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HubPagesToday I was thinking about Web 2.0, social networking, and user-generated content. As I was researching, I came across a site called HubPages which has a similar concept to Squidoo. Having been a beta-tester and user of Squidoo (I wrote about it on this blog way back in 2005) before all these ebooks and reports came out about using Squidoo for marketing and SEO, I was pleasantly impressed with HubPages. For one thing, the interface for editing your pages seem to load up much faster than Squidoo. I don’t know, maybe it’s hosted on a more powerful server.

Anyway, the main idea is for people to sign up and create “hubs” on different topics, sorta like lenses in Squidoo. The main draw for a lot of people is going to be the revenue sharing. There are three main ways to earn money with HubPages - AdSense, eBay and Amazon. There is a 50% split of the revenue (revenue, not profits!).

I managed to get my account set up without any problems. You just have to enter your details for the three affiliate programs, create a hub and you’re on your way to earning some moolah. Another thing I like about it is that the people behind HubPages are participating in the forums and helping out the new users. There are also a lot of tips for how you can get more traffic to your hub(s).

Okay, so if you’re like me, you’ll start to wonder when people will start abusing the system and spamming the site. There is a rating system set up where you are awarded a score (called a HubScore) for your hub. According to the FAQ,

Many factors contribute to our rating scale of 0 to 100, with 100 being our top score.

It is unclear what these “factors” are but I imagine it could include the amount of traffic and number of positive votes. The voting system is a simple “thumbs up, or thumbs down” (much like StumbleUpon) system as compared to the star rating system of Squidoo.

So what exactly does a hub look like? You can check out a hub I created on Keyword Research Tools.

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