writers by offering revenue sharing for our hard work and, besides the opportunity to make money, HubPages offers a bit more.

Some writers write to express themselves without a thought about making serious money from their work but a new breed of

savvy writers have discovered how to use HubPages to make money for their creativity without lifting a finger from the keyboard.

In case you have never heard of HubPages, HubPages is quickly becoming an "authority" site with Google based upon high quality content being created by writers, the kind of content that Google loves to index. It's free to join and free to grab your own piece of the HubPages community for whatever you choose to write about. You can even pepper your hub with personal, business, or product photos if you choose. The uses of HubPages are practically unlimited, except when it comes to adult material that might offend a family audience. That kind of material is not allowed. In fact, one hubber was censored for showing a too-revealing photo of her breast feeding her child. So, need I say that you should read the HubPages guidelines before you do any work on your hub.

While writing one hub with great content and backlinks to your off-hub websites or your money making offers is like a sweet cupcake with a cherry on top, you can have dozens of cupcakes, because you can write as many hubs on as many different topics as you like. Some hubbers have upwards of 100 hubs they are managing on various topics. Most of the hubs generate some revenue sharing income.

Before you jump into HubPages you need to do a little thinking and research. You need to consider what your first hub page is to be about and what is your goal? Is it to make money? Is it to showcase your writing? Well, you can do both in a couple of ways.

HubPages shares ad revenue with content creators, that is, writers like you. It can be a 60-40 split. 60 for you! You can decide whether to show Adsense ads, Amazon products, or eBay products, all of which give you a commission just for being placed on your hub. It's not enough income to fire your boss but it can be nice extra money.

For bigger earnings and a chance to quit your day job, consider linking to your own products or to affiliate products in addition to the revenue sharing modules offered by HubPages. The top HubPages earner makes a steady $1800.00 a month while many other hubbers earn around $1000.00 a month. Most, however, make pocket change because they simply have not monetized their hubs correctly.

What if you have no idea of what products to sell?

This is where you need to think about what your hub topic is going to be about before you create your first hub. You need to find hot products to promote, or create your own, and build your hub with keywords that will attract an audience. Remember, though, you will have to write content for your hub that is of the same theme as the product you are promoting. If you write about Poodle training, the product you are promoting should be about Poodle training not Beagle training! So, choose smartly.

You should pick a product in which you have a passion or, at least, in which you would have no trouble frequently writing about. Now, your writing need not be ?professional? so don't let that hold you back. Just write as if you are talking with a friend. Don't over-think it and keep your content short and to the point. You should leave some questions unanswered so the reader might click through one of the revenue sharing ads or to your off-the-hub website or product offer.

On a cautionary note, do not create a hub that is hard sell or blatant spam. Fellow hubbers will trash you quickly and get you booted. You must provide lots of helpful content and then you can soft sell your product. You should write your content in a conversational voice, not like a professor or teacher. The key to HubPages is generating word-of-mouth among other hubbers so they will be quick to vote up your hub. On the other hand, if you spam, you will quickly see your hubs voted into oblivion because, frankly, it will look like you could care less about being part of a community of people who pride themselves on sharing knowledge and opinion. Need I say that spammers deserve what they get?

HubPages, if done correctly, will put some serious money in your bank account.