We want to give everyone a heads up that we will soon be discontinuing the HubPages eBay Program. The eBay Program represents only 0.2% of earnings on the site overall, and maintaining it requires a significant amount of work for the Engineering Team. The high level of maintenance the program requires, the fact that keyword-only…
Read MoreAuthor Submit Feature and Curator Requests
Great news! As many of you have heard, we’ve been working on a way for Hubbers to manually submit articles for consideration to be chosen for our HubPages Network Sites. We have finished work on this feature and it is now up and running. We have also created a way for Curators to request small…
Read MoreHubPages Network Sites Update
Hi there friends! It’s my great pleasure to announce that we have finished launching all the HubPages Network Sites we intend to create in the near future. As more Hubs are written and selected, it’s possible that some subjects will fill out enough to warrant their own sites, but that possibility is still a long…
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New Year, New Sites
Hello, Hubbers! Today, we are pleased to be able to share with you our plan for 2016. We’re still as determined as ever to break out of Panda, and we will continue to raise the quality of writing on HubPages by investing in and improving our two quality systems: the Quality Assessment Process (QAP) and…
Read MoreNew Quality Features: Snip Editing and Account Level Quality Alerts
Hi everyone! It’s been a while since our last product announcement, and I am excited to introduce a couple of new features and give a sneak preview of another that’s coming soon. Two features are being released today: Snip Editing and My Account Quality Alerts. Snip Editing Often times, Hubs get defeatured for minor issues— an…
Read MoreLike Old Times, Something Old is New Again
For the last several years, we have all worked really hard to improve HubPages. Many of you have been loyal community members for years—you have seen the many ups and downs. We don’t always get it perfect, but the commitment to our mission remains: to build the best place on the internet to discover and…
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5th Annual Hubbie Award Winners
The votes 2015 Hubbie Award votes have finally been tallied! Here are the best of the best on HubPages as chosen by YOU, the HP Community! Drumroll, please… Top: Best All-Around Hub: How The Peanuts Comic Strip Got Its First Black Character by RonElFran Best All-Around Hubber: billybuc HubPages Lifetime Achievement (staff picked): Glenn Stok Hubber-Based: Most Likely to…
Read MoreIntroducing HubPro Basic and Other Quality Updates!
Introducing HubPro Basic It’s hard to believe, but we have been editing Hubs with HubPro for over a year, and we are happy to announce that we will be continuing the program and moving it out of beta. When we began, our HubPro goal was threefold: provide a better experience for readers, increase traffic, and…
Read MoreCast Your Vote in the 2015 Hubbie Awards!
Happy Monday, friends! As of today, the polls for the 5th Annual HubPages Hubbie Awards are officially open! You have two weeks to submit your vote, so take your time and figure out which Hubs and Hubbers you think are the most deserving before voting. The Prizes: This year’s winners in each category will have…
Read MoreThe Topic Page Redesign
Happy Thursday, folks! Today we released a pretty significant design update to the HubPages Topic Page. There’s more coming soon, however, we’re excited to share the work we’ve done so far. I encourage all of you to head over to the new homepage (which is now accessible to signed in users!) to see for yourselves,…
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