0I realise that links are technically verboten in forums, but in the current environment of confusion and for some Hubbers, distress, after Google's latest 'adjustments', I'm hoping that HP will allow this one. It's a bit disconcerting to think that us honest contributors could be being punished for an error, not of our making...
http://www.newfoundnames.com/the-google … appy-feet/
Sadly - this just means more changes are a-comin'. Some of these results (particularly that one for "paypal france") are atrocious. ![]()
I wonder if google even realized what it was doing. I mean, seriously, Viagra Paypal France? No wonder so many of us have had drastic plummets in traffic.
0Play your readers. Get your readers to view another page. Maybe they will click an ad.
0Wonderful. Just so awesome; another attempt to weed out spam to allot irrelevant content. Why all the changes? Why the constant "up dates"?
0You know, I sometimes look back with fondness at the early days of search.
If you searched using a long tail keyword, then the sites that appeared at the top of the SERPs were those which contained exactly that keyword with the same order of words. That doesn't seem to happen any more.
Ahhhhhhh Kind of funny considering this is the sort of thing Bing (Microsoft) was probably wishing for, a major screw up on Google's part. Bing is making theirs more streamline while Google, in their too big for our britches, king of Internet search engines, keeps doing whatever and messing up. In this case, it seems messing up 'big time' Screw over your customers and see what happens in business.
by Philip Cooper 14 years ago
Can anyone help me understand why my daily page views have dropped from 400 per day to 25 per day in the last month. During this drop I have added 10 hubs which in the past would have increased my daily page views. I am thinking of deleting hubs and rewriting them. Before this drop I had three hubs...
by Liz Elias 9 years ago
Recently, I've learned that "The Big G" considers comments as content, this being the reason HP is going in to edit comments for proper spelling & grammar. Also, along these lines, I've seen it said in these forum posts, that because it's content, comments that are very short...
by Daisydot 11 years ago
Seehttp://www.gotchseo.com/anchor-text/It's worth keeping what he says in mind if you link to your hubs from your other web 2.0 properties (eg infobarrel) or from your blog.If anyone's traffic dropped on Oct 17th (penguin 3.0) they should pay particular attention
by Liz Elias 9 years ago
I just finished a massive edit of this hub:http://hubpages.com/sports/Camping-For- … -and-Enjoywhich was originally published in April of 2011.It has among the lowest traffic of any of my hubs, and shows up (first on the page), but nevertheless, way out on page 18 in a Google search for the...
by x 6 years ago
Every article on every niche site links back to the HubPages domain via our profile links. That's right, each and every niche site has hundreds of links to a website that Google hates. There is no way this is a good thing. Shouldn't something be done about that?
by Ben G 14 years ago
I'm curious to hear if there are any hubbers, who saw a big drop in traffic after the most recent Google Panda and Penguin updates, have fixed their issues and are getting good traffic again yet?I think it would be good for us all to know what changes brought about your renewal of traffic, since...
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