New here and looking for honest opinions

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   ThreeFootHatposted 13 years ago

   Hello!  I just joined hubpages a few days ago to try my hand at blogging.  I figure most of my hubs will end up being more of the 'how to' variety since I create many things.  I have put up two hubs that I would like to share.
   
   http://hubpages.com/hub/Making-your-own-vanilla-extract
   
   http://hubpages.com/hub/Making-roses-wi … m-frosting
   
   Are these helpful?  Do they make sense?  Are there too many photos?  Not enough?  Anything else I can do to help?  Any input would be appreciated!

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   Cagsilposted 13 years ago

   Hello again,
   
   Okay, let's start with some of the basic stuff.
   
   (a) quality type hubs are written for a length of 600+ words.
   (b) utilize as many tools as you can when creating a hub but try not to make look cluttered. (polls, more pictures, amazon capsules)
   (c) keywords/tags are very important and should range between 9-15
   (d) try to add fresh content(RSS feeds or News feeds). This will always keep your hub fresh with content so that GOOGLE crawlers/bots come to your hub, because it recognizes new content.
   
   I'm putting some links below, so as to help you with your improvements.
   
   Frogdropping: She produced two excellent reads for new hubbers.
   http://hubpages.com/hub/Hubpages-Help
   http://hubpages.com/hub/hubpages-blueprint
   
   Darkside: He wrote a lot of hubs about using HubPages.
   http://hubpages.com/hub/how
   http://hubpages.com/hub/capsules
   http://hubpages.com/hub/howhubworks
   http://hubpages.com/hub/Hubscore
   http://hubpages.com/hub/hubpages-works
   
   It is important to know that there is a lot more and other good reads can be found by Nelle Hoxie, Ryankett, Thisisoli, Relache, Shadesbreath and so many others.
   
   I hope this helps. Please do enjoy your time here.
   
   
   
   Edit: Sunforged can help you to learn SEO functions and the benefits of learning them. An awesome resource for those who want to become successful. Also, check out Misha.

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      ThreeFootHatposted 13 years agoin reply to this

      Ok, I added more tags to my hubs.  I also signed up with Amazon and was approved today.  I like how that one works!  I really like that I was able to put specific ads for vanilla beans in the my vanilla extract hub.  Several people had asked me where I get those and now there is a link directly to the product right in my article.  Very useful!
      
      Also, after looking at some other how-to pages I decided to re-arrange my rose hub.  I do like it better now! 
      
      I expect I'll get better at it as I go.  I'll keep looking at what other people are doing and maybe someday I'll even make a little cash.   Thanks for the info!

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