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
There 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
Since 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.
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I love using Hubpages… I played a bit with Yuwie but never did much with it.
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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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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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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.
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These sites also share 50% of Adsense revenue with contributors
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Thought you’d like to know.
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!
I really enjoyed reading you blog. I am always looking for new information because as the old saying goes “Knowledge is power”
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.
Yuwie is a new one to me, many thanks for bringing it to my attention
It doesnt seem like Yuwie adheres to very good ethics and I see it possibly getting banned by search engines such as Google