How to make money online is one of the most popular questions asked on the Internet today. I should know because I was one of the millions of people asking this.

After 6 months of researching, testing and trying all the various ways suggested, I eventually found it really is possible to make money easily online. It can be done in ways that are free with no buying and no selling. You can do it here at hubpages.com along with Google AdSense (they go together like strawberries and cream!)

The other way is affiliate marketing and even professional affiliate marketers use and will highly recommend hubpages as an excellent platform to work on to sell products! as well as writers who just want people to actually read what they write about!

Making sense of hubpages.com

People use Google AdSense on many different platforms like Squidoo which is similar to hubpages, but hubpages performs much better and always comes out on top. Hubpages is much more user friendly and performs better when it comes to Search Engine Optimization (SEO). Hubpages will make life easier for you. Why? Because they do all the work to drive traffic to your hub! (See Traffic stats image Below).

Making Sense Of AdSense

AdSense is an advertising program run by Google. If you have a Website or/and blog you can enroll in this program and start making cash...You have the choice of putting both text and image based advertisements on your sites. These ads are administered by Google and generate revenue when people click on them. Google uses its search technology to provide ads based on website content, the user's geographical location, and a few other factors. Google AdSense gives anyone anywhere in the world an opportunity to make good money online and ongoing royalties -- forever!

I started writing because all the useful tips, information, stories, gossip or just about anything i had to say would get replies of "Thats a good idea" or "really!", or just go through one and and out the other so I thought why not write here and let the world hear it AND get payed for it with some useful and positive comments to boot! So, if you can write an article like this one, or about any topic you like, then Sign up to hubpages and AdSense and start generating some good income. Secure your future today. Remember, with on-going royalties!! Earn money while you sleep!! Really!!

So, what is a hub you may ask!? "Hubs" are webpages like the one you're reading now, which you can build easily, even with no technical skills. Behind the scenes hubpages technicians use state of the art technology to ensure that Google, Yahoo and all other topic search engines find their writers. How did you get here?

• An example of other hubbers topics.
  

• Overdue Tribute to Bing A hub about Bing Crosby from a fan!. By hubber William.

• Heavenly Chocolate Covered Strawberries for the Chocoholic Is a delicious recipe by hubber Dottie1

• I Am a Cyclist: An Open Letter to Car Drivers Everywhere: about experiences as a cyclist by hubber splor.

• Strange creatures call from the sea: details travels and experiences living in the Costa Del Silencio By hubber bard.

• How To Achieve Customer Sales & Service Satisfaction by hubber Shirley Anderson.
  

• We ALL have something to share, no matter what topic right!? Share your knowledge, information, passion, tips about whatever you like! People will read your articles (Hubs) and you will make money, and once you have published your first hub you will officially become an author and hubber! Remember, you don't need to write a book! Some of my best hubs have a word word count of around 646! Much less than I have written here!
  

Be Your Own Boss.

Once you have signed up with AdSense you can work whenever and wherever in the world you like. Work at your friend's house! Or on the job (just don't tell the boss!) Or, you can work in an Internet cafe, or on holiday! Even on a boat in the middle of the ocean – provided you have a PC and Internet connection! or, even in bed!.The possibilities are endless!

Do you Blog? if so, start making revenue from your blogs

If you don't have a blog or website then AdSense is a good reason to start blogging and writing articles today. Google offers free web-pages which you can sign up to, like Blogger.com and Google pages where you can place their ads.. But using these services are much harder to start generating revenue. Why? Because you have to create the ads yourself and place them on your pages, In addition, no matter how useful or professional your content is, it's just another web page among the millions of others competing for a place on the first page or two of the search engines. I have been here at hubpages for 18 months and had over 1 million hub views!. (Image of the Medal i received below)

At hubpages, you will earn 60% of all total impressions, and hubpages receives the additional well-deserved 40%..You can also add Ebay and Amazon products of your choice on your pages and when people buy these products you get 100% of the commission. Increase earnings with another advertising program called Kontera. {Below are links for simple steps to sign up to these programs} Add text, photos and videos. Videos can be obtained from t BlipTV , Google , Metacafe , Revver , Vimeo , Yahoo! Videos, and YouTube. -- Hubpages capsules make it easy to add links, polls, news and rss feeds. If you already have a blog or website, you can add your own "hubpages widget," which will show your best, hottest and latest hubs.

Many people here at hubpages are making a good income each month with this system , others thousands of dollars! At present, I'm in between. The best way to find out how much you will earn is to sign up and start publishing today.

Each hub is given a hub score. Once you publish your hub,, the hub score starts to get higher and then settles. (See this hubs score above in red by the title), This hub has had a highest score of 94, but it always varies. The higher the score the more traffic you will get, which equals more revenue! When you publish a hub, your hub score will start off low, but it will get higher and eventually stabilize! Even with a low score, your hub can still attract massive amounts of traffic with the hubpage Hot Hubs To Help promote your Hub. Each hubber has an individual hubber score. Each hub you publish has an individual score. these scores go up and down which you will soon understand.

How Do I Make Money And Get Paid?

Once you start hubbing, (writing and publishing hubs) your hubs get picked up by the search engines. You earn money when people arrive at your hub and click on the advertisements. The ads are placed automatically by hubpages to match hubs contents.IE. If your writing about . Note: How much you earn per click (CPC) depends on the keyword. More information about keywords here

Google pays you when your account has reached $100. All earnings you make are in dollars and converted to your local currency. You can choose to receive a paper check, to be paid via Electronic Funds Transfer, or Secured Express Delivery. The choice is yours.

Start writing today. Your articles do not need to be approved. You write, you publish. You can even re-edit your hubs long after they have been published! At Google Adsense, you can check how many visitors you have to your articles and where the traffic comes from as well as your new Google earnings account! Check your earnings in real time!, Remember, just like artists and musicians, you will receive ongoing royalties forever for your work! Before I started at hubpages two years ago, the bils were never payed, there was never food in the home and my gold was always in the pawn shops! Not any more, and the funny thing is, I the started reading articles just like this thinking they were all scams! but the are %100 not! I can check my google accounts earnings before i go to bed, and check again in the morning, and see how much more dollars I earned the night before! and how much I earned today and I have just woke up! and thats for the work I have already done at hubpages! On-going earnings!

Two Steps To Get Started:

If you already have an Adsense account, skip step 2. Go to your hubpages profile "affiliate" settings and insert your AdSense number. For details of what this looks like, see image below.

1:To Create an account at Hubpages, (which takes seconds), or take a quick tour at the hubpages Home Page to get started.

2: Sign up To AdSense, "which will open a new window" , This will get you your "Publisher's ID number" Note It will take a couple of days to be accepted into the AdSense program and receive your Publisher ID number. - When you fill in the AdSense form, it will ask you for your website URL (web address.) Go to your new hubpages profile page and add that URL (Web Address). Once you have been accepted, you will see your publishers ID number at the top right corner of your AdSense account page! Place this number in your "affiliate settings" at your Hubpages profile account affiliate settings page. You can find more help below, including screenshots.

CONGRATULATIONS, You now have all the knowledge to get started writing hubs today. More than I had when i first started!

Once you have created a hub, you will have access to many hubpages tools! The statistics below details my hubs' traffic sources. My other hubs get much more traffic and others not so which I'm always improving and updating and the hub score AND traffic improves! In (May 2009) I reached one million page views!! resulting in massive more traffic! Medals are awarded for any milestone a hub or hubber has achieved! That's hot! Check your daily earnings at your AdSense account.(See image below)

If you have any other problems, you can ask me in the comments box below, or ask other hubbers in the forums, You will always get a reply and guidance. Or, you can email the team at Hubpages, who are always helpful and will reply to any problems you have in plain English. Definitely no automated email replies.

There are many other ways of making money online, but whatever else you decide to do to try and generate any revenue online, you will find hubpages a very valuable tool and great place to work and learn about everything! and get to know some amazingly kind and helpful people.

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How to use Google Analytics for your hubpages by Fellow hubber Casper. Google Analytics is used give more detailed information regarding traffic and which hubs are performing well.

This is one of my Hubs, What's yours going to be!?