Frequently asked question and answers about Hubpages that you were afraid to ask with the authors comments. The idea for the articles came up when a question was asked in the "Answers" topic about who started Hubpages and how did the writing website come about. Thousands of writers and readers make Hubpages a part of their daily routine like having a cup and coffee and a danish. To find out more about the webpages that you visit daily and you have to make it mandatory or Google Adsense will ignore you. The information is credited to Hubpages on Wikipedia.

Question One: What is Hubpages?

Answer: Hub pages is a writing website whose core function is to share advertising revenue with writer who write quality written content of their choice. The content is user generated and is of high quality. (User generated and high quality are descriptive words used by Wikipedia to describe the writers and the level of writing that is generated on the writing website). Hubpages is classified as a Web publishing business in the Internet industry. Hubpages is one of the most visited website on the Internet with more than 7.5 million unique visitors monthly from the United States and 13.9 million visitors world wide in 2009. The website address for Hubpages is www.hubpages.com.

QuestionTwo: Which came in existence first, Hubpages or Squidoo?

Answer: Squidoo a writing site often compared with Hubpages is the older of the two sites. Squidoo and Hubpages uses similar interfaces so that writers can produce articles on their areas of interest. Hubpages was launched in 2006 with investments from Hummer Winblad Venture Partners.

Question Three: What are other differences between Hubpages and Squidoo?

Answer: Hubpages does not allow over promotional articles. Over promotional are articles written solely to promote a single product or service. The Hubscore system penalizes duplicate content which are articles written elsewhere on the Internet. This procedure of prohibiting over-promotional articles has prevented spamming experienced by other writing sites such as Squidoo. The measure of promoting original content has made Hubpages maintain a quality writing site.

Question Four: What is the major difference between Hubpages and other writing sites.

Answer: The major difference between Hubpages and other writing sites is that Google Adsense is used extensively and exclusively to manage the earnings of the writers on the website. Another major difference between Hubpages and other writing sites is that the writer of the quality content retain all intellectual property rights to content written on hubpages. Hubpage writers can delete their work from the the writing site at any time because of the above legal statement. Hubpage writers also keep 100% the commission earned from Amazon and eBay affiliate accounts association to their Hubpage writer's account.  There is no 60:40 split of the revenue received from Amazon and eBay.

Question Five: Is Hubpage considered a blogging site?

Answer: Hubpage is not considered a blogging site. The Hubpage articles is longer than a blogging post and concentrates on a particular subject in great details. A article written on Hubpages is not continually added to although writers can continue to critique the article with updates. Updating an existing article in Hubpages will improve the writer's chances of increases earnings with the Google Adsense account. There is no group feature on the Hubpage website. A writer who wants update an existing Hubpage article submits another or a different article for publication.

Question Six: What are Hubpage writers called who generate quality content for the writing site?

Answer: Hubpage writers who generate quality content for the writing site are called "Hubbers." Hubbers earn a share ration of the Google Adsense earnings in a 60:40 ratio with the former received by the writers.

Question Seven: What are the articles called that is generated by the "Hubbers?"

Answer: Hubbers generate "Hubs" which is the term used for the written content or articles submitted in magazine style for publication to the online community. The articles are posted as individual webpages.

Question Eight: Are there similar writing sites such as Hubpages on the Internet?

Answer: A similar writing site listed on Wikipedia was Examiner.com. Many Hubpage writers produce writing material for both Hubpage and Examiner.com in the same writing niche of topics. Hubbers are able to promote their writing with short articles that are frequently updated on Examiner.com.