Below are the most asked questions about DevHub. If your question is not below, you can view all past support questions here.
Sites like Squidoo or HubPages are simple tools for creating single-pages of content to explain particular topics (called a Lens in Squidoo or a Hub in Hubpages), which users earn from pageviews and clicks generated from these pages.
While these pages are great for single topics, they do not have much flexibility beyond that... read more.
Firstly, use of the DevHub platform and all its features are completely free. Companies in the past that have offered 'free web publishing' offer premium tools at a cost per month or are free for a limited amount of time before they start charging monthly. For users that are trying to create useful, profitable sites for their endeavors, paying a monthly cost makes it that much harder.
Secondly, while DevHub does offer similar site editing and content management tools to current online solutions, the power of the DevHub platform is in its aggregation and distribution system, allowing us to hook in via APIs to a wide range of content and monetization partners. These integrations are then placed in modules in the editor for users to place on their site to enhance their content and revenue-generation capabilities. As an aggregated ecosystem of developers, we are often able to bring onboard exclusive partners or deals that would typically not be available to the individual developer.
Current partner API integrations provide users access to exclusive affiliate offers, local directories, products, property listings, job listings, photos, videos, RSS feeds, and site search. We have a dedicated business development and API integration team constantly bringing on new partnerships and integrations for users of our platform.
Blogging tools were originally created to be an online diary for personal expression. Due to lack of alternative solutions at the time, many users started to bend these tools beyond their intended purpose in an attempt to create media-rich, commercially viable (e-commerce, affiliate marketing, etc.) websites.
Users of this system often require a certain degree of hosting and CSS/HTML know-how and end up incurring time and development costs to incorporate the right templates and plug-ins to put together a useful site. Constant upkeep and upgrades add additional complexity to managing these sites.
DevHub is designed from the ground up to be a website development platform with full monetization capability. All programming/heavy lifting is done in the background, so site creation is simple to use and requires no previous programming knowledge. This seems to be the biggest big barrier-to-entry for those looking to use the hack-a-blog method.
A website cannot grow or provide value to users without some sort of human touch. Domain Parking solutions and auto-generated solutions such as TrafficZ, SEDO, and Domain Sponsor provide domain owners with little to no control over how their domains are presented and monetized on the web. The resulting pages created by these services are often duplicated on another page, mediocre in their ability to bring relevant, coherent content together, and is obvious to the Internet user that they are not real sites. As a result, domains placed through these services are put at risk of being flagged as spam sites or banned by search engines.
DevHub's focus is on making it easier for people to build quality sites on the Internet that brings value to both the users and the creators of the sites. While DevHub initially suggests what your site could be about and provides you with multiple content and monetization modules, we encourage users to use our editing tools to provide their own knowledge, content, pictures, and design touch. While a DevHub user can manage an unlimited number of sites on the DevHub platform, they must pass a quality threshold for their first set of 10 sites before being allowed seats for their next 10.
In short, the DevHub platform is open to anyone who wants to be rewarded for the value they bring to users on the website they create. Developers, Internet Entrepreneurs, and Affiliate Marketers are all welcome as long as they meet our quality standards. We reserve the right to pull accounts from users we believe do not meet our standards.
Sites on the DevHub platform are quality checked 10 at a time within your account. Once you reach a certain quality score you will be permitted to add another block of 10 sites. To increase your quality score, take some time to add original, pertinent content to your sites. Create something you are proud of!
Before initiating payments, we are required to have a W-9 if you reside in the U.S. or a W-8 if you reside anywhere outside the U.S. Once you fill out the form, simply fax it to 206 260 7142. Please also state in the top right hand corner margin of the W-9/W-8 whether you would like to be paid by PayPal or Check. If via PayPal, please provide account email and if via check, please provide the name of the check recipient (both must match information provided in W-9/W-8).
Once your account balance reaches $100.00 at the end of the month, we will automatically issue your payment within 45 days. We must bear with multiple partners who at the latest pay us 45 days later, so we are often sending you a check before we even receive ours from our partners.
There are two different ways to host your sites on DevHub. Setting nameservers and setting A-record... read more.
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Drag and Drop Interface for Easy Site Building
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This should yield a pivot table showing sites at left with totals for visits and earnings.
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