In the last 30 days, Pinterest has provided more traffic than Google. Does this affect my earnings?
Traffic analysis - what is your traffic telling you? Is all traffic valuable?
For those Hubbers you have longevity with HP, what traffic changes have you experienced?
No, I don't believe it makes any difference at all where the traffic comes from. My top sources of traffic are Google, HubPages and Bing.
I am not sure what my traffic telling me, I prefer to concentrate on the searches people perform to find my pages rather than how they get here.
My traffic hasn't seen much in the way of change in the last two years in terms of where it comes from.
I get the bulk of my traffic from Pinterest. I don't believe earnings are based on where the traffic comes from. I focus more on social media now than trying to appease Google.
by Eric Farmer 7 years ago
I have been reading older forum posts and doing some research on my own for this question. I know some Hubers have great success with Pinterest so I would love to hear what you are doing that works. Thank you.
by Stacie L 8 years ago
i just noticed a few days ago that I received more traffic from my Pinterest page than google! How is that possible? is anyone else seeing this?
by Janis Leslie Evans 7 years ago
I see a lot of queries about getting traffic, lack of traffic, how to increase traffic, etc. The long answer is it takes time, hard work, good writing skills, mastery of the formula, surviving Google algorithms, and persistence. The short answer is figuring out the secrets of online writing and how...
by Marissa 2 years ago
Hi! Is there a way to make it possible to add Pinterest sized images to the backend of our articles? I know they take up too much space within the article itself, but it would be nice to add one somewhere to get more traffic. Pinterest prefers images that are at least a 2:3 proportion, and gives...
by Cindy Scaccia 11 years ago
Do your hubs get more traffic from Bing, Yahoo or Google?I noticed that I always get more traffic from Bing and Yahoo than I do from Google. How can I increase my Google traffic to my hubs? Where does the majority of your traffic come from?
by Tirralan Watkins 12 years ago
Will Pinterest or Google + draw more traffic to my HubPages?
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