Comments on: What is going on at Hubpages Have they had a google penalty applied?

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 21:24:39 +0000

Hey Kev,

Still relevant. Some of the financial subjects I write on have lot traffic. I don’t know if a penalty was applied – and I am pretty sure if I ask I will not get an answer LOL

The other thing – that really depends on a number of factors – content, blog design and subject amongst other things. You could try yield build. That is working pretty well for me although a lot of ads. http://yieldbuild.com/

By: kev8

kev8 — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 12:12:59 +0000

Hey Mark,

Just wondering if the above is still relevant,I notice its from before Christmas. I had a surge in traffic and earnings on hubpages around and just after Christmas and Im now seeing a drop in both.Not sure if it was the Christmas shopping flurry or not. Any ideas? Also any suggestions about where to place google adsense ads on wordpress blogs. Can you point me to any good articles,books or websites?
Thanks
kev8

By: Caroline Billige Solbriller

Caroline Billige Solbriller — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 22:09:11 +0000

Shows SEO is an uncertain business. Spending 100′s of hours in optimizing for one factor today can show a waste of time tomorrow – if Googles alters the algorithm. I guess it shows once again that the best you can do it to build your SEO on many different factors, so that if one is altered in the algorithm it does not all fall together. However, in practice it can be difficult to do so.

By: Mark

Mark — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 20:49:43 +0000

My pleasure Jyoti,

My traffic is constantly increasing also – and I think you might be surprised at how much traffic that is – but -0 I am losing SE traffic to certain high paying financial subjects.

By: Jyoti Kothari

Jyoti Kothari — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 00:45:47 +0000

Hi Mark,
My traffic is constantly increasing in hubpages. I am not feeling that Google has penalized the hubpages.

It may be that you were getting tons of traffic when there were low competition.

Thousands of hubbers sign up hubpages and create a lot of contents that may be lowering traffic to established hubbers like you.

Just a guess.

Thanks,
Jyoti Kothari

By: Dark Alice

Dark Alice — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 02:00:18 +0000

I love Hubpages and use it for something other than revenue. So any money made is incidental but welcome. I don’t make much money at all from my Hubpages, but I have noticed that my clicks have gone from 10-30 cents a click to 1 cent a click. Happened in the last month or two. Is it just me?

Your problem sounds a little like something else. It is very plain that G loves the very old and the very new. Given two hubs with equal keyword density, quality outgoing links, unique pictures and videos, I would expect G to favor a week old hub over a six month old hub.
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By: Mark

Mark — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 14:41:15 +0000

Yes – I manage to do 51 hubs in the first challenge – and pissed off all my regular readers in the process. But now – all I see is crap – and I seen a drop in traffic to certain subjects and the hubs in question have been penalized. First time in 2 years my traffic has consistently gone down instead of up. Makes you wonder.

By: Paraglider

Paraglider — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 13:23:42 +0000

I’ve not been tracking it as carefully as you do, but I think I have noticed something of the sort in recent weeks. I’ve never been sold on these hub-challenges for the reason you mention – they can degenerate into garbage generators.
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