On the 27th of September 2006 I was surfing some personal blogging sites with the intention of becoming a blogger when I came across an article talking about a new website on the scene called Hubpages.com.

(I can't remember where the article was now)

The aritcle stated that hubpages was so easy to use that even the persons Grandmother who had never even seen a computer could log in and and start writing articles with no effort what so ever.

The articles author went on to say that Hubpages gives you an instant readership and you can earn money from your writing through affiliate advertising.

Although at the time I had no interest in making money from writing Hubpages sounded like the perfect outlet for what thought that my writing had to offer.

On September 27th 2006 I signed up to Hubpages and published my very first Hub comparing fuel pricing in the UK to the USA and I have never looked back since, Hubpages is now a major part of my life and I love the site so much that I just have to keep coming back here.

I published my first Hubpage with little expectation of it being read, it was a short Hub not very well written and looking back not as very well researched as my more recent articles but it was all my own work and I was very proud of it.

The last time and only time, before I joined Hubpages, that I had written anything that would be read by anyone else was at school and college and even that would only be read by my tutors of the respective subjects I was taking.

You can imagine my surprise when within 20 minutes of hitting the publish now button someone had left me a comment, not just someone though, it was none other than one of the founders of Hubpages Mr Paul Edmondson whom I have since come to regard as a friend and mentor in my online publishing career, then I got other comments and the realisation hit me that people were actually reading somthing that I had written, and I was Hooked.

In the early days of Hubpages there wasn't a forum where authors could communicate with each other but there was a community feeling about the site nonetheless, everyone supported each other leaving comments in hubs and even emailing each other with advice and tips and just for a day to day chit-chat. The sense of community was very strong and it continues to be so this very day. Without the support from Authors on the site and the Hubpages staff I am positive that the Hubpages website would not be half as popular with writers as it is today.

I have made many friends on Hubpages and I am sure there will be many more to meet in the future.

Hubpages opened the floodgates in my head and the Hubs began to flow out of my head onto the internet for anyone who may be interested in what i had to write about to read, I was publishing Hubs every day and before I knew it I was publishing my 100th Hub which became a tribute to some of my friends that I had met on Hubpages even though in this Hub I killed them all as seemed to be a tradition (Started by Drax the first Hubber to reach 100 hubs in this Hub) whenever a Hubber published their 100th Hub. The Hubs just kept pouring out of me until in Febuary 2007 I was the proudest person in the world when I became the First Hubber to enter The Hubpages Hall of Fame after publishing my 400th Hub that was my first real major milestone in Hubpages and the one I am most proud of until this very day.

I have reached alot of milestones since 2006 thanks to the people who keep coming back to read my work and the support from the authors and staff here at Hubpages, in August 2008 I reached my second major Milestone a milestone that I never in my wildest dreams thought possible, checking out my Hubstats I found that visitors to my pages had reached 1 million.

13 months later I have just reached another milestone 2 million visitors to my pages on Hubpages.

After 3 years and 727 published Hubs (including this one) 2 Million Visitors brings with it some very interesting statistics which I am sure will be of interest to most of the Hubpages Community.

My most visited hub World War 1 Trench Warfare has had over 217,000 visitors and Counting

Google sends me more traffic than any other source.

According to my Hubstats 47 of my Hubs Have been copied on other sites.

Around 60% of my Hubs are on the first page of Google and 40% on the first page of Yahoo for their respective search terms.

Money Earned From My Hubs:

Google Adsense: $ 5015.00

Ebay (Including older version): $ 3000.00

Amazon: $ 2800.00

Kontera: $100.00 (Kontera is now disabled on my Hubs)

I have 106 people Joined hubpages using my referral trackers who between them have written 397 Hubs.

My monthly earnings from Hubpages are paying for my new car.

As I write this hub I currently have 1412 fans and I am proud to know every one of them.

If it were possible i would like to thank and shake the hand of everyone out there who has ever read any of my Hubs, without Hubpages none of this would have been possible for me.

I am the first to admit that I am not a great writer and my Grammer leaves a lot to be desired, I don't know any secrets except that I write mostly about the things that I want to write about not what I think that the search engines are looking for. I research my topics thouroughly and i work on the basis of if I like it then maybe someone else out there will like it too.

Again I say thanks to Team Hubpages, all of the Hubpages Authors, and to each and every one of the 2 million people who have read my work.

To my fellow Hubbers Please use the comments box below and let everyone else know what your favorite hubpages achievement has been to date.