How To Make Hubs: Directions for Making Hubs

If you want to know how to make a hub, this is the hub to explain the directions. This will be my first hub to create itself. I must create this hub in order to create this hub. This will be the step by step hub making for dummies hub. If you want to get rich from writing on HubPages, you will have to follow these instructions. That's only because you have to do these things just to make a hub. The getting rich part is totally up to you.

Sure, HubPages has their own overview for writing hubs, but I took pictures of the entirely insignificant process of creating this hub. This hub includes all the details you need to know even if you haven't used a computer since 1997. I added some smarty pants directions along the way to make sure you are paying attention. These pictures were painstakingly taken as I went through each step. This long and tedious process was meant for you, the dummy, to get all the basics down as easily as possible, because you are a HubPages writing dummy. The first step to the process is realizing you have a problem.

If you don't already have an account, then you'll have to sign up prior to making your first hub. It seems obvious, but some people might fool around for hours trying to figure out how to get the option for making hubs without actually having an account. It is a free account and you can sign up for HubPages here.

No, you don't have to fill in your social security info or your bank account info. You can visit my own personal website and input that information. Just kidding. It's as easy as thinking up a username and putting in your e-mail address. Be careful when you choose your username. You can't change it later, so spend the extra 2 seconds it takes to realize that "I'm Awesome" is probably not the best you can come up with. No offense if there is an actual "I'm Awesome" hubber.

You can use your real name if you like, but realize that your HubPages profile may soon be the number one ranking page in google and yahoo. Then you can't do anything you wouldn't want your mom, pastor, or employer to see.

This is the part that checks to see if you have what it takes to make the cut as a hubber, even if all you will be an awful hubber. This is the anti robot test. If you can type in "abrading vidual," then that certifies you as a real person. It's good to know that HubPages is ready for a Terminator-like futuristic society where robots have taken over and write hubs. Once you complete this test after trying several times, then you are given a good effort award. Just kidding.

This is the "Help Us Learn More About You" page of setting up your account. If you want big brother to know your every move, go right ahead and fill it out. Many questions are raised in my mind such as who is "Us" and why do they want to learn more about me. If you are smart just click the "Skip This Step" button.

You have fingers to click a mouse. You have a name. You have an e-mail address. And you passed your HupPages entrance exam. You are an official hubber and you are ready to publish your propaganda to the masses. It's all green lights from here. Go, go, go!

Choosing a title for you hub is probably the most important decision you will make in your life. Just kidding, but it might be the most important decision of your hub's life. As with your username, it is worth the extra 2 seconds to think about what you are about the title your hub.

Take HubPages advice and be accurate unless you are trying to be funny. Even then only be funny every once in a while. It gets old when people keep promising one thing and delivering a hub on something entirely different. You will find many hubs about becoming rich beyond your wildest dreams, but non of them have delivered results for me yet.

I usually choose the third layout option to get me started, unless I have another hub that I want to copy. Since it is your first hub, you should choose the third one like I did.

Choose some keywords that describe your hub.  Be as specific as possible, but you don't have to include every phrase you can think of.  Use Google Adwords keyword tool to target the right keywords to get more traffic.

This page is not important at all. Don't pay any attention to it, especially if you don't mind being banned from HubPages. Make sure you read over this page to make sure you are following HubPages rules. The rules aren't really that strict, so just check yourself before putting your hard work into writing your Spanish, copied, adult oriented, misleading, unfinished, spam hub about gambling. It won't make it even a day. Save yourself the trouble. Otherwise click the continue button and keep moving.

Choosing the subtitle of your hub is an important part of creating your hub. This subtitle lets the reader know what this section of text will contain. It is like headings in a Bible. It lets the reader quickly skim to the most relevant parts of your hub.

Subtitles should be more specific than the title of the entire hub. Subtitles that are most effective will use keywords that are well searched and allow the reader to see what's coming.

Just like your hub title, you should pick an accurate, specific, and useful subtopic title. It is not cool to title your subtitle, "Best Mp3 Players For Running" but then your text is about some ebook you are trying to sell. A little keyword variation is o.k. though.

Currently there are 13 types of capsules to add to your hubs. Some are neccessary, some enhance your hub, and others can make you money. Make sure that you add at least a few text capsules and a picture or two at minimum. Video capsules help enhance audiovisual learning. RSS feeds include news stories that may be relevant. Links capsules allow you to list links that may include further reading on the topic of your hub, and can also serve as a way to cite your sources.

As you add capsules and write more text, you will find yourself getting closer to the bottom of the page. In order to save or publish your hub, you will need to scroll back up to the top of the page. There you will find the appropriate options. You can save your unpublished hub, or publish it now. Done editing means you are saving your hub the way it is.

If you decide to save your hub without publishing it, you will be able to view it and see if you like it first. Then to publish it, you will have to hit the edit button at the top to get back in edit mode, then you can publish the hub.

Once you publish the hub you should see the congratulations page, and you are ready to create another hub. Congratulations on creating a hub. You are now no longer a HubPages dummy.

There are many hubs dedicated to making your hubs even better. You can search improve your hubs and find many of these hubs. I am including some helpful videos and links below to get you headed in the right direction. Don't despair if you can't figure everything out in your first day.

HubPages has so many tools and options that it would be unreasonable to try to learn how to master everything all at once. Creating HubPages is like playing a strategy game. You make a move re-evaluate the situation and make a new move. Your new moves will be new hubs or editing your old hubs to perform better. You will become better the more you read and learn. Your Hub creation skills will be honed. Good luck hubbing. Don't forget to check out the links below.