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60 signs that show You are addicted to Hubpages

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By shailini


I am addicted to Hubpages. Who doesn't love HubPages? When I signed up for HubPages before 5 months ago, I never realised that my life would turn this much. It has been a great ride being here at Hubpages crossing plenty of landmarks. So far, I have acquired 300 fans (join my fan club), got 770 comments (minus the 50 odd spam comments) and my all-time traffic stats is nearing the magical 300,000 mark. Yet, I constantly think of ways to write more quality HubPages rather than publishing just the Photo galleries (I know most of my visitors like them!).

Here are some signs that show you are a HubPages addict. I am proud to admit that I am one of them. I felt stupid to admit few of my habits below and I hope you would enjoy reading them as much as I enjoyed writing them. Thanks for being a fan of my Hubs and I thank fellow hubbers for tolerating my hub page writing (I am improving, at least). I am grateful to all my readers and dedicate all my success to my visitors.

Feel free to add your own sign in the comments section. Or, why not publish another hub in this theme?


1. You have already forgot your HubPages password as you have never signed out of HubPages in the last few months.

2. Your only activity on the holidays is your "Hubtivity".

3. You constantly think about increasing your HubScore to 100.

4. Your heart breaks whenever the Hubscore slips from 100.

5. You want to write at least 5 hubs a week and you missed out on that target last week.

6. You pray to God for more Adsense Clicks, more Amazon and eBay purchases.

7. You login to Google Adsense account to check your earnings every hour or even frequently.

8. You sneak off during a conversation to check your HubPage Statistics.

9. You dream about getting an invite to join Flagship Hubs Program.

10. You have started liking problems and giving solutions because, you can do a Hub after solving the problem.

11. You do not go on a vacation because you worry more about the unapproved comments rather than feeding your cat/dog.

12. When you kid asks some thing, you post that as HubPage request.

13. When someone asks a query, you write a HubPage and send a link to your friend.

14. You usually hang out in the Hubber's Hang out.

15. You rejoice when your baby utters "Hub" as the first spoken word and you rush to announce that in the HubPage forums.


16. You realise that when you keep your account logged in, your hubscore goes up and up.

17. You have a HubPage account for everyone in your family and ask family members to contribute Hubs for you.

18. You think Nike should make a shirt that says "just hub it".

19. You would buy it if they did.

20. You pester your mum to teach a recipe and then publish a hub instead of trying out the recipe in the kitchen.

21. In your dream, you attend the Great HubPages Conference.

22. Your wishlist contains an item such as this one - "Meeting Sunseven* before I die!" (* Insert your favourite Hubber).

23. Whenever you are struck in traffic, you think about HubPages traffic (you love traffic, don't you?).

24. You have started shooting more pictures, so you can include them in your next hub.

25. You go through your inbox (spam folder) to search for any interesting pictures to post on the next Hub.

26. Your goal for the next month is to publish at least two hubs that make it to the "Popular Topics" page.

27. You are mentioning about your Hub friends in your conversations.

28. You have more fans than the total number of friends.

29. You introduce yourself at parties as a "hubber".

30. You check your HubPages stats when you wake up midnight before going to toilet.


31. You include your hubpage tracker id when you write your HubPage profile URL on a post-it note. You write it on the office notice board.

32. You have at least ten unpublished hubs under your belt.

33. Lately, you have been thinking to outsource hubpage writing to third-world countries.

34. You write a hub such as Should we follow a very strict schedule to feed our children? How much and how often to feed? and see fellow hubbers opinions before you feed your children.

35. You disregard a HubPage idea because you just found out from your "keyword research" that won't attract much traffic.

36. You read more hubs and start to think that "every hubpage that needs to be written have been already written".

37. You rephrase an old email to make the next Hub. You appreciate yourself for doing that (What a clever Hubber you are!).

38. You are waiting for the HubPage team to add the option of including "Voice module" because, you are tired of typing.

39. You spend half a day compiling a Hub and find out that it is not a favourite among your hub readers.

40. You prefer to stay at Home during the weekend, because you can be productive writing Hubs.

41. You are missing out official deadlines and tell your manager that "some things came up" (Actually, you were reading your favourite Hubs!).

42. You google your HubPage title 1 hour after publishing and complain that Google's indexing is not up to the speed.

43. You dedicate your 200th Hub to your fans (I love you fans!).

44. You want to belong to the "Hall of Fame" and you are only 286 hubs away from achieving that feat.

45. You understand how the HubPages traffic referral works.


46. Your lifetime goal is achieving a Hubscore of 100. You thrust that wish upon your kids as well.

47. You become furious when people say that they have never heard about HubPages (and the next hour goes in the HubPages lecture).

48. Hubpages.com domain name is blocked by your System Admin in your office network.

49. You cursed your System Admin for doing that and you want to do a "Woodoo" on him/her.

50. You have a crush on a fellow Hubber (and you are afraid about revealing it).

51. You get more "HubPages Comment" e-mail messages than spam. You think those comments make your life beautiful.

52. You wait for the "HubPages newsletter" by holding your breath to see if your name pops up in the interview.

53. You watch a boring movie because you think you can get a spark for the next hub.

54. You have worked out that Wednesday is the good day and you publish your best hub on a Wednesday.

55. You are furious when you see another "Sexy Photo Gallery and Videos" hub such as this one Hollywood Divas: Sexy Photo Gallery 4 (I know you do, my fellow hubbers!).

56. You rate a good hub and comment with "thumbs up" (You expect that the hubber would return the favour!).

57. You have already written few e-books and pestering your readers to look at them by constantly linking to your profile page.

58. You make a HubPage request and you answer it when no one answers it.

59. You finish reading this hub and think that I missed out few.

60. You are going to write them in comments now starting with the number 61.

Here is the most important one sign that shows you are a Hubpages lover. You will give thumbs up to this hub not because I have written a great hub, but this hub put a little smile on your face.

What else you can do? Join my fan club and read about myself and download some free ebooks such as Making Money with HubPages. You can email me as well. I do reply to every single email that I receive.

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weblog  says:
2 years ago

Great job. Actually, it happens to me as I keep signed in for weeks. Every point is good and in depth, only a senior hubber like you can do this. I feel proud to post the comment before anybody have done. Thumbs up!!!

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Just_Rodney  says:
2 years ago

A good one this I think although I am waiting to hit 1st 1,000 hits, I am hubdicted to our good hubspeoples as you, Good luck

amy jane profile image

amy jane  says:
2 years ago

Love your list - yes, I am an addict too! :)

Hovalis profile image

Hovalis  says:
2 years ago

Nope, not addicted.

I'll just toddle off and check what my author score is right now.

Be back shortly.

Nope not addicted.

You believe me, don't you? ;-)

Elisha  says:
2 years ago

Wonderfully written..I do not write Hubs but I am a reader of interesting Hubs. Certainly this made me laugh.

uday kiran  says:
2 years ago

61. you fancy the idea of quitting your day job when your first hub gets 1000 page views in three months time. LOL..

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pjdscott  says:
2 years ago

What an astute, yet hilarious hub! Sadly, I too show many of these characteristics without your super success rates!

Wishing you and yours all the very best!

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prasadjain  says:
2 years ago

I have many of the symptoms listed by you and I try to be away from the 'hubboholic' disease.It is killing my reading time and eating up my writing time for journals.Moreover, I am still unable to encash my hubtivity.

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dutch84  says:
2 years ago

I suffer for all of those symptoms...Should I check myself into rehab?

dutch84 profile image

dutch84  says:
2 years ago

"You think Nike should make a t-shirt that says 'just hub it'"

That's actually a GREAT idea!

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there4u  says:
2 years ago

Wow, that's a nice list!

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xoxogirl29  says:
2 years ago

Boo! we already know that we are addicted why else would you be on hubs right now??!? Thanks for the effort though!

lifebydesign  says:
2 years ago

Some great ideas here too Shalini that you could write a hub on- love it!

I didn't know Wednesday was a good day..!

Agro Donkey  says:
2 years ago

Great hub and congradations are in order way to make it so far. I hope that your good fortune continues.

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stephhicks68  says:
2 years ago

Shailini - I am with you 100%! Vacations are now affected by Hubbing. Even my anniversary and other holidays. This is so point on! :-)

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weblog  says:
2 years ago

"...quality HubPages rather than publishing just the Photo galleries" - I feel it is a real good job to post photo galleries. Pls don't say JUST photo galleries...Bcoz I know hubpages come in first page of the results in google image search too. we are providing something that somebody is searching for somewhere away from hubpages. They may not even know about hubpages. And, I just wonder why do u let this google ad show below this comment block. Actually, u will get more clicks if it is somewhere within the worth content (text, pics above). U must be aware of it and u will be knowing how to bring this up. Thank u for the hub once again.

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Shadowmage  says:
2 years ago

LOL! This is great! Very good!

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subamenu  says:
2 years ago

Dear Shalini,Im your fan.But Im frank to tell you that I like this kind of hubs.This gives good knowledge about hubbing and related subjects.But those sexy,glamourous photo hubs are useless,boring and monotonous.You can make hubs on creative photography.Regards-Subamenu

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PLM  says:
2 years ago

How to tell you're an addict....

You're reading this! =P

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KelleyMari  says:
2 years ago

This is hilarious! I can relate. As soon I felt I had kicked my Flickr habit/obsession, I discovered HubPages....I just exchanged one addiction for another, I guess!

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jimcrowthers  says:
2 years ago

Hah! Once an addict, always an addict, huh, KellyMari! I've found I've traded one habit/addiction for another all my life. It usually revolved around some kind of computer related habit, though.

Great hub as usual, shailini!

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fishskinfreak2008  says:
2 years ago

Very interesting. I guess I belong to the "HubPages Addict" club too as I kept thinking about it since I couldn't publish a hub for the past 5 days and I've never signed out.

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Raggits  says:
4 months ago

Great hub, point taken, I shut the computer off just to go and clean up a room that's been a mess for 2 months. I turn on the t.v. but the computer is like a magnet. And I have 3 sites I visit as soon as I log on. Yep, HubPages is one of those 3. Keep'em coming. I am going to check out some of your earlier hubs. Great writing.

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