I have a hubpage, and I get very little traffic from it. It "might" be in my top 100 sources of traffic. The way I see it, if I am going to spend time working on a page, its going to be a page for my own site.
its good to get a backlink and improve the rankings.. You may get good traffic from it depending on your niche and the content in your hub
I have several hub pages, and havn't made a dime off any of them. Google seems to rate them pretty well, if you have a website they are a goodsource to backlink your web page with. Hub pages are a little more limiting with links to products.
I love them, I usually use squidoo, hubpages and ezine together and so far they have been good. Good interms of SEO plus backlinks!
We have used hub pages on websites to aggregate all the company social media feeds into one place. All those posts are recycled and placed within a single page on the company domain. It makes for a single point to drive visitors to, and they can see all the talk going on in your social media channels.
I do very well with hubpages. But I've written a lot of them. You will not make money from hubpages with just a few articles. And you need to write about specific things... want to know more... http://www.internetmarketingiq.com/easy-money In less than 4 months has become my #5 earner... and I've been making a full time living online for almost 10 years now. Hubpages is FREE, has excellent rankings in Google, and is very easy to set up. They have invested a lot of time and effort into "getting it right"... you do not have to worry about hosting, layout, etc. And it's pretty easy to get Google to accept you after you have a fair amount of hubs - at least 30 is a good number. An average writer can post 10 articles a day. Why would you give all your Adsense Money to an Article Directory when you can get paid for it? Go take the tour... http://hubpages.com/_associates/tour/hubpages/
I used to get fair amount of traffic from hubpages when I was very actively working on them, but they never converted into sales (affiliate products). Even if adsense is your main earner, you still need your hub to rank well to get traffic and that means working on backlinks for the hubs. If I had the time to work on backlinks, I'd much rather spend that time on my site than a hub. I am not disregarding those who have 1000 hubs and are making money. I'm sure they make some money off of 1000 hubs, they just have to.
I don't invest my time into building up someone else's sites. My time and effort goes strictly towards my own sites. I once tried hubpages because I allowed for myself to get mislead by false marketing advices. Would not make the same mistake again.
I don't like Hubpages because you have to keep writing to keep your scores up. I like Ezinearticles because my articles are there to stay forever, and there is no scoring system.
Blogabout mentions that you have to keep adding content or the thing falls down on you... I prefer wherever possible to put content in areas that are likely to stay.
hubspot is a great property to use for SEO purposes to your money site. Used in linkwheels and various techniques can provide a constant source of backlinks if setup properly.
Hubpages is a awesome place to market. It is very similar to squidoo, but I still like squidoo more than hubpages because of the functionality provided by squidoo. However, you should do both because the more places that you are marketing at, the better.