by Katinka Hesselink on July 15, 2011
HUGE – hubpages will be moving all of it’s authors to their own subdomain, to counter the inpact of Panda: Source You can move all your stuff over to your own subdomain today, manually, or wait till they do it automatically. I advise moving over ASAP. The steps are simple: Log into hubpages Go to [...]
by Katinka Hesselink on June 23, 2011
On the Wizzley forums people were panicking about Hubpages, thinking the site is dying. Well, since I have a number of articles on hubpages I went and took a look. Doesn’t look like site that’s dying to me. There are a LOT of recently active threads in the forums, more than I’ve ever seen at [...]
by Katinka Hesselink on June 21, 2011
It’s always good online to diversify. Especially if you interlink your stuff, it will strengthen your online profile to be active on several publishing platforms at once. Though I’d also advise any of you to start your own niche blog, once you’ve found that niche. The new kid on the block is Wizzley. Of course [...]
by Katinka Hesselink on February 28, 2011
I’ve been working on a post comparing Squidoo and hubpages for months now. It kept getting postponed, because Squidoo kept changing on me. In fact, most of my notes on the differences are now moot, because Squidoo has simply bridged the gap. They’ve finally set up granular categories – sure, there’s still lots of fine [...]
by Katinka Hesselink on November 19, 2010
When you are trying to make a living online, one of the things we hear a lot of are LINKS. Links are hugely important to getting pages to rank in Google and Bing. However, they’re the hardest thing to get right. I see people worrying about links a lot in the forums and get questions [...]
by Katinka Hesselink on October 27, 2010
I’ve been watching Google for years, but this month things are different. They’re simply weird. Some of these changes are probably not new – merely new to the Dutch serps – but since they change the game of online promotion and Search Engine Optimization, I think they should be highlighted here. Two results per domain? [...]
by Katinka Hesselink on January 10, 2010
One of the spooks new online publishers get thrown at them a lot is the reciprocal linking scheme devil. Let’s start with what google says about it: Your site’s ranking in Google search results is partly based on analysis of those sites that link to you. The quantity, quality, and relevance of links count towards [...]
by Katinka Hesselink on October 27, 2009
AKA: how to avoid getting banned by google adsense. Short answer: you should get an adsense account when the online properties you are going to be using it on have at least 100 visitors a day among them. I know this blogpost will likely not be read by those it needs to reach: newby online [...]