HubPages: passive income or not?

   Yesterday evening I was drinking coffee in front of my laptop and looking through different hubs about passive income when suddenly I asked myself: whether writing on HubPages is a passive income or not? Some hubbers consider that it's really a kind of passive income like shares or your bank account, because once you've written a hub you can receive money from it daily owing to Google AdSense, Amazon or eBay. But some think that writing on HubPages can hardly be added to passive income.

   I personally think that writing hubs is quite close to passive income: you write a hub, try to attract more traffic and those people who read your hubs bring you money clicking on advertisements that are situated on your page. And even if you have a rest somewhere lying on the beach, bathing in the sun and swimming in warm caressing sea you can earn money from Google AdSense. Yeah! That is the main reason why people think that HubPages provides a kind of passive income. It seems easy: you have a rest but at the same time you receive money.

   But let's look at this situation from the other side. If you just register on HubPages and don't write hubs and don't take part in HubPages Community, will you receive any money? Certainly NO! 

   That's the answer. If you want to earn money you should write and write qualified hubs to increase your traffic and your possible income. As a wise proverb says: no pains, no gains. 

   But in the end I'd like to add that I like HubPages because it's a nice place to learn more in those spheres that you are interested in, here I can spend many hours a day because it brings me pleasure. And certainly like the majority of people here I try to earn money, but it's not the main purpose of being on HubPages. I'm usually happy like a child when my HubScore increases or when I receive new answers in my poll, etc. So it's a place where one can receive pleasure and earn money at the same time. Isn't it great?