HubPages

I was banned from Hubpages for a very trivial reason that could even make a high court judge laugh! I posted a wrong article. Only one wrong article that just washed off my years of hard work!

Unless you're some left-leaning, liberal weenie that needs your ego stroked but your feelings left unhurt, don't bother. Hubpages is a complete waste of time.

Banned for seeming "repeated violations' but never knowing what those violations were, despite repeated attempts on my part for some clarification and anything resembling a tutorial on what is a haphazard and strangely constructed website model. They are totally out of touch and their arrogance is breathtaking. And even after being banning and removing myself from the site, they write back and ask what they could do to regain my service. Are they serious? They are out of touch, arrogant and have no business running the site, Their web design is convoluted and there are NO tutorials around their strange methodology to even remotely explain what it is they want. I cannot imagine WebPages being in business for very much longer - they are very much part of the problem and certainly not the solution. And I wonder very much about their ad platform. I would avoid - there are many more sites that offer better and more comprehensive services.

I realise my work has been stolen published also but never get paid for any article i started writing in 2013 first was " children tantrums" and diseases and infections wants to write about Covid and protection techniques.

Don't work or write for these guys. They are inconsistent in their moderation, and absolutely abysmal when it comes to contacting them for advice or help. Their moderation team is a total mess.

About 12 years ago, one could recommend Hubpages. Since then it has adopted every snide trick available.

Firstly, it doesn't pay.

Don't be fooled by those shills who claim they were 'always' paid. They don't pay.

Secondly, they create a pile of hurdles to insure that your articles are not seen. For example, they 'non-feature' them, and send you a email about 'spammy elements'. No human eye has touched this article.

Thirdly, many of your best items are 'non-featured'.

The only use of Hubpages is Storage. If you're writing an ebook, working an an article for another site, you use Hubpages. You can save it as draft or to prove the date of publication to confront a copyright, post it with a small image.

Hubpages slaps down articles with small images, meaning you posted on July 10,2010 and because your image was small it is now unfeatured. However, you can prove the date of publication, so any site that uses this article can be slapped down.

Take Hubpages for the joke it is.

I have written several articles for Hubpages, all of which are very highly rated by the site's own measures, and all of which have been featured by the site, so I know they are considered high quality content. These articles were written as long as seven years ago (2012). You would think producing good content for a website that supposedly pays you for writing would make at least a little bit of money over seven years, right?

I have total balance in my Hubpages account of just over $40. Very conveniently for Hubpages, you have to have a minimum of $50 to cash out at all. My balance increases by approximately $0.04 a month (they have changed the rules since I started; the writers' share of the earnings used to be higher, which is why I was able to get $40). At this rate, I still have over 20 years before I even meet the minimum balance to get any money at all.

Because of this arbitrary minimum cash out balance, the overwhelming majority of Hubpages writers will never receive a penny for their work. Of course, Hubpages will happily earn ad revenue for themselves from your content.

I have even written to the support center and politely asked to be able to withdraw my $40 because it would be impossible for me to ever reach $50. I figured they would care enough about their users to make an exception if asked nicely, and it was just $40. Not even $40 I was asking to get for free, it was MY $40. To my surprise, the individual I spoke to refused to budge and even became rude when I continued trying to explain how their policies would make it impossible for me to ever access my money.

I realize now that Hubpages is basically a scheme to trick people into producing free content they can profit from. They say you'll get paid for it, but the rate of earnings is ridiculously low, and they have that "minimum balance" in place to ensure most people won't even be able to receive the little money they earned. The entire business model is unethical, and the internet will be a better place when they either go out of business or get shut down for legally dubious business practices.

I find it disgraceful that Hubpages only pays their writers if their revenue reaches or exceeds $50. They are making money off of people and deliberately refusing to compensate their contributors for their efforts. Hubpages presents an exploitative and unethical business model that shamelessly rips off those who create the site's content. I was disheartened to learn, today, that Squidoo has merged with Hubpages.

After 2013, this site absolutely sucks. I enjoyed it at first... then, they started destroying pages and more than half of my work suddenly did not qualify. Yes, it was all original work, too.
Hubpages did the same work to improve their pages- and succeeded beautifully. Their reaction was professional, well communicated, and effective. At squidoo, it was the opposite.
I wish I had never heard of them!
SQUIDOO = HEADACHE!

I have the same complaints about Hubpages that everyone else does, so don't expect this to be anything new. Just take into consideration that there is a reason you read the same thing over and over again about HP; that is because they are all true! First, the site does not pay well or at all. They constantly change their own rules to set the bar so they can get maximum dollars, yet not shell out a dime to those doing all of the work.

Secondly, there are a bunch of trolls and they are friends of HP management or either they are the writers making the most money for the site. HP keeps their censorship rules kind of grey so they can pick and choose what and who to ban at their own discretion. I recently saw one hubber, we'll call him GT, wrote an article about cyberbullying and the person he complained about, we'll call him TS, actually came to the hub and began attacking him.! Right on cue! TS complained to HP and then in turn wrote an article accusing GT of cyberbullying and GT actually got banned yet TS didn't! So two people complain and write articles about cyber bullying and only one gets kicked out. GT did not visit the others site. GT did not direct the hub at TS or even use vulgar language. TS did direct it towards GT. Why might you ask was GT banned, but not TS? Because TS actually works for the site. He can legally bully someone for their beliefs (God) and ban them for it. Crazy stuff! TS even went to GT's LinkedIn and twitter accounts!

I actually had the same problem with TS until I closed my page. Now I go back and read my favorite authors using a guest account, but I still see he is out on his crusade to eradicate religion. I guess he thinks he can do it by banning one hubber at a time.

I can sum this site up in one word and that word is "LAME".

Squdoo is better and they, unlike Hubpages do not yank every single post I make.