I went from 1,500 visitors a day on Hubpages a month ago to a flat line of roughly 200 visitors a day. Inconsequential traffic that completely aborted any decent Adsense income that I was collecting. By happenstance I was checking some Analytic stats today and, behold, the Phoenix rises. Yesterday the graph showed an erection of over 1,000 surfers. Literally all my Hubpages for key keywords were flung back to the top of the Google listings. Helluva thing.
I suspect it will about 17 days before Google flings Hubpages back into the traffic wall again.
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You may want to check your analytics as to where the traffic is coming from. I had a similar thing happen (traffic spike) b/c a major magazine linked up to one of my hubs.
Hey Leo. It’s all Google.
Did a little extra digging and discovered I’m getting a lot of traffic from other Hubpages too which is cool. Kind of like Squidoo.
Long time – No Comment – Glad to see you back in the fold so to speak – old habits die hard!
Just wondering if your Hubpages fall and rise had something to do with their recent changeover to author sub domains. Apparently, that was supposed to separate good and not so good content. Perhaps your sub domains just got caught in the infamous Google dance.
Yea I dunno. I made the change pretty much when they first offered it.
Just noticed that all of my Blogger sites have suffered the same fate as well. Traffic has dropped off dramatically since mid January, around about the same time as your traffic loss on Hubpages.
Can only assume it must be a sub domain thing but who knows with Google. Have to wait and see if they make a comeback.
Adsense re-engaged on Hubpages. All systems normal.
My Hubs go up and down but they’re still my second best earner. It’s been nice to write one page about a topic then enter that niche if it looked promising.
I’m just so glad I started building my own sites back in August 2010 before Google started taking a closer look at content farms.
It has been about 20 days. You figured it would last 17. How are your hubs doing at this point? Just curious.
Thank You
Delivering coin to the bank.
I am also experiencing the same with hubpages, today i added little more content to my big earners and started building few backlinks to stay up in the ranking.
@Karun – Hubpages has returned to its former glory for me. Keeping them fresh seems to indeed help keep the bank account lively.