HubPages Again?
By Jim Bauer
@porwest (91311)
United States
August 23, 2022 9:17am CST
It has been years since I have been active on, or wrote for the writing site, HubPages. I left for a variety of reasons. Some of it had to do with the non-organic nature of the site and getting attention for your "articles."
In other words, it was based more on "you scratch my back and I will scratch yours" than on the quality of the content presented.
But it seems these days HubPages articles have bit wider reach and is less reliant on internal traffic to accomplish the goal of being read—and by read, I mean actually read. Not just glanced over and commented on in order for someone to advertise their own articles to be paid.
I spent some time on read.cash for longer article writing. It paid fairly well, although it paid in cryptocurrency and has since fizzled out a bit as the crypto markets have taken recent tumbles.
It's drawback is similar to the old HubPages in that it relies on internal traffic, and I don't like what I write to rely on anything more than the interest of the article and a real audience interested in good content.
Anyone writing on HubPages now? What's your experience been?
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@DaddyEvil (137261)
• United States
23 Aug 22
I only wrote a few articles there and dropped the site years ago.
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@DaddyEvil (137261)
• United States
23 Aug 22
@porwest I believe I took all mine down before I left there.
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@porwest (91311)
• United States
23 Aug 22
@DaddyEvil I just kinda figured, if it could stay up and still earn, why not just leave it? Unless it was something I wanted to use somewhere else, then I took it down.
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@LindaOHio (179152)
• United States
25 Aug 22
@porwest I think it took me about a year to cash out.
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@porwest (91311)
• United States
26 Aug 22
@LindaOHio I actually made okay money there. I am about $3 to another payout and I have not done anything there for years, although in the last two days I have published two new articles. Just want to see what it does.
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@koopharper (7601)
• Canada
21 Oct 22
I haven't written much on Hubpages. I have one article that does well all things considered. It's a basic how-to article linked to a video on my YouTube channel. I have ideas for exploiting the two in tandem but am constantly pressed for time. Never made a payout on Hubpages even once but just maybe before I retire.
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@koopharper (7601)
• Canada
24 Oct 22
@porwest I just need to get a few more good articles on that site. Need the time and the inspiration when I have the time.
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@porwest (91311)
• United States
27 Oct 22
@koopharper If you get a good one that resonates, it can earn for quite a long time. I have a couple like that.
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@everwonderwhy (7361)
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24 Aug 22
I have a HubPage account. But, have not written there in a long time.
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@everwonderwhy (7361)
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25 Aug 22
@porwest I'm not sure if I need to be on HubPages now. Advice? Suggestion?
@gtdoss (1013)
• United States
23 Aug 22
I've never written for HubPages. I've really never written anything for sites in order to make money. I mean, there's MyLot, of course, but I definitely don't write in it for the money, LOL! I don't really care to write articles, but I do like writing diary-type entries. Much more fun for me.
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@porwest (91311)
• United States
23 Aug 22
For me, longer form writing has been more my forté. I never really consider what I do here to be "writing," per se, although some things are slanted that way. Always having an outlet, since it is a bit of a passion for me, is something I like to have open, and there aren't many good options out there really.
Even most blog writing is confined to shorter length pieces, and it is hard to gain traction on those since there is so much competition.
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@RebeccasFarm (89980)
• Arvada, Colorado
23 Aug 22
I do not..never did.
I dont really have much of an interest in writing.
Good luck if you go back to it.
Did you have a page there before?
@lovebuglena (44596)
• Staten Island, New York
23 Aug 22
HubPages doesn't rely on internal traffic. I think the majority of the traffic comes from search engines. If you are great at keywords and SEO and can get your hubs on the first page (or maybe even first few pages) of search results you will potentially get lots of traffic to what you publish there. And that assumes you write about things that people search for.
I am on there but have not published anything new in a long time. But I earn passive income though, so that's good. Though it's not much. Used to reach $50 in 2-3 months months. Now it's taking me more than half a year.
@kobesbuddy (78882)
• East Tawas, Michigan
23 Aug 22
I've been writing on TextBroker, which I like. Except, their rating system is mechanical, AI of course. Thus, I haven't been promoted for two years. This month I'll be luck to earn $10, not very much. The clients are very accepting, their AI system isn't. All my writings are original, yet they keep warning us not to use AI or we're in big trouble. Why do they use that garbage?
