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a7 Notability and Importance

I see there's some past, but let's look at the present situation:

HubPages is mentioned by relevant Internet sources to an extent that makes it notable -Mashables -TechCrunch -Quantcast

HubPages gets a lot of traffic (over 6,000,000 unique views/month)

Hubpages is the first site to integrate Google AdSense API to share revenue with writers

HubPages has a lot of content -with nearly 100,000 individual hubs. -and an average of 67 visitors/hub/month.

HubPages is at least as notable as Squidoo -Relatively equal traffic -Much higher traffic on a per hub basis mroconnell (talk) 01:07, 9 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Hubpages was selected as one of two case studies for Google's AdSense API (the other site was Blogger) http://code.google.com/apis/adsense/hubpages.html mroconnell (talk) 02:23, 9 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Updated the Google Adsense link since the previous link was bad.

In spite of my criticism below that I think hubpages is a scam (which has nothing to do with notability), I would agree that HubPages is solidly notably. Here's a Washington Post article about it: [1]. Here's another article: [2]. Cazort (talk) 15:29, 5 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Removed edits referenced above can be seen here. Flowanda | Talk 22:15, 29 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Removed competitor section (January 2011)

I removed the competitor section because it was unsourced POV. Similar companies can be viewed by clicking one of the categories at the end of the article, which will provide more up-to-date listings of other websites or companies. Criticisms (as well as praise, etc.) of the company should be sourced to news reporting from sources meeting WP:RS. Flowanda | Talk 22:24, 29 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hubpages seems to be spammy wasteland of poorly written articles similar to what you would see on a cyber squatter's page of loosely related links. Couldn't there be some mention of this on the wikipedia entry? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.97.118.2 (talk) 03:59, 27 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]