The issue of online anonymity has been popping up quite frequently in the media, so we decided to discuss the issue as it applies to online writers. In this week’s edition of the Online Writing Insider (Using Your Name vs. Using An Alias Online), we review reasons why online authors might want to be anonymous,…
Read MorePersonal Content – How to Walk the Line
Is personal content bad? Absolutely not! Some of the most entertaining, instructional, informative, and most useful Hubs on HubPages revolve around personal stories and experiences. That said, personal content can be a contentious issue on our site. As it stands, “purely personal” content is against our publishing standards, meaning that if a Hub does not…
Read MoreOn Writing Well: How to Write a Great First Sentence
As a writer, I’m sure that you want each of your sentences to be equally perfect. To choose one as a favorite would be like a mom preferring one child over another. A terrible thought, indeed! Yet, today, I am going to persuade you, for the sake of your prose alone, to attend to one…
Read MoreThe Online Writing Insider: Using Additional Media in Hubs
Do you augment your online articles, blog posts, and short fiction with any additional media? In this episode of the Online Writing Insider, Robin and Simone discuss Online Writing and Additional Media: how photos, video, maps, tables, products, and more can be used to augment all sorts of articles- from recipes to fiction. Is there something…
Read MoreSummaries for Hubs
You may have noticed recently that some Hubs on HubPages are showing up without summaries. As a part of our overall effort to improve the reader experience on HubPages, we are encouraging everyone to create their own, custom summaries. The summary you enter (under the summary tab of the control box at the right side…
Read MoreThe Online Writing Insider: Tips on Your Title
We’re launching a new podcast (in addition to Weekly Advice from Everyday Experts) called the Online Writing Insider in which experts from the HubPages staff share some tips on writing online. Since this is our very first podcast in the series, we’re starting with the basics: Creating the Best Online Title. What are the elements…
Read MoreGoogle’s Thomas Tran: Optimization for HubPages and AdSense
Hello Hubbers, I’m Thomas, and I work for the AdSense team in Dublin, Ireland and today I’d like to talk to you guys about how to drive quality traffic to your Hubs so you can increase your AdSense ads click-through-rate (CTR), and earn more money. From your emails, there were a lot of questions related…
Read MorePatty Inglish, MS on the HubPages Ad Program and Building an Online Presence
Ever the prolific and active Hubber, Patty Inglish, MS is always on the cutting edge of special HubPages efforts. As one of the HubNuggets team, she is involved with curating great Hubs by promising new Hubbers, and knows a good online article when she sees it. Beyond that, Patty has an amazing background in Preventative Medicine,…
Read MoreHubber Relache Shares Her Experience with the HubPages Ads Program
With the HubPages Ad Program rollout last week, there has been a lot of curiosity about how it works and what sort of impact it makes. Though 500 Hubbers have already gotten their invites to opt in to the program, they are only just getting started. We took some time to chat with relache –…
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