Make Passive Income By Writing on HubPages

Blogging is lucrative for that you must learn how to write a perfect blog post and HubPages provide you with this opportunity.

what is HubPages?

HubPages is a blogging site, same as the medium. I discovered HubPages, accidentally. It is the best opportunity for a blogger and writer.

how HubPages works?

HubPages works on advertisement program model. They have the same model as Google Ad Sense.

HubPages follows the below procedure to accept your story, which they call hub in their network.

HubPages have same writing and publishing model like Medium. You can write a story on the hub page editor.

Your story must be a minimum of 700 words long and must have all caps Title.

After writing a story, submit it for curation. After submitting your story on HubPages Curators mail you, whether your story is curated.

If your story is get curated, they will put it into google search engine and HubPages community.

In this way, submitting process works on HubPages.

Unlike a medium, you can't publish your work on HubPages. Publishing on HubPages is not in your hand if you don't have the first 5 curated stories published on HubPages.

This makes HubPages different from the platform. Write 5 featured stories and after that, you can publish a story or it will be considered as a draft.

When you have less than 5 stories o HubPages, you are in boot camp. After publishing 5 curated stories, you start earning on HubPages.

Isn't it strange?

When I started writing on HubPages, I was excited, but after putting out 9 hubs on the platform, HubPages rejected all. It demotivated me. My all 9 stories were drafted in my HubPages account.

I was a newbie writer when I tried out HubPages, but it was a good experience to improve my writing.

HubPages Editor window is not as good as a medium. If you tried it you will experience old school editor window on HubPages.

How You can earn on HubPages

I know you are waiting for this.

HubPages has advertisement based revenue program, they don't rely on a subscription base model. 

HubPages runs its ads program and googles Ad-sense. It means you must have an active Ad Sense account to earn from HubPages. This is the major disadvantages of writing on HubPages.

HubPages runs Amazon affiliate program. You need to subscribe to an affiliate program. 

You can earn on HubPages by mainly through 3 streams

• Google Ad sense
• HubPages Advertisement program
• Affiliate marketing

HubPages act as a middle person between you and the advertisement. This major disadvantage of HubPages because of its complicated revenue system.

Is it worth writing on HubPages?

HubPages works as a middleman. Websites which works on advertisement models pay less. 

HubPages is the best site to earn side income. You can't rely on HubPages for the major income stream. As an average, it takes 6 months to earn $50 on HubPages.

Writing on HubPages worth because it has high domain authority. If you hub rank on google's first page, you will earn passive income per month.

HubPages pay around 3 to 5 dollars per 1000 views. It is a good side if you are planning to earn some side hustle.

To make money on HubPages, you should know about SEO. Most of your traffic will come from google.

HubPages also have inbuilt traffic of 300 million, It is worth writing on HubPages If you're good at SEO and experienced writer.

Which is better, Medium or HubPages?

Medium pays writers by subscription base model and HubPages pays writers on advertisement model.

Writing and earning money on the medium is easier than writing and earning on HubPages.

On medium, you need not worry about SEO or backlinking but with HubPages SEO matters.

You earn fast on the medium than HubPages.Medium is good as earning perspective.

HubPages have lower competition than medium. It is available for a writer in all over the world. 

HubPages pays through Paypal with a minimum payout of $50. It takes time to achieve a minimum payout threshold.

Frankly, HubPages is a good writing platform for writers who can write for long-term benefit. We can say it is a good side hustle for a writer who has writing as a hobby and doesn't expect money from their writing.

This story is originally published on medium.com