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   wpcooperposted 5 days ago

   why have our earnings gone down so much?  I used to make a little less than a dollar a day and now I am making 7 cents

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      Kenna McHughposted 5 days agoin reply to this

      Well, the list is long, and there are several threads in the forums about the situation. I'd say the lack of transparency, Google, and the readers' ability to make comments removed, the placement of ads making it nearly impossible for readers to read the articles, and, primarily, TAG taking over.

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         Jodahposted 4 days agoin reply to this

         ++++

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         viryaboposted 4 days agoin reply to this

         Sadly, that’s it in a nutshell!

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         wpcooperposted 4 days agoin reply to this

         Okay what can we do about this? This feels helpless

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            viryaboposted 4 days agoin reply to this

            From our end, nothing.
            
            From their end, depends on whether they are willing to lift the site out of the doldrums, or NOT!

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            Kenna McHughposted 4 days agoin reply to this

            It is helpless! How can writers be effective if the TAG is not transparent and there is no direct communication from TAG?

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               CYong74posted 46 hours agoin reply to this

               It's almost a year after the first round of niche site removal. But the logos are still at the sidebar. I doubt anyone at TAG bothers about HP, let alone do anything to improve traffic.
               
               And everything TAG claimed so far has been utter rubbish.

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                  Kenna McHughposted 27 hours agoin reply to this

                  Ced, so true. It's psychotic and a waste of time.

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      OldRosesposted 4 days agoin reply to this

      CPMs are miniscule so we are earning less per ad.  That plus almost no traffic equals low to no earnings.

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   Genna Eastposted 4 days ago

   Kenna summed in up quite well.

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   Rupert Taylorposted 4 days ago

   It's tied to traffic. Low traffic = low earnings.
   A couple of years ago, I was getting a couple of thousand views a day. Then, the decline started. When it got to a thousand per day, I thought, it can't go any lower. But it has gone lower. Yesterday (Sunday) views dipped below 500.
   I have stopped telling myself, it can't go lower.

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   Rupert Taylorposted 4 days ago

   Forgot about the pesky CPMs. But then, I've never been able to grasp their meaning so I would be ill-advised to comment on them.

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   eugbugposted 4 days ago

   Because the Hubpages Discover site doesn't have any street cred, AI is taking over in searches and presumably advertisers aren't willing to pay or in the automatic serving of ads, place high bids to place those ads. And maybe Hubpages taking an increasing cut of our profits also.
   My current earnings are about 4% of what they used to be.

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   NaturallyInspiredposted 2 days ago

   Mine is bad too. I also used to make around a dollar a day and now I'm in the pennies. Its not just Google traffic either. Everything has dropped. I used for get at least 100 views a day from my Pinterest and now I'm lucky to get 20.

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   PaulGoodman67posted 37 hours ago

   Things will only get worse as TAG have given up on HP/Discover. After the mass-editing failed to raise views, they threw in the towel.

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      PaulGoodman67posted 29 hours agoin reply to this

      If it "feels helpless" that's because it is.

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