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People who understand online marketing know that it can be a great revenue source if you’re willing to work hard. It also makes a difference if you can also incorporate something you feel passionate about. In my case, that means I use my writing training and expertise to generate income.

One of the ways I make money by writing on the Web is actually fairly easy, when you get used to it. I make a living by writing on HubPages. If you’ve never heard of it, HubPages is a community blogging platform that provides the opportunity to earn revenue from content generation. Each HubPages hub (an individual web page) has the potential to generate up to five types of revenue: Kontera in-text ads, Google AdSense ads, Amazon product links, eBay product links and links to affiliate programs. As the content’s creator, sixty percent of the page views that generate revenue go to you. The team at HubPages gets the remaining 40%. The only exceptions to this rule are the affiliate programs, because all the income resulting from clicks on affiliate links belongs to the authors. It takes some time and patience to learn how to create money-making hubs but the revenue potential is worth it.

One of the main affiliate programs I use on my hubs is TweetAdder, which is automated Twitter marketing. It used to be downright unfashionable in Internet marketing circles to use Twitter, but I predict that will change because of recent developments in the way Google sees Twitter. Twitter tweets are indexed now by Google, which causes them to appear in the search engine results pages, or SERPs. They’re susceptible to being fresh, but they can cause a hot topic to be ranked very quickly in Google if you have a history of a lot of activity on your Twitter page. Even more significant is Google’s new opt-in social media program: by listing all your blogs and social networking affiliations in your Google profile, Google will present your links at the bottom of page one of the search results when someone in your online social circle does a search for a keyword that you’ve optimized for on your blogs and sites. It’s still a new program, but it definitely has potential to make social media sites for book lovers an accepted form of traffic generation.

I take advantage of these Google gifts by using Twitter marketing software to post tweets to Twitter. To seed the automated software with tweets, I just upload a text document with hundreds of 160-character or less posts that have bit.ly links to my pages. They’re then posted at whatever rate I set it at. It also helps me get more Twitter followers, if I choose to add more, and handle other Twitter functions, such as sending direct messages to new followers, unfollowing followers and other essential tasks. I really like TweetAdder, because not only does it help me have an active presence on Twitter with an average of only a few moments of effort per day, but it also brings me affiliate earnings whenever someone clicks through from my TweetAdder review and buys it. It’s especially pleasing to be able to generate income from a product I use a lot and genuinely like.