Don’t Turn HubPages or Squidoo into a Business Model
Although I am participating in a 100 hubs in 30 days challenge I do NOT plant to turn HubPages into a main business model.
Why? For one… it is risky. At any time HubPages could decide to delete your hubs or worse, your account. Then all your work would be for nothing.
Secondly… you are building up their website… not yours. You are providing HubPages with content.
In the long term it would be much better to create your own blogs and build up your own domains and build REAL assets for yourself.
Third… what if your income was dependent on HubPages and for some reason Google slapped them and they were no longer getting good rankings in the search engines? Bye bye income.
All the same goes for Squidoo as well. Trusting a 3rd party website for all your content and income always puts you at risk.
I do plan to create 100 hubs at HubPages for the sake of a challenge and as an experiment to see what it can do. Plus, adding a small extra income stream couldn’t hurt.
However, my own blogs are still my first priority for building my business.
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Amy, I agree with you. I currently write on one revenue sharing site (eHow) and plan to expand to HubPages, but I’m aware of the risks in writing on someone else’s site.
To lessen the risk I plan to 1) write on several revenue sharing sites instead of just one 2) save all my work on my own computer so if my account went *poof* I could at least use my content somewhere else and 3) take the best performing subjects from my revenue sharing sites and eventually turn them into Niche blogs, as you teach.
Thanks for the great content! And congrats on all your success!
Same here, Amy… you’re absolutely correct in leading people towards protecting their work. That’s kind of the point of residual income anyway… To do the work once yet get paid multiple times for it.
So thanks as always for protecting your readers, I have always appreciated this about your site. Honesty is rare and this helps so much.
Amy, ditto.
I put most of my work into my own blogs for those reasons. The risk is too great letting someone else own your content.
You are very right. But I do think that hubpages can play an important part in diversifying your online income streams. The problem with putting all of you eggs in one basket is that you are always going to be exposing yourself to extra risk. I try to diversify all of my on-line income streams, as one is always going down. The key is to always be building something else up in its place.
This is something more people should listening to. Unfortunately there’s way to many people out there writing content for a third part website. Just a couple of months ago I used wordpress.com to blog about one of my sites and without notice WordPress decided to ban my account.
So, how is the challenge going? I thought of doing this challenge but didn’t end up focusing long enough to do it.
Thank you, it works fine.
amazing!