For several months now, we’ve had a fairly unknown section of our site that you’ve potentially never seen before — the Idea Bank. The Idea Bank is a tool that looks somewhat similar to the Requests section, but is actually something that was first added to HubPages for a completely different reason. You see, Requests…
Read MoreThe Payout Chronicles: Dorsi talks about persistence, consistency and getting her second payout
Here at HubPages we love helping people make money by writing about the things they’re passionate about. Whether it’s writing about finding the best travel coffee mug or the fastest 50 cars, you can honestly be successful writing on HubPages as long as you are publishing quality, original and informative content. You publish it and…
Read MoreSphinx Search comes to HubPages
This week, HubPages upgraded its search features to use a popular indexing technology knowns as Sphinx Search. This is the same search technology used by Craigslist and it has enabled HubPages to add the following new capabilities to our search: Matching search terms in bold letters Exact phrase search Ability to exclude search terms from…
Read MoreOne Major Milestone — 1,000,000 Hub Views!
As I was browsing through the Milestones over in Hubtivity a few minutes ago, I noticed a medal that I haven’t ever seen before. The medal was HUGE and it immediately caught my attention as I was scrolling through the pages of the latest Hubber accomplishments. Here’s what it looked like: Apparently one of our…
Read MoreTasty HubNuggets And A Mexican Firecracker
In this week’s newsletter we had 5 great HubNuggets that were voted on by the Hubtastic community over here in this Hub that funride published about a week or so ago. The Hubs, as always, give a great sampling of what some of the up and coming Hubbers have found success in writing about. This…
Read MoreCategories: Ready to Go This Week
A few weeks ago, we announced that categories were coming to HubPages. We were delightfully surprised by the strong, positive response. If you click on the announcement link, you can see the discussion that occurred. You can also click on any of the categories (such as “Arts & Crafts”) to see the subcategories proposed and…
Read MoreThis Week’s HubNuggets and Hubber2Hubber Interview
Every Wednesday I put together our super-sweet email newsletter and send it out to thousands of Hubbers — some of them who see it and I’m sure that some of them who don’t. Now I may have a biased opinion on the matter, but I feel that the newsletter is packed with some really interesting…
Read MoreNew HubPages Guide Coming Soon!
The past few weeks I have been hard at work (and hard at focusing) on writing a new, full-blown HubPages Guide that is far and beyond anything that we have ever had before. I’m super excited to get it all completely finished and posted up live on HubPages so that everyone can use it as…
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