HubPages
Google’s Panda Update Cripples Open Publishing Competition
Editor’s note: This is a guest post by HubPages CEO Paul Edmondson. Prior to founding HubPages, Edmondson was part of the executive team at MongoMusic, which was acquired by Microsoft in…
Guest Post: How We Got HubPages To Scale
After the recent TechCrunch post about HubPages, we received several questions about how HubPages got to 39 million unique visitors per month. Here’s how we did it: Four years ago,…
Online Publishing Site HubPages Hits 1 Million Hubs; 2,200 Articles Created Per Day
HubPages, a content community based around topics, has hit its 1 millionth “hub.” The site lets anyone create “Hubs” around any type of topic, and divided content into forums, questions…
Online Publishing Site HubPages Launches Real-Time Content Feeds
HubPages, a content community based around topics, is adding a new real-time feature this week: feeds. The site lets anyone create “Hubs” around any type of topic, and divided content…
Squidoo Aims To Make Brands Pay For Dedicated Web Dashboards
Remember Squidoo? Founded by current CEO and famous marketing guru Seth Godin, the service allows Internet users to generate rich, topical web pages (dubbed ‘lenses’) to serve as a hub…
MySpace v. Facebook Advertising Showdown. Which Platform Is Better?
The guest post below is written by Ryan Hupfer at HubPages. A couple of weeks ago HubPages ads were blocked from MySpace’s new self serve ad platform, MyAds, as being…
HubPages Blocked From MySpace MyAds As Too Competitive
MySpace has an embarrassing situation today involving their new MyAds self service advertising product – they’ve repeatedly rejected ads from a startup called HubPages as competitive to MySpace, despite the…
A Few Thoughts On Google Knol
News of Google most recent project, Knol, came out late last Thursday without, as far as I can tell, much in the way of press pre-briefings. All the major publications…
YieldBuild Will Try To Optimize AdSense, Pay You More
Simply slapping AdSense on your site is one of the easiest, but not necessarily best, ways to monetize your website. There are a lot of factors that go into getting…
Hubpages Launches, Gets $2 m from Hummer Winblad
Berkeley based Hubpages, which we wrote about in February, launched today. CEO Paul Edmondson also tells me that he’s raised a cool $2 million from Hummer Winblad, with Mitchell Kertzman…
HubPages, a better Squidoo?
Paul Edmondson, the founder of HubPages in Berkeley, California, thinks Squidoo is onto a good idea, but needs improvement in a number of areas. And he’s in the process of…