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…
Read MoreA CalTrain Introduction To Ann Crady From BabyCenter.com
Today on CalTrain I met another interesting person who I had a great conversation with on the ride up to San Francisco. Her name is Ann Crady and she is the Senior Vice President of Consumer Experience over at Johnson & Johnson’s super popular website BabyCenter.com. It’s a place where any mother (or expecting mother)…
Read MoreHow Gary Vaynerchuk Sets His Audience’s Expectations
As I mentioned in this post, I headed down to the SXSW Interactive conference in Austin, TX, which is one of the best places to meet some really amazing and innovative people when it comes to tech and the social web. Well, one of those people that I was lucky enough to meet was Gary…
Read MoreHubPages Earning Methods And Revenue Splits, Explained
For some reason that I’m not really aware of, I’ve been getting a lot more emails from new Hubbers than I have in the past. Although it tends to take up some of my time during the day to answer each one of them, I actually really enjoy helping out newbies when they take the…
Read MoreHubPages: Giving Love To Long Content For 2 Years And Counting…
You know, everywhere I look these days the buzz all abut making content shorter and shrter and shrtr. I’m not sure why this trend was started and where this trend of hatred for longer, full-bodied and information-rich content came from, but I can tell you one thing — me and the rest of the HubPages…
Read MoreThe Payout Chronicles: Lisa HW Exceeds Her Own Expectations With A Monthly Payout
Yes, my friends, it’s time for another exciting installment of The Payout Chronicles, where I interview a Hubber who tells us all about reaching their first $100 payout from Google and how they’re doing since hitting the much-anticipated milestone. Last week I interviewed Dorsi, who told us all about how she hit her first payout…
Read MoreProof That Getting Entertainment Traffic Is Possible With HubPages
One of my favorite reports that I look at each day is called ‘User Traffic Trends’ that shows me the type of traffic that Hubbers are currently getting as compared to the traffic that they were getting last week. It ranks the Hubbers according to the percentage of increase from the prior week and it’s…
Read MoreHow To Make Money On HubPages In 2 Easy Steps
I decided to have a little fun with some video today so I shot some random bits about how people can make money writing on HubPages. It’s a little abbreviated, but I think it gets the point across. Check out some of what came out of it below or over here on YouTube.
Read MoreHal Licino Tells Us How To Write Hubs That Have Legs
One of our more outspoken and sometimes entertainingly controversial Hubbers Hal Licino just published a Hub that I think is definitely worth reading called Writing Hubs With Legs. The Hub tells all about Hal’s experience with writing Hubs that have long term traffic(and earning) potential and what he thinks has made some of his Hubs…
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