I had heard rumors that Google was updating their infamous and somewhat mysterious PageRank which basically ranks every site on the web on a scale of 1-10 based upon the trust level of their content. The formula for how this is actually calculated is a type of Internet folklore and is not publicly disclosed. It’s…
Read MoreThe Most Boring Hub Title, Ever?
But, one of our more outgoing Hubbers aptly named rockinjoe has decided to encourage this type of bored-inducing nonsense with his latest contest that he has cleverly called The Most Boring Hub In Hubpages History. The rules were simple – Hubbers commented a boring Hub title in the comments and if they were boring enough…
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…
Read MoreSpotCoolStuff.com Helps Spread Some HubPages Love
Yesterday I noticed a question that one of our Hubbers, SpotCoolStuff.com, posted over in the forums: What’s your favorite hub that explains the HubPages concept to the uninitiated? He was asking because he was putting together a blog post that included various ways that writers can make some money online and the places that they…
Read MoreHow To Become Extremely Unpopular On HubPages
Today I was surfing around HubPages and found a hilarious Hub that’s titled 10 Ways To Become Extremely Unpopular On Hubpages.com. One of our more outspoken and interesting Hubbers, rockinjoe, wrote this entertaining piece of HubPages mastery based upon his 2+ year experience that he’s had here. I’ve got two years behind me as a…
Read MoreWhitney05 Helps Us Deal With Copied Content
Here on HubPages we always stress three major, yet simple guidelines that any writer should follow when publishing content here. These guidelines were put in place to ensure that all content is written to a certain standard and that it has a good chance of being successful. These 3 guidelines are as follows: All Hubs…
Read MoreHow much money can you really make on HubPages?
I was recently talking with former colleagues about HubPages and I was asked the usual questions. The first question is usually why should I write a hub as opposed to a blog. I’ve already covered this question so I will focus on the other questions that I was asked: How much money can you really…
Read MoreWhat were the most popular searches of 2008? Google knows.
I was just reading about about the most popular searches of 2008 over on TechCrunch this morning, which was pretty interesting. I guess that Google publishes all of this search data every year under the name Zeitgeist, which after looking it up on Wikipedia I realized meant ‘the intellectual, cultural, ethical and political climate, ambiance…
Read MoreJimmy Tells Us About His Hubtastic November
Sometimes when people hang around somewhere or like something for long enough they begin to claim themselves as someone who knew all about something before it was even cool to like it. You know, similar to your friends who claim to have known all about Coldplay before they hit the mainstream or that they watched…
Read More‘Tis The Season For Amazon And Ebay Capsules
Even though it’s hard to believe, it seems that it is now officially December, which means that we are smack-dab in the middle of yet another crazy holiday season filled with sales, shopping, traveling and family get-togethers. It’s so easy to get so caught up in the holiday madness that sometimes you wish that it…
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