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		<title>Happy Half Millionth Hub to HubPages HQ!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 04:34:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Within the last hour or so HubPages Inc passed the 500,000 mark of published hubs.
What an achievement!
The thing I find most fantastic about this magical milestone is that they could have accomplished it quite a while ago, but the stringent quality standards they have in place sees low quality, overly promotional and straight spam hubs [...]<p>Post from: <a href="http://www.startpoint.biz">Startpoint.biz</a></p>



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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.startpoint.biz/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/frank.jpg" alt="frank" title="frank" width="250" height="333" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-49" style='float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;'/>Within the last hour or so HubPages Inc passed the 500,000 mark of published hubs.</p>
<p>What an achievement!</p>
<p>The thing I find most fantastic about this magical milestone is that they could have accomplished it quite a while ago, but the stringent quality standards they have in place sees low quality, overly promotional and straight spam hubs filtered, flagged and bumped to unpublish status. The author can either fix it, or delete it.</p>
<p>Here are the current up to the minute (or hour, I&#8217;m not sure exactly how often the stats are refreshed) HubPages Statistics:</p>
<p>Published Hubs: 500,187<br />
Forum Posts: 374,835<br />
Total Users: 751,402<br />
Published Users: 97,918<br />
Hubs with 1,000+ hub views in the last month: 5,548<br />
Hubs with 100+ hub views in the last month: 45,905<br />
Hubs with 10+ hub views in the last month: 191,066</p>
<p>Which, by the time you have read this blog post, would no doubt have changed. So check out the <a href="http://hubpages.com/_readme/stats/">HubPages Statistics page</a> for the most up to date information.</p>
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		<title>eBay policy change will affect Hubbers and Lensmasters</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2009 08:29:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[eBay]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve not received an official announcement, but have heard through various reliable sources that the eBay Partnership Network (EPN, eBay&#8217;s affiliate program) will no longer allow links or promotional content on third party sites such as Craigslist, MySpace, Blogger/Blogspot, Twitter, Wordpress.com (if you have Wordpress on a domain that you own you&#8217;re okay), Tumblr, Squidoo [...]<p>Post from: <a href="http://www.startpoint.biz">Startpoint.biz</a></p>



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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ve not received an official announcement, but have heard through various reliable sources that the eBay Partnership Network (EPN, eBay&#8217;s affiliate program) will no longer allow links or promotional content on third party sites such as Craigslist, MySpace, Blogger/Blogspot, Twitter, Wordpress.com (if you have Wordpress on a domain that you own you&#8217;re okay), Tumblr, Squidoo and HubPages.</p>
<p>Paul Deeds of HubPages has said&#8230;.</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Given the short amount of time eBay&#8217;s given us to respond, most likely we&#8217;ll switch to running the HubPages eBay affiliate code 100% of the time  and give authors a tool to remove eBay capsules from all of their hubs in bulk.  It&#8217;s disappointing the way they&#8217;ve handled this.&#8221; <a href="http://hubpages.com/forum/post/259130">Source</a></p></blockquote>
<p>I personally have had little success with eBay, at least on HubPages, but I&#8217;ve seen some interesting things sold on Squidoo.</p>
<p>I would have thought Squidoo were exempt seeing that it is their own EPN account. But I guess with people adding their own third party links it muddy&#8217;s the water somewhat.</p>
<p>Currently there has been no mention of it in the <a href="http://squidu.com/forum/viewforum.php?id=14" target="_blank">Official SquidTeam Announcements on Squidu</a> or the <a href="http://blogs.squidoo.com/squidblog/">Official Squidoo Blog</a>.</p>
<p>Time will tell.</p>
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