A few weeks ago, we announced that categories were coming to HubPages. We were delightfully surprised by the strong, positive response. If you click on the announcement link, you can see the discussion that occurred. You can also click on any of the categories (such as “Arts & Crafts”) to see the subcategories proposed and…
Read MoreThis Week’s HubNuggets and Hubber2Hubber Interview
Every Wednesday I put together our super-sweet email newsletter and send it out to thousands of Hubbers — some of them who see it and I’m sure that some of them who don’t. Now I may have a biased opinion on the matter, but I feel that the newsletter is packed with some really interesting…
Read MoreNew HubPages Guide Coming Soon!
The past few weeks I have been hard at work (and hard at focusing) on writing a new, full-blown HubPages Guide that is far and beyond anything that we have ever had before. I’m super excited to get it all completely finished and posted up live on HubPages so that everyone can use it as…
Read MoreProof That Getting Entertainment Traffic Is Possible With HubPages
One of my favorite reports that I look at each day is called ‘User Traffic Trends’ that shows me the type of traffic that Hubbers are currently getting as compared to the traffic that they were getting last week. It ranks the Hubbers according to the percentage of increase from the prior week and it’s…
Read MoreHow To Make Money On HubPages In 2 Easy Steps
I decided to have a little fun with some video today so I shot some random bits about how people can make money writing on HubPages. It’s a little abbreviated, but I think it gets the point across. Check out some of what came out of it below or over here on YouTube.
Read MoreThis Week’s Tasty HubNuggets
Each week a super-cool and mountain-bike-loving Hubber funride selects 10 well-written and high quality Hubs that have been published within the last few weeks by a new Hubber. He then publishes a Hub that includes links to each of the 10 that he chooses, as well as a brief summary of each and a Poll…
Read MoreRockin Joe Interviews A Hubber
As I was browsing the web today (aka ‘working’), I decided to see what Rockin Joe was up to over on his HubPages tribute site — the cleverly named PrettyWasted.com. Once I was on the site I quickly noticed that he had done something on his own that was pretty sweet. he had taken it…
Read MoreCrowdsourcing: the Book
In my view, one of the coolest terms out now is Crowdsourcing. This is a term that was first proposed by Jeff Howe of Wired Magazine in June, 2006. His goal with the term was to call attention to the emerging trend of user-generated content. Implicit in the term is the idea that the communities…
Read MoreCategories and Tags: Why Not Have Both
When Joshua Schachter first came up with the idea of tagging in 2003, most people didn’t get it. Del.icio.us had its strange url and offered the seemingly simple idea of social bookmarks and tagging. Today, Delicious is seen as one of those classic technology stories. Start up innovates, gains a buzz, and sets off a…
Read MoreYeah, We’re Moving’ On Up! HubPages Cracks Top 200 Websites In U.S.
According to Quantcast, at some point during the holidays we officially broke through to the top 200 most trafficked websites in the United States (we’re #192 as of this writing). This is an amazingly awesome accomplishment for me and the rest of the team here who work each day to continue to keep HubPages the…
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