The Challenge Yesterday as I was aimlessly wandering about on the web, I found an interesting blog post that was written up by a guy names Court over on a site called The Keyword Academy. It was titled New Make Money Experiment – 100 Hubs In 30 Days and it talked about how Court has…
Read MoreCreating a Hub Template
With the latest update to HubPages, we have added the ability to reuse an existing hub layout for a new hub. in addition to providing two additional starting layouts. Here’s a snapshot of the new layout selection: The new feature gives you the ability to create a template hub. By this, I mean a hub…
Read MoreFacebook connect and Tweet this now available on hubs!
With all the buzz going around social media and how websites are using Facebook connect and Twitter to help their users be more pro-active and social, we here at Hubpages HQ decided to jump on the bandwagon. So we’re glad to announce a subset of Facebook connect and Twitter functionality integration into your Hubpages hubs…
Read MoreNew Feature Alert: HubPages Questions & Answers
Have you ever seen a request on HubPages that you wanted to answer, but you didn’t want to write a whole hub on the subject? Now, you don’t have to, because we are introducing a new way to briefly answer a request without building a hub. We hope that this will encourage more people to…
Read MoreAndrew Aksyonoff visits HubPages
Hubpages recently upgraded its internal search functionality (you can see the blog announcement here). We’ve added the ability to search the help page, search categories, search for images and videos, as well as a sitewide search. In our internal testing, we found that this new search ran significantly faster than the previous internal search. The…
Read MorePeople Are Looking For Swine Flu Info (And HubPages Is Helping Them Find It)
Although we’re not even close to being a news site (nor do we really want to be) I’ve noticed an influx of Hubs that are all written on one extremely popular topic right now — the Swine Flu. In fact, there’s one Hubber in particular, Hal Licino, who has actually written 26 Hubs on that…
Read MoreHelllllo 300,000 Hubs!
I just took a look at the overall HubPages stats and realized that we had officially busted through the 300,000 Hub mark a couple of days ago! We’re now a few thousand over that mark and we’re continuing to accumulate Hubs at an even faster rate than we were just a few months ago. This…
Read MoreGrow, HubPages Grow! A Quick Thanks To All Of You Awesome Hubbers Out There
I wanted to give a quick, but HUGE thanks to all of you awesome Hubbers out there who have helped us continue to grow of the past several months. With your help and your amazing content, we’ve seen some incredible growth even when it seems that many other sites are beginning to slow down. If…
Read MoreJust Another Day Working At HubPages In San Francisco
I’ll tell you what, there’s never a dull moment here in San Francisco, even when you’re simply walking into work in the morning. I’ve been walking into work here lately because I wrecked my bike a few days ago and since I’ve been moving a little slower, I’ve seemed to notice a lot more stuff…
Read MoreCategories Add Value: a response to Clay Shirky’s classic essay
I am a big fan of Clay Shirky. I’ve written a hub reviewing his book Here Comes Everyone. It’s one of my favorite books of 2008. When HubPages announced the support of categories in addition to tags, many people emailed me links to Clay’s essay: “Ontology is Overrated: Categories, Links, and Tags”. Clay Shirky first…
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