Make Money and Drive Traffic Even Without A Website

by Jack Humphrey on Nov 25

There are a lot of ways to make money online these days that don’t even require you to own a website. Many social, web 2.0 sites do what is called “revenue sharing” where you create the content, they display the advertising, and you share what your content generates in revenue from the traffic it attracts.

It is a simple arrangement made even simpler due to the fact that you don’t have any hosting, programming, or other technical headaches that come with owning a site.

And you can drive your own traffic, above what the site itself drives to you from other members and direct traffic, with the same types of social sites.

Example: HubPages

Make Money With HubPagesThere are HubPagers that have over 100 Hubs on all kinds of topics. HubPages allows you to quickly and easily set up a page on anything under the sun. Articles on child birth to cameras to the mating habits of African elephants if you want.

This content is displayed with advertising so that when it gets picked up in the search engines or linked to from other sites, you earn right along with HubPages.

The key to earning any decent amount of money here is to be prolific. Make tons of Hubs, but not only that, make them good. The only way to become a popular Hubber is to gain respect in the community of Hubbers. And there are some good Hubs on that network.

Take a look around and you’ll quickly see what it takes to be a serious Hubber. Then start creating your own Hubs and promote them with the same Web 2.0 strategies outlined in “Bending the Web” and “Authority Black Book” to drive serious traffic to them.

Example: Yuwie

yuwie.JPGSince you’re going to be social, you might as well make money doing it. That’s Yuwie‘s stance, anyway. This site is much the same as other social communities except you make money doing very simple things like browsing profiles, commenting, blogging, and the like.

Their revenue sharing model doesn’t even require you to do something as easy as make a HubPage. Just belong to and use the site. Revenue is generated by ads, of course, and the money is spread among the community as a killer bribe for making Yuwie one of your social community staples, if not your main hangout.

I will be focusing on other money making social sites and revenue sharing models in the months to come.

Tagged as: hubpages, Make Money Blogging, make money online, revenue sharing sites, yuwie

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  • http://www.johncow.com John Cow

    I love using Hubpages… I played a bit with Yuwie but never did much with it.

    John Cow’s last blog post..History of Blogging & a Bunch of Other Things

  • http://residual-income-streams.info Anna

    That information on Yuwi is completely new. I had signed up with them once but then never did anything and forgot who they were when I saw their emails during my email sort-out. It looks like I should definitely get involved. Thank you Jack!

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  • http://www.rockfuse.com ROCKFUSE – Make Money Blogging

    Nice tips! I’m sure I can pick up a thing or two from this. By the way, I find word of mouth marketing as a viable way of viral promotion. I’m surprised by the lack of bloggers who actually use such a method. But, that’s just my oinion though.

    Cheers!
    Nadeesha.

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  • http://tomwalshmarketing.com/ Tom “I make easy money online” Walsh

    Great post, I’ve been with Yuwie about a year now and I quite like it but they seem to have gone overboard with the ads lately. Maybe the owner got greedy.

    Tom “I make easy money online” Walshs last blog post..Is Global Domains International a scam?

  • Jason

    These sites also share 50% of Adsense revenue with contributors

    HowToBuyStuff (http://www.howtobuystuff.org)
    HowToBecomeAnything (http://www.howtobecomeanything.com)

    Thought you’d like to know.

  • http://www.123-power-system.com 123 Power System

    I always have to wonder about using my creativity to create another person's website. Hubpages, Squidoo, Qassia, and others… I do use them, but only for *my* purposes of getting backlinks to my web properties.

    I think it's dangerous to continue to create web content for everyone else, but not yourself. In the long term, it's far better to put up your own websites.

    Tis my two cents worth anyway!

  • http://websitesthatsucceed.blogspot.com/ Cliff Posey

    I really enjoyed reading you blog. I am always looking for new information because as the old saying goes “Knowledge is power”

  • http://www.howtobuildachickencoop.co.uk Steve

    Some good info there, something I’ve been looking into but still not taken the plunge! I do agree with the above comment that it’s much better to focus on your own sites if they have any potential, if you don’t own the content it can be throwing money away.

  • http://www.interviewmanuscript.net Bethany Trinoble

    Yuwie is a new one to me, many thanks for bringing it to my attention

  • http://www.extremefitnessplans.com p90x

    It doesnt seem like Yuwie adheres to very good ethics and I see it possibly getting banned by search engines such as Google

  • http://www.pengerik.com Tjene Penger

    Anyone know if you really can get into trouble with Google for using Yuwie ? I’ve never heard of Yuwie before now, and got a bit interested in cheking it out more – but if there ever a remote possibility Imight get into trouble with Google I’ll stay away… :(

  • http://www.liverpoolbloggen.no Liverpool blog

    I would stay away from Yuwie, as a friend of mine recently had some issues with SEs – possibly because of them – allthough he couldn’t say 100% sure.. anyone else have some other view on this ?
    .-= Liverpool blog´s last blog ..Premier League: Birmingham – Liverpool 1-1 FT =-.

  • http://realtrafficsource.com/ts.php Rick Hanson

    I’m also trying to build articles and and reputation on hubpages. I have the impression this is a very important channel. But it takes time… Thanks for bringing Yuwie to my attention, havent heard about them before.

  • http://www.finance-easy.com Pindle

    Some good info there, something I’ve been looking into but still not taken the plunge! I do agree with the above comment that it’s much better to focus on your own sites if they have any potential, if you don’t own the content it can be throwing money away.
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  • http://www.sundaydrivestudios.com Portrait Photography Denver

    Thanks for the info. This is great for especially to those who want to earn money online like me. It is also amazing because you do not have to pay for website fees.
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  • http://www.space.gb.com dawne@storage birmingham

    I’ll have a look because I could do with some extra ways to earn money. I want to go away in December but I’m not sure if I’ll be able to afford it now, with what I’m actually earning. I need some ways to earn money without having to spend too much of my own money in an outlay or investment.

  • http://www.flowersphilippines.certanum.com Allan0999@flowersphilippines

    The idea of socializing online and making money while you are doing it is a valid one. Having an online business should be fun and this approach has a lot of merrit. In the past I have worked in solitary drudgery and often with mixed results. Its time to try something new.

  • http://pledgetostayfit.com/shakeology shakeology

    Great post! I am just starting out in community management/marketing media and trying to learn how to do it well – resources like this article are incredibly helpful.

  • http://jasonjumat.com Jason @ I need lots of money now

    I partially agree with you that you can still make money even while not having a website. The thing is, yes you can – but you will not have overall power over the things you want to and don’t want to do when considering to start making money online. Fore example, the pages you use at hubpages and yuwie don’t really belong to you. You only generate the content for THEIR websites while they give you a share of the ad revenue your page would generate (even though they would give you the biggest share).
    Normally it’s better to have your own website because you can be assured of the fact that you will have it by tomorrow. There are lots of people, for example, who have worked their, you know what off, while not having a website, at Squidoo, having pages up here and there.
    Next thing they know, their pages, hubs, or lenses get banned or blocked or suspended – for sometimes no particular reason.

    I advice that one should follow to START making money by using free resources such as investing into Yuwie and Hubpages – just like you say Jack – and when you start making money to start paying that $5/$6 per month for your website as well. Just to be safe.

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