Thought I would add a series of articles for work at home ideas. Idea #1 is that writing Hubpages and Infobarrel articles can be a realistic full time home based income, working from home. If you like writing, here is a home based business idea that requires only a computer and a connection to the internet. If you were flat broke,

you could still go into this home business by going to the local library and using their internet and computers even, although you are not exactly working at home.

It takes time to build up your hubpage count enough to have a sufficient quantity of them to make a full time living, or any living at all, but it is very doable if you are willing to work very hard, come up with lots of good writing ideas, and if you pay attention to writing about subjects that attract high paying keywords. After you do all the home work to write your articles as your work at home business, they become a passive income source potentially for life! Now that is an idea I like!

Look at this example hubpage: Land Rover Freelanders. You can see it is basically a web page on a specific subject. For example, you could write about a specific home based business idea. This blog post you are reading on a home based business idea would make a great hubpage or infobarrel article. The key is the hosting, the layout for the most part, the ads -- all that is taken care of by someone else - so your home based business does not have to. And since both Hubpages and Infobarrel are established sites on the internet, they get indexed on google rapidly and their pages gain page rank credibility quickly, so you do not have to wait out a 3-6 month google sandbox period like you might have to with your own home based business work from home web site.

So how do you make money with this work from home business idea? Hubpages and Infobarrel both share the advertising revenues from the page views of your content with your home based business. It is like 60-65% with hubpages and like 75% with infobarrel - your take is 65-75% for your home based business, and hubpages and infobarrel keep 25-35%. So you write hubpages, maybe do some linking and social networking to help promote them, and then you have passive income from your home based business for as long as people visit your hubpages or infobarrel articles and click on the ads.

Getting backlinks to your hubpages and infobarrel articles helps get you more search engine traffic, but is not critical. You can take either of 2 tacks. One strategy is quantity, spend all your time writing hubpages. The other idea is go with quality -- write hubpages, but try to get more traffic to each one by assisting in building backlinks to your specific pages. With one idea you spend more time writing, with the other more time chasing backlinks. On the other hand, both ideas involve lots of time writing, because one of the best ways to get backlinks is to write yet more articles for other sites and for article directories. Regardless, for this business idea, all you need is access to a computer that is connected to the internet, and the ability to write, and you can be successful in this cool work from home small business.

It helps immensely to write about topics that get ad dollars, and for this you can do keyword research using Google's keyword research tool to get great ideas. You need to open a Google AdSense account in your name too, or the name of your home based business if you are incorporated. This is free.

How much can you make? It depends on the keywords you focus on, whether or not your pages are optimized for SEO, and what backlinks your pages get. Generally, to make say $2000 a month, you probably need between 1000-1500 hubpages. This is based on credible reports I have seen on the net. That is quite a lot of say 1000-word articles to write. But in several months of frenetic writing, you can do that. Say it even takes you a year or more. Then you have that income coming in passively for a long long time. In fact, the income generally increases as the pages age, because you get more backlinks and help your work at home business' website move up in the SERPs (Search Engine Results Pages). Now, some people have reported having written 1250 hubpages and only making $250 a month, which is obviously not enough to support most people in a work from home business. It is critical that you write on the best subjects for advertising, and that you do on page SEO. Such can literally and will often make a 10-fold, 20-fold, or even 50-fold difference in your income. The poor fellow who wrote 1250 hubpages wrote them on topics that people would not necessarily be interested in buying products associated with them. Like writing about home mortgages can make money. Writing about apple pie recipes and similar ideas probably will not. To read another report that claims much lower earning potential, just to show two sides of the coin, look at Hal's 40 Best Google-Topping Keywords & Adsense Earnings.

So there you have it - maybe it is or maybe it is not a realistic method of earning a full time income from a work at home based business. I think the key far and away is what you write about and how you do your on-page SEO. One thing that supports the thought that incomes can vary so widely is 1. looking at the intentions of the traffic visiting the article - is it targeted, and is it a buying audience on a mission or a browsing audience? A browsing audience does not click on ads. Obviously, there is a big difference in income potential between a half a percent click thru rate (CTR) and a 5% click-thru rate. All other things equal, the difference is a factor of 10 fold. A 10-fold increase in Hal's earnings might mean he would be earning $50 a day instead of $5, a huge huge monster big difference. This is why you need to target keywords that target buying audiences for your home based business writing efforts. Next, what about the keyword payout? Some keywords pay $10-20 a click, although they are very rare. Most pay 5 cents or less after google takes their cut. You need to target keywords that are paying more, say $2 a click. A $2 click pays out 40 times as much as a 5 cent click and 100 times as much as a 2 penny click. Now Hal insists he is going to write about what he wants to write about, and he is going to write for users. But if he wrote about the correct subjects, and wrote for a combo of users and machine bots, then he might conceivably see a 40 to 100 fold increase in his earnings. A 50-fold increase would mean his $5 a day would be $250 a day. A nice home-based work from home living versus a cheap bag lunch - you make the call. It comes down to are you doing it for fun from home, or is this a real business attempting to make profits from home?

Last there is another on-page optimization issue to consider. If you write totally for the users, then they get all their questions answered. So they have no reason to click on a link. Ideally you want to provide useful information, by all means, but you do not necessarily want to answer everything and provide all the information - if the reader has no more questions then they will not click on an ad. Hence more ammo on the side of believing Hal's writing for users first is causing his low earnings for his home based business, thru a low click thru rate. An idea to certainly consider. Last on the Hal arguements: Hal may have been smart priced. Google has something called smart pricing. Google needs to deliver value to the advertisers who give Google money to advertise their businesses. So Google monitors the success rate advertisers have after someone clicks thru an ad from your home based business site to the advertisers site. It is complicated, but basically, if the traffic you send to advertisers converts at a low rate - buys products or signs up for accounts or whatever the money objective is - then Google will smart price you. Yes, Google also considers things statistically like the quality of the advertisers ad and the effectiveness on the advertisers closing or landing pages. But if you deliver uninterested customers to advertisers - ie. non-targeted traffic, well then Google is likely to smart price you. That means you get one or two cents for the click. While you might get $2, $4, or more for each click if you were not smart priced. If Hal has been smart priced because he sends untargeted traffic, then that would explain his low earnings in a big way. Get the idea? Bottom line, if you search for how much money hubpages on google, and read and judge the information volunteers that you will find, I think it does boil down to you can make good money with hubpages and infobarrels if you follow the advice in this home based work at home business ideas post.

Another suggestion to optimize your income potential - link your hubpages together and to your infobarrel pages. Pick and choose - do not do 2 way links, only 1 way links. Then try and get other backlinks to those pages. Backlinks will help any work at homer's website move up the SERPs. Backlinks are always a good idea. Actually, backlinks are THE end all be all idea! It is important to write for search engines and write decent content too. Crap content can get you kicked off Hubpages or Infobarrel. But this does not mean you should over do it - write decent, but not necessarily perfect. Perfect writing means you will get much less number of pages done - and this obviously decreases your work at home based business income potential. Plus while you do not want to stuff your content with your keywords, you do need to have them in there, so you have to write with your keywords and their synonyms in mind.

One last critical piece of advice - do not put all your eggs in one basket. Do both of the sites I have mentioned, Hubpages and Infobarrel, plus maybe your own blogger or wordpress self-hosted site. You never know if Hubpages or Infobarrel or some other site you might have content on could get out of favor with the mighty google, which could mean all the sudden you lose all your income if you have articles on only one site. Spreading your home based ideas and efforts around is always a good idea. A side benefit of this creating hubpages and infobarrel articles home based business idea is that you can also link to sites that your home based business owns or hosts, gaining valuable backlinks to those sites. Again, remember you want one way links.

Really, if you own any kind of home based work at home small business that has a website, then you should write at least a few hubpages and infobarrel articles if for no other reason than to get the valuable backlinks they provide for your website. Keep a list of business ideas for this. So for anyone who likes to write and work from home in a home based business, and wants to focus primarily on writing, here is the perfect work at home based business opportunity -- write Infobarrel articles and hubpages on adworthy subjects. Keep a list of ideas for this to make it an easier business. Sign up at Infobarrel here: Infobarrel Signup and you can learn more about making money on Hubpages here. Then get busy coming up with ideas for articles and writing them. It is hard work, but it pays off. If this work at home based business idea was useful to you, please twitter or digg it, and share it with others, and we will keep coming up with more ideas..

Now, worried about getting carpal tunnel syndrome writing all day? I have a solution for that - voice recognition software. You have to train the software with your voice, but it works really really well. Not perfect, you still have to make corrections, but it can really speed up your writing and give your hands some rest. For Windows, get Dragon Naturally Speaking, at least the standard edition, and for the Mac, get MacSpeech Dictate - links to both cheap at Amazon below: