Serious drop in hub views

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  1. Xenonlit profile image60
    Xenonlitposted 12 years ago

    This is ridiculous. My top hub went down 7 points in the past couple of days and views are back to half of normal.

    There was a big lift on Thursday, but things were back down on Friday.

    After tweeting, retweeting and all the marketing possible, there is a huge drop again.

    Is anything going on that is suppressing our views?

    1. Dale Hyde profile image57
      Dale Hydeposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      I have been here a little over two weeks, with 21 hubs...they have all fallen and then picked up.... I know from experience, publishing online, that this will always happen. Overall, I think I have done remarkably well here on HP as far as traffic. Nothing spectacular, but much better than when I publish on my own site, or blog.

  2. rebekahELLE profile image85
    rebekahELLEposted 12 years ago

    Depending on your topics, views can drop over the weekend. Do you normally see a decrease in views on weekends?
    I did read on another thread about Google implementing a page layout algorithm in the last few days, I think it was the 18th.
    http://hubpages.com/forum/topic/91488

    I don't really know if this would affect HP subdomains so much. Our ads are placed by HP. The only spot we can have some control over is the 'top right' corner of our hub. I don't purposely leave it open for ads because it looks too ad heavy in my opinion.

    1. Marisa Wright profile image85
      Marisa Wrightposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      ....and if you think it's too ad heavy, there's a chance Google does too! 

      As we discussed on another thread, I had no idea that HP displays more advertising to visitors than it does to us.  I'm sure they're looking at the current layout in light of this update and may make some changes.

    2. Xenonlit profile image60
      Xenonlitposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      It does depend on the topic. Weekends are a little slower, but some people do their reading on weekends. This is a 50 percent drop, though. It's back to Christmas holidays level.

  3. paradigmsearch profile image60
    paradigmsearchposted 12 years ago

    Personally, I'm going with the seasonal theory for the time being.

  4. FloraBreenRobison profile image59
    FloraBreenRobisonposted 12 years ago

    My views always go down dramatically on the weekend as well as holidays. I have come to expect this, even in HP views, never mind outside views.

  5. rebekahELLE profile image85
    rebekahELLEposted 12 years ago

    Yes, you're probably right, Marisa.

    I remember when those top ads were first introduced. I wanted to see what they were and how they looked. They told us we could see them as viewers do while signed out.  That's when I changed some of my layout, although I didn't have too many with ads in that top right spot.

    Did you read the link in the other forum thread and watch the videos? Matt Cutts said only 1% of sites would be affected. I'm sure we've all landed on those kind of pages~ we can't even find the text! I don't think HP looks that bad, but it may be helpful to tweak layout to see what happens.

  6. Xenonlit profile image60
    Xenonlitposted 12 years ago

    I can hardly read my own posts, but for the huge block of ad space in the first nuggetty part. I've never looked from the outside and will check up on this.

    1. FloraBreenRobison profile image59
      FloraBreenRobisonposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      This is why I put my poetry ad level on low unless I am using an outside link for a photo (I try not to do this, by the way)

      A poem is so short it can be overwhelmed, while meanwhile, people read poems to read the poems. No person I know of reads poems to find poetry related ads,so you won't make money off of them anyway.

  7. sofs profile image74
    sofsposted 12 years ago

    Yeah there is indeed a dramatic drop in view in the last few weekends but then it is usually back to normal by Monday! Hopefully it bounces back to normal level after this weekend too.

    1. Xenonlit profile image60
      Xenonlitposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      I hope so.

  8. mistyhorizon2003 profile image89
    mistyhorizon2003posted 12 years ago

    It is normal for a major drop in traffic over a weekend. Mine usually drops from about 10,100 per day down to 8,500 between Fridays and Sundays, but it returns to the high levels by Monday.

  9. KwameG profile image60
    KwameGposted 12 years ago

    Thanks for the tip

  10. Richieb799 profile image75
    Richieb799posted 12 years ago

    January is renowned for a drop in traffic, just think, October, November and December are shopping months with holidays.. January hasn't really get any major holidays and people are busy organizing and planning and it takes a while for things to pick up again

    CPM also drops because businesses aren't paying as much because people aren't shopping as much

  11. Xenonlit profile image60
    Xenonlitposted 12 years ago

    Well, I've played the games, followed the tips and will see how it goes to the end of February.

  12. Xenonlit profile image60
    Xenonlitposted 12 years ago

    The views are back up to normal.

    Someone told about indexing the site at bing and at google. I forgot the third site. I found the pages for b&g and indexed to see if that will help!

    Thanks for the replies.

  13. sofs profile image74
    sofsposted 12 years ago

    Views climbing back to normal! The weekend tremors!

    1. profile image0
      TopUniverseposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      For me still the views are not back to normal.

      I am getting 30 to 40% less views for last 7 days.  I checked few of my hubs ranking and it is on the same position as it was in the last week.

      Any idea for the lost traffic.

  14. Kangaroo_Jase profile image73
    Kangaroo_Jaseposted 12 years ago

    You will start getting excited again about your traffic come early March. This is the time to start writing like a bat out of hell smile

  15. Xenonlit profile image60
    Xenonlitposted 12 years ago

    You're on, Kangaroo_J! My views are not that large, but they are back up to the levels that I had in early December.

    I am now adding one hub per day to see if indexing at Google and Bing did any help.

  16. Max Dalton profile image73
    Max Daltonposted 12 years ago

    Hi Xenolit,

    My traffic fell off the face of the earth in early January. I filed a reinclusion request with Google immediately after it happened. After a week and a half, I figured what the heck and unpublished a handful of my lesser-rated hubs. The next morning, my traffic went through the roof and has stayed there ever since. I don't know if it was the reinclusion request or removing poor-performing hubs, but it went back up.

    Best of luck. I was really in the dumps for a week and a half, so I know the feeling.

    Best,

    Max.

  17. Dame Scribe profile image56
    Dame Scribeposted 12 years ago

    Poetry isn't enjoyed by many but there are some who do enjoy it big_smile I think mixing it with the 'education' and related markets would help prop a site and provide for better ads smile just a thought.

 
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