Getting Started With Hubpages

HubPages is a great web community for individuals to get started in creating their online presence.  If your focus is to over time, build a portfolio of websites and online income streams then HubPages is definitely a quality place for you to begin and maintain over time.

Why use HubPages?

1. Your articles or "hubs" on HubPages are indexed quickly in search engines which means you have instant access to traffic
2. HubPages has an excellent interface which makes creating and editing articles a breeze and enjoyable
3. HubPages has an active community which means you will have access to instant contacts and traffic within the network of "Hubbers"
4. You can make money with HubPages through their revenue sharing programs. 
   

How To Get Started

1. First, you need to just start writing.  Writing hubs starts your journey.  It will bring individuals to read about you and your interests. 
   
2. You need to work on your portfolio.  Definitely include a quality photo of yourself to "personalize" your profile.  
3. If you have other websites, like to your HubPages profile and specific hubs.  This will add to the visibility of your HubPages content and help boost the page rank of these pages.

One of the great things of HubPages is that you can write hubs on any topic under the sun.  You can create articles that range from politics to gardening, from kids to science, from technology to entertainment. 

With that said, I would definitely encourage you to build your reputation within a specific one or two or three topic areas.  By focusing on some areas, you can really promote yourself as a thought leader or expert in that field or topic.  This will only help you make money over time.

When it comes to making money with HubPages which is most of our goals here, you can start focusing on monetization once you're up and running with some traffic and credibility with your HubPages account.

Now, you can definitely active the revenue sharing on your hubs with your Adsense or Amazon account, but I think that your monetization strategy needs to be bigger than just revenue sharing.  Allow me to explain.

if you have your own blog or website (which you should), then HubPages is an integrated part of your broad online income strategy.  You should be using HubPages to both generate revenue by themselves, but also to drive traffic to your real revenue producing sites that you personally own.  This might be via more lucrative advertising or affiliate marketing on your own websites.

HubPages is a great place to write for and a great component of your overall web-based income strategy.  Good luck and have fun!