It's what you write about that is important

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   paradigmsearchposted 6 years ago

   The internet is indeed a tough town for article writers these days. And it is going to keep getting worse. I even wrote a doom & gloom article on the subject (published elsewhere, don't bother looking for it). It's time to find the next Big Thing, but darned if I've been able.

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      TessSchlesingerposted 6 years agoin reply to this

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         paradigmsearchposted 6 years agoin reply to this

         These days, when I think of something to write, I generally check first to see what is already out there. 9.99 out of 10 times, one look and I abandon the project.

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   paradigmsearchposted 6 years ago

   Rants are still fun, but I never expect traffic.

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   DrMark1961posted 6 years ago

   I agree with your premise, but as far as HP telling people that they should not write on a certain subject? I am not sure that is a good idea.
   When you are ready to go out and see a new movie, do you go to Reelrundown and find the review? I doubt anyone does. However, a writer on that site has figured out a way to title and write his articles so that he is getting decent traffic. He just went over 10M last month or so.
   How many people look on the internet for poetry? This might be one of the categories HP would warn people not to write about, but recently a writer who does almost all poetry reviews went over 10M views.
   Maybe the politics and religion will be able to get views too. Your comment about using Kuora (sorry my letter kew is on the fritz again) to establish a "brand name" is probably a great idea, and will most likely drive some traffic to those articles.

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   EricFarmer8xposted 6 years ago

   About five of my articles get the most views for my account. Over half my articles, I would describe as duds.
   
   They don't get enough traffic to really matter, but they get views. So I don't want to delete them. Some of my hubs get less than one view a day on average.
   
   I am starting to become a lot pickier when deciding to write about for HubPages now. Some topics I thought would be great to write about were not good choices to get views from Google Search.

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   Rupert Taylorposted 6 years ago

   Who are we puny mortals to think we can outfox the Big G? I simply write about what interests me and let the microchips fall where they may. There might be a tiny number of people here who make what can be called a living by writing about how to change a compression washer on a mezmaglobber. "Unpopular" topics such as politics and the environment have to be written about otherwise ignorant megalomaniacs will get away with it.

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         EricFarmer8xposted 6 years agoin reply to this

         I think the world is making progress. Even if the USA could be making more of it.

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               lobobrandonposted 6 years agoin reply to this

               We are not anywhere close to humans being extinct. What makes you think that?

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         Madeleine Claysposted 6 years agoin reply to this

         "Kardashians, anyone?"
         
         please, no

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