Hubpages is another great writing platform. Not only are Hubs great for generating more traffic to your main website, but they are also great for generating a good income for you online. Hubs are normally ranked high within the search engines, thus you have a good chance of generating high amounts of traffic, which you can then send back to your website
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There are several ways that you can make money with Hubpages; one way is with Google AdSense, and they have programmed it so that your ads with your AdSense ID will show up 60% of the time. The other 40% of the time Hubpages will display ads with their ID.
Another ad which you can run on your Hubs is Kontera. These are contextual links which appear within your content, and are not recommended until a significant amount of traffic is generated each month. The reason for this is because you have to make at least $5.00 a month with Kontera in order to get paid from them.
Hubpages provides you with easy to use modules so you can add eBay and Amazon products. You can add specific products, or you can just type in a keyword, or keyword phrase and these modules will find keyword related products for you, without you having to leave Hubpages. Again your ID's for Amazon and eBay will only show up 60% of the time.
You can also incorporate your affiliate links directly into the content. These links could be affiliated with Amazon, eBay, ClickBank, or any other affiliate program or network. You keep 100% of the revenue earned through these links, even from Amazon and eBay because these links are not programmed to only show 60% of the time.
But you cannot add too many links to your content, because Hubpages will make you remove them, or they will remove the Hubpage all together until you remove them. You cannot add more than two links to the same website in one Hub.
Hubpages also has a very strict rule about duplicate content. Any content that you create must be created by you, and original. This means you cannot post content that you have on another website or blog.
If you have YouTube videos you can embed them into your Hubs to make them more interesting for your readers. They also provide you with a forum where you can go and communicate with other like-minded Hubbers.
To get started simply go to Hubpages.com and sign up for free.