I joined hubpages 4 days ago. This website is a very good platform for writers to earn real money. It gives advertisements on your articles and money is earned every time someone sees that advertisement or click on that. Hubpages keeps 40% of total earnings with it and pays the writers with rest 60% . The more traffic you have on your articles the more you earn.
It keeps 40% of the earnings because it is providing you with a platform to write. If you are using hubpages then make sure that your article is free of any spelling or grammatical mistakes because it will fail in the quality assessment test if there are any mistakes.
If you use this platform then you save yourself from overheads of maintaining your own website.
This website is awesome and many people are earning a lot with this website.