How much more traffic do you get from articles moved to niche sites?

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   NateB11posted 4 years ago

   Curious how much more traffic your articles that have been moved to niche sites are getting  compared to how much traffic they were getting on Hubpages main site.

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      EricFarmer8xposted 4 years agoin reply to this

      Most of my hubs are on LevelSkip or TurboFuture. My hubs that do well started to do better after being moved. The others did OK for a week or so then they now get little or no views.
      
      I only write articles for these two topics though so I don't have much to compare too. My video game related hubs are doing better overall.

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      OldRosesposted 4 years agoin reply to this

      Most of my articles are on Dengarden which attracts a lot of traffic compared to HubPages.  All of my articles that were moved to Dengarden have much more traffic than when they were on HubPages.

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   Marisa Writesposted 4 years ago

   In theory, their traffic should improve substantially, if the niche site is one of the successful ones.

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   NateB11posted 4 years ago

   Good info, thanks folks.

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   Shesabutterflyposted 4 years ago

   Over all most of my articles recieve the same amount of traffic as they did on HP. The niches tend to rank better, but if people are not searching for your articles, that is not going to change just because the site did. In my experience very little traffic actually comes from the niche sites. Most of my traffic comes from search engines and pinterest.
   
   I agree with Marisa, it depends on the niche site though. My articles that were moved to Letterpile saw a huge hit in traffic. I know people commonly refer to that niche as the one were articles go to die and they are not kidding. One has kind of recovered (still less than half of what it was before the move and nothing consistant) and the rest I finally moved elsewhere. The one that was moved to Pethelpful also lost a significant amount of traffic and never recovered. I'm confused by that one, since Pethelpful is one of their best niche sites traffic wise from what I've seen in the forums.
   
   My top two performing articles were doing well before the move and saw a slight increase, but nothing substantial in my opinion. Both tend to be kind of seasonal though and do very well over the holiday season, so I think the move to Delishably & Owlcation helped them out a bit, even if just for a short time each year. My one on Owlcation took a bit of a hit initially, but I think it's finally holding steady now pretty similar to where it was before the move.
   
   A handful of my articles are seasonal and I have not seen much increase during the peak season, but they get a few more views throughout the rest of the year now. All my other articles have not seen much of anything, but it was like that before the move as well so I honestly wasn't expecting much. Especially when my top performers didn't get a big boost.

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   Beth Eaglescliffeposted 4 years ago

   The problem is it's impossible to know how traffic would have changed if you hadn't moved an article. Changes could be due to algorithm changes or other unknowns.
   
   My articles have performed in a similar manner to Shesabutterfly; the ones that do well on the network sites, also did well before they were moved, and vice versa.
   
   That said, I think you should aim to get as many articles moved to network sites a.s,a,p. as I suspect that in the not too distant future, the main HP site will become just a holding area that is not visible on the web. That way Maven/HP can ensure that only quality articles are published and seen by the public, and so maintain the overall value of their business.

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      NateB11posted 4 years agoin reply to this

      Like you and Cholee have pointed out and it's what I figured, it seems to depend on the niche site. I've been conscious of this, in fact the last article I submitted could have gone onto two different sites and I chose the one that I did choose because I figured the article would perform better on that niche site.It's also occurred to me, as you both have pointed out that they perform okay on the HP site too and it doesn't always make much difference.
      
      And your final point is the one that I've mostly considered and why I've decided to start getting my articles moved; that HP is going to lower even more in importance and that articles will need to be on niche sites.

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      Marisa Writesposted 4 years agoin reply to this

      I think you are right. It's important to remember that HubPages created the niche sites because it expected the main site to fail.  It had been hit by Google penalties too many times and couldn't recover. 
      
      The ship was sinking, and the niche sites were the lifeboats.  They rescued all the top-performing Hubs.  The rest were left behind on HubPages, because they didn't earn enough to be worth rescuing.
      
      The main site has survived, and some Hubs still get good traffic in spite of being on a site Google regards as a "bad neighbourhood".  However, as far as HubPages is concerned, that's not what it's for.  The main site is the company's slush pile, providing a steady stream of articles for niche editors to pick from.
      
      The company needs the main site because it's how we manage our Hubs and also where we have our profiles.  And it gives us a place to publish articles the editors don't want. But there are disadvantages in having the niche sites linked to the main site, and I do think that once they've transitioned to the Maven platform and stop using our HubPages profiles, they could well make the whole main site private.

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