Do you ever go back and look at an old, poorly performing hub?
Do you ever go back and look at an old, poorly performing hub and think, what was I on?!
I just had a look at one of my worst hubs, it was also one of my first I might add
The keywords were kinda irrelevant and the layout was very off-putting! An amazon ad was dominating the whole thing cause I had tried to have it to the right of some text but couldn't actually fit in that space so just looked horrid! I suppose it could have had the greatest text on the topic in the whole wide world and just not been read cause of a bad layout!
A few keywords with google keyword tool for tags and removing the irrelevant tags and hopefully the traffic I do attract will actually be relevant and willing to read something laid out pleasantly
I suppose I could go have another look at the title and if there are minor adjustments to the text that could entice a reader to read. Perhaps even try to find unobtrusive ways to add the keywords I just searched for in the body of the text.
Have any of you found that some little tidily change like this turns things around for that hub because of your newbie lack of understanding?Im not bother if its hijacked, I like to think that I sparked some fun here
As for my hub, I just went to have a look this morning at the bottom of the list as that is where it was and couldn't find it! It seems to have shot from a hub score of like 50 to closer to 70 so I think the few tweaks I did helped. The only change to the text I actually ended up doing was to the summary text but this seems to have helped, better tags and a better summary
- lynnechandlerposted 15 years ago
0 - Denno66posted 15 years ago0
I look at the poorly performing hubs and shake my head. I can't tweak them, they're just wordy, highly involving reads. My mistake putting them online instead of putting it all in a book. My bad.
- Very understandable, I never take a poor performance personally, there is no accounting for taste!
- Lady_Eposted 15 years ago0
It's been on my Writing "to do" list for weeks now.
..to tweak some of the Hubs I wrote 5 - 6 months ago, but I still haven't got round to doing it. So my answer to your Q would be -I'm about to. - shazwellynposted 15 years ago0
- Janettaposted 15 years ago0
eh, every now and again, I'll go through some of my older stuff-hubs that aren't generating much traffic and tweak it. Sometimes it helps, sometimes not but at least I feel better about it
Something along the lines of my first 100 Hubs were/are pretty much losers, in terms of what a Hub ought to be. I signed up and didn't really know what people "were supposed to" write. I went to "requests" (now "questions") and just challenged myself with what I could come up with on a bunch of them. (For several months I was the "Number 4 request-answerer" on HubPages.
) On the one hand, I tried to write something decent in response to the requests, but I didn't realize I shouldn't just leave the title worded the way the request was, or answer requests that were really, really, unique. (Not that this was one exactly, but I'd answer things like, "What to do when your child calls your boyfriend, 'Daddy', but your ex-husband isn't in your life, and your other old boyfriend wants to come back into your life, but your sister and your other old boyfriend went out for two weeks last Winter." )
I had come to HubPages to get practice "writing on demand" in a wider variety of subjects than I'd had, and I didn't know what I was doing, so I just answered requests. If a request was general it was fine, but a lot weren't. So now I have - like - 70 or 80 Hubs that really could use some polishing up or re-writing, and it's overwhelming (and not too exciting) to think about doing that tasks).
I keep thinking how I'll either re-write, polish, or delete one for every new one I write; but then I don't do that because I get "all involved" with the new one. Not long ago I decided to just put all this in my profile (for now) and go with the "they-are-what-they-are" mentality. - zampanoposted 15 years ago0
- lynnechandlerposted 15 years ago0
I liked it a great deal. Good job
I just took a quick scan of your Hubs, and it looks to me as if you're writing the kind of Hubs that usually do ok. Three months isn't all that long in the "scheme of HubPages", though, and it can take a little while for Hubs to get "noticed" by search engines. If you haven't done this already you might want to search the forums and site for information on titles that work best and/or keyword use.
Your Hubs look good to me. Posting on forums that interest you may get more Hubbers to read your Hubs; and since they look pretty good, most likely people will vote them "up" would could boost scores. Having said all that, it could just be the Hubs need a little more time (but a few efforts to boost them doesn't hurt either).
As far as I remember, I have done this just once.
I constantly tweak my old hubs. I will be replacing some that were about subjects that are no longer relevant.
- Crazdwriterposted 15 years ago0
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