         
         let the blsuhing continue now

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    lrohnerposted 15 years ago

    I had the same thing happen, Sandra. I had a hub in the #1 Google spot pulling in lots of traffic for a couple of months, and then it disappeared almost completely. About a month later, it came back to #1 for exactly one day before it disappeared again. It just came back to #1 a week or so ago and it's been pretty steady. So I guess just wait and see.
    
    And your prepaid cell phone hub made me lots of $$$ so keep me updated!!! (I follow what keywords and pages are sending traffic to me in Analytics.)

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    Jane@CMposted 15 years ago

    I read Mark Knowles blog today and it really made me think that it is possible that there has been a google slap to our dear Hubpages.  He makes excellent points in his blog.

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       sandra rinckposted 15 years agoin reply to this

       Which one?  I would like to read it too.
       
       Irohner, lol.  Glad I could help.

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          lrohnerposted 15 years agoin reply to this

          Here's the post Jane is talking about:
          
          http://markpknowles.com/

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             sandra rinckposted 15 years agoin reply to this

             hmmm.  I wonder if the hub challenge did have anything to do with it or if something happened with hubpages and google.
             
             Hubpages admin, can you enlighten us?  It's an interesting article, no comment section though.

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    relacheposted 15 years ago

    Having just read Mark's blog, I have to say
    
    1) he describes the revenue sharing completely wrong.  You'd think after all this time he'd have grasped how it works.
    
    2) based on my current web traffic, I can't say I'm seeing the sort of de-indexing that he's talking about with my Hubs.  But Mark and I write in radically-different niches, so perhaps it's just happening to topics that he deals with.

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       sandra rinckposted 15 years agoin reply to this

       I think he said that just to get a rise.

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    sandra rinckposted 15 years ago

    I was looking for information as to why I would be de indexed and with consideration to Mark's blog, I found this.
    
    http://www.seobuzzbox.com/deindexed-from-google/
    
    Now, I am really wondering if Mark is actually right and it had a lot to do with the hub challenge and the amount of non beneficial content that was produced through the challenge/s.
    
    Or does it have anything to do with google's new search.  http://adsense.blogspot.com/2008/05/ads … ed-by.html

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    relacheposted 15 years ago

    I'd be more inclined to think it's due to Google's latest update,
    
    http://searchengineland.com/what-google … igns-25515
    
    Notice how that article says it will have the biggest effect on "organic traffic."

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       Jane@CMposted 15 years agoin reply to this

       And how long will "organic traffic" be effected?

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    ryankettposted 15 years ago

    To be honest, I have had my biggest ever traffic day today and my biggest ever earnings day. And none of my busiest hubs have been the slightest bit affected.
    
    However, the traffic and earnings thing is probably related to the huge amount of hubs that I have published in a short space of time. Some of my hubs from the last couple of weeks have been treated extremely generously by google.
    
    I just find a search engine 'slap' hard to believe.... when some of my hubs are entering listings above page rank 5 and 6 websites.
    
    That said, I will wait and see where they stand in a few weeks..... most of mine dont seem to move if I am honest.

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    relacheposted 15 years ago

    I've never done a Hub challenge, but I have charted boosts in traffic to my Hubs when everyone else does.  Right now, I'm seeing an overall upward trend with seasonal Hubs doing even better.
    
    I think people seeing Hubs go down need to look at their specific subject matter and examine the broader web trends for those topics because whatever is happening is not happening across the board.

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    sandra rinckposted 15 years ago

    Hi Ryan,
    
    I have days like that too.  From reading the article that Raleche left it seems that it is possible that the new algo is effecting some but not all. 
    
    It says that the click earnings shouldn't be effected but those likely to be effected are in other words, the publishers and it suggested that we keep an eye on our serps and check to see if the keywords have changed.

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       ryankettposted 15 years agoin reply to this

       Yeah I guess that must be it Sandra. Although for every loser there must be a winner. So if hubpages has not recieved a 'slap' then I can see no reason why we wont see hubs benefitting as well as losing. Maybe yesterdays dead hub will be tomorrows highest earner Im sure that hubbers will work out a way to adapt to any changes.... I can only see google changing more and more..... they must be a little scared of Bing.

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    Nelle Hoxieposted 15 years ago

    I've been writing very seasonal hubs, so I expect to see traffic to summer hubs fall off. But I'm also seeing really good traffic in my seasonal hubs for Fall and Halloween.
    
    To my amazement the hubs that I'm writing for the Hub Challenge which are geared toward Christmas have already started to get decent google traffic. Once Google picks them up - about six days - I'm seeing nicely targetted sales traffic. And they're doing great in yahoo as well. Bing even chimed in today.
    
    The hubs are in a very competitive niche and I wasn't sure if they would do okay...but they are.

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    sandra rinckposted 15 years ago

    I thought I would do a quick update about the hub I started with in the OP.
    
    Looks like the hub is doing a search swap. Just looking at the stats in hp for the week.
    
    My google search dropped but it seems that my yahoo search is gaining.
    
    Why this is I don't know but it seems that the hub is easier to find in yahoo and thankfully on the first page under pay as you go which is better than best pay go cell phones in google.
    
    Anyone else, Mark... who has had this problem, check to see where your stats are in yahoo?
    
    I would still rather my hub go back to google front page but at least it is searchable right?

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