Hi fellow hubbers! I’m wanting to see what you all do in this case. I’m wanting to improve some of my articles that I have already written. Do you find that it helps their score and traffic when you do edit them? Does it really help or do you think it’s just best sometimes to start over completely with an article? I’ve had a great experience so far, but I’ still very new to this (about 6 months.) I want to be better
For me it all depends on the URL if the URL is good, it's better to update instead of writing a new hub.
Ah good advice! That makes sense because why re-do an article that is getting good traffic.
I do both. If a hub is "not bad", I just edit the content. Add or change a few paragraphs, change some photos, etc. If I look at an old hub and hate it, I will completely re-write it offline,find new photos, then go into edit mode, delete the existing capsules and start fresh. Either way, traffic always rises.
It's good to know that things can get better traffic be doing a little extra work on what we already have!
If the aim is to get all articles to the niche sites - and if you want to earn some money then to the niche sites ye must go - then edit, edit again until they're ready to go.
I do quite a bit of editing and updating, adding bits here and there, losing dead weight, moving on again. Depends how much time you want to invest but editing is a good habit to get into.
Absolutely! I've been trying to get better at going back into old articles and editing and adding more content so that they are more complete and richer. Then there is always that dreaded error you find that you can't believe slipped by! Lol!
I have updated almost all my hubs since they were first published. Every time I re-read by own content, I find some improvement that I can make.
In addition, older hubs have the advantage of building up a useful stats report where I see what search strings people have been typing into Google to get to my hub. That information has great value because it gives me ideas for making beneficial changes to titles and/or content.
Any time I make these improvements, it helps eventually increase the traffic. You just need to be patient for Google to react to the changes.
I learned my lesson about deleting bad hubs: Don’t do it. You lose the views in your stats. It took me much longer to finally get the “1 million views” accolade because I deleted many of my initial hubs that I wrote when I first began writing on HubPages.
Time spent updating top-performing hubs is worth the effort. It’s much harder to pull low-performing hubs out of the dumps. They usually need much more tender loving care and sometimes require a major rewrite, which I’ve done. It’s better than deleting.
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I have to respectfully disagree. Earlier this year, HP notified me that they were updating all of the hubs on Dengarden to increase traffic. Because I have complained in the past about the way my hubs have been edited by their well-meaning but horticulturally ignorant editors, they gave me the option of updating all of my Dengarden hubs myself. It happened at the worst time of year for me when I am busy prepping for plants sales and prepping gardens for planting, but I squeezed it in and updated over 100 hubs. The increase in traffic was pretty spectacular. Each month since I finished the update, I have exceeded last year's earnings as well as the targets that I have set for myself. I have also continued to edit hubs every two weeks that are still on HP so that they can be moved to Dengarden. Moribund hubs had little or no traffic for years suddenly started getting significant traffic since the update and move to Dengarden.
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Gardening is an extremely competitive topic. Kind of on a par with politics, religion, environmentalism, economics, capitalism, etc. My traffic per hub is actually quite low. I have accepted that I will never have thousands of views on any one hub. Instead I depend on volume. More hubs = more views. By updating my hubs so that they all have a 2019 date on them, I merely moved them up a bit in Google rank which resulted in more traffic.
You should really try looking into what others are saying about a topic and add in angles you are not talking about. My hubs on dengarden (2 of them) which are about plants too get 2k views a day more or less during the 3 peak summer months. So don't take it for granted that it's not possible in the niche.
Update to make your piece of content the best on the internet for that topic. That's all there is to it.
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If you go back and see what this reply was to, you will see what I am saying. You say HP asks you to update stuff. They are only asking you to update stuff to make it the best piece of content on the topic. They don't just say update for the sake of hitting the update button. The advice is not directed at you, I have not read even a single of your hubs to give you advice on your hubs.
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Transferred from somewhere onto HP or the other way around?
Thank you so much Glen Stock!! Very good information. It makes so much sense that deleting articles that can simply be edited and made better overtime have value. Thank you so much!
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