I recently opened an account with HubPages, a Squidoo competitor with a similar model. Their main difference in terms of money is that you get paid directly for services under your account, in other words, your Google Adsense account, your Amazon account, etc. HubPages just gets in on the ad/impressions rotation. You get 60% of the ad impressions and are paid directly from the respective affiliate companies once you hit their minimum payment threshold.
A big difference though is in the community. “Hubbers” as writers there are called can get a percentage of a Hub’s ad cut (the part that would normally go to HubPages) for a period of 120 minutes after linking to them. You can link to them from Twitter or anywhere. This gives an incentive for folks to market for you.
I’ve been impressed with Squidoo so far, I’ve written less than 20 lenses and still get surprised with checks years later after having written them. The checks (Paypal deposits these days) aren’t very big but it’s the closest I’ve got to that elusive “Passive Income” as I usually forget I even have Lenses up. I figure it’s worth a try with HubPages since I’ve already done the research for lenses on Squidoo.
If you’d like to give it a shot, here’s my referral link to my first HubPage. Poke around and if you sign up let me know as I can help promote your pages!
If you don’t have a Squidoo account you can also sign up with my referral link.
