In the past week, Google launched a feature that allows webmasters to check if their domain or subdomain has been penalized because of spam; publishers now have the ability to check whether or not Google has placed a manual webspam action on their account. With this information, Hubbers can remove or fix their content and…
Read MoreAnnouncing Editor’s Choice Hubs
We want to continue rewarding Hubbers who create content readers enjoy with a new designation highlighting their achievements. Today we are excited to announce Editor’s Choice Hubs. These are exceptional Hubs that are selected by HubPages Editors and are available to readers on the HubPages.com domain. Hubs provide value in unique ways. Editors consider many elements when…
Read MoreSummer Product Improvements: There’s a lot going on at HubPages HQ!
Today we will be implementing four enhancements to HubPages that we hope will have a positive effect on our community and readers: a new HubPages Style Guide with in-line tips displayed in the HubTool, a more streamlined HubTool, a revised Hubber Score that is more reflective of quality, and a change to how profile links…
Read MoreExclusive Titles to Be Retired
Howdy, Hubbers! I have a quick announcement. HubPages Exclusive Titles will be retired today. Exclusives were unique, niche titles intended to cover subjects that have not already been exhausted online. Sadly, we’ve found that these titles did not perform as well as we hoped, and they will no longer be available in the Hub Title…
Read MoreSummer Improvements to HubScore and HubberScore
Over the Summer we will be rolling out a few changes to HubScore and Hubber Score that might have an effect on your scores. Fawntia, our amazing engineer at HubPages, has been working hard to make small changes to the complex calculation that is HubScore and Hubber Score. Since the inception of the Quality Assessment…
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 MoreA New Hub Formatting Option: Topic Templates
Many of the ideas and new features on HubPages are suggested by our fabulous authors. Topic Templates is another fantastic Hubber-driven feature. In a Forum post, janderson99 suggested that since HubPages is becoming more and more focused on quality, we should provide our authors with a foundation for creating Stellar, QAP-friendly Hubs! Our answer to this…
Read MoreExclusives and Topics and Rising Stars, Oh My!
As Simone has mentioned, she’s leaving HubPages at the end of this month to work on her new business at Gigaverse. The HubPages Team wishes her the very best, and we’ll miss her terribly! I wanted to take this opportunity to inform the community that I’ll be assuming command over some of Simone’s programs when…
Read MoreSimone Smith to Start a Training Center for Online Careers
When interviewing potential HubPages employees, our CEO Paul Edmondson always likes to ask this question: Where do you see yourself in five years? Though there are many promising responses to this question (you may have encountered some in HubPages’ numerous job interview guides), the “right answer” at HubPages is to have a vision of someday launching…
Read MoreFive Common Mistakes Made by Online Writers: A Guest Post by WryLilt
A few weeks ago, WryLilt, one of our top Hubbers, made an incredibly generous gesture by opening up a Forum thread in which she would give a critique to anyone who asked for help with a Hub. Last week, she published a Hub guiding people through the most common mistakes she encountered when reviewing others’…
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