So, following in the illustrious steps, or rather words, of the many thousands before me, I've decided to write some hubpages. Taking the approaches recommended elsewhere, I've read through a few hubpages, looked at a lot of the “beginning hubpages” guides on “how to write a hubpage”, and looked even more elsewhere on the web, and a little hopefully, at all the many blogs and other sites of people claiming they are making thousands of dollars a month from writing hubpages.

Apparently some have accomplished this by writing a small number of hubpages, some haven't written new ones since, and the dollars have been rolling in ever after. Particularly when they are sleeping. I have to admit that that part sounds very attractive as it's a skill which I've already mastered, so I think I must be at least halfway there. Interestingly, on many of the sites outside Hubpages which discuss these techniques I am also being offered the chance to buy an “Ebook” or two, the contents of which will allow me to rapidly learn exactly how it is done in a simple step by step manner. I haven't succumbed to buying one yet as I've a sneaking suspicion that the secret to the sleeping part is simply hot milk, and that my dollars will instead help someone else sleep more soundly.

So what else have I learned? Well, the term Affiliate Marketing came up pretty rapidly in my research, quickly followed by the fact that something called Adsense is very important. I like the alliteration, but I am thinking perhaps there is a big clue in the name, “Addollars” would seem to have been a lot more optimistic choice for the marketing team at Google. Perhaps that's their internal name for the program.

It looks like the key to making millions is to ensure that Adsense puts the right advertisements on your pages, and then hoping that millions of people find the page and are then persuaded to click on the ads. I'm not 100% sure of the mechanics yet, but the action of someone clicking on one the ads to go to yet another site will cause an amount of money to be deposited in your Adsense account.

To get people onto your site or hubpage to do this clicking requires that they discover it in the first place. This means that they need to find it on the first page or two of their search results while looking for something on Google, Bing, Yahoo, or another search engine, and to make this happen involves a technique called SEO, or Search Engine Optimization.

This application of SEO is where it then becomes a little more complicated, as I'm discovering that it involves things called “Keywords”, “Page Ranks” and the application of forward-links and backlinks, which needed to be placed across a range of Social Media sites and in other people's Blog comments.

Topping all of this is the discovery that simply writing on topics that I'm interested in is not the right way to go. I'm hoping that's wrong.

However, looking through the Forums and the types of Hubs being published, I'm also pleasantly surprised and encouraged to be discovering something else, that there are many, many people simply writing and creating content on topics they like, and are having fun doing so. There is clearly a big vibrant community here from all over the world, with many different viewpoints on the journey we are all making through life. Keyword placement may be critical, but it isn't that critical in the big scheme of things.

Well, let's see where this experiment takes me, and what kind of hubpages I can create next. I have a nice long list of titles that I've written down in my notebook, and have the advantage of a long daily commute where I can put some of these down onto paper. I might even look a little more closely at the idea of trying to write one or two hubs a day.

However, one more final thing appears to be that the right length of each hubpage is 700 words, so I'd better stop right now.