Launch Your Popularity, Publish With HubPages

Hubpages is a great venue for new writers. On HubPages, an article you publish is called a "hub". You will be known as a "hubber". Complete with Ebay, Amazon and Google AdSense earnings potential, HubPages is a great way to make decent cash from your articles. Search engines "crawl" HubPages frequently for new and informative content. This means your article will be viewable from search engines sooner. (Please see my Optimize SEO post and use the SEO KEYWORD SEARCH TOOL on the bottom of this blog for helpful information on this.)

Click on the HUBPAGES AD on the top left corner of this blog to get started.

Sign up is easy and publishing is a cinch. Publish virtually anything your heart desires.

Don't Let A Commenter Get Your Goat

Comments are a publisher's best friend as it increases popularity, reputation and usually ranks the article higher on the site's "hot" list. But what do you do when a commenter is unpolished, crude or trying his best to sabotage your reputation and credibility?

A good writer will complete many hours of research on a subject, possibly includes interview information and checks sources well in order to produce a fair and accurate article. After bearing sweat and tears and the publishing gammut, on 50+ articles, that last thing a writer needs is a blowhard know-it-all undermining your articles. If intrusive comments are only made to one article, the feeling will spread to other articles read by a reader. Your reputation will be stunned.

A site like HubPages gives you an option to moderate comments BEFORE they are posted on your Hub. PrintNPost will notify you via email about a new post on your article but will still publish it before your chance to read it. Triond will post the comment for all to see and then it is up to the writer to notice the comment and delete it.

In the spirit of free speech, I do not make it a habit to delete comments especially when they are intended to be constructive critisism. In one case, the "know-it-all" seems credible but does not share my opinion. That's okay if the comments are well structured, thoughful and professional. The particular writer I am talking about slammed my article, the contents, called me a liar and demanded personal information. It doesn't look like this commenter is a publisher and doesn't realize I am able to delete him. Which I did. Let's see his next move.

Utilize your comment moderators and do not feel bad using them to delete opinions or comments. Your reputation is at stake for everything written on your article, Hub or Lens, whether or not you said it.

Change Dog Titles

If you are not receiving as many hits as you would like to see on your article/Hub, DON'T POUT, consider changing the title. By researching other successful articles on your topic, you may be able to get a good idea of which titles "sell". Remember to make you title appropriate to your content to maintain your credibility. I changed a few of my titles from "interesting" to "plain yet informative" and they have seen much more traffic without making any other changes to the articles. Appearences matter in th online world. Good luck!

"Proper Use Of A Microscope" Sounds BORING!

I published this article on Triond in my first few days as an online writer. Slow at first,and I "wonder why",this article has been my top viewed article on that site. Why? I don't know. I even posted a comment asking the readers to leave comments so I know who is viewing the page. A ridiculous amount of hits to this article and it is just a paper I wrote for extra credit in Biology class last semester. Maybe there are more science geeks around after all! It goes to show, you never know what articles will be popular and when they will pick up speed. Allow for ebbs and flows. We shouldn't be so quick to delete slow articles as they may be moneymakers in the future. Good luck!

$0 and .00 cents

Dear Friends,
The online writer world swears by consistency in this blogging and article venture. "Time and Committment", they say, "will pay off in the long run, PROMISE!". So, on month #2, I find myself not committing as much time as I was in the beginning. (8-10 hours on my days off and 4 or 5 hours on work days) I will still be writing consistently but not at the rate I was as I am a little bummed about my $0.00 in the past 5 days on my Adsense account. I am getting the hits, just not the clicks. Can anyone relate? We are going to get through this together, though. In good revenue and it bad, we can help eachother. I will continue to post. This article found on PrintNPost is a great reminder to not give up. "I Am Now Making Money with Adsense!" is a familiar story with, hopefully, a not so familiar ending. Many good writers give up because they are not seeing money right away. I love to write. If you do too, do it for the love of writing and not only for the money. You will be disappointed in the short term but reap rewards in the long term. Be sure to check out the comments on the site too. They are very helpful. Happy Tuesday!

Optimize SEO

In the dark about which keywords will drive the most traffic to your site? Check your keywords here on my Blog! Use the SEO Keyword Search Tool in the margin of this blog. enter your keywords. The tool will find the most used keywords related to yours. Then, spend some time editing your blog or article. Strategically pepper in the keywords (be sure to add them to your existing keyword list) and Voila! More traffic! Please be sure to let me know how this works out for you...I love success stories!

Hit The Wall

It seems I am invisible the past couple of days. Well, not me, my articles and blogs. I am contemplating my next move. I think I will calm down on publishing for a few days and take time to read some more blogs and articles other writers have put out there. I read quite a few each day but, the more the merrier.