Comments on: Google Panda 20 Loves Squidoo, Hates Hubpages?

By: Joseph Mitchell

Joseph Mitchell — Wed, 11 Sep 2013 22:02:51 +0000

I know greekgeek from HubPages. We used to talk on there a few times. I took all of my stuff off the air. I am doing research. I do not know where I am going with on line blogging. I have a very small glimmer of hope about professional writing. I am largely very cynical and skeptical. I have some hope about personal blogging. I have no clear idea about what site to go to. WordPress seems quite legit. Every site has plusses and minuses. I used to enjoy talking to greekgeek on HP. I glanced, and read a couple of her articles today and discovered that she is all over the web. I had a huge falling out with both Hubpages and Google AdSense both. I have not recovered yet. Eventually I would like to do e-books. Frankly I do not know where I am going. I wound up researching Panda. It doesn’t look good.

By: Some hubpages member

Some hubpages member — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 22:39:57 +0000

I think it’d be better if hubpages do not publish a pending hub UNTIL it’s being approved. They should look at how WordPress works and why Google love WordPress so much, be it the WordPress.com blogs or most sites that use WordPress as their blogging platform.

By: Greekgeek

Greekgeek — Sun, 25 Nov 2012 22:55:03 +0000

Blast it. I take a vacation from Squidoo for a month and traffic goes haywire. I don’t have answers yet, but I see the problem.

By: JKim

JKim — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 10:18:51 +0000

Hi!

I’ve been scouring the forums for answers, but so far, all I’ve got are just questions. About 3 or 4 days ago, I noticed a slump in my lenses’ traffic. I shrugged it off on the first day because I thought it was just a glitch. But the problem has persisted as of this writing.

Could it be Google Panda’s doing? I’m not an expert in SEO, but I always watch the keywords and how my lenses rank. One of my lenses rank very highly on Google SERPs (even long tail keywords). But when I checked, it’s not ranking high anymore. It’s weird because you said Squidoo’s traffic spiked.

If you have some explanation as regards this matter, I would really really appreciate it. I’m honestly waiting for you or Potpiegirl to pop up in the forums and provide some answers, but I can’t wait anymore.

Thanks for your time to go over this.

By: Greekgeek

Greekgeek — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 01:23:16 +0000

I think Hubpages will sort some of this mess out… they are trying to fix it. I just don’t agree with one of the things they’re doing to fix it!

And on the bright side, also, I’m sure you picked up some tips from the Apprentice Program that are applicable anywhere. Congrats on the Squidoo sales uptick!

By: Bev (TheRaggedEdge)

Bev (TheRaggedEdge) — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 13:03:32 +0000

Ugh! I have just reached the end of the HP Apprentice program. It was all going swimmingly well – traffic increasing slowly but steadily; earnings making well over the payout threshold and now, whoomph! I now have individual Squidoo lenses attracting more traffic than my whole HP account. I’m sitting here watching my numbers drop. However, on the brightside, my Squidoo account is receiving more traffic than ever and, while I’ve been neglecting lenses and lensrank has dropped a bit, sales are up and continuing upwards. Hubpages must sort this mess out!

Thanks for shedding some light on this, GG.