Tips on Maintaining Your Hubs on Hubpages

I know right now everyone is very excited about writing lots of new hubs for the Hubchallenge. I'm also doing it, and as I am adding new hubs and getting involved with all the new features that hubpages has added, I'm feeling anxiety over past hubs I've written. The more you write the more work you create for yourself. Because now I need to go back through all my articles (about 300 of them) and bring them up to date. When I first started, this site didn't have all the bells and whistles. So here is a list of things I'm going to do soon and maybe the rest of you will find you are in need of these tips as well.

1. Fix broken links: Sites come and go and its easy to wind up with broken outgoing links. Or the link wasn't right to begin with.

2. Customize my Ebay and Amazon capsules: In the first days on this site that feature wasn't an option. Now I need to go back and provide keywords for all my listings.

3. Spell check: Typos are a bugaboo. Ferret those suckers out and fix them.

4. Grammatical errors: Even harder to find than spelling errors. Reading the article outloud helps.

5. Add new features: Add blog RSS feeds for example. Add videos. Add new or better photos.

6. Axe Hubs that aren't working anymore: That is not easy because then the finished hub totals go down. I need to get rid of content that isn't evergreen for example. Or just poorly written hubs. Or maybe I was out of my element and shouldn't have written it to begin with.

7. Approve and respond to comments: I'm not sure why, but sometimes comments I approved long ago suddenly show up again as denied or as spam or something.

8. Add links: Often in my rush to get published I don't take the time to fill in the links box to other relevant articles.

9. Hook myself to myself: That sounds funny, but we can accomplish a lift in traffic if we link our articles to each other diligently.

10. Write spin off articles to go with my successful articles: I have one dating article that is very successful, yet I've never written a follow up one. And some of my craft articles need a part 2 or a more detailed account.

11. Make my own videos to go with my hubs: While using existing videos is quick, nothing will speak and match my own hubs like videos I've made myself. I must get a new video camera somehow.

12. Catagorize older hubs: I still have about 100 Hubs I need to retag to match the new cataloging system.