August is here again, and in keeping with HubPages tradition, that means it’s almost time for the 4th Annual Hubbies! YOU nominate and vote for your favorite Hubbers and Hubs in a variety of categories. Winners will be awarded the rarest, most coveted Accolade on HubPages; the Hubbie Accolade (plus some really cool prizes). Voting…
Read MoreBroken Link Changes
Hello Hubbers, I have a quick announcement this afternoon. In order to promote quality content on HubPages and ensure the best reader experience possible, we’re changing the way broken links will be handled in Hubs. When Hubs contain broken links, those links will now display with a line through them, and when clicked on, a…
Read MoreHelp Us Promote HubPages and Earn Lifetime Referral Bonuses
Hi there, friends! Matt M and I get the occasional referral question in the Forums, and it occurred to me that many Hubbers are probably not taking advantage of our HubPages Referral Program because they don’t know about it and/or because they don’t understand how it works. It can definitely be a little confusing, but it’s…
Read MoreComment Management Tips
I’ve seen a number of Forum posts and received a few emails lately from Hubbers who have questions about managing comments on their Hubs. If you’ve been a member of HubPages for years, these tips may be old hat, but beginning and intermediate Hubbers will hopefully find them quite useful. Comments are a staple of…
Read MoreHow to Grow Your Twitter Followers without Being Annoying
Twitter can be an excellent platform for growing your online brand, establishing yourself as an authority, and of course, promoting your Hubs. But before you can reach and influence lots of people on Twitter, you’ll need followers who actually see and engage with your content. There’s a lot of bad advice on the internet about…
Read MoreVideos Can Now Include an Embedded Timestamp!
I have quite a nifty new feature to announce today. (It’s extra special, too, because it’s Oren’s first project at HubPages. Go Oren!) YouTube videos that you embed in your Hubs can now include a timestamp! For people who are less tech-savvy like me, this means that when you add videos to your Hub, you…
Read MoreIntroducing a New HubPages Engineer, Oren Radousky
I’ve got some exciting news this Wednesday. HubPages is delighted to welcome a new engineer to the Team! Oren Radousky just joined us a couple weeks ago, and we’re very happy to have him. Oren is still settling in, but we know he’ll work hard to keep HP running, get pesky bugs fixed, and to…
Read MoreHubber hazelbrown Interviewed on HuffPost Live
HubPages is very pleased to congratulate Hubber Angela Nilles (hazelbrown), who was recently interviewed on HuffPost Live. Angela was approached by the folks at The Huffington Post to appear live on a panel discussing Summer Seasonal Affective Disorder ( Summer SAD) after they read her Hub, I Hate Summer: Depression, Irritability, and Summer Seasonal Affective Disorder…
Read MoreHub Improvement: Hubs Get Shiny New Social Buttons!
Hi there, folks! I have some exciting news. After some testing, we’ve decided to make the switch to static social sharing buttons. We’ve also redesigned the buttons to be more noticeable and attractive to readers. Here’s what the new ones will look like: So, what’s different about the buttons, other than the way…
Read MoreGreat Topics for Quarter 3
The start of 2014 Quarter 3 is just a couple months away, and once again we’d like to share the topic tips from our friends at Google AdSense with Hubbers. These topics are ones that historically have had higher CPMs during July, August, and September, and the people at AdSense expect that trend to continue…
Read More