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  1. wpcooper profile image81
    wpcooperposted 3 days ago

    why have our earnings gone down so much?  I used to make a little less than a dollar a day and now I am making 7 cents

    1. Kenna McHugh profile image84
      Kenna McHughposted 3 days agoin reply to this

      Well, the list is long, and there are several threads in the forums about the situation. I'd say the lack of transparency, Google, and the readers' ability to make comments removed, the placement of ads making it nearly impossible for readers to read the articles, and, primarily, TAG taking over.

      1. Jodah profile image86
        Jodahposted 2 days agoin reply to this

        ++++

      2. viryabo profile image83
        viryaboposted 2 days agoin reply to this

        Sadly, that’s it in a nutshell!

      3. wpcooper profile image81
        wpcooperposted 2 days agoin reply to this

        Okay what can we do about this? This feels helpless

        1. viryabo profile image83
          viryaboposted 2 days agoin reply to this

          From our end, nothing.

          From their end, depends on whether they are willing to lift the site out of the doldrums, or NOT!

        2. Kenna McHugh profile image84
          Kenna McHughposted 2 days agoin reply to this

          It is helpless! How can writers be effective if the TAG is not transparent and there is no direct communication from TAG?

          1. CYong74 profile image60
            CYong74posted 6 hours agoin reply to this

            It's almost a year after the first round of niche site removal. But the logos are still at the sidebar. I doubt anyone at TAG bothers about HP, let alone do anything to improve traffic.

            And everything TAG claimed so far has been utter rubbish.

    2. OldRoses profile image65
      OldRosesposted 2 days agoin reply to this

      CPMs are miniscule so we are earning less per ad.  That plus almost no traffic equals low to no earnings.

  2. Genna East profile image88
    Genna Eastposted 2 days ago

    Kenna summed in up quite well.

  3. Rupert Taylor profile image80
    Rupert Taylorposted 2 days ago

    It's tied to traffic. Low traffic = low earnings.
    A couple of years ago, I was getting a couple of thousand views a day. Then, the decline started. When it got to a thousand per day, I thought, it can't go any lower. But it has gone lower. Yesterday (Sunday) views dipped below 500.
    I have stopped telling myself, it can't go lower.

  4. Rupert Taylor profile image80
    Rupert Taylorposted 2 days ago

    Forgot about the pesky CPMs. But then, I've never been able to grasp their meaning so I would be ill-advised to comment on them.

  5. eugbug profile image67
    eugbugposted 2 days ago

    Because the Hubpages Discover site doesn't have any street cred, AI is taking over in searches and presumably advertisers aren't willing to pay or in the automatic serving of ads, place high bids to place those ads. And maybe Hubpages taking an increasing cut of our profits also.
    My current earnings are about 4% of what they used to be.

  6. NaturallyInspired profile image79
    NaturallyInspiredposted 18 hours ago

    Mine is bad too. I also used to make around a dollar a day and now I'm in the pennies. Its not just Google traffic either. Everything has dropped. I used for get at least 100 views a day from my Pinterest and now I'm lucky to get 20.

 
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