Everything I wish I knew when I joined Hubpages
89When you first join hubpages, it's a steep learning curve. You'll be told to look at this hub, read that guide or have strange words and letters thrown at you including backlinks, SEO, SERPs, keywords, page rank and affiliates.
I wrote the following information for a friend who wanted to know the basics. I wrote everything I knew, as simply as possible, and ended up astounded at how much I wrote. So I decided I should transform it into a hub.
Despite all this information however, I think it's important to realize that no one can plot your journey for you - everyone has different interests, writing styles and allotted time to use on the site.
This hub has the basics. There are hubs linked for further reading if you want or need to know more about something.
Please feel free to leave comments or send me an email if you think I've missed something, as this is still a work in progress.
Please note that all examples used in this article are hypothetical only.
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How to Write a Hub
The basics of creating a hub are simple. You simply click the green 'start a new hub' link at the top of any page on hubpages.com
From there, you can name it, categorize it and organize it as you wish, using a wide range of capsules.
- A hub is a standalone quality article, it is not a blog post.
- A hub should be about 500 words long or longer. Anywhere up to 1500 words is a great size.
- The only HTML coding you can use is the very basic type which does the same as using the easily available buttons in the capsule. You cannot put any banners, links, special HTML or other coding into your hub. This includes Amazon and Adsense codes.
Glossary of Terms
Author Score - The score displayed on your profile picture. As long as this is over 75, all outbound links from your hubs will be dofollow. Other than influencing outbound links, this score has no effect on your traffic or search engine ranks.
Hub Score - Each hub has its own unique score, which also influences author score. As long as the hubscore is over 40, all outbound links will be dofollow. A hub score will be lowered by things such as duplicate content or promotional material.
Backlink - A link pointing to your hub/site or page from any other site on the web.
Keyword - Is a significant word or phrase that you are targeting in your hub. You can have multiple keywords. Different keywords have different competition and searches, so it's a good idea to learn about keyword research.
Page Rank - A page is given a score by google, from 0 at creation to 10 at best. Backlinks play a big role in your page rank. Page rank also determines where your page or hub places in the SERPs.
SEO - Search Engine Optimisation. Basically means creating your work in such a way that search engines are more likely to rank it well or send more traffic. If you want to learn more about SEO, I'd recommend Peter Hoggan's SEO Training Course.
SERP - Search Engine Results Page. The page you see when you type a search term into a search engine.
Tags - Tags are basically a way for hubpages to 1. Create internal backlinks for your hub and 2. Place your hub in relevant places on the site.
Topics for Hubs
You don't need to have a degree or spend ten days researching before you write a hub. Why?
Because everyone knows something that someone else wants to know.
Of course, it's in your best interest if you write on subjects that people are typing into google - but you'd be surprised what some people actually do search!
You can write reviews, guides, recipes, top lists, joke hubs or anything in between.
What can't you write a hub about?
You can write on anything that isn't against the hubpages Terms of Service or the AdsenseTerms of Service.
So what does that mean? Well basically, you can't write anything with Adult Content, guns, drugs or anything that isn't for a family audience.
If you aren't sure whether your hub is appropriate or not, write it, save it as unpublished and then email the URL of the hub to the hubpages team. They're always happy to give feedback on what's appropriate and what's not.
Photos & Videos
Videos
Since videos are embedded into the hub and provide a link back to the original video page, you don't need to attribute in any way.
Photos
Whenever you take a picture from the internet that you did not photograph or create, you need to attribute correctly to the author. Why? Because it's not your work and it automatically falls under copyright restrictions - meaning that if you get caught using someone elses work, you may get in trouble for it.
So how do you go about finding pictures you are allowed to use? Just taking images off a google image search is not the way. Here is the basic system I use.
- Do a google image search.
- Click on advanced search.
- Change 'Usage Rights' from 'Not filtered by license' to 'Labelled for commercial reuse.'
- Go to the original location of the photo, verify that it is licensed for commercial use, note the conditions of use and make sure you follow them.
- Place the picture on your hub.
- Place the author's name in the source box.
- Place a link to the author's profile or the original page of the image in the source URL box.
The reason we select 'commercial' is because you can and probably will make money from the hubs that you place the pictures on, making it a commercial venture.
Affiliates & Earning money Through Hubpages
Hubpages pays you through the ad program for some adverts and eBay capsules. However Adsense and Amazon are currently paid directly by those companies, so you need an account with the,/ If you don't link your affiliates to the site, all clicks and sales made on your hubs will give 100% of the proceeds to the hubpage site owners - you cannot use the HP ad program unless you are signed up with Adsense.
However if you sign up with and link your affiliates on this page, hubpages will show your advertising links for 60% of views on your hubs and profile.
The best two affiliates to begin with are Adsense and Amazon. Once you've signed up you can simply insert your unique affiliate code into the affiliates page listed above and hubpages will insert your code for 60% of impressions.
You adsense code will automatically show on all your hubs during your share of impressions. However, you'll need to insert Amazon products yourself, using the Amazon capsule in order to earn through that affiliate program.
Adsense is difficult to get approval for if you live in Asia or India, due to the number of spammers from those countries. People in the US, UK or AU won't have a lot of problems getting approved - although it's a good idea to have ten quality hubs before applying. And don't stress - it generally takes about 6 months to make your first $5 anyway - it's only after that you'll see your earnings increase (unless you hit it lucky!)
Amazon is relatively easy to get approved for.
Keywords
Keywords or keyphrases are very basically - any combination of words typed into google searches to find something. Obviously some have far more competition than others. The word "dog" might have millions of hits but "red dog with blue ears" will have hardly any other websites ranking for it but probably hardly anyone googling it, either.
So your basic goal is to find keywords with reasonably low competition but high traffic.
Long tail keywords
A longtail keyword is basically any keyword/keyphrase that has more than 5 or 6 words. Obviously with that many words, not everyone is typing the same thing. A theory developed a few years ago is that it's possible to get more hits with a range of 'long tail' keywords than a few normal keywords. For instance if ten people type in 'my dog has bad fleas what do i do', 'my dog is sick with fleas, help' and 'help me cure my dog sick with fleas', google will hardly notice. But of course with 5000 variations of that question, it could be a good niche. Obviously good long tail keywords are harder to find but you can get an idea by looking at what keywords your hub is getting hits for (by visiting your page, clicking stats at the top and then clicking 'keywords.')
How to use Keywords
A few years ago, people started using 'keyword stuffing'. In other words, trying to include the keywords in about 10% of their text. Google put a stop to that with new algorithms so here are the current best places to try and place your keyword for best results:
- URL - the only part of your hub that can't be changed. Created when you make a hub, so make sure to put keywords in it (it can only be changed during creation.)
- Title - another important area to mention your keywords.
- Tags. More on tags later.
- In text - just once or twice is good.
- Synonyms - google recognizes these as higher quality, better related content on the subject. So instead of 'cats and dogs' we could mention the words 'feline and canine' etc.
How to Find Good Keywords [Google Keyword Tool]
- Type 'google keyword tool' into google and follow first link.
- Type in the annoying captcha code!
- Type a word or phrase into the box - in this example I'll use 'dog cat'
- On the right click 'columns' and tick Estimated AVG cpc, and untick competition.
- Bottom left tick 'exact' and take off 'broad.'
- Click 'global monthly searches' at top of column to rank by number of searches.
- Scroll down to about 20,000 or less searches and start reading - in this case 'dog clothes.'
- For an example we'll take 'dogs and cats' with 8,100 hits a month. Click those words.
- You'll be taken to a google search for those words. With a quick look you'll see that there are lots of displays of 'cats and dogs' or 'cats, dogs and...', but no one seems to be ranking for those exact words. So if you create a page with those exact keywords, chances are you can rank reasonably well for it.
- Check hubpages to see that no one else is aiming for that exact niche - if everyone on hubpages is, not much point trying for it.
There are many in depth paid programs that help you find keyword 'niches'. Some good examples are Market Samurai, Micro Niche Finder and The Keyword Academy. You can get free trials on some. The programs are good for more indepth information and also show you things like the exact competition you are up against (such as domain age, page age, page backlinks, page rank etc) However for general work or if you don't want to turn out 20 hubs a week like some hubbers, manually doing it with the keyword tool is fine.
Traffic & Money
A common mistake new members make is to assume that the site just pays you without signing up for anything or money can come from other members visiting your hubs. This is incorrect.
Other members of the site do not click adverts or buy through your affiliate links.
What you need is to attract search engine traffic from places such as google, yahoo and bing.
Keywords are an important step to attracting traffic from search engines.
If you promote your hub on sites such as social bookmarking sites, you may get low quality one hit traffic. However if your hub gets picked up by google, the amount of traffic you receive will increase over time.
It generally takes 6-9 months for a hub to start seeing serious traffic from search engines. So in the meantime, get in there and write more hubs.
Backlinks
Basically a backlink is any link pointing back to your page or site. In my opinion backlinks are not extremely important on hubpages because the site is a page rank 6 (they go from 1-10 with yahoo until recently only being a 9.)
In other words, if google search is faced with a choice of a hubpage about a topic and then a page from a site with a PR2 or PR3, or even in some cases higher, it will choose to rank the hubpage better because it is an authority site.
However serious hubbers do backlink using a wide variety of ways.
Aged & Fresh Content
Google likes two things - aged content and fresh content.
New content - will get bumped by google for a week or so, because it's new.Old content - will rank better than new or medium age content (have you noticed when you click a page one google search link and you always end up at a page or forum post written in 2005 or something old?)
Fresh content - Google likes pages that keep updating. To do this automatically there are several ways:
- RSS feeds (see later in article)
- Comments - If your topic attracts comments, those are also 'crawled' by google and added to search results. As you may have noticed if you ever searched and ended up at a page with a list of comments where one answered your question.
When to use Links in your Hubs
I'd advise against using any links in your hubs without good reason. I'd recommend using the link suggestion tool sparingly.
If you want to use any not completely relevant links in your hub, that don't link to your own work - put them below the comments box so people don't see them but google will.
Why? Because if people leave your page through links to someone elses page, they aren't leaving through an advert.
If you direct them through a link to another page of yours, you are giving them another chance to click an advert on that page.
Always use trackers in any outgoing in text links (see trackers guide below.)
Hub Tags
Two are mandatory to create your own hub, but you can have lots - and lots are good!
If you click the title of the tag (not the red X), you will see a page with all the hubs with that tag on the site.
Google indexes the first page of hubs with that tag, meaning you should go for tags that aren't too basic.
For instance there might be 500 hubs with the tag of 'cars' but only 15 hubs with the tag 'red cars' meaning you can probably get on the first page.So basically - you are just creating more links back to your hub. Plus more text for google to crawl.
Here are some examples of tags just from 'cats and dogs':
cats, dogs, cats and dogs, canine, feline, canine and feline, cat history, dog history, cat information, dog information, cat guide, dog guide, cat and dog interaction, dog and cat
.....As you can see you can get a lot of tags from just swapping the words a bit and using basic synonyms. .As mentioned above, tags are also great for RSS feeds.
RSS Feeds
RSS feeds are basically a list of links based on whatever you want.
For instance, you can create RSS feeds based on tags (showing hub links with the tag 'cars' or 'red dogs' for instance.) You can also create an RSS feed based on your own work (link is available in your profile.)
You can choose to display hot links (those with lots of traffic) or latest published links.
They update and refresh as your traffic and content changes - meaning google likes them as they provide fresh content.
They also provide free internal backlinks. You can create them using tags - for instance all my baby hubs have a tag called 'babywry' which is unique. The RSS feed I display on my baby capsule will show either the hottest (most traffic) or newest hubpage with that tag.
RSS feeds are great once you have a few pages on one topic. Once you know how it's very easy and very useful - especially if you have a hub with a lot of traffic and want to redirect it to hubs with less traffic.
Hub Titles
As a writer, you're always told 'be creative', make it special and different.
On the net you need to do exactly the opposite.
A bit of creativity is fine but if you were searching for example 'black cats' and came up with two results:
-Guide to Black Cats;
-My experience with the black fury
Which would you be more likely to click if you wanted basic information? Generally you'd click the one that had the most relevant sounding information.
The second one would also rank lower because it doesn't have the keyword 'black cat' in it.
Referral Trackers
Trackers allow you to:
- Show your own adverts 10% of the time on referral's hubs.
- Show your own adverts on 9-12% of impressions on every hub on the site!
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Thank you Wry
Yes Debbie, you can use the Youtube video capsule to place any Youtube video you wish on your hubs.
Question: I am a song writer and have recorded songs and made youtube videos for them. Can I post them on a hub?
You're welcome, loued51.
I have no idea on cricket. I'm not into sports. Just make sure the content is evergreen (relevant forever, not just a few days or months.)
Great information to know. I was searching for an answer to why my newly published hub does not comment section for persons to comment. I didn't even realize it until another hubber pointed it out to me. Faith Reaper
Neither. Hubpages gets crawled regularly, so it's a waste of time submitting them, unless you're having trouble getting them indexed.
Awesome info in this hub. I'm going to definitely change some of the ways I do things after reading this. Voted up and useful!
WryLilt, I have been delving into some of your Hubs.:) Your articles are EXTREMELY informative. I will be going over the VALUABLE information that is contained in each of them. I also noticed that you have over 1 million views on Hubpages.:) This is so awesome!! I do look forward to reading more of your work!
I've been on HubPages for a year, and I'm not sure I'll ever learn all there is to know, but you certainly help! Many thanks for all this great info. I voted it UP,etc.
I still get a little steamed about crediting photos: I try to give credit, but some Hubbers with scores of 90-100 don't bother. Maybe that's "sour grapes" on my part.
Thank you so much for this - I will keep his hub as a guide for myself :)
Hi WryLilt. Again fantastic information. I am not fully literate on the computer yet and new to Hubpages. This hub is a wonderful reference point .Thank you.
Best Wishes.
Hi GMAGoldie - have you clicked on "Monetize" or "Earnings" (depending on version) on your Blogger dashboard for the specific blog? That should lead you through the steps and also allow you to choose which Adsense box placement you want.
Otherwise (if Adsense is already linked) you can add them manually by going to your design section and adding a capsule - I believe there are Adsense capsules available that way.
WryLilt,
This is probably somewhere in your extensive repertoire - I need your guidance. I have Google Adsense for my blogger account but somehow I don't have the "affiliate" set up correctly. I know it doesn't matter here on HubPages but for the sake of dollars left on the table it could be significant. Can you please guide me as to how this works?
Extremely informative to this new hubber! I'm sure some of this information has changed slightly over the months since this was written, but I will bookmark this as a point of reference as I have basic questions about HP.
Thanks for the good, helpful information.
Wrylilt,
I always learn something from you - excellent! The hub taking 6-9 months - oh, am I impatient! Great information. Thank you for sharing.
Annart, check out this hub for info on referral trackers... http://darkside.hubpages.com/hub/Referrals
Very useful, thanks. Voted up. But I'm still trying to work out how I get a link in my profile for getting people to start their own HubPage. Can you please tell me? I'm going round in circles!
Interesting, useful and informative. Great work. Awesome
Excellent hub. Plenty of useful and practical information. I have voted this hub up and useful.
This is a great hub, and it is stuffed full of useful information. Thank you for posting this.
Brilliant hub - voted up. I will be applying some of my learnings from your hub. Thanks
Looking over your various hubs it looks like there is a load of great information someone like me looking to improve Thank you for the easy to understand and informative hubs. I'm bookmarking you so I can come back and read more!
I bookmarked your hub for easy reference. Appreciate the guidance.
Along with your forum thread http://hubpages.com/forum/topic/56928#post1280619 these are the best sources of information and guidance for people new to HubPages that I have read to date. Thank you.
WryLilt,
I really do not have any new accolade or thanks to add that has not already been posted. But I just wanted to say thanks for putting all this useful information into one place. It is definitely helpful to a new hubber like myself.
A superbly informative hub for newcomers like myself. I have printed this out so that I can refer to it again and again during my long learning process here at hubpages.
WryLilt, thanks for advice! Now I can see it! Awesome! All time i've been signed in hubpages I was reading people discussing high- and low-paying keywords, and I had no clue where they find such information! Now I know, thank you very much!
Sorry Bobri, they've updated that. You now need to sign in with a Google linked account and sign up for adwords (few clicks and completely free) to see that.
Extremely useful hub, the best hub for beginners among all I've read! And I've read more than 50 from all top hubbers! Just one little question. You advised "On the right click 'columns' and tick Estimated AVG cpc" (for google adword tool).. I can't see this option.. did they remove it? or i'm dummy and can't find it..
really good advices. extremely useful
Thanks for the tips, I didn't know there was so much to learn. I will bookmark this hub for reference.
Great work. i love it.
Thanks for the great article that jump starts new users of of the gate! The information that you need to have an author score of 75 before the "nofollow" meta tags are removed is very important. If you ever consider revising this hub please consider adding more information about how new authors can rapidly boost their author score above 75 so that their backlinks receive full SEO credit. Thanks again!
Thanks - this was extremely useful and clearly written.
Great hub! Thanks for all the information! I will re-read this one over and over again. There is so much to learn when you are a 'newbie' on this site. Thanks again!
thanx for sharing
Very useful! thank you so much! I'm a new hubber and I need a bit of guidance as i take feeble steps getting to know my way around here and to become a better hubber. ^_^
Ghee whiz how lucky is that. Everything I need right here. Of course the, Hub has everything listed that I
need but, this I can comeback to on one page.
Thanks Wrylilt
Thank you for putting all this information in one place. I think this is the page I will use when I want to recruit new hubbers.
Your hub is packed with lots of useful information. I have made a few hubs but am not very successful. I really dont understand about the HTML or how to work with it. Also I dont know how to link affiliates to the site. No one has explained how to do this in layman terms.
You write very well.
Fab and extremely helpful. Thank you x
Thanks for this, I did a few hours of research on this topic, and felt a bit overwhelmed. I'm still shaky, trying out my sea legs for the first time, but I think I'll get better at it, especially after reading this. Appreciate this article, and the help.
Thank you so much - it can get a little overwhelming as a newbie and this Hug DEFINITELY helps!
Great job!
very nice! it's great to get some of those new hubber unknowns cleared up :) Thanks again for responding to my mentor question!
I learned so much from this hub that I did not know before. I bookmarked this page so I can refer to it often. Thanks for writing such detailed information.
I've lean something new on this awesome and down-to-earth Hub. Thanks for the time you spent building this hub. God bless you.
Godwin
Thank you so much for this article. It is full of some wonderful information.
Wow, so much great info - thank you! I feel like I'm always learning something here and just when I get the hang of something, it's time to learn something else and then something else. As a relative new-comer to the site, hubs like this are so helpful.
a big thank you for this hub! i've recently made two and i *do* wish i'd read this before. ;)
As a new hubber, I appreciate your advice.
I thought long tail keywords were ones that provide you with income for a long time. I'll have to look it up now!
thanks i'll bookmark
There is so much helpful information here for a newcomer. I'll be back!
BigSerious-- It's funny that you should mention NaNoWriMo. I stumbled upon the webpage a few weeks ago. I signed up to participate this year-- and can't wait! It sounds like a lot of fun. :)
As for Hub Pages, I've only been posting my practice stuff. It's mostly humorous stories so far. I've been saving my good stuff to submit to regular publishers. I was mostly hoping to find a supportive writing community.
I wanted to reply to Reprieve26 as well. I was a content writer before I had my son. I've taken 2.5 years off, so far, and before I go back to my contacts, I want a place to practice and "get my mojo" back. HubPages is proving to be that very space. I'm not sure what kind of writing you do (I haven't gone to your Hub profile or hubs yet), but this space is certainly a place to be read, get feedback, and to practice. I'm also a creative writer, writing creative nonfiction and literary short stories (I've also won NaNoWriMo two years in a row so far) - I can't say I'll dabble in creative writing in my Hubpages, but you never know!
Hi Reprieve26.
This hub is a guide for those who are here to make money; there are many people who write on the site just for love of writing. I've written my share of creative pieces here. However it's fairly difficult to blend creative writing and money making online. But you'll find there is a flourishing creative writing community who reads each others work and gives critique.
Wow-- so basically, I'm wasting my time here... :(
I signed up because I enjoy writing, but it sounds like Hub Pages is just about ad revenue, search engines, and key words. None of these have anything to do with practicing the art of writing.
WOW! What a wealth of information! I'll be coming back for refreshers. Excellent hub!
THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU!
I am printing this hub and referring to it. I'm a senior citizen and I know I can succeed here. I just didn't know how. Thank you so much for all of this wonderful help! I shall always be grateful!
Awesome info for a new hubber! Thank you!
Great hub wrylilt. Really liked the photos part where you have mentioned about how to go about selecting pictures for hubpages. I was now aware of it. Thanks for sharing.
I just joined today, this is a brialliant Hub for people that have just started. Nice work! And Thanks!
Thank you so much for sharing your experience.
It is a helpful guide for me.
It totally makes sense.
Terrific information for us newbies - thank you.
You have to hope this piece gets ranked high. If it's the first page someone stumbles on while researching the Hub, he or she is going to be in good shape. Nicely done.
Learn some new info about hubpages. Am pretty new here. THanks for sharing!
Good hub. There is a lot of valuable information in this hub. I have been doing hubs for about a year, and will use some of your info to improve mywork.
really cool hub, well done.
unfortunately I have to partially disagree with you about backlinks, in some cases hubpages.com's domain authority may carry your hub in easy-ish searches, but if you are in vaguely competitive searches or up against well established hubs, you will definitely need backlinks.
but then I would say that as it's my job :)
Best regards from Ibiza
ForrestDrake, you are absolutely right. I've had hubs take off as soon as they were indexed with google, often within hours. I've found that hubpages is such a strong platform that a really good hub doesn't even need backlinks.
However this guide is aimed at the general hubpage user, and I'm stating averages so that a hubber who doesn't get reasonable traffic for the first few months won't be disappointed and believe they'd doing something wrong. I'm sure you'll agree that not all hub pages take off within the first few weeks OR months.
Great summary! However, I disagree with "6-9 months for a hub to start seeing serious traffic from search engines" thats too long. If you are aimed at niche keyword and made couple of backlinks after publishing, you should see the hub going visible in 1-2 months...
This is the perfect guide for beginners - fantastic job!
Thank you so much. So glad I read this hub as I have learned quite a bit.
Absolutely amazing. It's a proper NFIR hub!
(No further information required)
:-)
Thank you.
Great info, many thanks, I have bookmark this for reference too
Thanks. This is an awesome hub!
As a brand new hubber this is just the info I was looking for - thank you!
An excellent hub for a starter!
Learned a few tips, thanx!
I am new here and really appreciate this hub.
Thanks
Lots of great info.
This is the step-by-step guide on how to create a good Hub Page.
Another happy newbie. Thank you!!!
Thanks! I haven't started a hub yet, I want to read more how-tos before I get going! This is very useful for newbies :)
As a new hubb-er this article has been a really good read. thanks for posting :)
I have been using hubpages for over 2 years and I learned loads in this hub. Thanks
Thanks Fawntia, I am aware that you can use HTML. However the HTML does not widen the options available to use in a hub.
Most people I come across asking about code on the site are trying to either insert banners (such as Adsense or other affiliates) or some type of HTML coded javascript.
Thanks!!
I will keep referring back to this hub, thanks!
Thank you for this great hub! Very helpful for a newbie like me!
Thank you for sharing this information. I joined a week ago so I am currently reading up on all the things that I need to know to improve my hubs!
The nice thing about Hubpages is that you really don't need to worry about anything except for keyword research and writing a good page. You pay over a piece of your earnings for the excellent interface and the equally excellent authority in the search engines but it is a fair deal.
I would expect an invitation to work for Hubpages any day now. Great information and clearly put. Thanks!
Fantastic Hub! I just want to point out one thing in case you don't know about it. You say that you "cannot use any type of html or coding on a hub or anywhere on the site," but in fact, you can add HTML inside of a text capsule by clicking on the HTML icon to the left of the scissors icon. You are limited to using only certain HTML tags, but for someone who prefers to submit HTML, it is a good option.
You have great topics . thanks for sharing . Hats off.
Thanks for this! Great hub.
Very informative, there are plenty of people who have been on here a lot longer than 7 months that still don't have a good grasp of everything. Great tips for new hubbers!
Datz an awsome hub......
Thanks for sharing WryLilt
Great hub! I wish that I could write as quickly as you. You covered a lot of ground in this hub, and your content is very organized.You have helped many hubbers by writing this informative article. Thanks for sharing.
This is a very helpful hub! Answered most of my questions! Great job! :)
Awesome information!
Thanks this is a good guide.
Hello ispeak2u2, you should read these pieces of information:
http://hubpages.com/faq/#duplicate_content
http://hubpages.com/faq/#overly_promotional
Basically you have a choice - reuse your own content and incur penalty scores and not be allowed to link out from it at all OR write quality content and occasionally place a backlink to your blog. Either way, anything spammy or duplicate can get you in trouble if you're not careful.
I need some information on folks who blog on other sites - Do I have to write a separate Hub for hubpages if I already have content on other sites why can't I use it ...
Most excellent, thank you. :)
Great job, WryLilt!
WOW!
If only I knew some of these things earlier on!
Weldone on a very thourough hub :) SF
This is really good and concentrated info, I bookmarked it to read all the links later.
Thanks so much for condensing this information. I found it really helpful! Thank you.
Very well done, this is a great resource for all beginners, it covers the basics we tend to forget and when we do it leaves others we hope to help lost and often shuting down. What I wish I knew when I joined HubPages is a must read for all newbies here and a great tool to launch their success famously. I wish I had this when I started. A rate up, def share and wonderful help. Thank YOU!
Well written hub that is definitely a keeper. Lots of great information to refer back to. Keep up the awesome work!
i wanted jus this.........thanks so much.......im a new hubber and i have 5 hubs in the unpublished segments due to lot of doubts....now all are clear.....thanku.....
Thank you for reviewing all the basic information and adding other good stuff. Great amount of work you've done on this. Thank you.
Thank you for the great information!
Thank you for a great work on compiling useful info! I'll be definitely using this hub as a reference.
Wish I'd had this great info to read 11 months ago too!
Thank You:)
Thanks for the great tips!
I just joined some days ago and this is awesome info to have from the start. Many thanks.
I have bookmarked so I can come back and go over. Thanks for the tips
Fantastic HUb!!!!
I wish I had known most of this when I first joined Hubpages too :)
Very useful info in this hub. Thank you very much :)
Most useful! Thank you!
Thank you for the great useful information.
Wow, Cool, you disclose everything newbie needs to take part in this site. Thanks.
Thanks for all this good information. Wish I'd been able to read it when I first joined.
i appreciate your kindness for sharing this good and interesting hub.. i will make sure i find ways to do all i can to give it a shot!
Part of solution or problem?
This page has coding errors - great if you are sight impaired cause the page doesn't read correctly!
The person creating the content and Hub will find themselves liable for such breaches of internet coding.
Case: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maguire_v_SOCOG_2000
Good search results ensure you are exposing yourself.
This is just what I needed. I'm glad I chose to check you out after reading your reply in the forum! For now I must go, but I've bookmarked this as a soon reference for my progress here at Hubpages. I stopped at the photograph admonition. I have not been practicing this. From now on I have no excuse. Thanks!
Excellent info....thanks for writing this hub.
this is good hub, and very helpful... i will try to follow such of the the steps i can use to improve my hub, tnx
Good stuff
Should be must reading before being allowed to publish your first hub! rate up!
Hi, it is good that you've mentioned tagging. I think many who are new to the Web2.0 world (including Hubpages) don't realize how important those links can be to your Google rankings and traffic.
very good!beautiful hub!
god bless you always
excellent hub! keep it up!
WryLilt:
I find this to be a very "useful" hub and it voted as such! I have been with Hubpages for six weeks now and have read a ton hubs in my first two weeks in order to learn how to be successful. In doing so, I was a bit overwhelmed and did not pick up on as much as I would have liked. The last few weeks, I have stopped doing that and just focused on writing hubs. Now, after coming back to reading other hubs on how to be successful with Hubpages, I find this to be packed with great knowledge that I can easily understand and utilize as I progress with this site. Well done!
Interesting page for newcomers. I'm glad you play down back linking. Google is starting to get on top of manufactured back links.
Also, no one knows how Google works out page rank and Google always downplays the significance of PR anyway.
Very helpful information. Thanks!
A really interesting hub. I didn't know that it could take about 6-9 months until serious organic traffic starts to flow, this was really useful.
I had just entered the hub and was groping my way about. lucky, I stumbled upon this lighthouse. got to say that only a smart person can think of this topic as a hub.
Just joined hubpages.. thanks for all the info!
thank u ...it's very useful
Thank you for the great information. I'm just starting out and I have found this to be very helpful. Thank you again!
Super great info. I am very glad I read this. Now I have some insight as to what I need to do. Thank You.
So helpful - thankyou so much.
This is not only going to get bookmarked but printed then highlighted! Awesome job! Thank you so much for the info and help.
Great hub! Everyone should read this hub before they start writing.
This is awesome, and just what I was looking for. I am learning so much here, and this will be one I bookmark.
A great hub indeed.
wow this is a great amount of information.
Thanks for sharing.
A lot of good tips there. It took me a few false attempts to produce my first hub today, so i think i'll be reading your hub in the future.
Excellent hub Wrylilt ive been here nine months now and learned a lot from you thanks.
Wow! This hub would be informative not just for hubs but blogging in general!
This is complete hub. As a newbie, I thought you have done a great job. I have admit to you, I learn much from this hub. You come up with happiness. I thought we all love to follow your tips. Thank you very much. Rate up.
Prasetio
Well done Wrylilt. I wish I had read this 10 months ago!
Its even more humbling when I see you have only been a hubber (in this identity at least) for 5 months.
Tremendously good.
Thank you.
This will be a great hub for 'newbies' to read. I'm bookmarking it for the next time I get an e-mail from someone new asking for advice on writing for HP. Thanks for taking the time to share your insight. :)Thumbs up!
WryLilt
Wish I'd read this a couple of weeks ago! You have managed to explain something complex almost lyrically.
An excellent hub.
Chris
Hi WryLilt,
This Hub is brilliantly written. Your writing style is very easy to read and understand.
Thank you for this great body of work. I thoroughly enjoyed reading through it.
Regards,
Ivan Bayross
Awesome, awesome, awesome hub. Very inspiring and motivating!
Very good! Great job!
Thank you for shedding more light on HubPage process. You are right, the learning curve is steep if you want to get it right.
Really good hub - liked it a lot
Thank you all for the comments.
Marisa, have updated that, thanks.
Extremely useful for a newbie at hubpages. Clearly wrote without too much of the technical talk. Brilliant, thank you very much for sharing.x
Thanks for a awesome hub.
great information and I didnt realize that about the backlinking, even thought I do see some hits from shetoldme and reddit, yahoo thats about it and do alot of backlinking and it is time consuming so great advice!
informative hub, Thank you!
Great Hub! Thanks for informations:)
What a fantastic resource you have produced with this Hub Wrylit. Probably one of the best laid out information pieces of seen on HubPages yet. Bookmarked for future reference because there is everything I need in the one hub.
I had the same experience after being on HP for a while - you don't realize how much you've learned until you write it down!
Can I suggest one correction? For the photo search, you missed a step. After step 3, "Change 'Usage Rights' from 'Not filtered by license' to 'Labelled for commercial reuse.'", you need to add, "Go to the original location of the photo, verify that it IS licensed for commercial use, note the conditions of use and make sure you follow them".
The Google image search is getting better, but it's still not 100% accurate. As you know, a photo isn't licensed for commercial use unless it's specifically labelled as such, so you must check the original to make sure.
Thanks very much for this hub WryLilt. I have been here on hubpages a while now and not really got to grips with all the options available, but I think this is probably the easiest hub to understand that I have come across yet. Thank you, consider this hub voted up and bookmarked.
Sekharg, I just added a section near the top dealing with ideas for hubs as well as what isn't appropriate in a hub. Hope that helps!
quite possibly the best, most easy to read and informative hub i have read on this topic. Thanks a lot
Thank you for the helpful hub.
Can you also tell us how you come up with ideas for hubs?
Considering your short time on Hubpages, you wrote pretty good number of hubs.
Thanks WryLilt for this great hub which is loaded with a wealth of information. I'm still a wet the behind the ears newbie hubber so this will come in handy as I begin to learn more about developing my own hubs. Cheers for writing and sharing this with us.
Thanks WryLilt, You have explained more than expected. This article is very useful for newbie that will take part in this site seriously.
Awesome info WryLilt, like using a unique tag for a RSS feed, where to best place the news capsule. Some things I wasn't quite sure about, always learning those little tips that make a difference. Thankyou.
Thank you for the feedback. Was a bit worried I'd have people jump on me about technical points!
And yes, anyone can send me a question and I'm happy to help.
Thanks so much for this article. Very helpful. Hope you are serious about sending you a message - I may need help with some of this....;-)
Fred
I've been here for a while, but I still learned a ton. This is one of the best hubs on hubpages I've read.
This is an awesome hub for writers just starting on HubPages. Thanks for sharing all you have learned.
Thank you WryLilt for such a useful guide to creating a hub. I have been "having a go" with Hubpages for a few days and this has really filled in some of my knowledge gaps and will helpful for future hubs. Awesome stuff.
Your hub is awesome and right on the $$! Thanks soooo much for these tips. I will be taking putting these tips into action immediatley. Have a great day :)
Awesome, spacey gracey. I left a nice paragraph to link it from at the top if you didn't notice. ;-)
Love it - glad you published it. I will eventually get round to writing my 'make your own mind up' hub and we can do a good cop bad cop routine on the newbies.
WryLilt, this is such an exhaustive hub, covering all those things that newbies need to know. Thank you for sharing this information and making life easy .. Great Hub!
P FOR PEONY 3 weeks ago
Thanks for writing this! Informative and to the point, it's super useful for an amateur like me. The different new words (SERPs, backlinks etc.) were quite maddening to me at first. Voted up (: