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Can you earn a part-time income writing on HubPages from home even though you’re not a great writer? You bet! If you haven’t heard of the blogging community, Hubpages.com, then you need to check it out. Hubpages is an online community of “authors” or “Hubbers” that earn money by publishing Hubs on topics that they know and love or highly researched in order to present content-rich information to others.
WHAT ARE HUBPAGES?
Hubpages has an underlying revenue infrastructure that enables authors to earn money by publishing their Hubs. HubPages gives Hubbers the opportunity to earn from their published work. To earn from your Hubs, you must first sign up for Google Adsense and the Amazon Affiliate Program.
In short, to make money, you need to sign up with Hubpages’ affiliate partners stated above while also regularly publishing high-quality Hubs on not-already-extensively-covered subjects about which you are both knowledgeable and passionate.
NOTABLE HUBBERS
I personally started out blogging on Hubpages and have published 24 hubs to date. Feel free to check out my Hubpages Profile here. There are people who have published hundreds of Hubs on a variety of topics and make some decent part-time money from it. One such Hubber is “JimmytheJock.” He published a Hub where he states that he earned over $350 from one of his Hubs in just one month. Yes, Jimmy has written a lot of Hubs; as of today, he has 354 published Hubs. Can you make more money with fewer Hubs? Of course. Even JimmytheJock says that you can.
Another notable Hubber is Maddie Ruud. She is the Community Manager of HubPages. She made over $100 in a single day from Adsense revenue from her Hub titled, “The Truth about Wu-Yi Tea.”
When HubPages included eBay as one of their affiliate partners, I made over $50 a month with HubPages. I only earn between $5-$8 a month right now. They pay out when you hit $50. Out of my 24 articles, only two are featured at this time. I stopped writing on HubPages a while ago and it’s just a form of passive income for me. However, I need to go in and tweak my other articles so I comply better with HubPages standards. Once I do, those articles will be featured again, and they will begin to earn ad revenue.
WHAT MAKES A SUCCESSFUL HUBBER?
What makes a successful Hubber? One that can provide great, unique content-filled Hubs that attract readers. What makes a successful MONEY-MAKING Hubber? A successful money-making Hubber is someone that provides great, unique content-filled Hubs that attract readers AND are properly monetized.
An example of a good money-making Hub is one that includes reviews of a specific product found on Amazon. However, don’t be overly promotional in your Hub or HubPages moderators will flag and penalize your Hub.
Also, you have to be consistent. You can’t write 1 or 2 Hubs and sit back and wait for the money to roll in. Hubpages is not a get-rich-quick website. Like I said above, average Hubbers can earn between $500-$1,000 a month if they publish on a regular basis and provide great articles filled with information that people are hungry for.
FREE HUBPAGES SIGN UP
If this sounds like something you’re interested in, go to Hubpages and signup; it’s FREE! Publish your first Hub (my advice is to find some product that’s hot right now and write about it). I guarantee you’ll be hooked!
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Make money online with a 17 year old kid says
Hi Melissa. Good post. Thank you for telling us about HubPages. I had been searching for such a website because I just love writing and was looking to make some money out of it on the internet. I write blogs too in the same Niche as yours. Hope to become like you some day. Don’t worry I won’t copy your content. 😀
Regards
Laksh
http://makemoneyonline-withme.blogspot.com/
Hey Melissa,
I just read your comment on my blog at http://makemoneyonline-withme.blogspot.com/2008/12/ways-to-make-money-online.html and I want to thank you for considering me to write about your post (which is greatly written) and I would love to do so. I have already prepared for my next few posts so I will be writing about your post after a few days.
Regards
Laksh
http://makemoneyonline-withme.blogspot.com