Is there anything encouraging?

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   FaithDreamposted 14 years ago

   I'm visiting the forums, checking out the hubber's hangout and everything I'm reading is discouraging. The changes with google, the hub activity is down, am I to be concerned?
   Is there anything that is encouraging? I really like hubpages and now I'm questioning everything.

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   frogdroppingposted 14 years ago

   HubPages is not down and out. The algorithm has knocked the heck out of many sites, we're not alone. There are lots of things to factor in, some conjecture, other factors a bit easier to work out.
   
   The changes are on-going, the dust needs to settle. Keep writing original content, make it the best you can. HubPages admin are known for listening to hubbers, I doubt very much they're all eating donuts right now. Maybe some consolation cookies from Maddie but for sure they won't be resting on their laurels

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   wavegirl22posted 14 years ago

   Here is some encouraging words .. 
   
   "It's tough to tell from these lists just how well Google has done at improving the overall quality of results. For what its worth, HubPages doesn't strike me as providing anything like bottom-of-the-barrel material. But then there are sites such as EzineArticles, which is rife with items like this gem ("Moving around in a taxi seems like an outlandish thing...").
   
   Read more:
   
      
   Five Things You Need to Know About Google's "Farmer" Search-Engine Upgrade

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   FaithDreamposted 14 years ago

   Thanks for sharing. I write on ezine and maybe I need to concentrate on those instead. I just need some inspiration from hubpages.

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      mistyhorizon2003posted 14 years agoin reply to this

      Having just read that Ezine article wavegirl's link quoted from, I think it was illustrating how bad Ezine is, not suggesting to concentrate on that site more. The 'Gem' description I suspect was meant to mean 'a prime example of awful articles can be', not 'how good', and after following the link to the article it was clearly an advert/promotion for "Denver Taxis", not a quality piece about taxis in general.

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         FaithDreamposted 14 years agoin reply to this

         Thanks Misty. I did not click on the link to read it. Thanks for checking it out and reading it further.

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   Peggy Wposted 14 years ago

   Guess I will just keep writing and see what happens in a month or two or three down the road.  Wish we would hear something from the HubPages staff.

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      frogdroppingposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      Paul wrote a post on the HP blog Peggy, not sure if you read it?
      
      http://blog.hubpages.com/2011/02/recent-google-changes/

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         FaithDreamposted 14 years agoin reply to this

         Thanks frogdropping, I just read it. It is encouraging. That is what I need, encouragement from the forums. Thanks for sharing.

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   skyfireposted 14 years ago

   I don't think of this as algortihm change but more of stacked devaluation of article directories from chrome aggregated data. If it were to be algorithm change then how come ehow survived it with their crap content related to mcdonalds  ? You don't need to panic though, just spend your time diversifying till dust settles.

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   rebekahELLEposted 14 years ago

   I think this article points out a lot of what is being targeted. Obviously, there's more of that here than we can see simply by a quick read of someone's hubs. Some of it is hidden in links, etc.
   http://www.pcworld.com/article/220778/g … tk.mod_rel
   
   I'm sure things will settle down with some work on cleaning up the scrupulous stuff we may not see. The cream will rise again in time.

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      FaithDreamposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      Thanks rebekahELLE, this is encouraging. "The cream will rise to the top." I'll check out the link you suggested.

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   sabrebIadeposted 14 years ago

   According to this, three other domains got hit worse than HP...
   http://www.businessinsider.com/google-d … dia-2011-2
   So yeah, it coulda been worse.

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      David 470posted 14 years agoin reply to this

      I don't entirely fathom that chart, but I guess that's optimistically looking at things.
      
      Hubpages will hopefully come out of this pit..

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