I don't usually post two articles on Steemit in one day, but I just had to put this piece of good news out there. Now recently I post here on my Hive-Blog channel. No, the United States of America is not getting Universal Healthcare, but that will be a day to celebrate once it finally gets here in light of all the Americans who are currently uninsured for medical care amid the coronavirus pandemic. The British, the Australians, and the Canadians don't realize how good they have it in that respect.
When most of us first joined Hive Blog, we were relieved to find out that monetizing our articles on this writing platform did not require a Google Adsense account. The downside to it was that each article that we published on Hive Blog stopped earning us money after 7 days. Well, HubPages is a different story.
If any of you reading this Hive-Blog article here of mine are Hubbers, which are members of HubPages, then you already know that HubPages continues to pay its writers for their articles indefinitely based upon the amount of clicks they get on advertisements that appear on the electronic pages of the articles. However, if you are not a Hubber, what may encourage you to become one is the fact that HubPages is currently phasing out Google Adsense from its advertisement-related monetization plan. You heard it. You will no longer have to have a Google Adsense account to make money on HubPages. Monetizing your HubPages articles (also knowns as Hubs) will be easier than it has ever been on that writing platform.
Now, as a Hubber myself, I worked my backside off to obtain a Google Adsense account to maximize my monetization on HubPages. About a year later, Google started playing games with me and deactivated my Google Adsense account with them for what they claimed to be a lack of clicking activity on the advertisements they had embedded in my HubPages articles. They told me that I could easily get the Google Adsense account back up and running by going through some kind of procedures that were vague to me. I followed their instructions as well as the instructions that HubPages gave me to do so, and I found myself in a situation where Google did not want to restore my Google Adsense account back to the way it was so that I could start earning money from them off my articles on HubPages again. What greatly angered me was that I had some money in my Google Adsense account that disappeared with it.
I'm not going to go into all of the specifics about this same debacle inasmuch as I wish to be right to the point, but I can tell you right off the bat that I was subsequently going back and forth with different people involved in the situation in an effort to get my Google Adsense account reactivated and earning money again. After so much time and effort, my frustrations immediately went away upon receiving notification from one of the HubPages customer service representatives that their writing platform was pushing Google Adsense out of the picture in compensating Hubbers. I could not have been any happier than I was.
If any of you Hivians out there who are not Hubbers are thinking about becoming ones, let me be brutally honest with you about that writing platform. They are not as permissive as Hive Blog is about allowing their writers to publish whatever they want. They have some kind of editorial staff that reviews every article that Hubbers seek to publish on their writing platform. They claim that it is a form of quality control, but I call it censorship inasmuch as it appears that they only ever seem to have problems publishing anything that is too controversial for a soccer mom to read to her little kids.
I loathe censorship, and I like having my freedom to write whatever comes to mind. For that reason, I joined Steemit back in 2017 and Hive Blog in 2020, and, for that reason, I have published more articles on Hive Blog than I have on HubPages. Anyhow, if you are willing to tough it out in constantly dealing with censorship and you are creative at what you write, you will likely do very well on HubPages. I know of some very average people making a comfortable four-figure income each month on that writing platform. The journey to making a livable income on Hive Blog is a substantially longer one in reaching your goal, but at least you won't encounter as many roadblocks in doing so as you will on HubPages.
Google has made a bad reputation for itself in recent years, and Google Adsense has been no asset to their corporate image. Now, with the recent change of management and so forth over at Steemit and the birth of Hive Blog, let's all pray and hope that neither writing platforms ever require any of their content creators to have a Google Adsense account to monetize their articles. Otherwise, both of them will start taking on a life of their own, and each and every one of us Hiveans and Hivers will begin feeling as though we're writing scripts for a sitcom on The Disney Channel. Boring!!!!!!!!
Steemit has begun displaying advertisements all over its writing platform within the past year. Okay. When I first joined Steemit back in 2017, I realized that keeping that writing platform financially afloat and continuing to compensate its writers would involve some kind of intervention from the outside corporate world. I only ask that the advertisers over on Steemit keep Google Adsense out of the picture to preserve the sanity of everyone who posts to that platform. I'm hoping that Hive Blog will follow the same methodology in keeping Google Adsense far away from all of us.
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