How to Make Money Online Using Hubpages

There are several tons of articles that have been written on the subject of how to make money online and equally the various methods involved.

However if you go through these methods, not all of them can work for you, and you might not be comfortable with some of the methods described.

This article will show you how to make money online using a website called hubpages.

One of the methods of making money online that has worked for me is article marketing.

This is pretty simple and straight forward, I write an article, publish the article online and monetize the article.

You do not have to write the article yourself, you can get people to write articles for you, I will explain how later.

For a beginner online, there is always the temptation to follow several money making methods, prescribed in e-books all at once.

This can be very confusing and overwhelming to say the least.

My advice is - choose one method and stick with it for a while then you would begin to see results, but you have to be patient.

Amongst the many money making methods, if article marketing is the method you have decided to use to make money online then here are the things you need to be doing:

• Writing your articles
• Publishing your articles
• Driving traffic to your articles.
• Monetizing your articles

Writing your articles - you need to be writing good original content articles. You can either do it yourself or pay others to do it for you. If you head over to elance.com now you will find out that you can be able to pay people to write articles for you for as little as $3.00 (three dollars) per article, typically between 250 - 800 words. You can also ask friends, family members and colleagues to write articles for you. If they do not have what it takes to write, you can interview them to get information about a topic they know a lot about.

Publishing your articles - you have to get your articles online. To do this you can either create your own website or publish them on article syndication websites. The major advantage of creating your own website is that you get to keep all the revenue generated from your articles.

There are a some serious draw backs to this approach however, such as:

• Cost - you have to bear all the cost of registering a domain name, hosting, maintenance, etc.
• Technical know - how to maintain your site.

Driving traffic to your article - apart from the shortcomings of creating your own website, there is also the requirement of getting traffic (visitors) to visit your website and to read your articles. If there are no visitors to your website you would not be able to make any money. Any body who has been involved with Internet marketing will tell you how difficult it is to get visitors, especially to a new website. Monetizing your articles - At the end of day this is your ultimate goal, i.e. to make money from your articles, so you have to find ways of doing this. There are several methods you can use to monetize your articles, like:

• selling affiliate products,
• placing paid adverts on your articles, and
• even selling your own items or products.

The solution to all the problems associated with creating your own website is to use article syndication sites like hubpages.com. There are several benefits of using hubpages.com to publish your article. These include:

• You do not have to bother about hosting costs, site maintenance, etc.
• No technical knowledge is required to build your article pages.
• They have a very acceptable revenue sharing scheme whereby you keep 60% percent of the revenue generated from AdSense ads placed on your articles, plus you can also sell affiliate products through you articles. Some "hubbers" are currently making in excess of $500.00 (five hundred) a month just from AdSense alone.
• Hubpages integrates well with Amazon and eBay, and you are allowed to place links to relevant Amazon and Ebay items directly on your article and make money each time one of these articles is bought through your link.
• By doing this you will leverage their power of driving traffic to their site. Hundreds of thousands of people visit hubpages every day, and you will benefit from this traffic.
• Well written Hubpages articles get high rankings in the search engines.
• You can publish articles on any subject you like, provided it meets their terms of use.
• They provide a lot of help and support to new hubbers.
• There is also a very useful hubbers' forum where you can ask questions and get answers to any questions you may have.

I bet if you look around your hard drive you will find some original articles you could publish now and start to make money online today!

If you will like to see an example of how to make money online using hubpages click on the following link: http://hubpages.com/hub/Sportys-Article-Directory