Hosted Tube?
 

Anybody experiencing a huge traffic drop since about two weeks ago?

No I only set one up today and I had a 500% increase!

maybe it's related to this: https://gfy.com/showthread.php?t=1140270

from what I see, it seems they are not delisted but don't rank at all anymore.

hostedtube=white label/duplicate content

it was only a matter of time.

Yep, it happened to all my hosted tubes:Oh crap

This thread made me check my stats, haven't checked for a bit. Yep, my numbers are way down.

yep if you want real money its hard work. :2 cents: im doing 12 hours+ on sites making good money

Traffic is down about 50% for me. Looks like it started dropping on April 28th.

Looks like good news :thumbsup

Yes. Dropped....a lot! To bad. Got lots of free advertising for datingsites on my tubes!

Dropped by 80%. Can PR please comment on the situation?

There really isn't anything for them to comment on. They have said it from the beginning, if you really want to get Google love and make money on a Hosted Tube site you have to write custom descriptions for all the videos...

:2 cents: yep hard work. i spend a few hours a day.

No not description, google targets script and embed code after april 28, smartcj is plain dead, along with whitelables, now hosted tubes. some of my mobile version is still there not delist but they dont rank shit at all... Think about, Over ten thousands of hosted tube, ALL same with pornstar archive, and video page achive, all embed to HOSTEDtube Cdn, that will get some ass burnt soon. Just like smartcj, all import from redtubes xvideos and let the script rearrange the categories and tags page. really stupid concept...

By the way, its not about the title or header, its the content thats hotlinking or embed and scrape... those get hit.

I bet Hitman will come out and defend his statement real soon. even Porn.xxx get its index penalize cuz too many hosted tubes link to it, but it still get internal long tails from pages though.

Better to host vids for the love. That being said... better to do something else... money is gone

are you going to say that those hosted tubes with custom descriptions for all the videos weren't affected by this update? I doubt it.

wow, looks like pimproll's porn.xxx got hit hard too

http://i.imgur.com/UKPDeGY.gif

I was think it will happen much soon.

Yep. How does changing a description add value? :1orglaugh

No, they were definitely affected. I have several parked domains that I have on Hosted Tube that I haven't touched, and a couple that I had custom descriptions and URL's written for. In the past you could just park a domain on Hosted Tube, add Google Analytics, and you would at least get sufficient Google traffic to make enough money off the site to pay for the domain. Now all my parked domains are getting a fraction of the traffic that they once did. As for the ones with the custom descriptions and URL's they definitely had a traffic drop, but are still making enough money to warrant the work put into them. I'm just saying that the days of park and forget are over, that if you still want to make money off Hosted Tube you gotta try and make them as unique as possible...

were they all on the same ip??? :helpme if so there you have it :2 cents:

All duplicate content has been affected several traffic companies are banning domains using white label content. The way around googles duplicate is to add some custom content eg: 100 videos etc 1000 pics making your url more unique.

No, there is about 12k+ hosted tube domains spread over several IPs.

well if the content is the same boom its toast. ive been looking into seo. its going to get really bad for people that threw up content without changing some of it. :2 cents:

My traffic is down 90%.