Writing Online: Hubpages vs. Helium
Make money online
If you’re a writer, perhaps you’d like writing online. You’d probably also like to make money online with your skill. This is entirely possible because of several reputable writing online sites. I’ve explored several of the free writing online sites and have narrowed my choices down to two – Hubpages and Helium. While the two sites are similar in some aspects, they also have their differences.
Hubpages
Hubpages is an online writing site that’s free to join. It’s a good way to make money online. The way you make money online with Hubpages is from Google Adsense. Members can also sign up for Kontera. You can also make money online by adding Amazon capsules to your hubs (articles). For example, if you write a hub about fishing, you can include ads for fishing gear in your Amazon capsule.
How do you make money online with Google Adsense? Once you’re accepted by Adsense, Google will place related ads on your published hubs. When a reader clicks an ad, you get paid. Kontera works the same way. To make money online with Amazon, a product must be purchased while someone is visiting your hub. When that happens, you get a share of the purchase price.
Hubpages gets a share of all your revenue. For 40% of the time, their ads are on your hubs, and for 60% of the time, the Adsense revenue goes to you. Hubpages also gets the share of Amazon sales and Kontera for 40% of the time.
Other capsules you can ad to your hubs include photos, videos, newsfeeds, and links to other hubs and sites. Hubpages gets a lot of “Google love,” so your articles are indexed quickly.
Anytime you want to remove your articles from the Hubpages writing online site, you’re free to do so.
Helium
Another place for writing online and making money on the internet is Helium. With Helium writing online, you choose from among thousands of topics or create a new one. Your articles earn from Adsense, much the same as with Hubpages. While Hubpages reveals how much your share of Adsense will be, Helium does not.
Helium does not allow writers to post photos or videos to articles. Furthermore, on Helium, your articles are rated by your peers. You’re also expected to do a certain amount of rating each month in order to receive your Adsense. This is easy to achieve if you do a little rating every day.
Unlike Hubpages, the Helium writing online site keeps your articles forever. You can never remove them.
Helium also has writing contests. Helium members can win cash by earning the most points in the contests.
In my opinion, the best part of Helium is the Marketplace. This is a great place to make money on the internet. Publishers post titles on Helium Marketplace, and writers are invited to write articles addressing the topics. The publishers provide guidelines and word count for each writing job posted. If your article is selected by the publisher, your account is credited for that amount.
Purchase prices vary. Some sell for as little as $10 each, while others might sell for $120. I’ve actually sold articles on Helium for $200 – for a single article. I would say that most of the writing jobs posted on Helium are in the $40-$50 range.
Another way to make money online with Helium is by selling stock content. This occurs when a publisher sees an article that he wants posted on Helium. He purchases the article for $5, but you keep the rights. You might sell the same article several times.
If you treat writing online like a real writing job, you can do well on Helium. Helium was the first site in which I tried to make money on the internet. I started slowly, with low-paying Marketplace titles. It wasn’t long, however, before I began to make money online in a significant way. There have been numerous months when I earned $1,000 on Helium. I make money mostly from article sales on Helium.
Payout from your writing job
When writing online with Hubpages, you’ll get paid once a month from Google. The threshold is $100. With Amazon, you must earn $10 to achieve payout in the U.S.
When writing online with Helium, the payout threshold is $25.
With both writing online sites, if you don’t make the payout level in a single month, your earnings are rolled over to the next month.
The forums
Both Hubpages and Helium have forums where members can chat, debate, and offer and receive advice. Both writing online sites have guidelines for forum posts. If you break the rules, you get banned from the forums for a while. I’ve never received a ban or warning from either site, so I really don’t know all the ins and outs of not following the agreement terms. I do know that neither site allows personal attacks.
Which writing online site is best for writing online?
It really depends on what you’re looking for in the way of a writing job. Perhaps you’re looking for writing online just for your own enjoyment instead of a writing job. For residual monthly income from writing online, Hubpages is better. They seem to pay substantially more for Adsense clicks.
If, however, you want to make money on the internet quickly, write for Helium Marketplace. If you have writing skills, are disciplined, and treat it like an actual writing job, you’ll make money quickly with Helium.
Warning!
Once you’ve been accepted by Google Adsense and ads appear on your hubs, NEVER click on your own ads! Don’t ask your friends or family to click on them, either. Google is smart, and you’ll lose your Adsense account quickly by participating in such activities.
Make money online
Do you want to make money online? Are you looking for a writing job? If you’d like to join Helium, drop me a line. Just click on my profile and you can contact me via email. I’ll send you an invitation to join Helium.
If you want to make money online with Hubpages, click here.
I enjoy both sites. I also use both to make money online. I like the quick money I earn from Helium and the monthly residual income I earn from Hubpages. If you’re fairly proficient, I suggest you join both writing online sites!
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Comments
I second Casimiro - now that Helium has undergone such a huge change, it would be a good idea to revise this Hub to reflect the new setup. Since our Hubs aren't dated, many people will assume this Hub is current.
How have your earnings been on Helium since the relaunch?
Great info on Helium, thanks for that! Looks like this must've been written a while ago (mention of $100 payout threshold on HP), so perhaps you could do a refresh and tell us how your experience on Helium is going.
Nice information. I got deep knowledge for source to get money online especially blog/websites that give us chance to get benefit from them. Thanks Habee
Great Hub! I just signed up at Helium, but I wasn’t sure if it was for me. This explained some of the questions I was wondering about. Thanks!
Thanks for the useful information!
Hi Habee. Thank you for such a wealth of information so freely give. It is greatly appreciated.
Voted up / Interesting / Following.
Graham.
Great Hub! You have managed to answer most of the questions I had regarding Helium vs. Hubpages in one awesome Hub:)
Great advice! I really needed this information! Vote up!
Enjoyed your post. very nice. keep up the good work.
Thank you for the information! I have heard of Helium but didn't know much about it. It's great to have some more in sight!
thanks for your nice information.Time to write some quality content to make some money.
Gosh your hub made me check out Helium, unfortunately Helium doesn't offer member registration for my country. I guess it must be for the US only. Still, I'm glad there's Hubpages :D
habee....sorry, I've not been on HP too much the last several weeks. Anyway, I would put Squidoo and Hubpages on an equal level. I make much more money on Squidoo but I've been there longer and have more content there too. I think they are a great compliment to each other.
I have met plenty of chefs, artists, photographers, crafters, home schoolers, and so forth on Squidoo, but few future novelists. But the community is strong there also.
Hats off to you, Habee, for writing such a well-written, informative, great hub article! Thanks for the information. I will definitely remember and use your advice!
Regards,
Easylearningweb
Great hub. I didn't know that much about Helium. Thanks for the information.
I am already a member of Helium, I dont know why I haven't gone into it more. Thanks for your informative article Habe
Sure, that would be awesome!!
Hi Habee,
This hub came up first when I logged in today. No wonder you're making good money -- almost 700 hubs and you've only been here 15 months AND you still find time to be active in the forums!
Great piece of advice.
I was invited to join Helium in 2008 or so (I forget -- didn't do it at the time). But I respect your judgment.
Question: What is your experience with/opinion of DemandStudios?
Thx, MM
Great info, did not know Helium. Thanks
Very well explained and I agree with you. Making money easily on the internet is not all that difficult. One needs to write something that is useful to surfers.
Can I post the article I bought from Helium in more than one of my sites?
Pretty informative article, will check Helium as well.
Vote UP & Awesome! Hi habee, I'm very happy to hear that you're earning substantially online. Continued success!...
Did not knew about helium. Will check it out. Thanks
I have not tried helium. thanks for all the info!
great info. - thanks!
Helpful information! As a newbie, I really appreciate it!
Good article, I've never been to or heard of Helium before this. Thanks!
I have made significant money on Helium, over $400! However, my overall percentage is donw so far now I cannot compete in the Marketplace. That is an extreme downside to the site. It is easier to make some money, but annoying the way your articles can get rated down and it is so hard to get them back up.
I haven't tried Helium yet but I keep hearing great things about it. Thanks for the info; I may have to look into that!
Great information. I personally like HubPages better. Voted up and useful. Thanks
Just started hubbing. I like this!
Very informative...thanks.
nice....think im going to give helium a try..thanks for the info!!
Hello! I like your avatar. Great picture! I enjoyed reading your article. It is very helpful. I just started an account with hub pages. I have four posts. I hope I am headed in the right direction. Any help would be appreciated. Also, I have not signed-up google adsense, yet.
Thanks!
Teresa Speer
Great article and thanks. It is really important to read the fine print on the agreement on Helium and decide if it is right for you. If you are working with a publisher check with them as well since most publishers want exclusive rights.
I did some writing on Helium, enjoyed the work and enjoyed rating as well, but for some reason the articles never showed up on search engines like hubs do. I also didn't do enough to get my "badges" and "stars" so couldn't do the marketplace work which seems to be the only way to make money on that site. You, on the other hand, have managed to do all that - way to go girl!!!
Any idea why the Helium articles don't show up on search engines habee?
Habee, what a well written article you have here. Thank you for the heads up about Helium. I have just joined this site today, as it was suggested on wikinut by a writer. I started writing on Wikinut ( Under Denise O)a little over a month ago, I like it but, the money is slow coming in.
I am not doing this to make big time bucks but, it sure would be nice to be paid something more than peanuts.
Once again, thank you for the info.
Great post. Thanks for the Info.
Will certainly look into joining Helium and will do so through you. Busy with our Bed and Breakfast at the moment, serious writing and computer skills will be a winter task. Many thanks.
Great Info. Thank You
Never thought I could earn from writing articles. Thanks for this comparative type of hub.
Thanks for this informative review of Hubpages and Helium. May i ask if you also write on Squidoo. And if yes, where does Squidoo stand as compared to the two sites you reviewed here.
Best!
Interesting, I never even heard of helium before. It seems like HubPages is better for me anyway but it was certainly an informative comparison. Don't know about Helium but I like the community feel here. Also, I know that the search engines like good hubs!
Awesome post! I love writing online and had no idea about Helium. Going to give it a try right now. Thanks!
I keep meaning to go back and re-activate my account. I've been spread thin, trying to write for 4 different sites and keep a business blog going. I didn't have success in the past with the marketplace the way you have.
thank you so much...your hub was very, very helpful. I am a member of both hubpages and helium and was very lost on how to use both of them. I think your hub was very insightful.
Habee, thanks for an insightful hub. I have not explored Helium yet but will look into this as a complement to the excellent Hubpages. WestOcean.
I started with Helium but stopped writing there after finding HubPages. I think I'll go back and check out the marketplace though, I had started to look into it but got addicted to HubPages...lol.
Thanks for sharing about both. Great help for writers!
Thanks habee, I will keep that in mind as the prices offered I've noted are not bad... Peace :)
Hi Habee,
I was not knowing much about Helium.
I want to join that.
Great hub for online money.
Thanks
There is so much to learn! I have clicked on my Google ads... I didn't know... Yikes! Thanks for the warning about this!
I will also check out Helium! Thank you!
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