Revenue sharing sites like Hubpages, Bukisa, InfoBarrel and Suite101 are places where you can submit articles and earn a bit of advertising revenue in return. No doubt, writing content for these types of sites is an awesome way to funnel traffic into your own site while earning some money, but relying on it as a primary source of online income is a bad idea.
Here are four reasons why writing content only for revenue sharing sites is risky…
1. The site could shut down or change.
If the site closes their rev share program, you could lose all of your articles and monthly income. This is a serious risk to think about if you’re spending a lot of time writing for other peoples sites instead of your own.
It is easy to assume that big authority sites like Hubpages aren’t going anywhere, but there are no guarantees. Remember eHow.com? When the original eHow.com writing program shut down, people saw their monthly income disappear pretty quickly. Many eHow writers were earning over $1,000 per month prior to the closing of the program.
Sites can also change their policies at any given time, or suffer a huge traffic loss if Google makes another algorithm change. Sites like Hubpages and Suite101 were hit pretty hard the last time Google made changes and writers saw their daily earnings cut in half overnight.