Saturday, October 3, 2009

Squidoo And Hub Pages: Two Forces To Be Dealth With

By Marc Marseille

The internet is full of social networking blogspots and communities, but two of the top out there are Hub Pages and Squidoo. Both of these social Journal networks seem to have an unfair advantage when it comes to placement well with the search engines. Along with Word Press, Ezine Articles, and of course Google Blogger, these two communities can get indexed just about immediately. The issue is not whether they are successful forms of advertising but rather, which one delivers the hardest blow?

Hub Pages is a community for writers, bloggers, or anybody wanting to contribute something appealing with the written word. Your blogs at Hub Pages are known as hubs. You can select from certain modules to develop the look and creativity of your hubs. Hub Pages permits you to include your adsense, amazon, and Ebay ID to you hubs to generate proceeds from anyone who clicks or purchases from your links. You can also include keywords to your hubs to make it simpler for the search engines to position you.

Squidoo is also a community for writers and very related to Hubpages. The major distinction between the two is that Squidoo refers to its pages as lens. Just like Hub Pages, you can put up limitless lens on any matter while earning additional proceeds from adsense, amazon, and Ebay.

Squidoo is very Google friendly and permits you to add up to 40 keywords to your lens to boost your search engine position. As you can observe, these two powerhouse, high pr social communities share several similar characteristics; So what are the dissimilarities?

The differences start with the profit from your proceeds modules. Squidoo has a shared earning policy which separates the total earnings between the whole Squidoo community depending on the positioning of your lens. The higher your lens rank, the bigger portion of the earnings you receive. Hub Pages on the other hand allows you to hold 100% of your revenue from adsense, amazon, and Ebay.

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

Squidoo has recently tighten their policies on the types of lens that they will publish. Examples of lens that use to be standard that are no longer up to standard are: Lenses on mature content, health miracle cures, and lenses with more than 9 links to the identical site. If you can accomplish giant squid prominence (50 lenses) than these guidelines may be waived.

Both Squidoo and Hub Pages offer a location for like minded folks to bring their visions, outlooks, products or artistic expressions to the World Wide Web. The question of which one packs the most effective punch in my opinion, can simply be left up to every individual. I personally use both. Since both communities are free to join and free to network, I find it that it makes sense not to discriminate. The choice between one over the other would be the equivalent of leaving money on the table.

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