Most of the talk to solve these problems revolves on finding new models. There is a good study on what is facing news papers out today.

We all know that if they don’t adapt, they will go out of business. If I were at a newspaper, I’d focus on one thing. Online communities. Don’t compete on features, don’t compete on content. Figure out how to connect everyone locally. Use your print assets to drive web communities. That will give them a base to deeply innovate and succeed in the future.

There is an amazing shift happening to mobile right now. There will be over 1 Billion people soon connected to the Internet via a smartphone. Mobile traffic to websites is gaining steam. It won’t be too long until 50% of HubPages traffic is mobile (maybe in the next 12 months). The challenge is mobile advertising rates are less than web rates.

Businesses that created viable models for the lower monetization rates of the internet are going to have to adapt quickly to the lower rates for mobile.

No matter how far away or how long I’m out of the office, HubPages is always swirling in the back of my mind. The interesting thing about time away and thinking about the business is that I seem to be more productive and more concise with my plans when I return. The non-work time when I’m thinking about where I want the business to go is very helpful.

While it’s been pretty rare to get away for this long, I’m going to try and get away for a few days each quarter with my family to have time with them, but to also have time to quietly think about HubPages.

I checked our traffic numbers. Steady progress. We are up from where we were Pre Panda and the next 12 months should bring exciting levels of growth. As they say, what doesn’t kill us, makes us stronger.

Over the years, I’ve struggled with being present. Often times I’ll zone out thinking about mainly what we need to do at HubPages. This year, I’ve set a goal to spend more time with just her being present. To keep a connection that focuses on her. While today is a funny holiday that seems overly commercialized (look at the prices of roses today), it is a good reminder to think about the loves in your life and how to keep them going.

For every Netscape there are a bunch of small companies that are killed or adapted when they were competing against Microsoft. In the extreme situation. Do or die. You have to find another way to succeed. It’s not easy. It doesn’t feel good, but for many companies, especially the small ones, that’s the only option. If you’re waiting for the government, you’ll likely be out of money before any action is taken.

These articles were initially very specific about Rolex watches. Many were combined and updated, several unpublished after the last crash. There was a total of about 50% reduction in pages. While I think the account once received traffic for terms that may be a little reaching. I think it does deserve to rank for how to spot a fake rolex.

The next step is to remove more content accept for the pages that answer the queries the page receives very well. I’ll ask for all pages to be unpublished 404′ed with a time on page of under 1.5 minutes. Then we will give it another few weeks.

Google keeping track of billions of pages is bound to lose one or two and when the titles are so similar, that’s bound to cause some issues as well, but this piece of content was getting twice as much traffic as any other page I have. It hurts to lose it - it was about 15% of my total traffic.

So, the question is can the page be resurrected. Does it need inbound links, fresh content, and more comments. I’ve linked it from this post and I updated the content. Let’s see what happens in a week.