Are my hubs too diverse?

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   BWD316posted 13 years ago

   After a major drop in traffic last week, where I'm now only getting 5 or less views from google, I'm wondering if I have been sandboxed... And if so is it because my writings on hubpages are too diverse? I have topics from weather to gardening, television, movies and recipes.  If my hubs are too diverse would choosing a topic and adding more of them help even with keeping the hubs I've already published? Thanks in advance!

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      Barbara Kayposted 13 years agoin reply to this

      I've wondered about this too. Maybe I should stick to a niche topic. I'd like to see everyone else's replies.

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   Au faitposted 13 years ago

   My hub views dropped overall for a few days like everyone else's, but since then they have picked up again.  I have had more views from Google than from hubpages since about the first month of publishing.  Usually 3 Google views to 1 hubpages view, and that doesn't include the Google views from outside the states.  My collection of hubs is pretty diverse, check them out and see for yourself.

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   tamronposted 13 years ago

   I have a career blog that is on first page on Google. I don't see no more traffic on that blog than I get here.
   
   I also have a blog on all kinds of topics it gets about the same amount of visitors but I get far better Google earnings.
   
   Finding a good niche is hard to do.  What I recommend is look at your account and see what articles are preforming the best.
   
   Lets say you have an article on "How to Fix a Dryer" and you are getting alot of traffic. 
   
   Write another article on "How to Fix a Dryer belt" you see what I am saying then link them together.

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      Reality Bytesposted 13 years agoin reply to this

      Good advice, this is what I have been doing for my whole time here.  I cannot complain, well I could but no one would care.

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      BWD316posted 13 years agoin reply to this

      Yeah I think that's whatim going to start working on thanks tamron

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   tamronposted 13 years ago

   They say do not put all your eggs in the same basket. Even if Google hated Hubpages I still get good traffic by linking my content from different sites.
   
   You wouldn't believe it but I get good traffic from the The Reviewer site.  I don't know why because to me the site looks tacky.
   
   I will have to check out the site because I have not posted on it for a long while but I still get earnings and traffic.  Let me find it I will give you the link.

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   tamronposted 13 years ago

   The name of the site I was referring to is"BestReviewer.com"  Like I said I don't know why I still earn from that site but I do.  I have not posted there in a long time but since I have some hubs and articles I can publish on there I think I will.
   
   I didn't post there for a long time because there was an annoying ad on the site it even appeared when you tried to publish your top.
   
   I complained but nothing was done.  So I quit!  I noticed now the ad is not there So I will publish some more tops.

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      BWD316posted 13 years agoin reply to this

      Thanks for the link I'll have to look into it

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   Daughter Of Maatposted 13 years ago

   I have a pretty wide array of topics as well, and have noticed a large drop in traffic, but things have recently picked up due to a hub I read yesterday on sharing. I'm still not sure how to increase my rank with google however. Anyone have any ideas? lol

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      Barbara Kayposted 13 years agoin reply to this

      Daughter of Maat, Your profile Rank is a 3. That isn't too bad. Only the top earners have a 4 and as far as I know, no one has higher than that than Hubpages themselves for a Google ranking.

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   starstreamposted 13 years ago

   How do you know your profile rank number?

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   tamronposted 13 years ago

   Daughter Of Maat
   
   If your Page Rank is 3 you're off to a great start.  Especially since you have only been writing for hubpages for 6 months.
   
   I don't know what mine is for hubpages but my career blog had a PR of a 3 its probably a 1 now because I haven't posted for about 3 months.
   
   To get your PR higher you must post and update your domain on a regular bases which Is hard for me to do right now.
   
   People tend to link to you more often if you have a pr of a 2 and higher.

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      BWD316posted 13 years agoin reply to this

      How do you find out your PR (profile rank)?

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         Daughter Of Maatposted 13 years agoin reply to this

         I really don't even understand the whole PR thing. But since you're the second person to tell me that, it must be good info. Now, if I can just keep my rank at 3 lol

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   Daughter Of Maatposted 13 years ago

   Here's the link to find out your page rank:
   
   http://www.prchecker.info/
   
   I checked my rank yesterday and it was a 2. I wonder, does it vary daily? and how often should you update your hubs to keep them "fresh" in google's eyes? Once a week? Once a month? Google is so fickle!

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