Making Money Online - HubPages Versus Your Own Website
68Since the internet revolution started several decades ago, everyone is struggling to make money online. There's a thousand and one ways to make money in the internet but I'm interested with making money by blogging. Should I use HubPages or should I set up my own blogging website? What are the advantages and disadvantages of each one? Which one makes money better?
Let's do a little analysis and let's start with HubPages. How does it work and how do we use it? Here's how:
1. Create a HubPages account. Provide a user name, a password, and a valid e-mail address.
2. Create a hub and start blogging. You are not making any money yet.
3. Apply as a Google Adsense publisher.
4. Your Google Adsense gets approved, provide HubPages with your Publisher ID. Your hubs start to earn money.
5. Create more hubs or continue blogging. Wait for your paycheck.
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How about setting up our own blogging website?
1. Go to a domain registrar, find a domain name like "myblog.com", and register it. You will have to pay about $10 a year for the registration of the domain name.
2. Go to a webhosting site and create an account. Webhosting usually cost around $5 to $10 dollars a month, depending on the features and limitations imposed by the webhost.
3. Go back to your domain registrar and point your domain's DNS to your webhost.
3. Log in to your webhosting control panel and design your own website.
4. Apply as a Google Adsense publisher.
5. When Google Adsense is approved, create adsense banners and channels. Copy the advertisement codes into your website. You are not earning money yet. Why? No one knows about your blogging website and your website does not appear on any search engine, so you will get no visitors.
6. You have to tell Google Search about your website. You may also need to tell each and every major search engines about your blogging website.
7. You will need to know what SEO means before you possibly earn serious money from your own blogging website.
From the above analysis, it is evident that simply using the HubPages services is faster and easier than setting up your own website. You do not need to spend a single cent to start making money online. You do not have to worry about search engine optimization since your hubs are appearing on the major search engines and your hubs may even be appearing on the first page of the search results if not on top of them. Of course HubPages has its own disadvantage - it takes 40% of your total revenue from Google Adsense!!!
It can be seen that setting up your own blogging website is a tedius job and you need to spend some bucks too. Not only that, you need to spend some time maintaining it. It seems to me that it is meant for the more computerese and those who could afford to spend a lot of time in front of their computers. The advantage of course is that you own all the fruits of your labor. No one takes away part of your Google Adsense revenue, except Google itself.
So which one is better? Use HubPages, and if you have the time and the guts, also build your own blogging website. In this way you maximize your money making potential on the net.
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@Ultimate Hubber
Thanks for visiting and commenting. I'll take your advice. Actually I was still working on it and I mistakenly press the publish button. You may have not seen my last two paragraphs.
Oh Rite. Last couple of paragraphs really make your hub a lot more meaningful!
I think hubpages is better than setting up your own website.
LVM, that's what I thought, but it would be better having both.
hello friend
iam new to this world
i thought hubpages are just like blogs..where we need to "build" traffic
nice one. thanks
arun, thanks for dropping by and sharing your thoughts. Welcome and enjoy HubPages.
I'll try to set up a site myself.
Manila Girl, good luck!
Great tips, Dude. I have never seen how to set up a web side made so easy. Of course you are right, that really needs time and money. Great Blog!
ixwa, setting up your own website may be costly in terms of money and time but the self-fulfillment it brings for knowing that you can pull such a trick, is such a joy.
Now I think I want to do both. Thank you for this great info.
Pinoys, you're very welcome. Try setting up your own website. It fun and exciting.
Great blog, I enjoyed reading the diversity between the two online money making advantage and disavantages. You did your reasearch and nailed it head on!
Wendy, thanks for reading my hub and leaving an encouraging comment.
I found your hub very helpful and as I am a newbie I need all the help I can get. I hope to read alot more of your hubs as I get furthur along on mine. Thank you also for becoming a fan. You made my day. I thought I would never get any fans.
Thanks for the article...I noticed you are a fan for many people...How nice of you to be so supportive..Ty!
Nice article thanks. I think there are advantages and disadvantages both ways, the thing is if you do both you can negate the negatives of the other. Of course that conversation would be one sided on here. Anyway thanks for the advice. Gives us something to think about.
I'm new here, and I thought I knew more than I do, when I first came here. Your article was excellent, and I will be coming back to re read it many times, as encouragement.
You really have made me re think, my thinking on the matter and now I have many new doors open to me!
Roxygirl
Really good info. Thanks Angel!
Great hub for newbies. Love all your articles.
Great hub and very true. If I may add to this for anyone considering setting up their own website:
Approximately half of your time will be spent on the website creation, page creation, links, promotion etc. and the other half on writing the actual content, so in essence it will take twice as long as just using Hubpages for your articles.
So if my time calculations are correct, would it be true to say that by using Hubpages you are up 10% on possible adsense revenue because Hubpages only take 40% of your adsense revenue?
Thanks for being one of my fans. I have another 2 hubs now - both with my own poetry. I enjoy reading your hub pages, too.
This a great topic and one I was very curious about. Also, an additional perk to HubPages is it comes with a built in community with supportive people like you. Thanks!
Great info, just what I need. Thank you.
Nice work angle of love. I've also created two blogs here & looking forward to get maximum people to reach on my blogs..
Thanks Angel Love for being so sweet. Angel Love was my 1st fan when I joined 2 months ago.
hey thank you so much ANgerl of luv that info is really helpfull but tell me about that line which says hubpages takes 40% from your google adsense
Aitizaz Khan, it is said that revenue sharing in HubPages is 60-40. Or you get 60% and HubPages gets 40% of the revenue. Such statements are actually oversimplifications of the revenue sharing. In reality, HubPages gets 40% of the ads impressions and not the actual revenue.
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Ultimate Hubber Level 1 Commenter 2 years ago
I came to this article thinking it will explain which method earns you more money.
Nice hub in the end! Try to add some more content to it for ranking high in SERPS.