I'm a new Hubber!
POSTED AT 09:23 AM in My Life and what's left of it..., Writing for sanity's sake

I joined HubPages and my first hub was entitled The Many Stupid Things A Driver Can Do, followed by the hub Earning $$$ Through Joining a Discussion and Early Christmas in the Philippines. You might ask me then, what is HubPages?

It is actually a website wherein any member (called a hubber) can publish his hub and earn from it. So what's a hub? According to HubPages, a hub is a rich (all-in-one?) web page that a hubber writes and designs, it's actually like a blog post or an article that one publishes but it's more than that. Now this is getting somewhere! Hihihi! It's like this, every article that a hubber publishes, he's creating a web page that has text, pictures, videos and links. Yeah, sounds like your own blogspace for free.

So, who owns the content that are published in HubPages? The hubber of course! HubPages said they are simply providing the technology to support every hubber's content publishing activity. A hubber can even file a copyright complaint if someone else in HubPages plagiarized his copyrighted content without permission. Now that's cool!

I actually just submitted three hubs to date, I have been busy with work and all other article submission sites, not to mention I maintain two blogs, so I really can't spend too much time there, but well, I'm trying. I really aim for my hubs to be designated not only as the Latest or the Best but also as a Hot Hub -- being hot means my hub is getting a lot of traffic, which means I write interesting contents. Sad to say, I guess my hubs are boring huh!

But I guess you wanted to know if one can really earn as a hubber. Yes of course. The interent is a very wealthy workplace huh? So how does one makes money in HubPages? One way is through earning from Royalties. Meaning? The HubPages will allow its hubbers to take advantage of advertising revenue and commission by setting up their very own Google, eBay and Amazon affiliate accounts. Thus, Google will automatically display relevant ads on the hubber's topic (and of course, ever ad click is equivalent to money earned). That goes the same for eBay and Amazon wherein their products (hubber decides which products to highlight) can be featured and advertised on a hubber's hub. But of course, HubPages earns from these ads as well so how does a specific hubber earn?

Well, any revenue generated according to the specific impressions definitions of each advertiser (Google ads click, eBay and Amazon actual purchase) is 100% owned by a hubber. Yup, every impression is owned by a hubber. however, as a courtesy to HubPages, a hubber will have to split the impressions with them as follows:

1. From a hubber's Hubs: Hubbers receive 60% of total impressions, HubPages gets 40%

2. HubPages Affiliate Program: Hubbers can refer new writers to HubPages and if these refered writers become Hubbers within 30 days, the one who referred will receive an additional 10% of the referred Hubber's Hubs’ lifetime impressions.

3. HubPages Traffic Referral Program: Any traffic sent traffic to any Hub (yes, any Hub), entitles the Hubber to either 9% or 12% of total impressions.

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Listening to: We're All In This Together (from High School Musical)
Feeling: busy

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