HubPages is all of those things

First of all, HubPages is completely free.

It provides us with all of these wonderful qualities.  Initially, it should probably be viewed as a platform to write and interact with others.  As you learn more about it and its potential you will realize that you can make a good, steady income via Amazon, Ebay, Kontera, and Google Adsense.

As you go along you will realize that you can earn more by practicing and improving on your on page-SEO.  You get to learn about search engine optimization.

Eventually, you will realize one my favorite features of HubPages, in that you can test different niches and micr-niches, without committing money to a domain and webhosting.  It is risk-free!

Using Hub Pages to Find the Best Niche

1. Hub Pages: Ping of Search Engines and Blogs
2. Hub Pages: Using Twitter to Gain Traffic and Increase Followers
3. Hub Pages-friendly Linkbuilding Resources
4. Hub Pages Linkvault

All the while you are learning more and more about SEO, marketing, linkbuilding, and simple web page designs, that make a difference toward converting more traffic to actually buying something.

I love HubPages!

You can reward them with Google Adsense revenue sharing.  And, in some cases, other advertisers or affiliates, such as Yahoo, AllPosters, Chitika, etc.

Author Advertising Plugin

This plugin allows WordPress blog admins to have a revenue sharing program that uses one of the many advertising programs out there such as Yahoo, Google Adsense, Amazon, Allposters etc. It can also be used as a banner manager, author photo/website widgets, among other uses.

Admin has complete control over:

• The percentage of author advertisements relative to admin advertisements.
• The user level that an author has to be before they get to participate in the revenue sharing program.
• Whether to randomize author ads on the front page of the blog.
• The page that authors see before entering their publisher id.
• Custom fields where you can collect additional information from your authors and display it.
• The positioning and content of ads.
• Up to three Author Advertising widgets.
• The information that authors enter.

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Advertising Manager

This plugin will manage and rotate your Google Adsense and other ads on your WordPress blog. It automatically recognises many ad networks including Google Adsense, AdBrite, Adify, AdGridWork, Adpinion, Adroll, Chitika, Commission Junction, CrispAds, OpenX, ShoppingAds, Yahoo!PN, and WidgetBucks. Other ad networks can be used as well.

Features:

• This is one of the most popular ad plugin for WordPress, with new features coming every single month
• Simple way to import all of your advertisements
• Widget can be used to place ads in the sidebar
• Put the ads in your blog posts with the click of a button
• Advertisements can be placed in your templates with a single PHP function
• Advertisement limitations by author, category, tag, page type, and much more
• Auto-recognition for 15 of the most popular ad networks, so you can manage these ads in your WordPress blog rather than going to each website.

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AdSense Revenue Sharing

AdSense Revenue Sharing is a wordpress plugin which allows you to easy display ads in your posts by using a quicktag and share your adsense impressions with your friends and co-authors. To dispaly the ads you can either insert anywhere in your post or use the quicktag button. For configuration go to Options>Revenue Sharing

• Nice admin area with live ad preview
• Add as many co-authors as you desire
• Simple add/edit/delete/reset co-authors
• Fast insert your ads in you posts and pages
• “Show all” feature to insert one ad at the end of every post

Author Site

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Like me, you may be sick of using most of the other affiliates or feel that some affiliates are kind of shady?  They may promote bad behavior by publishers, so are hated by visitors (your potential customers!).

These scripts work by allowing you to collect commission from Amazon when a visitor to your site buys something via Amazon. The Amazon Associate store scripts will make an entire site, if all you want is a store. Most of these scripts will allow the visitor to add items to a cart, and then securely checkout via Amazon. *I suggest adding as much value and original content as you can to your site(s).

Amazon and Ebay are two of the most widely accepted and respected.  Your visitors, and potential customers, are much more likely to buy from a big site they know and probably already have an account.  After all, it’s all about conversions, isn’t it?  You want your visitors to buy something.

Well, I’ve compared the features of most of the Amazon store scripts and am continuing to develop web sites based upon the available scripts.

Questions to ask yourself before committing to a specific Amazon store script:

1. Are you able to install and maintain your site easily?
   Unless you are really determined and capable of solving your own problems, then the script should be easy to install and maintain.
2. Is this script well supported?  Will you get your question or problem resolved in a timely manner?
   It better be well supported.  I had found out the hard way that a script that is buggy or web host that isn’t playing nice with your script can cause all sorts of problems.  Make sure that you can get your questions correctly answered reasonably fast and .
3. Is it continuing to be developed?
   You want a script that is continuing to be developed.  For example, Google continues to change what and how rank pages.  Or, Amazon could change how they share their data.  You want a script that evolves with the times.
4. Is the design of your site, based upon the script, customizable?
   It should allow you to make a unique and customer-friendly web site design.  You don’t want your site to look like every other store out there, using your script.
5. Is it using an old script language?
   I would stay away from scripts built on Perl or other older languages.  They may run into problems as browsers and other languages continue to evolve.  Will that older store script still work a year from now?
6. Is it SEO-friendly?  In other words, will the search engines more likely display your pages at the top of the search results, because it is Search Engine Optimized?
   The script needs to be SEO-friendly, otherwise you are just wasting your time.
7. Does it allow you create your own customized descriptions of each product?
   This is part of being Search Engine Optimized (SEO-friendly).  You need to be able to customize the descriptions and other information being supplied by Amazon.
8. Does the script allow your customer to add products to a shopping cart, for purchase via Amazon?
   This is really important to getting good conversions.  You want your customer to stay on your site as long as they are ordering products.  Then, be directed to Amazon, with their shopping basket contents, for completion of their order.
9. Is the script expensive?  Will you ever see enough profit to pay for the cost of the script and your hosting fees?
   Sometimes free isn’t such a good thing.  But on the other side, you probably don’t want to spend a fortune on a script and never be able to recoup your money in a reasonable time.

The short Answer to Which are the Best Store Scripts

My favorites, in order of preference.  They are both very similar and both have many features and are easy to install and maintain.

Fresh Page Builder

Affiliate Niche Script

The Longer Answer to the Best Scripts

I’ve compiled a comparison of the features of the various scripts for you to view at Hub Pages.  The link is Comparison: Amazon Associates Affiliate Store Scripts

You may come up with your own answer to which script is the best.

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I did a little research myself via Google Adwords and found that the keyword terms of “top 10″ gets over 6 Million searches on Google per month. The terms “Best of” gets over 7 Million searches worldwide.  Think about that for a moment.  A site centered around lists will attract many, many of those searches.  The lists that you create, especially if they are product links could bring in some good income.  This is early so you can get a great start on this site. And right before Christmas to top of that!

It has a unique concept in that it is all about lists.  You create your own lists.  They could be funny, product reviews, or simply use convenient wishlists or Listmania lists on Amazon.

And people LOVE lists.  Just think of David Letterman and his famous Top 10 lists!  In fact, that’s a good idea to make a few of those.  Hmmm.  It’s my idea, don’t steel it!

You do get to make lists of such things as your favorite blog posts, articles you have written elsewhere, or your favorite products at Amazon.  Yes, you do use your own Amazon Affiliate code, so you can make money from that too.  This could be a big money maker.  Especially when you couple it with your pages on Squidoo, Hub Pages, and others.

Plus they are 100% Adsense revenue sharing!

Best Reviews Sign Up

So sign up!  The more, the merrier.

Low quality backlinks from blog comments, directories, or forum signatures are of minimal value, as far as linkjuice is concerned.

What to do….?

You could build your own simple and free web sites, with related content, then link to your main, money-making site(s).  Every so often, update these sites with new content, to keep them fresh and relevant, but otherwise you can leave them alone.

Some of these sites are revenue sharing or allow your Amazon and other affiliate links as well.

It’s win/win!

Here’s the best free sites, in no particular order:

Google Sites - Nice potential.  Simple templates from which to choose  or you can design your own layout.  The annoying part is the “Add This” code that seems to spawn like crazy when you edit the content.

WebStarts – Make a free website with the #1 free website builder and get ranked on Google, Yahoo, Bing and MSN. Includes free web hosting and a free web address.

Weebly – Features a drag & drop website editor.  It has over 70 professional designs to choose from or you can design your own.  Weebly was named one of TIME’s 50 Best Websites of the year in 2007 and they’ve since made their service even more powerful, while keeping it simple.

Yola

These are my favorites:

Squidoo – Squidoo has a fantastic platform and is very easy to use.  It does pay 2 months behind, but once you get going it is steady income, even if you take a break for a while.  Join SquidU and ask questions, share your latest pages (lenses) and ask for critiques and suggestions.  If you are a WAHM (Work At Home Mom) then you are especially well off.  Join Rocket Moms for an already built exclusive community of  friends.

HubPages – HubPages is easy to use and has a different payment scheme than Squidoo, but according to several people I know, you can earn much more than on Squidoo.  Many of us are active on both.

Associated Content - It’s pretty simple, you create the content, which are typically short articles, and Associated Content automatically distributes it to their huge list of topic-related Publishers.  Write about your favorite sponge for cleaning and it will be published on someone’s kitchen website.  Nifty! You earn money based upon how many visitors (hits) it received.  You could also link back to other related pages (such as your Squidoo or HubPages).  It’s win win!

Blogger – Sign up for Amazon Affiliates and you can easily display Amazon product links via their built-in tools.  You can also link to your other sites.

You will find that the months leading up to and including December are the most lucrative, being that it is Christmas shopping  season.   All of the above sites pay into your PayPal.com account.  Then you can set PayPal up to transfer to your real bank account down the road.  It took a few months of part time work and I was earning a few hundred dollars per month.  My results are probably typical for an active member of these sites.  Some people earn much, much more than me.

The key is to become part of the affiliate community by taking part in forums, social networking sites, and within the above sites, so that your friends will visit and hopefully bump up your pages or whatever.  For example, if you like to be on Facebook, look for and add Squidoo friends.  If you are a person that likes forums, then join SquidU (Squidoo), HubPages Forum, and others.  You will find very active members and probably become good internet friends with a few dozen people.  A lot of these folks are even meeting via Meetup.com and becoming “real life friends”, after all it’s always nice to make a new friend or a dozen.

1. Sony PlayStation Move | Games and Accessories – All about the upcoming Move motion detecting game system.  I’m very happy with this lens, as I’ve worked very hard on it.
2. The Best Wii Fit Games
3. Silly Bandz
4. A Review of the Top Gaming Mice
5. Neighborhood Watch – This is raising money for the Inner City Scholarship Fund
6. Winter Emergency Car Kits

Notice the variety of topics?  Yes, I’m trying to spread my wings and see how the visitor rate and click-throughs differ.  Also, I used different inline CSS to enhance them with borders, different colors, and other webpage spice.

If you have suggestions, please leave a comment below and I will add them.

Already to be considered:

• Zazzle
• Cafe Press
• Brighthub
• Squidoo (via affiliate modules/links)
• Hubpages

An offer to you:

If you have not yet signed up for Squidoo, I will even make an offer to mentor you, by giving tips and explaining things about Squidoo. All I ask is that you do your best, be fairly patient, and sign up via my referral link (click HERE).

My Experience:

Currently, I have 2 lenses within the top 100, out of a total of over 700,000 lenses in existance.  I’d say I’ve learned a thing or two by now.

In just the past few months of being an active member I consistantly make over $100 per month in Squidoo payments, not including affiliate royalties from Amazon, AllPosters, and others. It will only grow from there!

The Benefits:

There are so many ways to make money within Squidoo, it’s amazing.  The nice thing is that you don’t have to sign up for any other affiliates, if you don’t want to.  You can simply sign up for Squidoo and you will get a portion of the revenue.

If you don’t care to make money for yourself, you can also have your earnings automatically submitted to various charities too.

One of the benefits is the ability to focus on SEO down to the page level, unlike being concerned with entire sites. This really helps in understanding (better) the effects on on-page SEO and the value of backlinks and the internal linking structure.

The other is more from an affiliate point of view. you get to experiment with a multitude of different affiliate programs, most of them without signing up for anything. Just use Squidoo’s own affiliate modules and reap the rewards.

And last, but not least, you get to make lenses about whatever you feel like making.  I look at many of the topics of my lenses as doing a “research paper”, in that I may not be an expert on the subject, but have a curiousity about it.  I then research it and make an informative lens on the subject.  By the time I’m done, I am quite familiar.  All in all, it’s really fun!

I should also point out that the Squidoo community is very supportive and fun.  It’s one of the best experiences you could have online.

TagFoot is similar to Del.icio.us, Digg, and  Squidoo, but has it’s own unique features. It is designed in the smooth and easy to use Web 2.0 format.  Currently, visiting the main page will only bring you to the video, but you can still sign up and take part.  Once the site is fully operational (out of beta mode), then the search engines will crawl and rank the pages.

The supports staff are super friendly and very rapid to work on issues or ideas that the users think up.

Another nifty fact is that they have a 50% Adsense Revenue sharing program. The links are also dofollow, so you not only get traffic from your friends, but get a good backlink.

• Import your existing IE and/or Firefox bookmarks (you can import all as private and change later)
• easily manage and access all of your bookmarks from any computer
• quickly share anything you find on the web with your friends
• share what you want, when you want, with whom you want
• tag all of your imported bookmarks so they are more easily found
• If you’re using Firefox, you can drag and drop links onto your sidefoot – onto a specific tag or section.
• tag your friends and you can send a message and/or share with that tag – everyone you tagged will get your message as opposed to you having to remember everyone’s member name. I use this when I post the Adsense articles – I share with “super users.”
• go to Amazon, find something you like and add it to your tagfoot wishlist. Watch as tagfoot scrapes the page and grabs all of the possible prices for you.
• Play with privacy settings. Add something to your wishlist that you want to buy for a friend, tag it with your friends name, and set it to private. You just created a private shopping list for that friend!
• It’s 100% free!

TagFoot Signup

This is the time to sign up so you can give them your feedback on what you would like to see!

Update: Tagfoot is now adding, not only Adsense revenue sharing, but also has plans for adding other ways of making money (along with being a part of a fun and growing community).  They are asking the members for input right now on other ways, such as Ebay, Amazon, Cafe Press and many more.

Read this:

Additional revenue sharing
Tuesday, October 07, 2008
So, we’ve got our Google Adsense sharing program setup and we’re thrilled so many have jumped on board. We’re now looking forward to getting tagfoot out into the wild so we can start making you guys (and us too) some real money. Until then, it’s going to continue to be pennies no doubt.

First, we need to quiet down the “messages overload” noise we spoke about last week – and we’re on that hard core right now. While we’re banging away on that, there are a couple of other things we can get into regarding moving to a public beta.

One of the most important, is making money.

Revenue sharing
We’ve got a ton of options beyond Adsense and we’re hoping some of you pros will help us whittle it down a bit. Here are a couple of ideas we’re tossing around that we think have the most potential – both keeping in mind the same type of impression based sharing we’re currently doing with Adsense.

1. Amazon
2. iTunes

Amazon
Your personal tagfoot wishlist can end up being a virtual treasure trove in more ways than you think. Not just a place for your friends to find stuff for you on your birthday, your wishlist can make you money all year round by driving traffic from your blogs, MySpace, Facebook etc.

It’s an easy setup. Simply pop in your Amazon affiliate ID, just as you did with your Adsense ID, and we’ll attach it to everything in your wishlist. Next, plug your tagfoot wishlist RSS feed into your personal blog, MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, etc. and you’re done.

iTunes
The tubefoot is being used to play free music all day long right now by quite a few. We’re guessing it’s going to get hit pretty hard once word gets out. We can set up the tubefoot with a “purchase” link for each track – linking directly to iTunes.

Same drill – plug in your iTunes affiliate ID, we attach it to the tracks, members copy your tracks and potentially buy’em.

Let’s do this
We’ve got a couple of other ideas we’re throwing around but, we thought it best to hand it off to you guys at this point. We’d like to get most of this stuff solidified over the next couple of weeks so we have a chance at generating some holiday revenue for every one – let’s act quick.

1. What are your thoughts regarding the methods above?
2. What other options would you like to see us consider?

No holds barred.

So, if you want to be in on the discussion, NOW is the time to do it!  Sign up and make your ideas heard.