Adsense Revenue Sharing sites: Xomba, HubPages, and Triond

Xomba, Hubpages, and Triond are just three of many Adsense Revenue sharing sites on the Internet.

What is an Adsense Revenue Sharing site?

An Adsense revenue sharing site is a site where you have articles you’ve written published, and the owners of the site share the revenue they earn from Google Adsense adverts (displayed within or next to your articles) with you.

Often, these sites (and articles on them) receive quite a bit more traffic than most “stand alone” blogs.

When thinking of earning some extra income from freelance writing, what is the main difference (in my opinion) between writing for an employer on a freelance site like oDesk and writing articles for your own blog or an ad revenue sharing site?

Writing an article for a freelance site employer may sometimes pay you quite a bit for one article, which is good, but, often, your name is never attached to that article.

Writing for your own sites and blogs, or for revenue sharing sites, (that have for example Adsense ads on), means that although you may wait a long time before earnings from your efforts are fairly decent, these earnings can continue to grow as long as your article continues to receive traffic. Also, most times, your name (if you want to display your real name) is right there with your article.

A mixture of both kinds of efforts at earning from writing (that I describe above) should perhaps be tried, if you have enough time!

Xomba,
HubPages
and Triond are free to join. So is oDesk.

I’m discussing some details about just these three Google Adsense revenue sharing sites, as they are the only three I am a published writer and member at, so far (July 2010). I plan to perhaps join a few more Adsense revenue sharing sites, when I can free up enough time to do so!

Writers should not join any ad revenue sharing site with the only goal being to make a lot of money. These sites are not a source of overnight wealth.

Writers should join because they love writing, and would like to become part of the friendly community of other writers on the sites.

However, it IS possible to earn a healthy extra income from writing for Adsense revenue sharing sites, if one puts in the effort. Effort is NOT only 3 or 4 articles a month. Effort is more like 3 to 10 articles, even more, a day. Can you do this? Do you have the time to write that many articles on a daily basis? If so, and if you are patient regards seeing earnings for Google Adsense revenue sharing sites grow, and are not expecting to make an absolute fortune, you might very well find further enjoyment from Xomba, HubPages, Triond, and other ad revenue sharing sites (if you are joining for the money as well as for the love of writing.)

I joined HubPages and Triond less than a week ago (Triond a few days before HubPages) and have been a member at Xomba for about two years now, but here are my current views on all three:

XOMBA

Xomba, like all three of the Adsense revenue sharing sites, has a friendly and helpful community.

I have not written too many articles for Xomba, and know I should spend more time writing for Xomba, but, even so, I am a little disappointed at the traffic to my articles there.

However, it is really easy to submit articles to Xomba, and writers can also write bookmarks that link to articles elsewhere on the Internet, whether they are articles written by strangers, or your articles on your own sites or on other Adsense revenue sharing sites.

Although an article may be removed by Xomba admin, the articles don’t seem to be declined or returned to the writer for revision (before being accepted.)

The Xomba system automatically prevents you from writing a title for your article that already appears on another Xomba article, or, when providing a link when bookmarking a site or article with a short summary (minimum 50 words), does not allow you to link to a site or article that another Xomba member has also linked to in a bookmark. This is good, as it provides better content for readers, bringing them back to Xomba again. (Who wants readers to keep saying “Most writers on Xomba all link to the same thing! What a boring site!”)

Adsense ads appear on both your articles and bookmarks – it’s a good idea to use a lot of bookmarking sites when promoting traffic to any online article, but it’s a bonus when that “bookmarking site” is also a place that has ads next to your bookmark that you can earn a share in revenue from! This makes bookmarking not only fun and good for extra traffic, but profitable all on its own!

HubPages and Triond also allow linking to other sites and articles from within your articles.

Xomba articles can be as short as 150 words, and a Xomba bookmark summary can be as short as 50 words. This is not a lot of words at all, making it easier to submit to Xomba on a regular basis.

(The above paragraph is already an easy-to-create 41 words)

Xomba have an ad banner (not Google Adsense ad) at the top of the article pages, that it seems writers do not earn from, when it is clicked.

Other than that banner, the other ads seem to be only Google Adsense, and are nicely placed.

There is a really easy step by step guide on Xomba to help you set up an Adsense account with Google Adsense if you don’t yet have one, and this guide also easily explains exactly how to add your Adsense publisher ID to Xomba.

Of my current 9 articles on Xomba, the two with the most views are:

Writing tips: try create mood: a crowded supermarket
then
Writing tips: try create mood: a school classroom at the end of the day

Of my current 32 bookmarks on Xomba, the two with the most views are:

Will the Yellowstone volcano erupt soon?
then
Wealth of SEO information

HUBPAGES

It’s not that simple for new writers to get the hang of submitting articles to HubPages right away, but a bit of reading through the comprehensive helpful sections on HubPages should help you out. See one of my Triond articles entitled Read Properly to Earn Money Online. This article appears on one of the Triond niche sites, WebUpon.

HubPages uses Adsense as well as other ads (that you can earn a share in the revenue from) (if you have an account with the places) on the hubs of writers, and you can choose to use them all, some of them, or none of them.

Although it’s a little tricky the first time getting used to adding an article to HubPages, once done, and done properly, the pages are really attractive and offer plenty to keep a viewer interested. “Capsules” are like widgets on a WordPress blog, and you can move them around. The capsules on HubPages are different to the sidebar widgets of a basic free to use WordPress theme, in that they won’t appear on every page of your hubs (articles), unless you want them to.

One does not have to add all the extra HubPages capsules if one doesn’t want to, and you can keep one’s article pretty plain and straightforward – see my first HubPage article here, entitled Decision to join HubPages.(Fairly plain.)

There is a ranking system on HubPages that is quite interesting, and helps keep one writing, and interacting with the community, to improve it!

Traffic to your hubs seems pretty good.

TRIOND

Triond also uses other ads in addition to Adsense, but you get a share in revenue from them all.

Google Adsense ads are the only ads you can choose to have appearing or not – the others appear automatically.

The Google Adsense ads do not appear within or next to your articles straight away, (after your Adsense integration with Triond is approved and active) while the others do. The Adsense ads take a few days before they appear.

Traffic to your articles at Triond is not too bad; although I’m still a new member at HubPages and Triond, I would currently say that the articles at HubPages get more traffic (of all three) (including Xomba.)

It’s really easy to add articles to Triond, and they are placed on one of Triond’s attractive niche sites for you, by the admin of Triond – this takes anything from a few minutes, to perhaps 3 days, and you are emailed when it has been done, with a link to go and check it out. Sometimes you may see that your article has been accepted (and where it’s placed) on your Triond dashboard a few hours before you get the email (if you’re the type of person who visits your dashboard often.)

Articles may be declined or you may be asked to revise the article before resubmitting.

So, whether you want to join one, or all three, get to it!

Xomba
HubPages
Triond

Also see:
How long before Google Adsense ads appear on Triond?
What’s nice about Triond?
Make money writing short articles on an Adsense revenue sharing site

Disclaimer
These are just my own personal views. Please get further advice, tips, and form your own opinion by reading information on the various sites, or wherever other people also discuss these sites.

oDesk writer, Xomba writer, HubPages writer, and Triond writer,
Teresa Schultz

© copyright Teresa Schultz 2010

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