Here at HubPages we not only try to give you the best possible self-publishing platform that the web has to offer, but we also try to offer you world-class writing tools that will help you become the most successful Hubber possible. An example of one of these helpful tools that we offer is the Idea…
Read MoreHubpages: 13.3 million visitors looking at 416,000 hubs!
Today’s blog is an update from a previous blog. Back then (8 months ago), we had 8 million visitors and 200,000 hubs and I wondered if the ratio of 40 unique visitors per hub would last. It didn’t. Our current ratio is 32 unique visitors per hub. Writing a blog or a hub is a…
Read MoreThe Michael Jackson Hubs Flood In Quickly
Yesterday marked the death of one of the most influential people in the history of music, Michael Jackson. At the young age of 50 the King of Pop died suddenly after being rushed to a hospital after suffering a heart attack. Unless you’ve been hiding in a cave I’m sure you’ve noticed the public response…
Read MoreHubPages is now a top 150 US Web Destination
On Monday, for the first time, we surpassed 1 million hubs viewed in a single day. According to Quantcast, HubPages is now #146 on the most visited US web sites. In my view, this is really great recognition of the interesting topics that are daily being published on HubPages. We are community-powered content. So, all…
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 MoreSelling Expertise Online – A Video That HubPages Should Have Been Included In
A couple of weeks ago I met a guy names Dustin who works over at an interesting website called LivePerson, where experts get paid for chatting with people who need some advice, expertise and information on the particular subjects that they’re unfamiliar with. The expert charges per minute and gets paid for simply chatting with…
Read MoreHal Licino’s Hub Pressures Apple Into Pulling iPhone TV Commercial
**Check out Hal’s Hub that made Apple pull the TV ad over here. —- Late last week I received an email from Hal Licino, one of our more outspoken Hubbers, who claimed to have single-handedly pressuring Apple into pulling one of their iPhone TV commercials after one of his Hubs claimed that it was openly…
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…
Read MoreThis Is Why We Have Weekly HubNuggets
Several months ago I started to put together a Hub each week that allowed the HubPages community to have a say in deciding which 5 HubNuggets got sent out in our weekly newsletter. Up until this change the HubNuggets were selected by the HubPages team and no one else really had any say in what…
Read MoreOooh, That’s Clever! A Great Presentation That I Missed At SXSW
I just finished up watching a really great SlideShare presentation called Oooh, that’s clever! (unnatural experiments in web design). It was put together by Paul Annett and was presented at SXSW Interactive down in Austin, TX (which I went to). Unfortunately I missed this particular presentation, but thanks to the internets I was able to…
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