The Subdomain Switch ...What's Happening with you?
- mtsi1098posted 13 years ago
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I saw this ad this morning and thought it was funnyI suppose the humor in it depends on how one's stats look at the moment, Richie.
That comment was a long time ago and hubbers are still experiencing huge, unexplained drops in traffic - when you drop over 75% of your traffic over an 18 hour period it is not a normal traffic dip (even worse than Feb Panda for me), so I want to know what is happening and why.
I am very glad that your traffic is holding Izzy, but I want an answer for what is happening to me and some others. My Google traffic has just dissolved!I still have one hub, closely related to my other best trafficked hubs which have disappeared from view, which doesn't seem to be affected. Same type of hub, same or similar keywords, similar products, but completely different effects. Does not make sense at all to me. But I am merely a lowly reptile, so there it is.
Yes I know, Richie.
But at least now I can fully sympathize with those who experienced this sudden drop during the original Panda slap.
I think my drop yesterday is well outside of normal fluctuations
So the hub staff response that it is purely individual difference and non-systematic fluctuation is unconvincing to me.Not since Paul E. addressed it last night on this same thread. He didn't seem to realize the oddities we were experiencing, but I'll bet he's on it. If I ain't makin' money on my hubs, he ain't neither!
- kimberlyslyricsposted 13 years ago0
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Mine?
yes
Yours too!
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Yeah, the ones who "freaks" out.
I have switched but things are moving slow
What I find so odd is that a handful of my hubs have been affected - as in, from steady good Google traffic every day for years to practically no Google traffic overnight - but the rest haven't, as far as I can tell.
So it's not just on the subdomain level. But on the other hand, it's hitting some subdomains/hubbers across the board on all their hubs.
Can't wrap my head around it. So sorry for what's happening to you guys. Expecting to follow you soon...
(Does this reek of a Greek tragedy, or what?)http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/se … amp;bwmf=s
it shows 10 links
the other 40k are hubpages subdomains and forum posts
you have 20
http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/se … amp;bwmf=s
but that includes duplicates... of course no backlink tool is even close to comprehensive, they only show a small sample, You likely have 2n more links then RG thoughOkay, I'm confused now. Before Panda, the stats on each hub would show a number of *'s for links. Many of my hubs had 5 of these before panda, but after Panda they reverted back to 1.
Did I lose those? My traffic continued to rise after each successive Panda update with only a major blip once in a while. Suddenly, splat. What a damn mess!
If so, I hope it's a "booby" prize. A pair of them would be even better!
Hey girl I too no longer do links besides I'm too busy fixing malicious ones
good to see youAnd you Kimberly (always)
thank you misty, I will do that right now, thanks for stopping by today.
I can't say I am right 'Yoga Guide', this is just a suggestion and might be worth considering, (deleting Suggested Links and not worrying about HubKarma). Hopefully a lucky guess
Nope, barely fooled with G+. Haven't posted anything there, AF. No giving +'s, no nothing. A member, that's all.
I have never heard of this Google Plus thing people are mentioning, nor of Google profiles.
From what is being said here, it sounds like yet another attempt to force people into endless, time-wasting and meaningless "networking" with people you don't know and couldn't care less aboutI have the Google profile, but I don't plan to use the Google Plus thing (other than the profile). I have a "nice, clean" Facebook page on which I don't do anything; so this one will be another one I don't use. I don't plan to get all into the whole socializing thing. If Google sees me as a big recluse who does nothing but write in one place or another, that's fine. Maybe I'm wrong about the "social thing" being the next big way to get traffic; but I have visions of Google (or someone else) doing a Panda-Little-Brother thing to wipe out too many efforts at getting social links.
Maybe not this year, but I can't help but think that's next. I don't know how to be a "friend" on the Internet. I only know how to be a friend in "real life". Even if you wanted to get into the Google Plus thing, they are currently not accepting any new sign ups - all you can do is leave them your email and wait in the queue!
I have just filled in my Google profile with as few details as possible, but I can see this being pushed as well until you have to give them your full life story.
It feels like we are being herded into a position where if we don't put all of our eggs into Google's basket, then it basically becomes very difficult to operate on Google or get traffic from GoogleThanks for the information shazwellyn. I can see what they are trying to do, but just how much information about you that is now aggregated on the internet is, to my mind, a little overwhelming.
I have just got a new windows phone, and suddenly all my phone numbers are on my Facebook account, and I have had to manually remove them, and even on HP I see my Facebook profile picture popping up, even though I haven't logged in and linked them.
For someone like me, who likes to work fairly anonymously, and let the writing do the talking, it's all becoming just that bit too intrusive!I like "fairly anonymously" too, but I'm getting to the end of my online writing endeavors; so I figured I'd just "do whatever" and see how it works. Worst case, I take down the stupid picture (which now shows up in searches
), close up all accounts except, maybe, this one; and I'll pretty much disappear (at least "on the surface" and on the Internet). Our rights to any form of privacy and anonymity seem to be being subtly eroded all the time. The kids are used to it and seem to relish posting every little detail, but being of an older generation, the idea of having to fling my private life out onto the internet just to get read feels a bit distasteful, even though I acknowledge that to a certain extent you just have to go with it, if you want to get anywhere.
Jane Austen, do you know how easy you had it LOL!
In spite of my (sort of) going "all out" with the authorship thing (to the point where I have to do some trimming), I don't plan to get more involved with Google that at. You're right. It's the eggs/basket thing. I put tons of stuff in my profile, but there are no personal details - only writing-subject-related stuff for the most part (and only online-writing-related stuff, nothing I do offline or any company names or that type of thing).
This is a pen name I use (a well established, long-time one - but a pen name). On the other hand, I was happy to do all my reciprocal linking to the profile, mostly because I figure (if not so much now, then at least eventually) it might make stuff less appealing to steal (at least to anyone who also has an ad sense account). I don't know on top of things Google is right now, but if we put our "stamp" (our reciprocal links) on each thing we have, a lot of writing thieves might be a little too concerned that Google will detect their operation. (Maybe I'm wrong.) I don't know... I don't particularly like it (sharing anything, really), but 1) at this point, none of us has much privacy, and 2) I'm behind Google in its efforts to do some cleaning up of some stuff that goes on. I've lost some good-sized earnings to content thieves. (What I didn't like was when I got the Google Plus thing (not just the profile, which I first had), up came all my contacts from my Google e.mail. None of the contacts (that I don't think I even saved) from that account are exactly my pals. Google has both of my names. The public doesn't.
I'm not quite sure about that. It may have to do with how one goes about signing up. Those who are currently on GP can issue invitations to others. Initially I don't recall seeing a set number as a limit to the invitations, but now (several people have remarked) there is a limit (!) of 150 signups per GP member. Is that what you have already tried and some of your invitees have been made to stand in line?
Again, I'm not really sure I agree, although I may have overlooked some things. So far, I have had the impression that it's possible to include as little or as much as you wish. One thing that I really like there is that messages or posts can go out to various groups that the poster delineates. In other words, it's not an all-or-nothing proposition. And, a person can be in more than one circle. For instance, I could have a circle for Politically Liberal Hubbers and one for Politically Conservative Hubbers; all of them could also be in another circle for All Writers or for Special Friends. (This is not the way I have them divided up, by the way, but it has occurred to me that it could have some merit.
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That is a concept that I definitely do not like, and I see exactly what you are saying about it. (I think I see, anyway.) But from what I have read about PostRank, I really like the idea of measuring a poster's "authority" in some manner, and I believe that the Google-Plus site and the +1 button both contribute to evaluating it.
- shazwellynposted 13 years ago0
Traffic down by 75% over the last 40 hours
Maybe HP are transfering our hubs to their new servers? Hallelujah! The switch to subdomains has had an ENORMOUS effect already.
In under 24 hours, I have had 3 visits to my hub.
At this rate, I'll have 21 visits in 7 days, an increase of 2100% since subdomains were implemented.
And if you're tempted to scoff at this conclusion - It's just as sound as most of those that have been drawn elsewhere in this thread.
I posted before that my traffic dropped drastically right after my switch to the subdomain. It has been maybe a couple of weeks or so since then and my traffic has already gone back up... my earnings as well.
I meant to say traffic rank
, HP traffic rank decreased by 80 according to alexa, although that does not necessarily mean that overall traffic fell, but it sure points that way.
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