While we have two official HubCamps coming up (one in Boston, the other in London), Hubbers all over the place are organizing awesome HubPages Social Meetups (aka HubMeets) of their own. One such Hubber is Glenn Stok. He hosted his first HubMeet this March and has another planned for July 9th in Long Island, NY.…
Read MoreDangerous Airports & Stupid Airplane Rules
What are the world’s most dangerous airports? And why are we forced to comply with so many stupid airport and airline rules? In this episode of Weekly Advice from Everyday Experts (Dangerous Airports & Stupid Airplane Rules), Jason Menayan and I discuss the world’s 13 most dangerous airports and stupid airplane rules as introduced in…
Read MoreOur April Contest – It’s a Wrap!
Though each contest on HubPages seems to be better than the last, April’s So You Think You Can Write Online proved to be far and away the most impressive competition our site has yet to see. Because there was no limiting category, entrants were free to write on what interested them most, and a plethora…
Read MoreThe Online Writing Insider: Using Additional Media in Hubs
Do you augment your online articles, blog posts, and short fiction with any additional media? In this episode of the Online Writing Insider, Robin and Simone discuss Online Writing and Additional Media: how photos, video, maps, tables, products, and more can be used to augment all sorts of articles- from recipes to fiction. Is there something…
Read MoreNew Feature: The Tips Box
Happy Tuesday! We decided to celebrate this beautiful second day of the working week by rolling out a new feature. When you create and edit Hubs, you will now see the occasional tip to the right of your screen – right below the Add a Capsule box and right above the box where you reorder…
Read MoreSummaries for Hubs
You may have noticed recently that some Hubs on HubPages are showing up without summaries. As a part of our overall effort to improve the reader experience on HubPages, we are encouraging everyone to create their own, custom summaries. The summary you enter (under the summary tab of the control box at the right side…
Read MoreGetting to Know the Shuar People with Marie McKeown
Who are the Shuar? Where are they from? And do they really shrink heads??? In this episode of Weekly Advice from Everyday Experts (The Shuar People – Do They Really Shrink Heads?), Jason Menayan and Yours Truly discuss the Shuar people, as introduced in a very adventurous article on HubPages by Marie McKeown. Marie, as…
Read MoreAn Overview of New Publishing Standards
To ensure that HubPages continues to be the best place to write online, we have introduced new publishing standards over the past several weeks. These new policies are designed to ultimately provide benefits across our entire community of writers. While these changes in our publishing standards are designed to improve the overall quality of HubPages’…
Read MoreThe Online Writing Insider: Tips on Your Title
We’re launching a new podcast (in addition to Weekly Advice from Everyday Experts) called the Online Writing Insider in which experts from the HubPages staff share some tips on writing online. Since this is our very first podcast in the series, we’re starting with the basics: Creating the Best Online Title. What are the elements…
Read MoreData: The More You Publish, the More Traffic per Hub
I’m not sure if you’ve taken a look at our Success Stories, but if you have a look, you’ll see a pattern in each successful Hubbers’ traffic graphs, the Panda update notwithstanding: their traffic tends to grow over time out of proportion with their Hub publishing activity. Not only does each additional Hub give you…
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