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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Pimp your Blog with Blogrush Part I


Blogrush is an interesting concept that is intended to mix up the gene pool a bit with regard to blogs. You place your blog in a category and then you put your own custom widget for that category on your blog. The widget has links to other blog posts in your category. Every link is tagged with your blogrush id so that they know who sent a page to that other blog. You get points every time someone clicks the widget to see one of the related blog posts. When you have enough points then links to your blog will pop up in other people’s blogrush widgets and supposedly bring traffic to your blog. Continue reading Pimp your Blog with Blogrush Part I