HubPages Absolutely Sucks-Newbies Must Read
I know of one site in particular that I've watched for quite awhile now, Dale, and the anti-HubPages rants there go on and on. I think the very first person to respond to this writer's claims that HP was some sort of scam was Maddie Ruud. She did an admirable job in defending us.
I subscribe to this other site for writing purposes, and yesterday and saw that another Hubber had gotten frustrated with our community and has now left.
I am extremely happy with HubPages, but understand that some folks simply are not content here-as writers, as participants in this community.
Thanks for starting this thread-you sure got my attention!
I second that and thank you Dale for saying something, it's like someone smack talkin my family and it just is not acceptable. I vow that every word I see written outside here one will be returned in defense, not that we need to, but it's worth it to me demonstrating this is a community that happens to kick ass!
such grace
[hpt when considering banning please note I have not taken my medication yet this morning and Dale made me do it
love ya Dale
kimberly
I'm with IE! Perhaps we could roll out a "Support Hubpages" marathon from writers altogether.
Well said Dale - now - how is the not-smoking going, or are you in the 'don't talk about it' stage
Not a hub! There were 4 in that specific return , shadesbreath, thisisoli, sufidreamer and myself - yoshi97 wrote the most even keeled but i dont know what the title was. There were others, but again dont know all the titles
It was fun , you should def add your version!
As a side effect of that fun moment in HP forum events - I think any searches for "Hubpages sucks" are mostly dominated by pro-HP hubs and related links
Just letting you know that you were not alone in noticing and being annoyed? by the rather silly anti-hub crusadeI've read this thread and some of the Hubs at the above link(s). I agree with everything I've read - which is that HubPages doesn't "suck".
I'm always particularly amazed when people run into trouble on the forums, and the make some big, giant, deal out of it. You're right. It's never very becoming to be spending time trash-talking beyond, maybe, making a single statement somewhere if you run into the situation that might warrant it. It makes the trash-talker look like he has nothing else to do, probably had "issues", and, for some reason, isn't adult enough to just move on if he didn't like something at one site or another. Maybe it doesn't matter for people who are just "hanging out" online, but for anyone who hopes preserve some kind of professional reputation it isn't great.
I suppose I am one of the newbies that you were referring to when you gave out that warning. Having read the thread I now realise there is a problem but to tell the truth I had no idea there was one until you mentioned it. Personally I think this is a great site with great people. I am sure there are other sites out there and maybe one day I will find them but right now am very comfortable here and I think mature enough to make up my own mind about whether or not a site sucks. Appreciate the warning tho
On here (not necessarily other places where I write one kind of thing or another), I kind of still keep trying to reconconcile the two "camps" (at least to the extent that I put certain efforts into doing that). They don't have to be two camps if people don't want them to, although, for a certain type of writer, there does have be a little compromise at times.
I've got enough Hubs (and been on here long enough) now that I'm starting to see a shift in what some of them are doing. How the "non-money" Hubs earn is different, but there's definitely a time/quantity factor that kicks in. I kind of do my own thing on here, but not completely without an eye for what I think may be of use (in some way) to someone.
HubPages, itself, just turned four years old. My three-year anniversary is coming up. I predict that in another half year/year, there'll be less division on here, once more people start to see that there's more than one way to earn, and there's more than one way write "quality" Hubs.I began publishing on hubpages just as that was kicking off, and I guess that is precisely why I never understood it. I wrote a very good mix of articles, from informative articles such as 'how to' guides, to historical biographies of old sports players, to full blown sales pages.
So I guess that I am of the 'new school' which sees that this site can be utilised pretty much however you want it to be. Right now I am writing sales pages, I don't feel any shame in doing that - every time I make a sale I have clearly helped somebody to make a decision that they were seeking to make. In that respect a sales page fulfils a clear demand from a certain readership, a sale suggests that you supplied the reader with the information that they required, and were actively seeking.
Whilst I did, and can, see where and why this division appeared... each and every single one of those who criticise(d) commericial hub writers elect(ed) to display a high number of AdSense ads, Amazon capsules, and at that time eBay capsules. You cannot have it both ways, either you monetize your efforts or you don't... and they did. That is the one single aspect which grates on me the most. What astonishes me is the heavy critiscm of writers out to make money by one of those aforementioned hubbers, who subsequently departed because Hubpages didn't make her enough moneyAs someone who doesn't particularly write Hubs others would call, "commercial", it's always bothered me that some people who write "for art" do seem to have a prejudice against "commercial". I don't think most do, but I think they're the more vocal. It's the Internet. People look up stuff because they're looking to buy stuff. I think it's great that you (and some others on here) are examples of how people can write both types of Hubs and do well. Then again, I think it's great that there are people who write "commercial" Hubs and nothing but, and do well. It does kind of bother me to see people come on here and say, "If you write anything other than product Hubs you can't earn". You have well written, well put together, Hubs - so you earn. To me, that should dispel some of the myths that "nobody can earn" or that "nobody who writes non-product Hubs can earn".
I don't put in the SEO efforts you do (at all), but I recall one of your forum posts in which you mentioned that you have a mix of Hubs, and some earn more than others - but on the whole, they earn. That's the kind of thing I have too. I think having the mix means not having all the eggs in any basket (and some people do seem to put all their eggs in one basket, but then not do what it takes to take good care of that basket).
Oh well, it's too bad that division ever developed. Most of us (except for some creative writers) are hear with the idea of earning something with our writing. If there are people here who plain, old, don't care about earning at all, they should at least understand that a whole lot of people do want to earn (and there's nothing wrong with that). (People are paying their bills with the HubPages and/or other online earnings. Earning is not a bad thing. ). I do think a lot of these writing sites are just now in the process of "maturing". In a lot of ways, people once signed up, kind of floundered (I did that), and too awhile to figure out what works for them. (Even the people running the sites now seem to have a better understanding of what works than they did a few years ago.)
I write because I enjoy it. I enjoy it because it makes me money.
I'll admit to not being commercial enough, I want to change that round and write more for more money, so still fun, but with my eye on the $$$s.
I write for Hubpages because it does pay me - and I can see the potential that even without thinking about the money, it has the potential to make a full-time income from fun writing in the long-term.
I love the residual payments I get from Hubpages, through Adsense. I love to check my Hubs earnings every day. I just wish I could track every url/earnings (limit of 200 urls tracked are already used up).
I recommedn Hubs to everybody. I wish more people would write.
I want to change from being somebody who can pay their bills with Hubpages, to somebody who gets $2000/month through Hubpages by the end of 2011.
Hubpages is a platform I can use easily, that costs me nothing, that generates an income for me easily. The sheer power of the Hubpages' ranking and traffic makes me money.
What on earth is there not to like?
I haven't seen anybody say Hubpages is rubbish - and if I did I'd laugh in their faces and be pleased to keep the secret to myself that Hubpages IS a good mid-long-term strategy for building a solid residual income online easily and for free.
That's my pennyworth.I have a feeling that, when all is said and done, it is really is in human nature not to like "separate camps". Nelle was mentioned. The admiration, respect, and appreciation someone like she has earned on here is more than well deserved; and obviously earned through a lot of solid effort. I do think whatever divided camps occurred (maybe as the natural result of "growing pains") are in the process of dissolving. Oh well, off to my extremely commercially-focused "day job".
Hubpages feels like home to me. I'm comfortable writing here, and have made wonderful friends.
I couldn't be happier about hubpages as a writer's site.- Home Girlposted 13 years ago
0 I've been on hubpages for 5 weeks, created 21 hubs, and won a hubnugget award. Out of all the article submission sites that I belong too, hubpages is my favorite. The forum and community is warm and friendly here. I wish that I had joined sooner.
I can't really attest to the money earnings yet because, I've not figured out how to track that it (suggestions are welcomed. I do know that one of my websites is now #1 in Google search results. It happen very shorty after I linked a few of my hubs to it. So for me it's already paid off.
I'm a newbie to hubpages but not to article submission, keywords and seo. If you get a good url, place all of your keywords in original content..... you will get traffic and eventually earn money. It may be change, but change adds up to dollars so keep hubbing on!
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