We are making changes to the Hub Hopper and it’s placement on the site to help us quickly identify Hubs to feature across HubPages Topic Pages, Related Hubs and the Best, Hot and Latest Hub feeds. This will create a better browsing experience for readers and offer more rewards to Hubbers that create great Hubs.…
Read MorePreparing a Test to Further Address Panda
We are nearing the last phase of our plan to address Panda, the Google search algorithm change that has hit HubPages. I’ve shared a number of major changes we’ve made in prior blog posts, but, to reiterate, we have been working on a plan to lift the punitive aspect of Panda from HubPages, where search…
Read MoreAddressing Panda
It’s been a bit since I posted an update on addressing Panda, so I wanted to let all of you know that we are still working aggressively on it; we are as concerned about this issue as you are, and are committed to finding a solution. Since the Panda update, we’ve been working around the…
Read MoreOpen Publishing Platforms are Critical to the Web
HubPages has always believed in open publishing platforms and giving Hubbers as much freedom as possible to share their knowledge with the world. At the same time we have always taken content moderation seriously and work hard to be great Net citizens. Today, I posted a few questions regarding best practices to the Google Webmaster…
Read MoreAs the Google Update Continues
There has been a great deal of attention to changes to Google’s search algorithm and I know that many of you have been wondering about changes in Google traffic to your Hubs. As a community of writers that owns their own content, we know how invested each of you are in your corner of HubPages,…
Read MoreRecent Google Changes
There has been a significant update to the Google search results that we first noticed the evening of February 23. We have always believed that the only way to long term success is by creating useful high quality content. We also strongly believe in Google’s desire to have the best content rise to the top…
Read MoreA Few Questions to Answer About HubPages
We get a ton of specific feedback from the HubPages community through the forums and sent to us directly. Posts often inform us of features people want and areas of the site that have bugs or aren’t working right. This feedback is tremendously important to how we plan the development work on HubPages. This weekend,…
Read MoreHubPages Mobile Usage and 2011 Prediction
We’ve been watching mobile usage very closely at HubPages and I think we have some interesting trends to report. The first interesting thing about mobile usage on HubPages is there were 3.6 million visits from mobile devices in November. The iPhone is the #1 device, with 1.4 million visits, but Android usage is growing more…
Read MoreGuest Post on TechCrunch This Weekend
We are really thankful for an opportunity to write a guest post on TechCrunch this weekend to a follow up story they did on the One Millionth Hub. As a result of their last story on HubPages, I received several emails about how HubPages traffic grew and we thought it must seem mysterious to people…
Read MoreHow Great is Zappos?
I’m a huge fans of Zappos. Not because they have incredible customer service, or because it’s one of my favorite places to shop. I’m a huge Zappos fan because all the people I meet that work there tell me they love it. As CEO of HubPages, I find this completely inspirational. The HubPages team was…
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