As a new 'hubber', I've noticed two real benefits of discussing your hubs on external forums.
The obvious one is traffic, but be aware that advertising your work breaks the rules on a lot of forums.
The other is criticism. People will put across their view on your thoughts and opinions, they'll point out your ommissions, and question your content. This is your opportunity to update and enrich your content. Don't take it personal.
You may believe yourself to be an expert on a given subject (guitars in my case), but until the real internet 'geeks' get a hold of you, you really don't know as much as you thought. Trust me on that one.
Then go back to them with the updates, rinse and repeat. Don't be pig-headed, dont argue uneccessarily, and you'll find people will be thankful you took onboard their advice and info, and your Hub will be all the better for it.
My initial reaction was, you can just ask other Hubbers and get advice here. But really, your idea is genius.
First of all, you can ask the people who are experts in the field. That mean their advice will be more about content and less about the presentation. That is important, so you can be relevant, correct, and as you said, you may learn about better ways of doing things, and you can share that with your readers.
Second of all, you can use your referral link so you can get paid while you are being helped!
Well it's not everyday I'm called a genius. Thanks!
This all depends on the hub of course, you need to pick a subject that people will debate, for example I have a series of hands-on guitar gear reviews, so opinions will always differ, the trick is to take the criticisms and other points of view on the chin, absorb it, then write some more about it given your new knowledge.
by Aficionada 15 years ago
Do other Hubbers, besides me, ever wonder about the "rest of the story" when someone stomps off and leaves HubPages - such as someone who opens dozens of forums but then can't deal with honesty?Or perhaps another Hubber has discovered that an OP has a dual identity and is commenting on...
by Sondra Rochelle 7 years ago
New people are always welcome on this site, but they need to understand that this is not a site like Facebook. HP is a community of writers who have come here to hone their skills and perhaps earn a few dollars.If your only goal is to show up out of the blue, produce nothing, but spend your...
by DIYweddingplanner 14 years ago
What is the point of people being banned from the HP forums if they can come back under another name?
by Haley Davis 3 months ago
As a reminder, on April 14th, 2025, The Arena Group will no longer be able to share revenue on content that remains on Delishably, Hobbylark, Owlcation, WanderWisdom, LetterPile, and WeHaveKids. Content that lives on Discover.HubPages will continue to earn revenue through your HubPages account.If...
by Baileybear 14 years ago
The posts I loathe most are the ones where people resort to childish name-calling.Almost as bad is where some clogs up forums with large sections of stolen content copied and pasted from elsewhere.The next most annoying IMO, is instead of debating, they make a personal attack or claim that I must...
by wytegarillaz 14 years ago
What one piece of advice would you give to someone new here ?I would say to first off check the forums to see if your questions have been answered in there first before asking as you can learn a lot there on all subjects to do with your hubs.What would your advice be ?!
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