Articles With a Continuous Upwards Trend

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   eugbugposted 2 years ago

   Do you have any of these that aren't affected much by updates? One article I wrote which is a 100 science fact guide for kids has been trending upwards for the last four years. It only gets about 60 to 80 views per day, but in the last couple of months, the upward trend has only stalled a bit and views haven't decreased. The attributes it has are that it's long (10,000 words) and has lots of images. Maybe it just has lots of keywords and that buffers it from loss of keyword ranking. This is the one that Hubpages runs out of ads on near the end because the threshold of approximately 33 is reached.

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      chef-de-jourposted 2 years agoin reply to this

      I've recently had one of my longest articles edited (The Waste Land poem analysis at 9,500 words) and shall watch with interest to see if there's any meaningful increase in traffic over the next few weeks. They haven't done that much chopping and changing to be fair, which is a relief.
      
      This latest editing means that most of my articles on Owlcation are now fully updated thanks to the hard work of the editorial team, so in theory and with HP's optimistic prediction, views should continue to rise after this latest and horrible Google hit. I guess the editing/updating is supposed to act like a vaccine, against future algorithm fever. If only it were so simple!
      
      All this editing has made me think about how much effort has gone into improving the overall quality of our articles whilst if truth be told the loss of traffic and earnings over the last 24/18 months or so, caused mainly by poor ad placement & page design, undermines such work.
      
      I'm no Cassandra but if the overall ad regime isn't improved upon sometime soon I'm not convinced things will change for the better. Hope to hope I'm wrong.
      
      I wonder how the editors feel about this potential quicksand scenario?

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   PaulGoodman67posted 2 years ago

   It's impossible to analyze ranking purely by looking at the article, in my experience, as it depends as much on the quality of the competition.
   
   Even a relatively bad article can do well if the competition is poor. Conversely, there are some situations where the competition can be so stiff that the article has little chance, no matter how good.
   
   Of course, certain topics are more lucrative than others and that tends to affect the level of competition.
   
   Negative Google algo updates generally seem to hit my articles in the more competitive areas worst, with articles chasing lower-value keywords often holding up better.
   
   A science facts for children article has a big advantage in this respect as its CPM is very low.

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