Hubba-hubba Hubpages! While back in the day, this slang was akin to a wolf whistle when a good looking woman came into view, it also means having enthusiasm for something. Hubba-hubba Hubpages!

In the short two weeks that I’ve been hubbing, I have written nine articles and have a total of 217 times that those articles have been read. The most page hits I’ve had were 38 for an article about what to think about or do in your thirties before hitting the big 4-0.

Before coming to Hubpages, I set up my own blog: www.whyitmatters.org. While being more of a social or political commentary blog, I wanted to write about issues that affect us and why they matter to us all. I have written 4 or 5 articles on it, but no one really has read them. I haven’t written any more of them since I came to Hubpages, though I plan to eventually. So far, all of my writing energy has gone into this new venture.

A lack of readership is what led me to www.Hubpages.com. While I was writing what I believe in at my blog, I might as well have been writing in my own diary. Why write about things that matter to us all if I am the only reader? I already know they matter. I wrote them.

When I first discovered Hubpages, I wasn’t really sure what it was or what I was doing or even how I was doing it. That led to my first Hubpage titled Dazed, Confused and Hubbing It -- What a Hub Is and How to Create One. I wrote it as I created the first one, still really unsure about what a hub even was. I was halfway through before I realized that a hub is really just a blog or post. I then realized that Hubpages is a community of bloggers who have come together to give each other moral support and a platform to speak from. Oh, and a way for the creators of Hubpages to make big bucks off of other people who are mostly working for free. What a great idea!

The most amazing thing was that within FIVE minutes of posting that first article, it had been read by two people already! I couldn’t believe it. I was ecstatic! That has led to 217 page views so far. I am thrilled with the results. At this stage, some people may have a lot more viewers (and a lot more fans), but I am not in competition with other Hubbers. At this point, I am just happy to have any readers at all.

The beauty about Hubpages is that all you have to do is create. Hubpages does most (unfortunately not all) of the technical behind the scenes work. Right now, I need that as I am totally computer illiterate when it comes to search engine optimization, html, and all that other technical jargon. I am slowly, but surely, learning as I go. Just yesterday, I added my first video to a post.

I still do not understand some of the practices of Hubpages, in spite of reading a lot of the articles about it. That would definitely include Hubscores and Hub author scores. How do they determine those scores? I’ve yet to read the definitive hub where the light bulb finally lights up.

It reminds me of way back in the DOS days, before the advent of Windows. I took a class at the local community college about it. On page 72, I finally got it and wondered why they just didn’t say that on page 1. Why does it all have to be so complicated?

While I think highly of my own intelligence in most areas, I have to admit that I am a slow learner when it comes to the highly technical jargon and procedures needed to do some of this stuff. It can be very frustrating. I’ve looked at the Dummy books at the book store, but thought those were above my ability to understand them too. I am worse than a computer Dummy!

I am anxiously awaiting the day that I go to the bookstore (or a hub page) and find that information written in a way that makes me finally get it. The problem is with all how to articles and books on computers is that they assume that the reader knows something about it. No matter how they hard they try, they still fall into that same cycle of writing over my head. Please, someone, write an article for your two year old about some of this stuff and then send it to me! See Jane Browse....See Dick link....See Jane blog…Hopefully, someone can come up with something to help me.

In the meantime, thanks to the creators of Hubpages, I am able to publish in a relatively easy format. Fortunately, I have enough knowledge of the basics to hub. I am hubbing it and loving it. Hubba-hubba Hubpages!