November 9, 2009

Which Is Your Weapon Of Choice: Hub Pages Or Squidoo

by Marc Marseille

The world wide web is full of social networking blogspots and communities, but two of the finest out there are Hub Pages and Squidoo. Both of these social Journal networks seem to have an excessive benefit when it comes to placement favorably with the search engines. Along with Word Press, Ezine Articles, and of course Google Blogger, these two communities can get found just about instantly. The issue is not whether they are successful forms of marketing but rather, which one delivers the hardest blow?

Hub Pages is a community for authors, bloggers, or anybody wanting to contribute something fascinating with the printed word. Your blogs at Hub Pages are branded as hubs. You can pick from certain modules to improve the appearance and originality of your hubs. Hub Pages allows you to insert your adsense, amazon, and Ebay ID to you hubs to earn income from anyone who clicks or purchases from your links. You can also include keywords to your hubs to make it easier for the search engines to locate you.

Squidoo is also a community for authors and very comparable to Hubpages. The key variation between the two is that Squidoo refers to its pages as lens. Just like Hub Pages, you can build limitless lens on any matter while making additional revenue from adsense, amazon, and Ebay.

Squidoo is very Google responsive and permits you to insert up to 40 keywords to your lens to increase your search engine traffic. As you can see, these two powerhouse, high pr social communities share many similar characteristics; So what are the dissimilarities?

The differences commence with the revenue from your proceeds modules. Squidoo has a joint earning policy which divides the entire earnings between the whole Squidoo community depending on the positioning of your lens. The higher your lens rank, the larger portion of the income you collect. Hub Pages on the other hand permits you to keep 100% of your income from adsense, amazon, and Ebay.

Another difference are the guidelines and policies. Hub pages is very stern on self promotion or over promoting of affiliate products. They will prohibit you quickly if your intentions are to only present content for the sole purpose of spamming. Squidoo also frowns spammers, but they are more engaging to internet marketers who are interested in creating lens to promote their affiliate products or programs. I guess you can say that Squidoo provides you a wider freedom of speech. Hub Pages furthermore does not allow adult content.

Squidoo has recently stiffen their policies on the types of lens that they will allow. Examples of lens that use to be standard that are no longer acceptable are: Lenses on mature content, medicinal miracle cures, and lenses with more than 9 links to the same web page. If you can accomplish giant squid standing (50 lenses) than these regulations may be waived.

Both Squidoo and Hub Pages present a place for like minded individuals to bring their visions, thoughts, products or artistic expressions to the internet. The question of which one packs the most effective punch in my judgment, can only be left up to every individual. I personally use both. Since both communities are without charge to enlist and free to network, I find it that it makes sense not to show prejudice. The decision between one over the next would be the equivalent of leaving money on the table.

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