I would say no, because I have had several of my hubs get almost no traffic for a few months, and then pick up quite a bit of daily traffic from Google.
My suggestion would be to have a look at any hubs that are doing poorly, and see if you can't do some editing to improve them. Then perhaps they will pick up some traffic from search engines.
Do you think changing the title is helpful? I've done that before and even the picture and it seemed to affect traffic.
Yes, sometimes just changing the title can turn a hub around. Other times, it takes a bit more. I will sometimes look at what search terms people are using to get to my hub, and see if I can't use the most popular ones in the title.
Rather than delete the hub, which you have already placed a great deal of time, energy and thought into, how about if you unpublish it for a while, then revise it or update it. Give it a couple of tweaks here and there, and republish it.
That's my opinion, anyway.
Namaste
I wouldn't delete these hubs if they were mine. It's your hard work and time that went into creating these hubs, therefore it's solely your decision on what to do here. If you delete them, then nobody else will ever have a chance to read them.
I will never delete my hubs only because they aren't giving me good traffic unless I have hundreds of hubs already published.
Negative, it is good idea to use these articles to learn how to make them better.
See Deborah Demanders comment, use this article as a learning experience on editing, updating and making it more readable.
Also create some back links to it, publicize it, add some photos, be creative with the layout, add some pertinent amazon, ebay capsules, maybe a poll or the map if it is relevant.
Have some fun with it you have nothing to lose!
I agree with some of the others that commented here. You spent a lot of time and energy writing - to throw that away would be a shame. Every once-and-a-while, update and republish those idle hubs. A good time to do this is when you are having writers block, are too busy to write a hub from scratch or just need a break from writing. A few minutes tuning-up an old Hub is a quick way to get new material out there.
by avan989 10 months ago
I been on a couple of days and pretty much all my traffic is from hubpages. I get a couple from digg but that is about it. How are people getting their traffic from google and other search engine?
by Mark dos Anjos, DVM 6 years ago
Over 1/4 of my hubs have not been moved to a niche site. They do not have much traffic from Google, so it is not HPs fault that they have not been selected. There is nothing wrong with them, but they do not have "Google love" so are only moved in the slow process where I ask HP to move...
by Stacie L 12 years ago
i would like to change some urls on my older hubs.I can only do this my deleting the hub (after copying it first)then start a new hub,copy and paste the old copied hub with a new url.is this going to create a duplicate penalty ?do i have to wait a certain number of days?anyone do thsi?
by Dilip Chandra 11 years ago
On what basis a featured hub is going un-featured. Even when the hub is getting traffic from google, will that be un-featured?A hub of mine is getting traffic from google, it was now un-featured. Strange! What is the criteria HP is following to un-feature a hub?Now it is really a frustrating issue,...
by Rahul Parashar 11 years ago
I know it's too early too ask, but I am curious. I have published 6 hubs but haven't got a single view from search engine traffic yet. So, How much time till you see some traffic?
by seamus 15 years ago
Hi all,I'm getting a good amount of traffic from Google on a certain key phrase. When I type that phrase into Google, I don't see my hubpages.Could this be happening because maybe somewhere in the world my site ranks higher than it does where I am? I know that Google gives different results in...
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