Earlier this week, we updated one of the HubPages Accolades – perhaps you have noticed! The Great Commenter Accolade now has levels. Shown in Roman numerals, these levels, ranging from one to eight, will help you see just how great a commenter a Hubber is. The key to leveling up is to leave insightful comments…
Read MoreMilestone: 100,000 questions asked on HubPages
We like to note important milestones here on HubPages, like our billionth Hub view and our millionth Hub. Milestones help remind us that we’ve come a long way as a large online writing community. One feature, our Answers section, has paired askers with answerers for the last few years, and we’ve hit an important milestone…
Read MoreA Day in the Life of a 1950’s Housewife & The Debut of the Fascinating Fiction Podcast
Today I am happy to announce the debut of the HubPages Fascinating Fiction podcast – a podcast devoted to showcasing fictional short stories written on HubPages.com. The first short story to be featured in this podcast was an entry in April’s So You Think You Can Write Online contest. The judges loved it and though…
Read MoreHubCamp Boston In Review
HubCamp Boston took place yesterday, and we all had a blast! Robin and I met up with Boston area Hubbers including thranax, J.S.Matthew, and Carolyn2008 at the Back Bay Hotel to swap insider HubPages tips and just shoot the breeze. It was a blast meeting Hubbers in person and we hope that everyone had as…
Read MoreUpdated Hub Layout
We are in the process of implementing an update that will remove the questions and forums boxes from Hubs to give them a cleaner, less cluttered interface. The Q&A and Forums sections of the site will, of course, remain unchanged. One of the most interesting things about design is that the elements that are left…
Read MoreWhere Did Polka Dots Come From?
Where did polka dots come from? And what do they have to do with gypsies, virility, disease, dancing, and moons? Tess45 could tell you- she has proven herself to be the polka dot expert! Tune into this episode of Weekly Advice from Everyday Experts (Where did polka dots come from?) to learn all about polka…
Read MoreData: The More Followers You Have, the More Traffic per Hub
Ari Lamstein, a HubPages engineer that programmed the great milestone notification emails we get, queried our database a couple of weeks ago to demonstrate that the more you publish on HubPages, the more traffic you get per Hub. Ari’s dug through the data again to see if there’s a relationship between the number of followers a…
Read MoreHow to LEGALLY Use Images In Your Hubs
Though it might be tempting to type a keyword into Google Images and use the first attractive photo that comes up, adding copyrighted images to your online articles is essentially stealing (and in other words, illegal). In this episode of the Online Writing Insider (How to Legally Use Images in Your Online Articles), Robin Edmondson…
Read MoreBoston, Ho!
For those who live near Boston, here’s a big heads up – HubCamp Boston is this Sunday, from 3:00 to 6:00pm at the Back Bay Hotel. The hotel is quite the lovely place, and we’ll have plenty of cookies and coffee to keep us going as we chat! Robin Edmondson and I shall be present,…
Read MoreHubMeets & Glenn Stok
While we have two official HubCamps coming up (one in Boston, the other in London), Hubbers all over the place are organizing awesome HubPages Social Meetups (aka HubMeets) of their own. One such Hubber is Glenn Stok. He hosted his first HubMeet this March and has another planned for July 9th in Long Island, NY.…
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