Suggestion: Replace Popular Articles with Related in Scrolling Sidebar

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  1. EricDockett profile image92
    EricDockettposted 4 years ago

    I believe one thing HubPages can do to help increase traffic is to separate some of the successful topics away from their niche sites and give them their own sites so they can better compete with the big authority websites out there in the world.

    Some of the niche sites are tightly focused but others are a hodgepodge of loosely related ideas. I believe at least some of my content is being demoted by Google because the niche site it is on is gradually moving toward another style of content. It is hard to compete with the big authority sites when Google does not see our niche site as an authority in that thing.

    Understandably, launching new niche sites is an investment in time and money that HP may not be prepared to make just yet. But I think there is one simple thing they can do that might help: Pull the articles that follow down the right sidebar when the readers scroll from the "Related" section rather than "Popular".

    As the niche sites have become more bloated, the category buckets the "Popular" articles are drawn from have become more convoluted. The "Related" content is much more, well, related than the "Popular" content, and much more likely to generate click-throughs to other content on the niche site.

    Just thinking out loud. Or, rather, clickety-clacking out loud on my keyboard. My traffic looks horrid and I hope somebody smarter than me has some ideas.

    1. OldRoses profile image66
      OldRosesposted 4 years agoin reply to this

      Can you give an example of what you are describing?  The articles that are featured in both the Related and Poplar sections of the sidebars on my articles on Dengarden are all gardening articles which is the niche that I write in so I don't understand what you are asking unless it is very different on other niche sites.

      1. EricDockett profile image92
        EricDockettposted 4 years agoin reply to this

        My articles about birds on dengarden are linked to popular articles about bees and ladybugs. So that's basically what I mean.

        1. OldRoses profile image66
          OldRosesposted 4 years agoin reply to this

          Okay, I understand.  And I kind of have to agree with you.  The gardening articles that appear in my sidebar, even though many them I wrote, are not always directly related to the main article.  For instance,my article in bearded iris has sidebar articles that include lilacs, fall flowers (iris bloom in the spring) and under Popular, plants for a Florida garden (bearded iris cannot be grown in Florida).

  2. Kierstin Gunsberg profile image96
    Kierstin Gunsbergposted 4 years ago

    I agree completely, Eric!

 
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