Promoting Affiliate Programs with Hub Pages
HubPages is a revenue sharing web community that allows you to create web pages (known as hubs) about specific topics. You can then earn money through Google Adsense or by promoting Amazon and eBay products. When anyone makes a purchase through your listed Amazon or eBay products, you’ll get commission from that sale.
Your Adsense id show ads for 60% of the time anyone views your hub. Ad revenue for the other 40% will go to HubPages.
What can I do with a Hub? Or why should I even bother?
Here are some possible benefits of setting up a hub:
- You can direct traffic from HubPages to your website or blog.
- Potential to improve your website’s search engine ranking positions.
- PR benefits. I noticed that hubs which are older than 10 weeks are usually PR 3+. Some popular and older pages are PR 5+. You’re basically getting a free link with PR from HubPages.
- You can promote your affiliate link for specific products, programs or websites.
- Community building. If you have a forum or Yahoo Group, you could set up a hub to recruit more members. Hubs can also be used to promote your MyBloglog community.
How do I make the most money from Hub Page?
Here’s the bottom line. Revenue sharing through Adsense is not a reliable way to make money online. I’ve tried similar revenue sharing programs for some time and have concluded that you’ll probably just earn less than or equal to a dollar a day.
I would suggest integrating your hub with several affiliate programs which allow you to earn action-based commission earnings. Readers are more likely to click on a contextual link or take action on a specific promotion if it is well integrated with text.
Four Ways to Integrate your Hub Page with Affiliate Programs
These suggestions focus on using Hub Page as a means to promote your affiliate links.
- Pinpoint your hub. Only focusing on a specific niche can make it easier to aggressively promote the affiliate program. For example, If you’re planning to sell software, create product review pages. This works well with a variety of online merchants. Find products to promote using Clickbank.
- Include affiliate text links within your content. You can also direct readers to your blog, website or squeeze page.
- Monetize your outgoing links by using Usercash or Link Bucks. This make you money every time someone clicks on your link. Try not to overdo it because some visitors might be turned off by the ads.
- Use image hosts that pay to put up thumbnails, screen shots or mini picture galleries. You’ll earn money for every one who clicks on your pictures. These usually works best on topics such as celebrities, entertainment or humor.
Hub Page does have some potential for promoting affiliate products, although it doesn’t enjoy the link popularity and traffic of similar websites like Squidoo, which I will be reviewing in a future post.
Conclusion: Worth a look if you have some spare time.
This was a smart idea by the creators, I am going to sign up for an account to try it out and get a good PR then link to my other sites.
This sounds like a great idea! I recommend, however, that you take a look at a number of HUBPages and copy some text from various articles. Then use Google to see if the pages show up.
Tested this with about 10 articles and noted that Google does NOT like to display HUBPages if the content is similar to that found on other sites.
It will display the pages with the [Search Again, display Ommitted]. In many cases where the pages do display, they are listed way down in the results.
Content that was stickly unique displayed with Google without issues - so this is good! It also means that Google is probably not looking to blacklist the site because of laziness on the part of some of the users.
The key here is unique content.
Great find, will definitely give it a go!