Promoting Affiliate Programs with Hub Pages

HubPages is a revenue sharing web community that allows you to create web pages (known as hubs) about specific topics. You can then earn money through Google Adsense or by promoting Amazon and eBay products. When anyone makes a purchase through your listed Amazon or eBay products, you’ll get commission from that sale.

Your Adsense id show ads for 60% of the time anyone views your hub. Ad revenue for the other 40% will go to HubPages.

What can I do with a Hub? Or why should I even bother?

Here are some possible benefits of setting up a hub:

• You can direct traffic from HubPages to your website or blog.
• Potential to improve your website’s search engine ranking positions.
• PR benefits. I noticed that hubs which are older than 10 weeks are usually PR 3+. Some popular and older pages are PR 5+. You’re basically getting a free link with PR from HubPages.
• You can promote your affiliate link for specific products, programs or websites.
• Community building. If you have a forum or Yahoo Group, you could set up a hub to recruit more members. Hubs can also be used to promote your MyBloglog community.

Four Ways to Integrate your Hub Page with Affiliate Programs

These suggestions focus on using Hub Page as a means to promote your affiliate links.

1. Pinpoint your hub. Only focusing on a specific niche can make it easier to aggressively promote the affiliate program. For example, If you’re planning to sell software, create product review pages. This works well with a variety of online merchants. Find products to promote using Clickbank.
2. Include affiliate text links within your content. You can also direct readers to your blog, website or squeeze page.
3. Monetize your outgoing links make you money every time someone clicks on your link. Try not to overdo it because some visitors might be turned off by the ads.
4. Use image hosts that pay to put up thumbnails, screen shots or mini picture galleries. You’ll earn money for every one who clicks on your pictures. These usually works best on topics such as celebrities, entertainment or humor.

Hub Page does have some potential for promoting affiliate products, although it doesn’t enjoy the link popularity and traffic of similar websites like Squidoo.

Conclusion: Worth a look if you have some spare time.