We continue our series of interviews with the judging panel for our Cookbook Contest with Jess Kapadia, Recipes Editor at Food Republic, a fast-growing food, drink, and lifestyle website for men. Jess’s love of food began before she could express it, but today she’s anything but lost for words. She’s made a career out of…
Read MoreNew Hub design rolled out sitewide!
Last week, we shared the almost-final redesign of Hubs on the blog and in the forums. We gathered feedback, mostly centered around an aversion to showing Hub views and the wordiness of the last published/updated line, and performance information. Traffic data showed that, despite losing the sidebar ad, overall ad clickthrough has not changed, while…
Read MoreA Hubber’s Guide to Facebook
Last week we published a new Learning Center guide sharing tips on using Twitter in a way that can benefit one’s Hubs and general online brand. This week, our focus turns to Facebook. This second installment in a series of four guides to using social media as Hubber (which cover Twitter, Facebook, Google+, and Pinterest)…
Read MoreDiscovered by a Greeter: Haunty Interviews Sphinxs Sanctum
One of the frustrating things about discovering new Hubbers is that there is so little information about them! Most have only written a couple of Hubs, many haven’t yet filled out their profile bios, and some even don’t have a profile photo! Charged with the nobile task of making new Hubbers feel at Home, our…
Read MoreSoon You’ll Be Able to Select Best Answers
Next week we will be adding an exciting new feature to the Answers section: the ability for Hubbers to select a Best Answer to a Question that they asked. The goals of this feature are to: Highlight great content. When a visitor from a search engine lands on your Question page, they are often looking…
Read MoreNew Hub Layout Rolled Out for Testing
We’ve just rolled out a new Hub design in 3 categories – Fashion & Beauty, Food, and Technology – that builds upon the previous design that Simone announced a few weeks ago. Here are the changes (click to see a full-sized version): The breadcrumb now displays the total number of published Hubs in each of the categories,…
Read MoreMeet the Staff! An Interview with Ari Lamstein
If you regularly use the Q&A feature on our site, you’re very familiar with Ari Lamstein’s work. He has been improving and refining that feature for quite some time now, and has made some magnificent changes! As the latest installment in our Meet the Staff series, we’ve given Ari some of the questions you’ve asked…
Read MoreBeware Bad Backlinking Behavior!
There is a lot of bad SEO (search engine optimization) advice out there, and the use of automated services to procure backlinks to your Hubs is one particularly egregious example. Using services to get backlinks can result in your Google AdSense and/or HubPages account permanently banned. No, we are not joking, and once you lose…
Read MoreMeet the Judges: Hillary Mickell of Foodily.com
With the HubPages Cookbook Contest underway, it’s a great time to introduce your amazing judging panel. We’re kicking off this blog interview series with a judge whose familiarity with recipes is unparalleled — Hillary Mickell, the CMO and Chief Tastemaker of popular recipe discovery site (and awesome mobile app) Foodily.com. I sent Hillary some questions…
Read MoreWould you like to get editing help from fellow Hubbers?
We’re constantly looking for new ways to improve the quality of Hubs on HubPages as well as your experience as an online writer. To do this, we regularly test out new ideas and features that might make a difference. One feature we’ve been working on is a community edit feature; one which makes it possible…
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