Many Hubbers have trouble making the jump from online obscurity to significant earnings and a strong online presence. We are happy to announce the public release of a special program that can help you bridge that gap. The HubPages Apprenticeship Program is a rigorous six month course in which Hubbers are taught basic and more advanced…
Read MoreImportant Changes Coming to HubPages
We’re happy to announce a number of fabulous changes here at HubPages. We hope you will enjoy them as much as we do: HubPages will assume ownership of all of the original photos you’ve uploaded to the site. We will be collaborating with Pinterest to assemble them into a book which we will be selling.…
Read MoreSpecial Layout Options are Live!
We are happy to announce that you now have access to our new review and recipe-centric capsules. The next time you visit the HubTool, you will be able to add Ratings, Cook Time, Ingredients, Instructions, and Nutrition Capsules to your review and recipe Hubs, and doing so, as we mentioned in our previous blog post…
Read MoreNew Hub Design On The Way
Soon we will be introducing a new design for Hub layouts. This re-design has been a long time coming; those of you who follow our blog know that we have been discussing new Hub layouts since last summer. Now, with the help of our fantastic new Head of Product Micki S, and the ever brilliant…
Read MoreIntroducing Special Layout Options for Reviews and Recipes
One big perk associated with publishing Videos as opposed to traditional Hubs is that your Videos get special treatment in search engine results: next to Videos’ titles and summaries, online searchers see an enticing thumbnail image that makes them more likely to select your work over that of the thumbnail-less competition. We are now rolling…
Read MoreYou Can Now Opt In to Moving Questions to Your Subdomain
Last week, we announced that Questions would soon be coming to subdomains. By visiting My Account > Q&A you can now make this change on your own account early by clicking the “Transfer” button. Doing so will move all of your Questions under your personal HubPages subdomain and give you the ability to earn from…
Read MoreQuestions Moving to Subdomains
The Answers section on HubPages is very active this month thanks to the HubPages Know It All Contest, which awards daily prizes to Hubbers who ask and answer Questions. There have been some great Questions asked so far, and in addition to potentially winning prize money, the Hubbers who have asked them will soon be able to…
Read MoreChanges afoot with HubPages mobile
You might be shocked by the proportion of traffic to Hubs that is through mobile devices (I know I was). Care to hazard a guess? Would you believe me if I said about 20%…and rapidly growing? (If you are using Google Analytics to track your HubPages traffic, then you can see the relative proportion of…
Read MorePublishing Standards for Video on HubPages
Soon, Hubbers will be adding video publishing to their repertoire. Before this feature is released, I’m going to give you a quick overview of the types of video content that will not be permitted on HubPages. All of these rules are slight modifications to our existing rules, outlined here in our Violations section of the…
Read MoreHeads Up: Video is On the Way!
For the past couple of months, we have been testing out a new feature which will enable you to upload videos directly to HubPages. With the help of some fabulous Hubber beta testers, we’ve worked out the kinks, and are now ready to introduce Video to the community at large. The rollout will happen this…
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