99 Good Things About the Hubpages Writing Site

Hubpages is an online writing platform that allows writers to create their own articles, for free, and potentially receive revenue from them. It has a wonderful community of writers and readers, and it is a fun and rewarding place to write. If you would like to know more, here are 99, yes, 99 reasons to like the Hubpages site. Here we go!

1. Easy to publish. No need to learn HTML or CSS first!
2. The Learning Center: very thorough
3. It's a multimedia experience with so many possible capsules.
4. Google love. It's very possible to reach the first page of Google for certain topics.
5. Very well organized sections
6. The are always trying to improve things.
7. The Apprenticeship Program
8. Great resource for many topics. I often come here to research because of the quality of many of the writers here.
9. People from all walks of life
10. Attractive, clean layout
11. Hubpages Ad Program
12. Experienced Internet marketers write here. I have learned so much!
13. Great poetry
14. Inspirational writing
15. Active commenting
16. People comment back on your comments
17. People from all parts of the world
18. Good moderation
19. A place to sort out ideas
20. A fantastic place to meet other writers
21. The contests and challenges
22. Amazing community!
23. The quiz capsule
24. The poll capsule
25. The maps capsule
26. The videos capsule
27. Immediate feedback, through comments, and accolades.
28. The ability to see how many people read your work with Hubpages traffic records.
29. The ability to see what keywords are being used to find your articles.
30. The ability to edit your work at any time.
31. All of your work is still owned by you!
32. Evergreen hubs keep on making you money.
33. The teaching hubs.
34. A strong Christian presence. As a believer, I have met many fellow Christians here, and I appreciate that.
35. Humour. There are some very funny people here!
36. Responsive staff
37. Immediate publication. You don't have to wait for approval, which makes it pretty exciting to publish!
38. The Questions and Answers Section. This is a great database for hub ideas, plus you get to ask people stuff.
39. When a hub starts a great discussion!
40. When you feel like you know some of your fellow writers
41. Writing something that helps someone else.
42. Knowing your writing can reach people all over the world.
43. Educating others on a topic that you are familiar with.
44. Being educated by others on topics they are familiar with.
45. The ability to make money through referrals (although I've never personally had much success with it, it's good to know it's there.)
46. Easy linking to other hubs.
47. The feed. It's an easy way to keep tabs on what's new from your fellow writers.
48. Making lists. Lists like this one are a fun way to get information out there.
49. Hubs on writer's block, which I'm having right now! 99 Reasons is a lot of reasons! Okay, here we go ... 50 more reasons ...
50. Freedom to put links in your profile to your facebook profile, blog and twitter accounts.
51. Fan mail. This is a wonderful way to show your appreciation to other writers that you like. It is very respectful.
52. The daily notification e-mails. These are a great way to see the latest from your fave writers!
53. Accolades are well-done and help to encourage you in the right direction. They also look tasteful and don't seem "babyish."
54. Hub-hopping. It's has two advantages: to see new work, and to clean out the spammish stuff.
55. Weekly Topic Inspiration. These are great ways to get ideas for hubs and all the hubs written on a similar topic help with search engine ratings, too.
56. HubNuggets: a great way to recognize new talented writers.
57. Hubpages is a free place. They do moderate but they also allow a great deal of freedom.
58. The interplay of ideas.
59. The vast size of the site.
60. When you see a hub that describes exactly how you've been feeling.
61. When you read a hub that you can't wait to share with your sister or friend.
62. When you learn about new hubbers that you love to read.
63. 30 Day 30 Hub Challenges. These are grueling. I am doing one of these challenges right this very second. But it forces you to write!
64. Very smart hubbers
65. Very compassionate hubbers
66. Very insightful hubbers
67. Something to do when you have insomnia at two in the morning
68. There's always someone on at two in the morning
69. Looking at weird things that people searched to find your particular hub
70. Only 29 more reasons to go. If you're still reading this, you deserve a special accolade! Speaking of readers, people really do read Hubpages, and no, not just your mother!
71. Writing gift hubs. It's a great way to help others find special "something's" for their loved one, and hopefully, make some cash for you, too!
72. The new Video Hubs. What a great way to share your own videos, apart from YouTube.
73. The new Recipe modules. These are a great way to get better ratings for the recipe hubs.
74. The new Review capsules. Again, an excellent way to improve our search engine rankings for review type articles.
75. I like the name. When I think of hubs, I think of being connected with others.
76. Their staff members are well-recognized in the online community, with a wealth of experience.
77. The amazing community (this one is worth mentioning a few times!)
78. Meet both young and old for a smorgasbord of perspectives.
79. The "recover draft" function. If you've used it, you know why I like it.
80. Learning about places from all over the world.
81. Meeting fellow hubbers through Facebook and getting to know them better.
82. Sharing some of the lessons I have learned in life.
83. An excellent search feature where you can practically anything.
84. Gardening hubs. I know nothing about gardening except what I've learned here.
85. Pinning cool hub images
86. An amazing community!
87. I like it because I've been here long enough to feel like I really know some people, which is so wonderful, for an online place.
88. Hubs about people's cats and dogs.
89. Learning about the latest developments in the online world.
90. When other people share your hubs!
91. The Hubpages widget, clunky though it may be.
92. RSS feeds give you the ability to link to your related hubs.
93. The new layout, Pinterest-style. I think it looks cool, even if it's not perfect!
94. The related hubs on the side of your hubs. Your hubs show up on other people's hubs, too, giving you extra traffic!
95. Talented photographers.
96. The staff is very careful at bringing in new changes.
97. The subdomains, which seem to have really helped fight Panda.
98. The "Share This" button at the bottom, which lets you share to your heart's content and .....
99. My followers!!!! I love having followers on Hubpages that read the work I do. I appreciate everyone that's bothered to read the stuff I pound out. Thank you to all of you! And I love being a follower, too.

Now, I know Hubpages is not perfect, but this was just a fun way to show what I do like about this writing platform. And I know this was a long list. Do you agree, disagree? Let's talk!