Earn money writing HubPages
It seems like one of the main questions about HubPages is how much money you can make writing for HubPages.
Let me start by saying that if you are seeking a full-time writing income from HubPages you have a very long and very hard road ahead of you. HubPages is crowded with articles on every topic imaginable by writers who have no qualms when it comes to building enormous amounts of backlinks by any means necessary. Furthermore, HubPages takes 40 percent of all ad impressions for itself, so whatever money you could make with your Hubs gets reduced by almost half.
That being said, if you are willing to put in the work writing online, you can make some big money. Just don’t think that you can throw up ten hubs and watch the cash roll in, no matter how good your keyword research is.
Part-Time Income On HubPages
On the other hand, if you are looking for a good way to earn money writing on the side, HubPages can be a very good resource for you. Since the website community generates plenty of new content every day, and other HubPages authors are constantly looking for places to link to, it is possible that your past-time of writing about organic milk could turn into a cash cow. (Hah!)
Maintaining your own website in order to earn money writing online takes a lot more work. Without that extra effort, you’ll get more traffic on HubPages than you would on your own website. That means that you will make more money on HubPages even with the company skimming off 40 percent of your AdSense ad impressions.
How Much Money Can HubPages Earn
How much money you can earn on HubPages is a function of how much your keywords pay, how often ads on those keywords are clicked, and how much traffic visits your hubs.
A page about best chicago pizza for example routinely generates earnings of between 30 cents and 60 cents per click. Get 1,000 visitors and that works out to between $300 and $600 minus the approximate 40 percent haircut from HubPages, that leaves between $180 and $360 of income. The good news is that is steady passive income. The bad news is that it might take quite a while to get 1,000 visitors unless you can push your Hub up in the search engine rankings.
