subject: Squidoo Vs Hubpages for Article Marketing – Which Is Best? [print this page] Squidoo Vs Hubpages for Article Marketing Which Is Best?
Article marketing can be used for one of three goals.
You can use your articles to get traffic by ranking highly in the search engines. You can use them to get backlinks and you can also use them for making direct sales if the directory you're using allows affiliate links.
Squidoo and Hubpages are ideal for achieving all three of these. They allow affiliate links, they both have great SEO benefits and their pages rank very highly in the search engines sometimes with very little effort.
Both sites are very popular for article marketing and are so similar that they've become each others closest rivals over the years.
So which one is best for article marketing?
First I'll tell you my experience with each of these web 2.0 sites maybe you can decide from my experience.
Squidoo
I started using Squidoo in 2007 when they were very young. There was all this hype about Squidoo's pages performing very well in the search engines. I decided to test it out and put up some lenses partly because I didn't have my own website then. The very first lens I put up made me my first article marketing sale. I was very excited and decided to do more. The pages were performing very well and I could get good traffic.
Eventually, as more and more people began using the website, Squidoo started tightening up their rules and you could get your lens locked if you used it for a banned topic. I'm not sure if I can remember but I abandoned Squidoo completely over some stuff like that.
Hubpages
I also discovered Hubpages in 2007, I think about 5 months after I was using Squidoo. I loved Hubpages for their simple layout and for the fact that they performed just as well as Squidoo and sometimes even outperformed them.
Creating hubs were much easier as you didn't have to reload the page when you added something. You could put stuff up even faster and they even let you share AdSense earnings.
My content on Hubpages did even better than my content on Squidoo and I used them almost exclusively for affiliate marketing (along with blogger) after leaving Squidoo.
Hubpages vs Squidoo for article marketing?
I'm sure you can guess who's going to win this battle but let me give you some reasons to back up my own personal bias.
Hubpages lets you share 50% of Adsense earnings while Squidoo pays you based on an algorithm I still don't fully understand.
Also with Hubpages you can check your earnings through your Adsense account while with Squidoo, you never have an idea how much you're earning until they pay you.
Hubpages has less leaks than Squidoo. By leaks I mean ways in which a user can leave the page without clicking on one of your links. At least with Hubpages, if your visitors leave through Adsense you're still earning money.
Hubpages are less strict about the topics which you can submit content for. They do have their rules but they're not going to hassle you if you make a hub on weight loss, one of the banned topics on Squidoo.
4. Hubs benefit greatly from Hubpages' internal linking structure which helps your individual hub's rankings. Tag pages and related hubs provide you with beneficial backlinks. Squidoo's internal linking structure isn't as good.
5. The clean 'black and white' layout of Hubpages is easier on the eyes and lets you focus on the content while the colorful layout of Squidoo looks a bit amateurish and distracting.
Squidoo's good points are that they're a PR 8 website which is good if you can get your lens' link on the front page. I would definitely suggest Hubpages over Squidoo if you're doing article marketing.
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