Can I emulate Squidoo/Hubpages?

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I have a project going on at present and I´m thinking a good formula to put it together is to get content creators into a revenue share program so I´m thinking:

What kind of setup do I need to do this? Can I do it with a combination of wordpress, a theme that caters for some of my needs and a number of plugins? Do i need to get into a more advanced (and probably costlier) solution?

If anyone is currently doing something similar I would appreciate your input.

I´m counting on having no more than 50 contributors on that program ( a lot less to begin with) as it is not a general topic but something rather specific that not everyone can write about.

Thanks in advance for your replies.
#main internet marketing discussion forum #emulate #squidoo or hubpages
  • How much revenue are you looking at sharing and HOW are you considering sharing it?
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    • 50/ 50 in all cases. Howmuch is still unknown as I know the market is a bit tough to crack. The plan is to have a combination of adsense, Amazon, Ebay with a view to a future product based on the updating of the content that gets published.
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  • Yeah, I have something that is sorta like that. It has google adsense sharing built in. You can check it out here. It's an abandoned project that I was playing around with but it allowes authors to sign-up, add their google adsense ID and the theme took care of the rest.

    It uses a couple of plugins that I tweaked for the membership stuff but I coded the adsense revshare myself.

    I'm not sure exactly what you have in mind but with a little time and know-how you can tweak wordpress to do just about anything.

    Oh yeah, this theme kills that other crap WP article theme
  • Not sure how you'd pull that off.

    With mine, each author just adds their adsense ID in their author profile. Having to deal with payments etc.. just sounds like extra work and a headache.
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    • I suppose I would need some sort of tracking. The alternative ishaving people sign up to each separate network ( adsense, ebay, amazon to begin with) and then doing your tweak.

      When you are joining a fairly new project I don´t think it looks very good having them go through many hoops. Even if it requires a bigger investment or more work I´d rather they focused on writing and I´ll handle the backoffice stuff.
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  • Kinda breakin some rules there buddy... take it to PM's

    And dude... you're site is an elegant themes template, doesn't give you much street cred as a developer if you have to use another developers theme for your homepage
  • The way I was looking at it, just about every internet marketer has an adsense account so it was a pretty simple system to set up for basic percentage based rev share. It's essentially a random number roll and depending on how I've set the numbers, X percent chance of ad being the authors and Y percent chance of the ads being mine.

    I wanted it to work as simple as possible without having to deal with any additional junk.

    If I had expanded it to more ad networks it would have created some of the complications you are facing.

    I forget how squidoo is set up for that and I've never signed-up for infobarrel who also have author rev share.

    For official google adsense revshare your site needs to reach an obscene number of daily hits before they will consider you which is why I went the route I did.
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    • I prefer to assume it will take a long time, if ever, to reach a point in which the Big G will actually help me out in any way

      The people that will be writing the content are not necessarily familiar with the things we use. I might need to enrol most of them in Paypal to begin with! nuff said!

      Again, I don´t mind going through some hurdles in order to make it esy for them. Their content is worth the effort ( at least to me), fairly technical stuff so the lst hing I need is them worrying about all the tech involved.

      In any case thanks for your advice, it gives me an idea of what I´m looking for.
  • Maybe... But I would like to pose to you a different question...

    Can you emulate their model, but improve on it in any fashion?
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    Can I emulate Squidoo/Hubpages?

    I have a project going on at present and I´m thinking a good formula to put it together is to get content creators into a revenue share program so I´m thinking: What kind of setup do I need to do this? Can I do it with a combination of wordpress, a theme that caters for some of my needs and a number of plugins? Do i need to get into a more advanced (and probably costlier) solution?