As you may recall, in late March we raised the quality bar for all newly-published and edited Hubs. This heightened bar has not been applied to older Hubs that were published before the QAP. Beginning this week (and continuing gradually over the next few months), older Hubs will be subject to our quality thresholds. What…
Read MoreA New Hub Formatting Option: Topic Templates
Many of the ideas and new features on HubPages are suggested by our fabulous authors. Topic Templates is another fantastic Hubber-driven feature. In a Forum post, janderson99 suggested that since HubPages is becoming more and more focused on quality, we should provide our authors with a foundation for creating Stellar, QAP-friendly Hubs! Our answer to this…
Read MoreExclusives and Topics and Rising Stars, Oh My!
As Simone has mentioned, she’s leaving HubPages at the end of this month to work on her new business at Gigaverse. The HubPages Team wishes her the very best, and we’ll miss her terribly! I wanted to take this opportunity to inform the community that I’ll be assuming command over some of Simone’s programs when…
Read MoreSimone Smith to Start a Training Center for Online Careers
When interviewing potential HubPages employees, our CEO Paul Edmondson always likes to ask this question: Where do you see yourself in five years? Though there are many promising responses to this question (you may have encountered some in HubPages’ numerous job interview guides), the “right answer” at HubPages is to have a vision of someday launching…
Read MoreFive Common Mistakes Made by Online Writers: A Guest Post by WryLilt
A few weeks ago, WryLilt, one of our top Hubbers, made an incredibly generous gesture by opening up a Forum thread in which she would give a critique to anyone who asked for help with a Hub. Last week, she published a Hub guiding people through the most common mistakes she encountered when reviewing others’…
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