headquarters san francisco ca usa key people paul edmondson founder and ceo number of employees 24 website hubpages.com hubpages is a user generated content revenue sharing website . 1 on december 7 2013 the website published data that showed that the website consisted of 910 106 hubs magazine style articles on a specific topic 73 969 published users and 2 498 967 forum posts . it recently acquired a famous content publishing website squidoo . 2 contents 1 history 2 structure 3 see also 4 references 5 external links history edit the site launched on august 6 2006 3 funded by a us 2 million investment from hummer winblad . 4 the three founders paul edmonson paul deeds and jay reitz are former employees of microsoft and were part of the startup mongomusic . 5 according to quantcast on august 30 2016 hubpages was ranked 2858 in the list of the most visited u.s. sites on the internet . in a november 2013 quantcast monthly report the website received around 16.1 million unique u.s. visits and over 30.9 million unique global visits with more users accessing the site from computer browsers than with mobile devices . 6 structure edit hubpages is a site that hosts internet content created by its members . members each have a sub domain where they can post content . members are encouraged to enrich their text by embedding videos external links reader surveys photos and maps and providing a comments box for reader feedback . members retain all intellectual property rights to their content and can delete them at any time . however as stated in hubpages terms of use you may not remove your author content from the service . 7 the site encourages members to cover a specific subject creating what they call a hub of articles with a recommended length of 1150 words or more . 8 their blogsite suggests members create different hubs for different topics and interlink them . 9 if members sign up for one of hubpages affiliate and earnings programs they are eligible to earn funds from the ad revenue generated by their pages 8 provided they remain active submit current tax information to hubpages including ssn increase their earning balance within a specified time frame and respond if the service attempts to contact them . if any of these criteria are not met the members earnings are permanently forfeited . citation needed see also edit squidoo mahalo references edit riley duncan 2007 05 07 . hubpages debuts new look ad yield technology . techcrunch . retrieved 2008 04 08 . squidoo to move content over to hubpages after being acquired search engine journal . 2014 08 18 . retrieved 2016 07 03 . hubpages . crunchbase . crunchbase . 6 august 2006 . retrieved 7 december 2013 . arrington michael 2006 08 05 . hubpages launches gets 2 m from hummer winblad . techcrunch . retrieved 2008 04 08 . michael arrington 7 february 2006 . hubpages a better squidoo . techcrunch . aol inc. retrieved 7 december 2013 . quantcast 7 november 2013 hubpages.com quantcast retrieved 8 december 2013 hubpages terms of use . hubpages . a b hubpages faq larry freeman 7 october 2008 . hubs versus blogs . hubpages blog . hubpages inc. retrieved 7 december 2013 . external links edit official site retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title hubpages & oldid 741919312 categories internet companies of the united statesknowledge marketsinternet properties established in 2006hidden categories all articles with unsourced statementsarticles with unsourced statements from may 2016 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages italiano edit links this page was last modified on 30 september 2016 at 14 11 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view