This is a get paid to post site where you create a web page on their site and write about anything you want.
How It Works
You can pick a topic from a list provided or create your own. You can write your opinion on something or give tips and advice on a subject in which you are knowledgeable. Google AdSense related to your topic are placed on your page and you split the revenue generated from pageviews and clicks.
Revenue generated 60% of the time visitors see an ad on your page goes to you. The other 40% of the time goes to HubPages. This is a more generous paying scheme than Squidoo which splits profits, not revenue. You can also choose to include Amazon and eBay affiliates on your page and similarly earn your share of revenue.
A check through the ‘money’ topic sees lots of self-advertising for ‘come-to-my-make-money-fast-site’ pages. Some pages have a few sentences and a list of links. Content created belongs to HubPages which may be the reason why there are not many pages with good content.
UPDATE A reader has pointed out correctly that content written for HubPages in fact belongs to the author. See comment below.
Actually the author does own the content, from the FAQ:
http://hubpages.com/_home/help/#own
“20. Who owns the content that I post to HubPages?
You do. We just host it and make it available for you. If you like, you can add a Creative Commons license to your work on HubPages.”
There are a couple of reasons that some of the content is low quality: 1) link farmers doing SEO (those kind of pages are usually slapped with nofollow tags but they still try), 2) it takes talent and effort to create high quality original content. Here are a few of my favorite hubs:
Best of Google Video
How to make a plastic composite coffee table
Modifying Miss Silvia
Why Christmas is the Best Holiday Ever
[...] Bloggers are paid by Google AdSense from the number of clicks received on ads embedded in their posts. Therefore you must first sign up for Google’s AdSense programme before joining these blog networks. You also get paid for referrals. Payouts may seem too little to bother with but if you are active in many networks, the amounts add up. Sites: WriteNiche, WritingUp, Hubpages, Squidoo, Xoomba. [...]
Very interesting post. Please do not hesitate to email me more info on this one. If you have a main site let me know. I would like to ad a link for my readers!
Thanks!
It’s not as easy as that IF you want to be on HubPages paid team. If you don’t meat a quota of page hits, they pressure you to quit. They say that promoting your pages are optional, but they expect you to do all the promotion yourself.
HubPages sucks.
Rena:
Thanks for your feedback. It’s always helpful to hear actual accounts from those who have had first hand experience with these sites.
Hope you’ll visit again soon!
cheers
emigre
well they do suck as they wont even reply to your queries if you are not on their list of top hubbers.