I have been looking in the Internet for any money-generating sites. I have tried a lot of sites but the sites I find most rewarding are HubPages and Squidoo.

HubPages (http://www.hubpages.com) and Squidoo (http://www.squidoo.com) are community websites that let you write and publish articles online, and at the same time, let you earn money. They can serve as an additional source of income for you. The best feature of these programs (HubPages and Squidoo), is that once you have written and publish your articles, they will continue to earn money for you forever.

Both Hubpages and Squidoo let you earn more money by joining other affiliate programs. In HubPages you may include ads from Amazon, eBay and Kontera. In Squidoo, you may sell products from Amazon, eBay, CafePress and Zazzle. Both HubPages and Squidoo let you keep all the earnings you get from these programs - 100% yours.

HubPages calls their members as "hubbers" and their articles are called "hubs" while Squidoo calls their members "lensmaster" and their articles are called "lenses". Hubs and lenses are developed by integrating text modules, photo modules, video modules, link modules and many more specific modules for enhancing the webpages.

HubPages and Squidoo are both easy to use but setting up an account is a little harder with HubPages. With HubPages, you need to join Google Adsense, eBay Partner Network, Amazon Associate Program, and Kontera Advertising Network before your articles start earning money. While Squidoo uses its own site-wide affiliate accounts from the different advertisers to generate money that is distributed to its members, in HubPages, each member is responsible for the application and maintenance of his/her own affiliate program accounts in order to make money.

Both Hubpages and Squidoo are both easy to use in terms setting up advertisements. If you were running your own website, you would be responsible for copying and pasting of Google Adsense code onto each every webpage that you create. You would worry about search engine optimization, that is, how to have the different search engines like yahoo and google index your website and appear on the top of the search results. Both HubPages and Squidoo take care of all these hassles for you.

Which is better, HubPages or Squidoo?

When I joined Squidoo a year ago, a lot of my hubs are shown at the top of Google Search results, if not at the top three results, it was at least in the first page of the results. This of course leads to more traffic and more money. After sometime, newly created lenses in Squidoo have a hard time being indexed by Google Search. Some say that Google penalizing Squidoo because it has become a spamming tool.

HubPages and Squidoo both insert Google Adsense ads into your articles. When these ads are clicked and viewed by visitors reading your articles, you earn money. HubPages earns you money thru page impression sharing. Everytime your articles are displayed they will contain Google ads, but only 60% of the time would any earning from those ad impressions be credited to you account. The other 40% of the time, all earnings would be credited to HubPages as their share of the revenue. On the other hand, Squidoo uses a method of pooled earnings. All Google Adsense ads earnings from each and every member's article are pooled and members are paid pro-rata depending on the rankings of their articles.

HubPages or Squidoo? - HubPages and Squidoo are alike in that they both allow the user to earn money by creating unique content and sharing that content with the host site. People using both sites are trying to drive more traffic to their own web pages, or make money from home, or have a web presence without their own site.

Making Money on Squidoo - It's a perfectly timed request, Whitney, because I just received noticed yesterday that I am now a Giant Squid on Squidoo. Giant Squid was an invitation-only contest that Squidoo ran for some of their webmasters -- with the hopes of encouraging us to create more than 50 lenses for Squidoo, which is why my Hubpages have been coming kind of slow lately. I was in a frenzy to get my lenses done by the deadline.

Hubpages vs Squidoo - If you're a Hubber you may have heard of Squidoo. What is the fuss all about? This hub is a close look at Squidoo, how it works and what's in it for you, looking from the viewpoint of a Hub Author. Squidoo is different. Looks different. Works differently. But that doesn't make it any less of a web 2.0 vehicle. And while there are a lot of differences there are also a lot of similarities.