How to Control You HubPages concerns itself with putting your articles in categories for easy reference. The Hubpage itself is formatted for this function and should be used when you want to optimize your hubpages or make any other modifications or changes. If you are a prolific writer and have written a myriad of hubpages then, it is essential that you know how to control your hubpage. Controlling your hubpages is essential because the procedure saves you time from having to scroll down a long list of articles to find the one that you would like to modify or change.

The segmentation of hubpages makes it easier for you to optimize, modify, change or update your hubpages because you find yourself working with fewer groups of information. The relevant articles to your task also will help you to keep your line of thought. For example, if you are changing a political article and then have to scroll by several non-relevant articles, your line of thinking may get distracted. Distraction takes you away from your main task and then you begin modifying another hubpage. The hubpages that you started looking for is awaitng modification while you are changing an article that was not on your plan of changes. When you go off of your plan to categorize, you lose production and may become disillusioned about optimizing your hubpages.  You need to stay on your plan of categorizing your articles.

Use the Hubpages tools that are given to  help you  control and categorize your hubpages. Grouping of like articles is also numbered to help you decide if you want to modify the least number of articles in a group or the most articles in a group. Your choice will depend on  your personal preferences of  tackling the difficult tasks or to  tackle the easier task. You are the only one who can make the decision to use the categorization of the Hubpage tool to make your work  of writing a whole lot easier.

Categorizing is an automatic hubpage tool. From the moment that you enter the topic of what you are writing about, the hubpage tool then request for you to select a category. The categories to select from include the following:

• Travel & Places
• « Books & Writing
• « HubPages
• « Entertainment
• « Fashion & Beauty
• « Business & Jobs
• « Knowledge & Education
• « Food
• « Religion & Beliefs
• « Gender & Relationships
• « Health
• « Pets & Animals
• « Arts & Crafts
• « Sports & Recreation
• « Games, Toys, & Hobbies

These categories were taken directly from the Hubpage tool and your topic of writing should fit one of them.The topics listed are not linked in this particular article to more information but is provided as a guide for topic selection.

If you are writing, for example, about how to make a grilled cheese sandwich, you would select the topic of food. There are subtopics also once you select the topic of food however it is best to select optional after you have selected a main topic. By selecting optional you are not restricting the Google search engine to any other category except food. You need to keep the category general so that the Google "bot" can take your article to more places on the internet if you are interested in Google Adsense earnings.

.After you select a category for your article, the information is routed to the top of your list of articles. As you select categories for your topic, the main topics listed above populates in three sections over  the home pages.The three categories are Categories, Tags and Status. The Category segment over the list of articles again list the topics from your selection of which to write. This category of topics are the ones that you entered as your topic or subject when you began creating your hubpage article.  As you write more articles on a particular topic, that category is increased and get numbered. The tag category on the home page categorizes the different keywords that you or hubpages selected when you wrote the article. The keyword will be associated with the main categories. The status indicates the process of what is going on with the article. The status of the article can be submitted for publication, published, new, not published, or needs revision.

The status of the article is easy recognizable on your list of articles because the color will either be in red or a different color of the other hub articles.  The difference in color in the print of the articles  in the excel boxes on hubpages indicate that further work needs to be done. Use the Category, Tag, and Status Hubpage tool to filter your hubs. Filtering your hubpage articles indicates that you are working with the category, tag and status process of writing your article. You will find that by working step by step on one category at a time in modifications and updates makes the process of optimizing your hubpages so much easier.