How to Make Money with Hubpages

What is Hubpages?

Firstly, I’ll have to tell you what Hubpages is all about. Hubpages is a user generated content website that shares its advertising revenue with its writers. What I mean by “user generated content” is that anybody can sign up with Hubpages and start adding content to the site. Users are known as Hubbers and the articles they write are called Hubs.

Other types of user content sites exist but Hubpages differs from most in that Hubbers have complete right over their Hubs. This means that as a Hubber, you can delete or edit your hubs if you like. A Hub can be about any topic under the earth. If you want to make a good sum of money from Hubbing, you have to concentrate on topics that appeal to a very large number of people.

How do you make money with Hubpages?

There are several ways of making money with Hubpages, 2 common ways are Google Adsense and affiliate marketing. Everybody knows about Google Adsense but in case you don’t, it is the program responsible for those ads Google place in websites that run Adsense and in Google search results. To start earning money with Google Adsense, you need to enroll in the program first of all. You also need at least one hub. Hubpages has this option for you during sign up. When the ads start appearing, you’ll earn revenue when people click on those ads. You’ll share this revenue with Hubpages; they will take 40% and give you 60%.

Most of you must have come to grip with the term “affiliate marketing”. It has to do with promoting other people’s products or services for commission. The merchant (the person or company whose product or service you promote) pays you a percentage of every sales made through your affiliate tracking ID. Affiliate programs run by Hubpages include Kontera, EBay and Amazon associate. You can pick other affiliate programs from affiliate networks like ClickBank, CJ, and Linkshare. Your affiliate income would come when you write hubs that promote your affiliate products and include your affiliate links in them.

Getting started

If you really want to make money with Hubpages, the following steps would get you started.
1. Sign up with Hubpages here
2. Create your first hub base on a profitable niche you have researched.
3. Sign up for an Adsense account.
4. Get your affiliate links ready.
5. Add your Adsense and Affiliate IDs to Hubpages - Log into Hubpages and click the “My Account” button. When the page finish loading, click on the “Affiliate Settings” link. This is where you will paste your affiliate codes, except that of Adsense which would be done automatically. For a step by step instruction on how to do this, click here.

Strategies you need to Succeed

Keyword research - Making money with Hubpages starts and ends with keyword research, just like every other online businesses. Keyword research helps you to write your content base on what people in your niche are searching for. It also helps you to pinpoint keywords that sell. A good place to start is to use the Google Keyword Research Tool. This tool enables you to type in keywords and get their global and local monthly searches. It is simple to use and can help you to optimize your content to some extend.

Another keyword research tool is KeywordSpy. This one would help you to know the keywords that made other websites in your niche to rank high. So with this tool you can just watch your competitors do most of the work for you.

When you’ve gotten profitable keywords, use them in your titles, sub-headings and in the content. Be careful not to overdo it. If you do search engines would think of your hubs as spasm and they would rank the page low. Experts recommend a keyword density of 3-4% in the body of your articles.

Write Plenty of Quality Hubs - Quality contents have a lot of advantages. It can keep users long enough on your page for the Google ads to catch their attention. It can also make users to trust your recommendations and this alone can boost your affiliate sales.

The more hubs you write the more revenue you’re likely to generate. Make your hubs at least 500 words. In cases where you have a voluminous hub, make sure you break it up with paragraphs and pictures to make it easy to read on screen.

Get One-way Links - Getting One-way links is a popular way of boosting search engine ranking. You can get one-way links in several ways such as Submitting articles to article directories, leaving comments in popular blogs, setting up your own blog, joining forums and social networking sites from where you link to your hubs in your profiles or signature files.

Join Hubpages Referral Program - You can use this as another stream of income. Just get your referral link and start telling people about Hubpages in your blogs, websites, or hubs – like I’m doing here.


The above strategies can put you on your way to start making money with Hubpages. Feel free to try them out.