When Joshua Schachter first came up with the idea of tagging in 2003, most people didn’t get it. Del.icio.us had its strange url and offered the seemingly simple idea of social bookmarks and tagging. Today, Delicious is seen as one of those classic technology stories. Start up innovates, gains a buzz, and sets off a…
Read MoreYeah, We’re Moving’ On Up! HubPages Cracks Top 200 Websites In U.S.
According to Quantcast, at some point during the holidays we officially broke through to the top 200 most trafficked websites in the United States (we’re #192 as of this writing). This is an amazingly awesome accomplishment for me and the rest of the team here who work each day to continue to keep HubPages the…
Read MoreWe’ve Added Some Bling To The Hubtivity With Milestones
Today we announced a new Milestones feature that adds some sweet, new bling to all of our Hubtivity streams, which shows all of the activity of the Hubbers that I’m a fan of. This gives a whole new life to all of our Hubtivity streams and we rolled this new feature out for a few…
Read MoreWebReviewTV.com Gives HubPages A Review
Today I noticed that the guys over at WebReviewTV.com gave us a review over on their blog, which is pretty sweet. Check out the video below – you might just learn something! If you ever see a review or a blog post that’s about us, please be sure to send a link over to us…
Read MoreMovin’ On Up: HubPages PageRank Bumps Up to a 6!
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…
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