Thinking I'm On My Way Out
I strongly agree with you Richieb799 on that, "we will be the great site we once were again soon."
Thanks, Rochelle. The people here are really the reason why I've stuck it out this long...and a few of them are a good reason to leave as well!
My hubs use to be on an average of 2k+ views/day but since the panda, it's 800+ now. Two weeks ago, it was around 500+
I'm fully persuaded that it can only get better. Hang on fellow great Hubbers.
Good times to even learn a lot I never knew existed.Would your name have been Pollyanna in a former life?
Lotta blue arrows on mine today.
I just disabled HP ads and I think I'm going to leave them off for awhile and see what happens with my Adsense. If anyone else has any brilliant ideas, please let me know.
I have one hub I might finish this weekend, but that's all I'm gonna promise, people!
The graph is here - http://www.quantcast.com/hubpages.com
It is down a bit, but still topping the recent peaks so its looking OK
Why not just leave your Hubs up when you go, and see what they do passively?
Maybe you could leave them up, move one at a time?
Gonna miss you!
Oh, well then, peace, love, and hair grease.
- BRIAN SLATERposted 12 years ago
0I would try switching the Hp ad prog off for a month a two. My adsense has come back to where it was pre-panda. For some the Ad prog doesn't work, me included and you may need to stick with adsense.
The site as a whole is going through some turmoil at the moment, try working on your other stuff while at the same time keeping one eye on how your account is doing here.
You could also try moving several hubs (one niche) to another site and see how they do, before removing them all.
If you do decide to leave i'll miss you.Brian, if I left, I would always wonder what you look like without the shades and fuzzy hat!
If I moved the hubs that are my niche, I'd be left with just a handful of hubs on here. I see the turmoil that's going on here and even though I think by and large, most people's heart is in the right place, not enough is being done at the outset to keep junk from being put here. After applying at various other sites, I see what safeguards are in place on them to prevent that from happening and wondering why HP doesn't do the same.
LeanMan, why do those 5 minutes feel like five years?!
Oh, Mikey, so good for a girl's self-esteem! If I could just do the cougar thing...
...repeat after me...'rooooarrrr' ....'purrrrrrr...'
i just read your 'sanity/insanity' piece...it's good - funny!..why not just leave some of your hubs up for some of us that just like to read what hubbers have to say...just write to write if you're up for it.I definitely need to leave that one up, since insanity appears to be the status quo here!
Awww...I already do!
Greek One, I would miss you making me laugh on a daily basis! And congrats on your article getting on the front page in the "advice column." That's great to see a non-b.s. and non-brown noser hubber get recognized!
If you leave, then so be it.
Good luck going forward.
However, as I am sure others have mentioned, leave up your hubs. You would only do yourself a disservice by taking them down. If you have plans on moving your content, then that would be a different story.
Whatever you decide...Good luck.Hey! I missed this thread, DIY! It took some of my first hubs almost 6 months to start showing what they could do and you've only been here 3!
I know the Panda slap has slowed things down for many here on HP, but not everyone has experienced the same effect. I don't spend any time with back linking, I know I should, but I just want to write about the things I know about or are interested in and it seems to be working out okay for now. So don't base the future earnings of your hubs on what they are doing now.
Anyway, I wish you would stay. There are already too many yankees and furriners here without having to lose another southerner!
If I can assist you in any way please let me know. Snakes can do amazing things sometimes! Whatever you decide, I wish you the very best of luck and will miss you if you go.
Randy-Did you have to go and play the Southern card on me?
Desperate times call for desperate measures, especially when a southern belle is in peril! I seldom use the southern card, but I deemed it necessary on this occasion. Sorry, I had to do it!
You are just wrong!
I've got a wedding coming up soon that's eating up most of my writing time, so maybe I'll take a little break and think about what I should do next. I do have a hub in the hopper, but it may have to stew awhile until I decide if I want to finish it.Gosh! That's probably the first time I've ever been wrong!
This could be the problem, DIY! Weddings are so sad for men, so you are losing half of the viewers right off the bat!
Perhaps DIY divorces might get both genders as searchers!
Good luck with that, she can't read! She's from Tennessee, you know!
Well.. I'm a Yankee, so I don't know if my two cents' worth counts here; but I thought I'd back up what Randy says. With your only being on here a few months, and with all the Hubs you have right now; I do think it might be premature to pack it all in this soon.
I know everybody is going to do what's right for him (and that's fine, and not my business). It did take me eight months to start getting paid every month (pre-Panda, of course; but also pre-HP ads). Even after 3.5 years, though, I still only have 318 published Hubs. At the rate you're going you'd likely have half that many in only another few months. If your Hubs are the kind that Google will "like" consider not using HP ads. If they're the kind Google doesn't "like" so well, let them build up with the HP ads. (For the last few months I've been trying to figure out my "balance" of Hubs and which "plan" works best for me.)
I'm not trying to convince you not to pack it in - only wanting to point out that there's the chance you might miss out if you remove all your Hubs. You might want to consider some "combo" action - writing a few things elsewhere where you think you'll earn more quickly, but leaving stuff on here too.
Post-Panda I did lose the monthly Google deposit, but I have another chunk coming this month. (Of course, I keep mucking with stuff, which I know is contributing to a lot of the instability of earnings that I've had.) I took a cut, and had to wait for deposits; but I've still picked up (I think) $340/350 since Panda (HP and Ad Sense combined, and not counting May). It's not big bucks, but I'm glad I still have my Hubs up. I still think it's too early for SOME people to do anything to quickly.
Everyone's Hubs and approach is different, so people shouldn't get too discouraged if others are talking about dismal goings on. I haven't done much in terms of any news Hubs (the ones I've written were just things I was in the mood to write). I'm re-thinking what I'll do, and what approach I'll use with any future Hubs. Unless something drastic goes on, I have no intention of removing any Hubs if they aren't a problem for HP. Eggs-in-one-basket is never a good idea, but neither (usually) is dumping a basket full of eggs that kind of OK for your own purposes.
The only reason I'm writing this is because this really isn't the most encouraging time for anyone who's even a little bit new-ish to be on these forums. I just thought (for whatever my meager earnings are worth) it might be good to say that people are still earning on here.
I don't really know exactly what I'm doing or not doing when it comes to this particular kind of writing I do on here. What happens in two months, I don't know. What I write/post from here on here, I don't know (although I have a few "serious" pieces of writing that are partially finished and waiting).
For the last couple/few weeks, when I've come to HubPages I've done little but be drawn to the forums like a moth to a flame () to see what latest "big thing" is going on. It hasn't been good for my mental health (), and I've realized that paying attention to the latest developments on the forum is pretty much sucking the life out of me! I don't have a problem with negative aspects of reality being discussed and brought up on here; but, really, (maybe it's because I'm a middle child ) some of the nastiness just isn't great.
So, anyway, whether it's the OP (DIY) or anyone else; I'd suggest anyone who feels like writing a Hub just write their Hubs and keep any forum participation to the forums that aren't about HubPages (or, of course, religion or poliltics if those are things you find "life-sucking" ). OR, of course, just think, "That's them. I'm me. I'll figure out what I do based on my own set of Hubs, aims, etc."
Anyway, I don't pretend to know where things will or won't go. All I know is that it took me eight months to start getting paid monthly, and that I'm still picking up some pay (and traffic) now. I'm also fairly confident that if I were to write, maybe, a few Hubs (of the right kind) a week and build up my inventory, I'd get both the HP Ad earnings and Google earnings up. If some new, big, thing happens - then I'll do the next thing. DIY, if you've already made your decision I'm not second-guessing it. You know what' s right for you. I just thought it may be worth offering another perspective to anyone else who may be feeling discouraged these days.hey Lisa....middle child?...me too
j/k...good post!Very well said for a Yankee, Lisa!
My experience is similar to yours, with my Amazon sales reaching almost $400 in February and quite good in March.
It took me a while longer to make Adsense payout (10 months) because I didn't have an affiliate for several months. but I have been making payout every month for a while and usually reach it by the middle of the month. This month is no exception.
I had less hubs than DIY has now when I started making payout every month with now being even better.
It just takes time for hubs to start earning regularly unless you want to spend more time backlinking rather than writing. As you say, we all have different experiences.
...okay...meow? (no rrrrroaar in me tonite)...i'm thinking yor stayin' for a bit...finish that hub wuldya?
I may work on it, but I've got ribbons to tie around 100 bottles of bubbles, so it may take awhile.
Sad to say, Lisa is right, it's the type you blow. Although I will admit after everyone went to bed last night, I did blow a few around just for giggles. But it IS my no kids weekend, so everyone come over anyway! If tomorrow's the end of the world, why not share it with a bunch of kooks, goofballs, and atheists?!
I didn't write that hub about sanity being overrated for nothing!
oh no, not you too. well you'll certainly be missed here.
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