The start of 2014 Quarter 3 is just a couple months away, and once again we’d like to share the topic tips from our friends at Google AdSense with Hubbers. These topics are ones that historically have had higher CPMs during July, August, and September, and the people at AdSense expect that trend to continue…
Read MoreA Few Updates to HubPages
Hey, Hubbers! We are very excited about the future of HubPages. We continually strive to improve HubPages, and we appreciate all the feedback you’ve so helpfully given us. Going forward, we plan to stick with our traditional iterative approach. This means frequent small changes to the product with periods of data collection and analysis. We…
Read MoreEverything You Wanted to Know About Controversial HubPages Issues but Were Afraid to Ask
When I was in Austin attending SXSW Interactive, I had the pleasure of meeting up with Marcy Goodfleisch for some coffee at Whole Foods flagship store, which I find to be one of the world’s closest equivalents to heaven. Over some tasty tea and coffee Marcy asked a lot of really good questions on behalf…
Read MoreYour Questions, Answered!
One of the many things that we are excited about this holiday season is about how well our Hubbers are doing on the Q&A section of HubPages. A recent report generated by our wonderful Ari Lamstein shows that a third of questions asked on our site get answered in less than 10 minutes, 70 percent…
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 MoreGoogle’s Jennifer Bahk: HubPages and AdSense
Hey Hubbers, My name is Jenn and I’m from the Google AdSense team, headquartered in Mountain View, California. I’ve been working with Ren and Jason over the past couple months to figure out how we can help Hubbers optimize their experience with Google AdSense. For those of you already using AdSense on your Hubs, that’s…
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 MoreThe Secret to Finding High-Traffic Topics for your Hubs
Over the last four years, I’ve published over 150 Hubs in my livelonger account, and have experimented with various types of topic sources. Some of my Hubs have been major hits, with over 100,000 views and several hundreds of dollars in my AdSense account; others barely got any views at all. Let me share with…
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…
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