Hubpages can be a great tool in the internet marketers arsenal. Lets look at how you can make make money at home with hubpages. Hubpages is similar to Squidoo, but is currently looking like a better bet for making money on a long term basis.
Hubpages provides authors with a number of money making options. The key to making money on hubpages is writing useful content. If you just add PLR and generic sales pitches you will get nowhere on hubpages. Making money on hubpages is straightforward :so long as you play by the rules.
You need to actually add content that’s useful to people. Your best chance of ranking for that content in Google is via hubpages. The site enjoys great authority with Google – probably because of the quality of content. Hubs aren’t just articles though. Adding images and videos will make your hub more interesting, and its easy too. You can also add RSS and news feeds which are useful for keeping your hub continually updating.
Hubpages keep their content quality high through a number of mechanisms. They penalise duplicate content. There is a vibrant community who will actively flag spammers and their hubs.
There are three ways to make money at home with hubpages. Directly through their revenue sharing programs and via promoting your own sites.
The revenue sharing is 60/40 in your favour. You need to register for Adsense, Amazon and eBay in order to benefit from this.
In addition you can promote your own sites. But make sure you read the Hubpages TOS and stick to them. You can only have 2 out-going links to the same “self-serving” site. You must run Adsense on any hub which has self-serving links.
The third way to make money at home with hubpages is by signing up affiliates. If an author signs up with your affiliate tracker (called a url tracker at hubpages) you will get 10% of their earnings (from hubpages.com share, this doesn’t affect their income).
Thank you for the nice article. I am forced to leave a comment because many internet marketers have given up on hubpages because they feel it is too restrictive. Your article addresses the importance of playing by the rules, a fact that is ignored by many promoters. My experience is that as long as you are not including more than one link to any domain you could post as many links as you like. TIP: To avoid being flagged include value packed links from non-self serving websites such as Wikipedia.
I’ve used hubpages for a while but got to honest having posted 50 high quality articles of over 1000 words each i have seen little traffic or little revenue, that’s not to say it doesn’t work for everyone, perhaps I’m targetting the wrong niches.