For the last several years, we have all worked really hard to improve HubPages. Many of you have been loyal community members for years—you have seen the many ups and downs. We don’t always get it perfect, but the commitment to our mission remains: to build the best place on the internet to discover and…
Read MoreSquidoo and HubPages
I have some very exciting news to announce today. HubPages is acquiring key content from Squidoo, creating the world’s largest site of its kind. Squidoo and HubPages have been cousins over the years. We shared the same desire to provide a platform for individuals to share their knowledge and passions with the world. We want…
Read MoreIntroducing: The HubPro Beta
Over the last three years, we have worked tirelessly as a community to improve the reader experience on HubPages and raise our standards of quality. Hubbers have worked to better their Hubs, and we have implemented programs and features like the Quality Assessment Process, Boot Camp, Style Tips, and the Apprenticeship Program. We can see…
Read MoreUpdate on Editor’s Choice Hubs
I wanted to provide an update on Editor’s Choice Hubs. We started the program to recognize great Hubs. Over the last nine months we have selected almost 20,000 EC Hubs and a handful are getting added every day. We’ve had lots of great comments that Hubbers love the recognition, but the data hounds in the…
Read MoreMobile Readership is Growing!
Last week, our traffic was just a hair more on desktop than mobile. I suspect in the coming weeks we will permanently shift to smartphones as the dominant platform for readers on HubPages. We’ve invested in our mobile design and we will have to do more to improve it. I strongly recommend laying out Hubs…
Read MoreIntroducing the New Mobile Hub
I’m super excited to announce an all new mobile Hub architecture and design for smartphones. We’ve all read and heard about the switch to mobile and our traffic numbers indicate it’s happening quickly. Over the last 30 days we’ve had over 14 million visits from smartphones. A year ago in the exact same time…
Read MoreUpdate to the Quality Assessment Process: Improving the quality of ALL Hubs!
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 MoreUpcoming AdSense Changes to Custom Formatted Ads
Last week we got a bit of news that Google AdSense has changed the way its auctions work. This change was rolled out to standard units (in December, we believe). Most folks didn’t notice that lower revenue per click was made up with higher click-through rates because AdSense launched a formatting change that included arrows…
Read MoreIntroducing Idle Hubs
For quite some time, Hubbers have requested that we boost HubPages’ reputation by improving the site’s overall quality. Hubbers have also been asking for advice on when to update and delete old Hubs. Today we are beginning a series of updates that we hope will address both requests. Sometimes a couple of under-performing Hubs can…
Read MoreNew Monetization Opportunity with Slideshows
[UPDATE (October 8th, 2012): AdSense ads shown in slideshows were part of a test program ran by Google AdSense, the first phase of which has been discontinued. This means that, for the time being, you will not see ads on slideshows, however as soon as the feature becomes available again, we will add it back.]…
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