When you start out and you are wondering whether you should start your own website/blog or post on websites like hubpages and squidoo, make your own website. While websites like squidoo and hubpages can bring you tons of extra views and help get your work ranked, the revenue sharing + traffic it brings isn't always worth it, not nearly as much as creating your own successful website and gaining followers is. Also when wondering if you should use a free host or buy your own domain or hosting. Buy your own. Free host can work great and a lot of people say theres no difference, but in the end your own domain will look a lot more professional and will give you more options and security down the road. Summary Write on your own website and slowly build up your reputation and work on SEO Buy your own hosting as it pays off in the end Why I am writing this ? Well after months of writing on hubpages and blogger, making a few hundred dollars but never maintaining success, I realized what it takes to be successful and wanted to save others the same time I spent making my mistakes.
Yeah, you don't want to have to rely on hubpages/squidoo or other revenue sharing sites forever to make your money. I think these kind of revenue sharing sites are best used as backlinks for your main money making site(s)- if you get a few dollars from Adsense with them too, then that's just icing on the cake.