HubPages: A paying outlet for your verbal diarrhea

Hub Pages LogoWant to know a little secret about bloggers?  We bloggers all have  a bad case of verbal diarrhea!  We just can’t stop spouting off and we all like an audience.  Since we’re all doomed to suffer from this malady, we might as well get paid something while we suffer from it.

The downside to blogging

The way most blogging software arranges the posts in reverse chronological order guarantees that only your most recent post will get much attention.  Sure, visitors are free to break it out by category or to search for a particular topic, but the fact remains that most visitors see the home page when following a root link to a blog.

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Make your blog mobile friendly

handheldAlways those pesky mobiles and the lack of standards for them. Bleah!  I looked into mobile support for web a year ago.  If you think web browser CSS support is flaky, it goes double for mobiles.

However, I can envision mobile professionals wanting to chill out and browse blogs on their handhelds while they wait ridiculously long times for replacements for their cancelled flights in our failing airline system (ahhh don’t get me started on that!)  We wouldn’t want to exclude these mobile users from potentially reading our blog, now would we? That’s what mobile feeds are for.

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