Are you a writer?  Are you interested in starting a blog?  But maybe you’ve held off because you don’t know how to get started.

This could easily be the case.  The truth is that starting your own website doesn’t have to be that hard.  Maybe you want to take the leap and get started writing online or creating your own online business, but you aren’t sure where you want to host your site or if you want to make if for free at one of the free content management platforms available online.

Sign up at Hubpages.com

Maybe you just want to test out some keyword or niche ideas first before dedicating yourself to a long term project.  If you are in this situation, then Hubpages might be a good place for you to start.  Hubpages is a website where you can write articles on whatever topic of your choice and make money online from Adsense.  All you have to do is have an account from Google’s advertising program and you can start writing and earning.   See my other article about how to make money with Hubpages.

People write about all kinds of things.  Some just write about things they are interested in or are specialists in, while others do it to promote their website or online business, or just to earn extra money.

The site is a good place to test out your ideas and see what you are interested in writing.  You earn 60% of the revenue that your pages, or “hubs,” earn from advertising.  Your pages earn money when visitors click on advertisements.

One of the benefits to writing at Hubpages is that you can flex your online writing muscles and see what works.  You will see what articles attract readers and which ones don’t, which keywords attract readers and which ones go unnoticed by search engines.  There is also built-in traffic since the site itself is ranked very high by search engines and other people who write for the site will be exposed to your work.