How To Make Money Writing On Hubpages

So as my first official article, it seems only reasonable, that I start with the first side hustle I ever had. Writing articles on HubPages was the beginning for me into making an extra income. It was certainly one of the more successful ventures I had.

What Is Hubpages?

So let’s start with what Hubpages is?. Hubpages is a Revenue sharing website whereby the user writes articles based on whatever they like. These articles are then published and have ads placed onto them. When these ads are clicked on by your readers then Hubpages gives you a share of any revenue generated.

So why go with Hubpages if you have to share the revenue with them?. Well for a lot of people, they dont want the hassle of setting up a blog or website. This way they sign up, and within a few minutes, they are writing that article about pet grooming and sharing it with other users.

There is a great active forum on the site. This has lots of long-time users, most of whom are willing to give help and advice along the way. Having your article on the site means you need not worry too much about the design and style too much. This leaves you time to spend on getting traffic to your article. This is already helped massively as you have the Hubpages name in the address which gives it a boost.

In 2011 all revenue sharing sites were hit hard by a major change in the Google algorithm. This essentially made it harder for traffic to reach peoples articles. This also made it quite tough and a lot of content creators decided to quit. Many other revenue sharing sites were not able to last as their user base dwindled.

Hubpages brought up the last remaining large competitor Squidoo and have since changed the way their site works. They now have lots of multiple sites specializing in certain areas. You can still access all of this from their main site though.

Earnings

So what you are probably wondering is how much money can you make on Hubpages. Well like any question such as that there is no straightforward answer. To begin with, you will possibly earn nothing. This is because much like any kind of webpage/articles that are published online, it can take time for search engines to find your articles.

Before the google (panda) algorithm update some Hubpages users were earning up to £2000 a month. This was very well established writers with 200 or more really good articles. Most of these ranking very high in Google with lots of well-researched keywords. Earning that much now is highly unlikely.

I feel that if you were to sign up and start writing good, well-worded articles, without worrying about earnings and focusing on your writing it is more than possible to earn £100-200 a month after a few months of those articles being published.

My Case Study

It took me around 3 months to see any kind of income. I had written about 15 Hubs by that point mainly based around a specific video game I was very knowledgeable about. I remember checking my earnings randomly. Then One day I saw that on that specific day I had earned around $0.12 from the Google Adsense program. 12 cents it may have been, (Google AdSense pay in dollars) but I was super happy and this propelled me to write more articles.

I started to learn how to link new articles to my older ones to gain more readers. I also learned how to create my own header images and titles. This all helped my articles achieve a better look. A year or so into my Hubpages journey I had over 100 hubs. Some of my video game articles were ranked on the 1st pages of google for the keywords I had used. This was earning me anywhere between £100-250 a month and was a great passive side hustle.

My Advice

My recommendation for Hubpages would be this. Should you enjoy writing about topics you are knowledgeable about and are not too worried about instant earnings then I would say go for it. If your looking to boost your budget quickly, then this probably isn’t the money-making route you want to devote your time too.

If you are thinking about starting a blog but are a little unsure whether you have the skills then perhaps Hubpages is for you. It gives you the chance to write about what you love but has the backing of a big company to help boost your posts. If you enjoy it and do well then it will give you the confidence to strike out on your own and create your own blog or website.

As you can see from the above picture it was some time ago that I was earning on this site. As mentioned before it was my first side hustle. You can see I made over $60 in 2 weeks, although this doesn’t go back before 2011 so doesn’t show my earnings when my pages were ranked well. It also doesn’t show eBay earnings. eBay affiliation is enabled on Hubpages too. You can also see my username in the top right, so feel free to go and see just how bad my first articles were!!.

In summing up, earning a side income from Hubpages is possible, although can take time but once up and running and earning money it is a great passive income.