Hubpages has three distinct advantages over other writing platforms.
1. Earn money through their ad program : - It is the best earning program I have found in the internet for international writers. They pay around 3 – 5 $ per page view coming from search engines. Compared to other sites it is the best i could find for international writer (there are better site for US writers). In addition, you can earn money through eBay, Amazon ad programs. It is very difficult to get into eBay adprogram on your own. However, hubpages makes very easy to earn from eBay.
2. Earn money through adsense clicks : - Hubpages allow you to put your adsense code directly into the articles (hubs). This addition to the adprogram ads that gives you pay per view earning. Clicks will be divided 6:4 ratio (you get 60%, Hubpages get 40%). 3. Hubpages allow upto two dofollow links to your website. It is a great way to promote your site.
Other advantage of hubpages is its internal linking mechanism. Due to this your hubs will go up in search engine ranking as time passes. If you maintained good author score then this process will be faster.
I could not find a better writing platform that offer very good adprogram, adsense sharing and backlinking ability.
Disadvantages of Hubpages
Hubpages pays only for search engine organic traffic. So if you write some articles and promote them through twitter you will not earn much. Therefore, you need to know basics of search engine optimization before writing articles to hubpages.
Hupages does not allow duplicate content and it has built in spam detection mechanism. There is no editorial oversight.