One of the most confusing subjects online is SEO. There are thousands of different so-called “experts” telling you to do thousands of different things. Some of these suggested tweaks are legitimate and truly helpful. Some are utterly useless. Some actually do damage (both to your prospects and to the general quality of content online). Are…
Read MoreInterview with a Winning HubPages Creative Writer
In November of this year, Marlin55 won the Creative Writing Grand Prize in the HubPatron of the Arts contest for The Agency, a short story with a splendid, cinematic feel. Marlin66 also won the HubPatron of the Arts Smashwords prize, and will have his work published as an ebook soon. Read on for a peek…
Read MoreOnline Freelance Writing Advice from Bard of Ely
Many writers join HubPages hoping to develop their online writing skills, meet some friends, develop a readership, and perhaps even make some money on the side, but in many cases, Hubbing has lead to a freelance writing career. Believe it or not, every time you publish a Hub you are adding to an online portfolio…
Read MoreHow to Stay Safe Online
Online safety is a big issue these days- it is difficult to go a week without hearing about it the news somewhere or another! Buzz-worthiness aside, it is very important that protect yourself while writing on HubPages and poking around elsewhere. At the behest of Tracy Robinson on Facebook, we’ve made this week’s Online Writing Insider all about online…
Read MoreYour Questions, Answered!
One of the many things that we are excited about this holiday season is about how well our Hubbers are doing on the Q&A section of HubPages. A recent report generated by our wonderful Ari Lamstein shows that a third of questions asked on our site get answered in less than 10 minutes, 70 percent…
Read MoreChanges to Our Podcasts
If you pay frequent visits to the HubPages blog, you will know very well that we have been regularly sharing new installments in three different podcast series: Fascinating Fiction: A series dedicated to the reading of short fiction Hubs The Online Writing Insider: A series sharing tips and advice for the modern online writer Weekly…
Read MoreTributes to earnestshub
The HubPages community learned on Monday, with great sadness, that earnestshub, a HubPages member for 3 years, had passed away. A treasured member of the community, earnestshub had published 146 Hubs sharing his expertise and passion for automobiles, and had gotten to know a lot of us through his frequent interactions in the forums. The…
Read MoreOn Writing Well: On NOT Losing the Plot
Much of the time, when writing prose, we get so carried away by character development and writing style that we forget all about the central structure of our work – the plot. Plot (or story, it really is the same thing) plays a critical role within creative prose. In fact as a judge of the…
Read MoreHow to Find Good Topics
We recently asked for some Online Writing Insider topic suggestions on our Facebook page and received a couple of excellent recommendations. One came from Tracy Robinson, who was looking for some advice on How to Find Good Topics to Hub about. In this week’s Online Writing Insider podcast, we outline five different ways to find…
Read MoreAn Interview with Sarahredhead – Award Winning Photo Hubber
In November’s HubPatron of the Arts contest, Sarahredhead won the $500 first place prize in the photo category for a beautiful collection of photos titled PHOTOGRAPHY: A Living Palate. To learn more about this impressive photographer and her work, we contacted her for an interview. Read on for a fun peek into the life of…
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