How to Manage Multiple Hub Topics under One User Name

One of the great advantages of HubPages over a blog is that you can post hubs on a wide variety of topics. You can write about whatever you want all under the same user name.

Over time, you will find that you write a lot of hubs. Whether they are all about the same topic, or a variety of topics, you will find that you have a big list of hubs that tend to blend together. It can get complicated to deal with so many hubs that are written on so many different topics. How do you keep track of all of your topics? How do you distinguish them and give all of them the attention that they deserve?

HubPages has several features that help you deal with multiple hub topics. Groups, Categories, and Tags are all great ways for you to keep your hubs organized. Using all three of them is really helpful to take the best advantage of all of the features HubPages offers.

Dividing hubs into smaller groups make them easier to manage. Just like a school is broken up into different classes, it helps to divide your hubs into manageable sizes.

Groups can help you in two ways. First, when you are on the accounts page, you can look at your hubs

When you have written several hubs that are in the same group, they show up as navigational links on the bottom of each hub.

This hub explains how to why you should use groups, and how to set them up.

Another way to organize your hubs is by categories. These are the topics you choose when you are setting up a hub.

I would think that categories would be helpful to Google as it provides additional keywords that it could use to find your hub. Selecting the right category is also helpful for people who want to browse for hubs about a particular topic, especially from the HubPages Topics Page.

Putting your hubs in groups and categories provides great ways to make sure that people are able to find your hubs.

These groups and categories have an additional bonus in that you can use these to filter your hubs on the statistics page. Instead of looking at a large list of hubs, you can look at them using one group or one category at a time.

It is much easier to look at a small list to look for trends instead of wading through a large list that requires a large amount of scrolling. Here's how I use my filters to make decisions about my hubs.

• I can see my average hub score and number of views on each topic. This may help me make a decision when I have a hub that crosses topics. I can put it in the group that tends to do better for me.
• With the stats, I can decide which topics I should focus on. If a topic is really popular, or needs some additional help, I might want to write additional hubs on those topics.
• Since I can see my list of hubs easily, I can see what information I have presented, and what is missing. I can decide which additional hubs I can write on the topic.
• If I see a low performer on a particular topic, I can review it to see if the hub needs revision. I can also make sure that I have provided a link to it in my other hubs of the same topic, or otherwise market it or make sure it gets the attention it deserves.
• By focusing on one group or category at a time, you are comparing similar hubs. In this way, you can make sure they are all performing up to your expectations.
• I can make sure I am providing enough attention to those hubs or topics that would otherwise get lost in the middle of the long list of hubs.

Many Hubbers have complained that it is difficult for them to choose one Group or one Category for their hubs. Many of their hubs can easily fit in more than one Group or Category. Tags are a great way to provide the flexibility of including hubs in several places.

In my hubs about Personal Finance, I will include the personal finance tag, of course. If I always used RSS links to my best Personal Finance hubs, the same three or four hubs would show up on every page. In order to give attention to my other Personal Finance hubs, I will also add other tags that show their commonality. I can divide my personal finance hubs into saving money, making money, and investments. This way, I can sometimes include RSS links for saving money instead of the broader personal finance topic, to give a few more hubs a chance to get some attention.

Some of these saving money hubs may also cross topics into cooking, or quilting, or going green. By making sure that the tags indicate the proper topics, I can then use them when I create links and RSS feeds. In this way, the same hub can be referenced in both the cooking and the saving money capsules.

I have already written a hub on How to Keep Your HubPages Readers with Links and Capsules. Please follow the link for additional information on creating links and capsules. Remember, to create an RSS, you would use a code like this:

http://hubpages.com/author/millionaire+tips/hubpages/hot/?rss

Instead of millionaire+tips, you would include your own user name. The plus sign is to replace the space. In this case, hubpages is the keyword. You can choose something else, like saving+money. You can also use the words latest or best instead of hot if you wish.

By using tags, my hubs can fit under several different topics, and can be divided into subtopics, so that the top three or four hubs don't always get all the attention.

Whether your definition of success on HubPages is to amass a large readership, or to make money online by writing on Hubpages, it is helpful to write a large number of hubs. Quality is much more important, of course, since a hub of poor quality will not help you with residual readership. But quantity is also important. If one great hub can get you a lot of readers, then many great hubs can help you gain even more.

I found it easier to write hubs on a variety of topics, depending on my mood each day. Since I could write about a topic that interested me that day, I was able to write the hub with passion and focus. I was also able to try a variety of topics to see which ones were more popular.

When you get a large number of hubs, though, it becomes difficult to keep track of all of them and make sure that all of them get the attention that they deserve.

Instead of having all the students in the whole school meet in the auditorium, you can separate your students into different classrooms. Likewise, by using Groups, Categories, and Tags, you can divide your hubs into smaller pieces so they are a more manageable size.

Once they are a more manageable size, you can compare your hubs with similar hubs and make sure that the ones that need extra attention get it.