A lot of people have heard of Squidoo. Basically people write “lenses” or pages that focus about what they know or like. I’ve discovered a great alternative to Squidoo called HubPages. It’s similar in some ways to Squidoo, but unlike Squidoo, you don’t get paid directly by HubPages – you get paid by external parties such as Adsense or Amazon.
Basically HubPages provides your web space or page (called a “hub”). You can use it to write about any topic you wish, but there is a limit of 2 external links pointing to the same site per hub. You can display Adsense ads and products from Amazon or eBay on the hub. 60% of the time your ads are shown, 40% of the time HubPages ads are shown.
A “Hubscore” is assigned to each Hubber and Hub. Essentially this score is based on the amount of traffic, the length of the hub, the uniqueness of the content and the number of “thumbs up” given to the hubs by other hubbers. HubPages rewards Hubbers and hubs that provide quality and add value to the community. As you get towards the top end of Hubbers, your hubs and your profile will be displayed on the front page, generating even more traffic for you.
You’ll find a lot of traffic coming from Google & Yahoo as hubs are generally indexed very quickly. You can join the Fan Clubs of Hubbers whose writing you enjoy reading and participate in discussions in the forums. There are 520,000 users and this is growing fast. As there are fewer members than Squidoo, this is an opportunity to become the expert on topics that have not yet been covered in HubPages.
The beauty about HubPages is that it doesn’t allow adult or gambling content, so there is a lot less “spam” if you will. Plus the Hubscore is updated every 10 minutes (unlike the daily update of the Lensrank).
Sign up with HubPages now – it’s free – and start making money from your writing! If you are already a Lensmaster on Squidoo, become a Hubber on Hubpages as well. It can only help you out.
