A significant traffic drop today.

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   paradigmsearchposted 13 years ago

   Anyone else?
   
   And traffic comments in general are solicited.

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      tritrainposted 13 years agoin reply to this

      That's odd.  I've had a significant traffic jump.
      
      Double the normal amount on a couple Hubs.

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      speedbirdposted 13 years agoin reply to this

      Even me am experiencing a drop on traffic to my hubs..hope this is temporary

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   paradigmsearchposted 13 years ago

   Well…, it looks like I am alone. I guess that is a good thing.

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      prettydarkhorseposted 13 years agoin reply to this

      Oh I just checked and yes CTR is way low today - unusually low for me..

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         paradigmsearchposted 13 years agoin reply to this

         Thanks, this hopefully means it’s general; as opposed to my hubs being hijacked/plagiarized, etc.

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   Pcunixposted 13 years ago

   No, I don't see anything unusual today.
   
   A few dollars higher than typical for this time of day, actually.

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   Joy56posted 13 years ago

   it's just brag brag brag..... oh sorry i am in the wrong thread, thought i was in the silly thread, or better still the chocolate cake and cream thread.

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      Pcunixposted 13 years agoin reply to this

      Chocolate cake?
      
      It's my birthday soon...

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         Joy56posted 13 years agoin reply to this

         oh really well take some fudge cream and cream, and enjoy

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   ryankettposted 13 years ago

   Sometimes Thursday is the best day of the week, and sometimes it seems like the weekend starts early.
   
   Today for me feels like the start of the weekend, my CTR has fallen, slight decline in traffic. But the day is young yet, we are only half way through it.

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      paradigmsearchposted 13 years agoin reply to this

      Thanks. My paranoia is in abeyance.

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   leahleflerposted 13 years ago

   I'm a newbie, so I don't know if it is relevant, but my organic (search engine) traffic is down a bit today. My HP traffic is up, because I edited my hubs to add the summary information. I'd much rather have an increase in search engine traffic, though!

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   paradigmsearchposted 13 years ago

   I know darn well that there is a convenient site somewhere that charts daily internet traffic. Anyone care to post the link?

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      ryankettposted 13 years agoin reply to this

      Yes traffic has fallen globally in the past couple of hours:
      
      http://www.internettrafficreport.com/

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         paradigmsearchposted 13 years agoin reply to this

         You are a keeper!

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         paradigmsearchposted 13 years agoin reply to this

         I’ve actually tacked this link on to my profile page. It will go great with my morning first cup of coffee. Thank you again.

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   Neville Walkposted 13 years ago

   It is hard to tell, as my hubs rarely get more than one view per day anyway, so I always have the blue arrow next to them.  I have quite taken to it now, and think it a rather attractive colour which would be ideal in a wallpaper.

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   Glenn Stokposted 13 years ago

   I see a lot of blue down arrows on a lot of my hubs but my overall average is about the same for the day.

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    jrcemailposted 13 years ago

    It looks like a big Google dance, algorithim change.  A lot of hubs have been pushed down in the rankings....looks like it's happening for hubpages.  Some squidoo lenses went down some but they seem to be regaining their old rankings somewhat.
    
    Seemed to happen around last night.

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       paradigmsearchposted 13 years agoin reply to this

       Merit?

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    vanchenposted 13 years ago

    I'm seeing big drops... Worst day of the month (so far) by a lot.

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       akycrawlerposted 13 years agoin reply to this

       I was wondering if anyone else was affected so I am glad I found this forum post as it may help me sleep tonight!! Alright so I wont end my life but dang I am down 350 visits just since last night. I have found several of my pages that ranked high have been pushed to some black hole of non readership.
       
       I hope everything will settle and those who have seen a big decline in visits can rebound. As far as percentage, this represents 1/3 of my total average vists per day.

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    Fiction Tellerposted 13 years ago

    Google algo change today...actually started last night.  Looks like general user-content-generated sites (without specific focus) got hit.
    
    http://www.webmasterworld.com/google/4261944-3-70.htm

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       IzzyMposted 13 years agoin reply to this

       Hmmm...I read this thread thinking that my traffic wasn't too bad, but I am actually DOWN over 400 views per day from normal. New Google algo?
       I'd better get used to it then...

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          Ign Andyposted 13 years agoin reply to this

          This is happening to me as well, same as yours down over 400 views. And even worst my of my hubs which previously on google first page now free fall to fifth to tenth page.

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          David 470posted 13 years agoin reply to this

          Same, here down 500-800 page views. I usually have have hundreds more page views.  Ahh mann....

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       shibashakeposted 13 years agoin reply to this

       Very interesting.
       
       My website got some SERP upgrades, but my HubPages articles definitely got some big knock-downs. Hopefully it is a temporary thing.

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       mecheilposted 13 years agoin reply to this

       google algorithm have changed, actually. if you've heard of why goog penalized JCpenny.com... i think, all others are feeling the effect of the algo change.

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          ryankettposted 13 years agoin reply to this

          That is what he said, why are you repeating it?

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             mecheilposted 13 years agoin reply to this

             some kinda "i second the motion"...

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    Mark Ewbieposted 13 years ago

    My lawyers are on standby.  If I get less than five views total today I am suing Mr. Google and his outfit.  It should normally be at least seven.
    
    I'm trying to make money here you bloody net nerds.  Leave my biorhythms alone.

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    thetvgeekposted 13 years ago

    My views have cut in half from what they normally are.
    
    I hope this isnt a big update that causes problems like the mayday update.

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    IzzyMposted 13 years ago

    Funnily enough, my places in the SERPS seem to be unchanged - so perhaps there are fewer searchers online today.

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       ryankettposted 13 years agoin reply to this

       I checked a few of mine, I concluded the same.
       
       Although some noticed regional changes, I can only see that they are unchanged on Google.co.uk, I have no idea about .com!

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    ionutpopaposted 13 years ago

    I've noticed the same problem. Around 40% drop in traffic today. Don't know the cause, as I haven't lost positions in SERPS.
    
    Other indicators remain withing normal limits. Only visits have decreased considerably.

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    rmcrayneposted 13 years ago

    Big drop in traffic for me.  Worst in months.  Page impressions down as well and AdSense earnings.

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       wildernessposted 13 years agoin reply to this

       Me, too, RM.  Worst since mid September, when I had only been writing about 3 months and had half the hubs.  I've lost about 60% of normal traffic.
       
       Unlike others, I've also had several hubs drop from page one or two to something after page 5 (meaning I quite looking there).

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       habeeposted 13 years agoin reply to this

       Me, too.

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       wildernessposted 13 years agoin reply to this

       My Hp traffic is about normal, as is everything else but google.com.  It is just that google.com that has fallen to less than HP traffic.  I haven't seen that since about my 2nd month of writing.

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    Ign Andyposted 13 years ago

    This new google algo seems just starting and only effecting search from google USA. I hope it won't getting worse.

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    sabrebIadeposted 13 years ago

    There's another thread that touches on this here:
    http://hubpages.com/forum/topic/68565
    
    Like I said there, my HP traffic is about halved, but my blogs are doing much better.

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    David 470posted 13 years ago

    Somehow I knew this thread was going to be here cause I have seen A HUGE DROP IN TRAFFIC TODAY! Perhaps the highest drop I have ever had. I have a bunch of blue arrows indicating traffic falling.
    
    The previous couple days were not to good with CTR, but today the traffic and everything else is down.
    
    An update for something maybe? I hope so, otherwise, this is bad.

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    Edweirdoposted 13 years ago

    Yikes! My pageviews are down 35%...
    Yesterday was my worst Adsense day in 5 months, and today has been much, much worse. At this rate I may end up just short of making payout for this month
    
    Hopefully it will pick up, but there's not much time left for February...

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       David 470posted 13 years agoin reply to this

       Yes, yesterday was also a horrible day for me, but not traffic wise. Today, I been struck with tons of blue arrows on my hubs.

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    ryankettposted 13 years ago

    google.com 6603 (24 hours) 70309 (7 days)
    google.co.uk 2319 (24 hours) 16994 (7 days)
    
    6603 x 7 = 46221
    2319 x 7 = 16223
    
    And the falls only began about 8 hours ago. My Google.com traffic has almost completely gone. My Google.co.uk traffic still exists.
    
    This is f'in scary.

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       David 470posted 13 years agoin reply to this

       So basically Google is checking sites see what % of content is duplicate?And if a site has a lot of duplicate content it essentially loses its rank?
       
       Oh boy, I hope hubpages does alright...

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    ryankettposted 13 years ago

    Here you go:
    
    http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/24/google … /#comments
    
    Content farm = f'd

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       ryankettposted 13 years agoin reply to this

       Check out my comment to Mr Arrington, co-founder of TechCrunch.

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       mistyhorizon2003posted 13 years agoin reply to this

       Wow Ryan, you took some low punches on that site didn't you. So unfair that other commenter's were quite rude to you and inferred you were exactly what Google was trying to stop. I bet they didn't even read any of your stuff, just assumed. I hated the attitude taken by one poster that you should go and get a proper job. Why is writing online never considered to be 'a proper job' ?

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    Mikeydoesposted 13 years ago

    Well this really, really sucks.
    
    I don't even want to wake up tomorrow.
    
    It so funny I came on and had a pit in my stomach when I read Hubpages update, thinking it was going to be bad. Then I realized it wasn't so bad, then I came to this thread. Man does this suck. I'm down quite a bit, tomorrow morning is going to be worse, I have a good feeling about that.

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       David 470posted 13 years agoin reply to this

       Ditto............................

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    Pcunixposted 13 years ago

    I'm not going to decide that anything real is happening until I see a full week of traffic.
    
    Yes, HP has a lot of duped and sub standard content, but there is also a lot of good stuff here.
    
    Sure, this might be a disaster in the making.  Or it might be a momentary dip.
    
    Give it time before panicing.

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       Mikeydoesposted 13 years agoin reply to this

       This exact thought has popped in my head. Screw it, I'll check back tomorrow. Who knows. Hopefully the bleeding stops. Of course this will affect Hubpages, just hopefully not too much.

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    Andrew0208posted 13 years ago

    Mine seem to be quite different... Traffic has gone up.

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    Dorsiposted 13 years ago

    I've had a significant drop in traffic - about 400-500 views less than normal today.
    
    Lots of blue arrows which is not normal for me.
    Sigh....

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       Andrew0208posted 13 years agoin reply to this

       It will improve following Google's new search algorithm improvement. It will adversely affect content farm whatever on search results and rankings. This development is also trendy; blogging presently at Google's official blog site.

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          Dorsiposted 13 years agoin reply to this

          Thanks for the reassurance. I knew something was awry when I saw all those blue arrows.

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    skyfireposted 13 years ago

    No change in traffic numbers.

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    jrcemailposted 13 years ago

    I agree Pcunix and Ryan's quote.  Since this started Thursday, it may only last a few days, maybe even a week so it's a good idea to hold off a little while and not get panicky.
    
    Usually I'd see a Google dance and some of the hubs do weird things before, then they go right back to where they were originally but it does take days for it to complete that cycle.

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    thetvgeekposted 13 years ago

    Does anyone remember anything significant like this happening before?

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       wampyriiposted 13 years agoin reply to this

       Google has done major updates before and yes, all h*ll breaks loose until things settle back down again to more reasonable levels.
       
       Of course, it doesn't always work out great for all sites (no matter how high quality), some get slapped and stay slapped, others trickle back to better rankings and others bounce back even higher than before after the initial drop.
       
       Cross your fingers and wait. It sucks right now but there's a chance it will improve as they adjust the algorithm.

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          Hubman007posted 13 years agoin reply to this

          What I meant was a significant change which affected hubpages like this?
          
          Anyone experienced such a big down swing in traffic within 24 hours?

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             ThomasEposted 13 years agoin reply to this

             Not hubpages, but I was around in other site slaps. It was not a pleasant experience.
             
             What I have learned is not to panic, wait at least a week and see what happens before doing anything.

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          David 470posted 13 years agoin reply to this

          "Google has done major updates before and yes, all h*ll breaks loose "
          
          LOL good way of pointing it out! I am almost in panic mode..

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    dingdondingdonposted 13 years ago

    Yep, also seeing a big traffic drop. Very annoying.

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    thetvgeekposted 13 years ago

    Surely this is only a definite slap if you see your hubs drop in rankings?
    
    All my hubs which rank on the front page havent moved position and this is on the google.com usa too.
    
    Has anyone noticed their hubs moving back by any pages?

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       ryankettposted 13 years agoin reply to this

       How do you search Google.com?
       
       Because whenever I visit Google.com it simply defaults to Google.co.uk?

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          Mark Ewbieposted 13 years agoin reply to this

          You can make it go to google.com although it doesn't want to.But I can't remember!
          
          I think I typed in google.com and it came up with the main google.uk screen - big search box and not much else.  But down the bottom was something that said if I insisted it would grudgingly allow me to use google.com.  Bit shorter obviously.

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             thetvgeekposted 13 years agoin reply to this

             A trick I learnt is to go to a hub, go to stats and then go to keywords..
             
             It should show you some long tail keywords that were used to find this hub.
             
             Just click on the link and hubpages will send you to google.com.
             
             There is also a free piece of software called ranktracker which can help track your position of any hub in any country, worth downloading if you are serious in this business.

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                Mikeydoesposted 13 years agoin reply to this

                Interesting, thanks for the info, I was wondering if there was something like that out there.

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          ThomasEposted 13 years agoin reply to this

          If you go to google.com it will revert to google.co.uk. Look at the bottom , under the search bar... says Advertising programs, business solutions, about google, go to google.com
          
          And click on the latter.

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          IzzyMposted 13 years agoin reply to this

          The way I got google.com to work was by using the google.com search results button in MS. After using it a few times, google chrome remembered the site and offered it to me every time I type in go..
          Before that I kept getting google.es which is useless.

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       IzzyMposted 13 years agoin reply to this

       I couldn't understand the huge drop in traffic (which continues by the way) because all my rankings looked the same.
       A further check a few minutes ago shows I have lost all my number 1 positions (not that there were many), others have dropped back to bottom of front page, and the rest have disappeared completely into the wild blue yonder.
       It's a slap all right.
       The domains that have taken my place are lesser all round - less info, less domain age, not optimised...etc
       Still see ehow and buzzle and all the rest up there - just us and maybe ezine that are missing.

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    Spacey Graceyposted 13 years ago

    Or if you have SEO Quake installed on Firefox you get a nifty little button that lets you choose 'USA' so you can see what USA people see - which today for me is not a pretty picture.

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    paradigmsearchposted 13 years ago

    Unambiguous chart
    
    

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       Dorsiposted 13 years agoin reply to this

       That's a significant drop in traffic.
       Sigh...

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          paradigmsearchposted 13 years agoin reply to this

          Still; 1,000,000+ a day ain’t bad.

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             Mikeydoesposted 13 years agoin reply to this

             If we are down 10%, we just have to make 10% more content, which can work for me
             
             10% in no way is the correct number, but I can deal with something along those lines.

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                paradigmsearchposted 13 years agoin reply to this

                An excellent point!

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       danatheteacherposted 13 years agoin reply to this

       This is an interesting chart because it looks like most of the drop is in the US, which is where this algorithm change is rolling out first. We get to be Guinea Pigs, yah us!

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          mistyhorizon2003posted 13 years agoin reply to this

          I am slightly curious though, as whilst I am based in Great Britain, of course my hubs are published on Hubpages, an American site. Most of my readers are also in the US, so surely my traffic will be just as badly affected as other Hubpage authors based in the US. Any search done on Google.com will produce US results unless I am mistaken! At point of writing this my viewings are down by about 15%, but I confess I have not checked my traffic sources.

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    barryrutherfordposted 13 years ago

    My traffic is down 50% today & earnings are nil .I guess that means it's across the board

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    jaymelee23posted 13 years ago

    Quantcast.
    
    associated content had 892k unique US visitors on 22/02/11 and 538k US uniques on 24/02/11 - a drop of 39.7%
    
    hubpages went from 874k unique US hits on 21/02/11 to 467k unique US hits on 24/02/11 - a drop of 46.7%
    
    squidoo went from 469k unique us hits on 21/02/11 to 400k unique us hits on 24/02/11 - a drop of 14.7%
    
    ezinearticles and buzzle are not on quantcast, so they just show estimates (which probably don't take account of the algo change)
    
    mahalo have opted to hide their figures.
    
    http://www.webmasterworld.com/google/4261944-15-30.htm

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       vanchenposted 13 years agoin reply to this

       just saw this too... looks like HubPages has been hit the hardest...

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       sabrebIadeposted 13 years agoin reply to this

       You mean Squidoo took less of a hit than HP did?
       Really?
       I thought Squidoo was considered the "ghetto" of the internet.

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       David 470posted 13 years agoin reply to this

       Hubpages lost 31 positions! Nooo
       
       (David 470 pops his top)

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       shibashakeposted 13 years agoin reply to this

       It is somewhat disturbing that a change that should only impact 11.8% of search queries (according to Google) is causing such a big drop in views.
       
       On the plus side, perhaps this change makes it easier for personal sites to compete with larger sites.

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    viryaboposted 13 years ago

    

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    bojanglesk8posted 13 years ago

    Yeah, my HubPages traffic has gone down slightly these days.

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    jaymelee23posted 13 years ago

    I suspect that Mahalo got hit pretty hard too. I've been watching some of the keywords that they were ranking really well for and now they are on page 2 or even further down the line. They aren't even ranking for "Mahalo" anymore in the top spot. They're number 3 currently (what my results are). Guess what is number 2 for that spot? An Angelfire page.

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    Midnight Oilposted 13 years ago

    It goes up, it goes down - personally, I cannot see the problem.  Hubpages is just a mirror of life - we have good days and bad ones too.  As long as we have more good days than bad, then I am happy.  Got to take the rough with the smooth...

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       shibashakeposted 13 years agoin reply to this

       Heh, I like that!
       
       And just like life, the Big G can decide to set off a little earthquake, which would make life suck a bit more than usual.
       
       Still, life goes on and there is usually a silver lining to every cloud.

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    sunforgedposted 13 years ago

    I would love to hear what portion of hubbers have had a noticeable drop (ht tp://hubsacademy.com/search-and-marketing-news/is-hubpages-penalized-as-a-content-farm/ )
    
    Im finding that my hubstats seem to be quite wrong - showing a near 40% decline, but analytics and adsense do not agree - they show less than 10% decline
    
    have al made sure that their stats drop is confirmed by other stats sources?

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       lrohnerposted 13 years agoin reply to this

       My drop really started sometime late last night, so I don't think I even have a full day to compare. But as of right now, HP shows me as down by 46%. AdSense and Analytics both say I'm down around 35%.

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       frogdroppingposted 13 years agoin reply to this

       Oh I just passed by Sunforged, left my mark. Liked or whatever it is for FB. Good article and informative for those of us that like to find someone like you that's gathered the stats and made it easier to read - so thank you
       
       And I don't mean lazy folks, I just go cross eyed when stats are plastered around the page. Any page!
       
       For those that want to read sunforged's interesting article:HubsAcademy

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    danatheteacherposted 13 years ago

    OMG, I've dropped about 1200 views in the last 30 hours. What the hell??? I'm seriously worried here.

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    Uninvited Writerposted 13 years ago

    Mine is about the same as usual...and my cartoon hub is still no. 1 in its category on Google.

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    Andrew0208posted 13 years ago

    This truly calls for detailed quality articles and not quantity of spinned articles. Publishers should be more concerned about publishing quality(detailed and informative) hubs and not just the quantity(how many hubs you've got) aimed at increasing G earnings and not providing detailed information(solution) to the visitor/reader.

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       IzzyMposted 13 years agoin reply to this

       I hope that's not aimed at me or anyone else who posts here who has a large number of hubs.
       I'm a full time hubber. No other income.

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          Andrew0208posted 13 years agoin reply to this

          Not at all. There're already many publishers in here with large number of quality hubs.

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       danatheteacherposted 13 years agoin reply to this

       It seems to me that the domain is being punished and recieving an overall lower ranking, which means that no matter what kind of "quality" our articles are, until everyone has amazing articles and we get rated as a domain higher in the Google-o-sphere, then we are all screwed.....

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    stacebirdposted 13 years ago

    i just don't see any traffic hardly at all. never mind jumps, drops or somersaults...

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       Alastar Packerposted 13 years agoin reply to this

       same here stacebird, today almost nothing?

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          bgamallposted 13 years agoin reply to this

          I don't get a lot of traffic for my subjects, but today was a little better. Not enough and adsense is waining.
          
          It is fun, and I don't rely on this for money, although a little cash now and again is nice. Maybe I will have to pay for ads, on some network and use a landing page without adsense.
          
          Anybody doing that or thinking about it?

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