Can you sell a hub or a hubpages account?

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   ilmdamailyposted 14 years ago

   Can't find the answer in the help section.
   
   The help section states that we retain ownership of the content we publish on hubpages - does this extend to the right to sell our account to another person?
   
   Anyone's help appreciated...

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      Mark Knowlesposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      It would be all but impossible to sell a single hub, but I don't see why you couldn't sell an entire account.

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   kirstenblogposted 14 years ago

   I suspect that you could but it would not be secure. You have your ad sense and amazon etc. affiliate info hooked up to your articles and profile and that is not something you want anyone to have access to.

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   Nelle Hoxieposted 14 years ago

   There is no marketplace to sell a hub the way there is to sell a Squidoo lens. So you can't write a hub, have it place well in the SERPs and then easily sell it and transfer the ownership.
   
   You have to write it for the person from the start.

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   Kimberly Bunchposted 14 years ago

   Interesting subject. Maybe you should try the "Squidoo lens" that 'Nelle Hoxie' commented about.

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   climberjamesposted 14 years ago

   Interesting, I guess it would be really difficult to sell an individual Hub as it would need to be unpublished dropping the Hub Score back to 50 and breaking any backlinks.
   
   Selling an account could work but ann the personal AdSense and Amazon info would need removing first.

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   Bill Manningposted 14 years ago

   If you don't own the actual domain or website then your not really buying anything real, and your not selling anything you really own.
   
   Hubpages could decide to vanish tomorrow, taking all your hubs with them. There would be nothing you could do about it. Which is why I prefer to use my own websites I bought the domains for and pay my own hosting.

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      climberjamesposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      Really good point!

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   TerryGlposted 14 years ago

   There is a little known marketing ploy where you buy the youtube account of a person who generates huge amounts of views but does not promote any links. Their in it for the fun and nine times out of ten cannot resist a good offer. Say the youtube account generates over 50k views and the stats are climbing, that's a good account to buy and put your own link in the description. Doing this means huge traffic numbers to your chosen site, and is one of my methods that I use for a traffic pump.
   
   The same can be said about Hubpages. If your generating a lot of views, have some (some) page rank to your hubs and it is generating an income, then some one will buy it.
   
   The first thing that comes to mind to sell an account is a forum like digital point where you can buy and sell all kinds of stuff.
   
   Being a Hubpage account, and one if it is any good, holds substance, would generate a lot of interest and would be a gem in any marketers arsenal.
   
   A starting price would be at least ten times the monthly if not yearly income.

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   barryrutherfordposted 14 years ago

   Im am fairly certain your spot on Bill !

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   ilmdamailyposted 14 years ago

   Awesome info guys - thanks for the help!

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    Marisa Wrightposted 14 years ago

    I think Terry's right - I don't see why you couldn't sell a HubPages account.
    
    HubPages wouldn't ever know - you'd just give the buyer your username and password. Obviously you'd disconnect your affiliate ID's before you handed them over.
    
    Of course, if you've used your real name as a username, then you're going to have a problem...
    
    As for selling individual Hubs - some people have sold the content of an individual Hub for use elsewhere, then they just delete the Hub.

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    Info Bucketposted 14 years ago

    I think there's no legal way to sell your hubs or hubpages account.

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       relacheposted 14 years agoin reply to this

       I think you need to read the answer posted just above yours.

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    viryaboposted 14 years ago

    I doubt if its possible to sell an HP account. Rather, Marisa's idea of selling the content and deleting the hub seems more feasible IMO.
    
    Who would want to sell a hub they spent so much time on? One you can earn from for a long time?

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