ARRR you a fan of pirates? ARRR you a bonnie lass or in favor of rambunctious women? If ye answer’d AYE to these questions, ye’ll love this podcast. For this week’s Weekly Advice from Everyday Experts podcast (Daring Female Pirates), we discuss four of history’s most famous female pirates: Mary Read, Anne Bonne, Ching Shih,…
Read MoreOn Writing Well: Writing the Ending
For a lot of people, crafting conclusions is the hardest part of writing. Writers from all genres find endings harder to write than any other part of the work, and the dread is entirely understandable. After all, the conclusion is our last point of contact with the reader, and as writers, we strive to make…
Read MoreHow to Write SEO-Friendly (but AUTHENTIC!) Online Titles
The line between search-engine friendliness and authenticity is fraught with peril. Many writers write witty, fun, humorous, and interesting titles that have no shot at being found by searchers. Others write titles that are so SEO-optimized that they look as though they have been written by over caffeinated robots (or, at the very least, spammers). Is it…
Read MoreIntroducing the HubPatron of the Arts Contest
HubPages is a vast site, full of many, many different subcommunities of writers and enthusiasts. Some of the strongest communities on our site are comprised of the artistically-inclined: poets, fiction writers, and photographers. To celebrate these amazing artists, we decided to make our next contest all about prose, poetry and photos! Enter the HubPatron of…
Read MoreUpdate: eBay Earnings Directly Through HubPages
As you may have read in Paul Edmondson’s previous forum post on the topic, eBay is going to be available to many of you shortly. We have always cared deeply about the ability for Hubbers to earn and are looking forward to seeing how this enhanced earning privilege will allow Hubbers to earn more. We greatly…
Read MoreRevenge of the Glowing Green Cats
What happens when electron-genetic-construct experiments go terribly, terribly wrong? Paradigmsearch explored this very potentiality in Revenge of the Glowing Green Cats, a short but highly amusing Hub. It was pretty fun to record the podcast version of this short story. Listen in if you’re on the go! Big props to paradigmsearch for turning a somewhat newsy…
Read MoreCreative Halloween Costume Ideas
Who doesn’t like talking about Halloween costumes? With the spooky holiday rolling around, we could not help but take a podcast to share some of our favorite creative Halloween costume ideas. Hundreds of Hubs on HubPages offer tips on costumes, so we narrowed our focus to three guides written by staff members: one with costume ideas…
Read MoreOn Writing Well: An Interview with Melanie Gideon
Melanie Gideon’s A Slippery Year is one of my personal favorite memoirs. It also stayed on the New York Times’ top ten best-seller list for many weeks, and received rave reviews from NPR, NY Post, San Francisco Chronicle, New Yorker’s Book Bench, Christian Science Monitor, San Francisco Magazine, Elle, Kirkus, Booklist, BookPage and others. I…
Read MoreAll About Evergreen Content
What is evergreen content? Here’s a hint- it doesn’t actually have anything to do with trees. Listen in to this Online Writing Insider podcast (All About Evergreen Content) as Robin Edmondson and Yours, Truly offer the lowdown on evergreen content. We cover a simple explanation, examples of evergreen content- as well as examples of non-evergreen…
Read MoreHub quality trends – working our way up
HubPages is an open publishing platform, meaning that we allow Hubs on a wide range of topics to be published. People new to the site can also enjoy the gratification of being able to share their Hubs with others and receive feedback almost immediately after publishing. For the past few years, the HubPages staff (yep,…
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