What are HubPages OR wouldn’t you like to be a hubber too?

Have you ever heard of Hubpages? You know I probably should have, but I had not heard of them until I happened to open up an email that looked intriguing and read about HubPages – hubbers and a whole range of interesting things. So if you have heard of this phenomenon then your one step ahead of me on this one. If you haven't let me explain what the rage is all about… HubPages is an Internet community (web2.0) where users can publish content and gain information about specific subjects. It was first rolled out in 2006 and has been gaining popularity at quite a rapid rate. As a matter of fact:

• HubPages has a Google Page Ranking of 6
• Google Loves HubPages it is looked at as authoritative.
• HubPages has more than 56,000 links coming in from yahoo
• Alex Ranking is 220

What does this mean to you? When you become part of the community on HubPages you will be able to increase the SEO standing on your websites and blogs by strategically placing back links to your online businesses. You can also pump up your affiliate marketing revenues – and make extra money with Adsense… But how, you may be asking? You do it by going onto HubPages, registering and making Hubs of your own. Hubs are essentially articles on virtually anything you would like to write articles on. You can write articles on your interests, your business, your expertise… I am sure you can see where I am going with this, in a marketing sense this is as good as gold, you are establishing yourself as the expert while gaining a following and linking back to your website – blogs and RSS Feeds… This makes you a hubber, HubPages is user friendly, which is something I cannot say about a lot of the web2.0 sites I am looking into. One of the unique things about HubPages is its ranking system. Each hub or article have a ranking between 0-100, hub scores and total number of hubs created are taken into account when the hubs are ranked. Oh no, I can just hear you now, how can I write yet another article? I have the answer!! You can recycle some of the articles you write in your blogs and make them into hubs, that will make your life a little easier and perhaps get the word out about you a little faster. As a matter of fact, that is exactly what I have done on a few my hubs… As with learning anything it is great to be able to look at the actual item and see what I am talking about below you will find a list of hubs I have really enjoyed, and may be profitable for you as well! Sign-up you too can earn money take a look at some of my favorite hubs…

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Web 2.0 – what does that really mean?

Are you confused by what web 2.0 really is? You are certainly not alone. If you are from my generation – the generation of horse and buggies (just kidding!) you may be getting dizzy just trying to get you hands around the whole idea of web 2.0 I have really been immersing myself in all the information I can find on what Web 2.0 really means true to form there is so much information that it boggles the mind. So after wading through e-books, e-courses, and articles I have been able to resolve some of the confusion in my mind and even had fun putting together a few marketing strategies of my own. So for those of you who are confused about what web 2.0 is lets clear up a fraction of the confusion. There are 3 types of websites that make up the structure of what is called Web 2.0 Social Media Sites These are sites where members provide most or all of the content. These sites allow members to upload specific media – Video, Pictures etc. Example: http://www.YouTube.com Social Networking Sites This type of site lets there members create personal profiles to share likes, dislikes, passions, and interests... and it allows others to connect with you through different communications channels like forums, groups, chatrooms, comments, private messaging. Business idea's etc. Examples: http://www.myspace.com http://www.linkedin.com Social Bookmarking Sites In a social bookmarking site, users save links to web pages that they want to share. These bookmarks are usually public, and can be saved privately, shared only with specified people or groups, Most social bookmark sites encourage users to organize their bookmarks with tags or keywords. They also enable viewing bookmarks associated with a chosen tag, and include information about the number of users who have bookmarked them. Many social bookmarking sites provide RSS feeds for their lists of bookmarks, including lists organized by tags. This allows subscribers to become aware of new bookmarks as they are saved, shared, and tagged by other users. As these services have matured and grown more popular, they have added extra features such as ratings and comments on bookmarks Examples: http://www. Technorati.com http://www.digg.com These types of sites actually work in conjunction with each other and can work to your advantage – in fact when used right will provide a rich network of back links to your blogs and websites. Search engines love these types of sites and links. Generating marketing plans using web 2.0 link to your websites and blogs to pull you website high in the search engine rankings. I have read that this is actually in some cases out shadowing the old SEO standards, that is a debate raging out on the internet if you have not seen it! Don’t get me wrong you still need to search engine optimize you website however you may be seeing sometime in the very near future where that will be less of a factor then using the tools Web 2.0 has to offer. We shall see? http://www.artistdesign.com/