Kay L.

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.

It is a site where people write about what they ate for breakfast or the flowers in their garden. It can take you 3 months to earn $5.00. When the Admin wants to get rid of you their dual will attack, you'll defend, and be kicked off and you earnings confiscated.

This site is actually in Estonia. Estonia is the 'Nigeria' of Eastern Europe. They are very treacherous.

The site claims to 'moderate' your work. There is NO MODERATION. There is only delay to prevent people from earning.

Coupled with this, is the scam in which they hold back your posts for days or claim to have published them, but have actually deleted them.

Be very careful if you join this site; the best way is to use an American proxy and pretend to be an American. Everyone else, they rip off.