Sunday, 1 November 2009

Which Is Your Weapon Of Choice: Hub Pages Or Squidoo

By Marc Marseille

The net 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 unfair benefit when it comes to ranking well with the search engines. Along with Word Press, Ezine Articles, and of course Google Blogger, these two communities can get indexed almost at once. The issue is not if they are effective forms of marketing but rather, which one lands the most damaging thump?

Hub Pages is a community for writers, bloggers, or anyone wanting to share something fascinating with the written word. Your blogs at Hub Pages are branded as hubs. You can pick from unique modules to augment the look and creativity of your hubs. Hub Pages permits you to add your adsense, amazon, and Ebay ID to you hubs to make profits from anyone who clicks or buys from your links. You can also insert keywords to your hubs to make it simpler for the search engines to locate you.

Squidoo is also a community for writers and very related to Hubpages. The major dissimilarity between the two is that Squidoo refers to its websites as lens. Just like Hub Pages, you can construct unlimited lens on any matter while making additional income from adsense, amazon, and Ebay.

Squidoo is very Google friendly and permits you to add up to 40 keywords to your lens to increase your search engine presence. As you can observe, these two powerhouse, high pr social communities share many comparable characteristics; So what are the differences?

The differences start with the income from your proceeds modules. Squidoo has a shared earning policy which shares the total income between the whole Squidoo community depending on the status of your lens. The more superior your lens rank, the larger portion of the pay you collect. Hub Pages on the other hand allows you to keep 100% of your income from adsense, amazon, and Ebay.

Another difference are the guidelines and policies. Hub pages is especially stern on self endorsement or over advertising of affiliate products. They will prohibit you quickly if your intent are to only present content for the sole purpose of spamming. Squidoo also disallows spammers, but they are more engaging 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 accept. Examples of lens that use to be standard that are no longer suitable are: Lenses on adult content, health miracle cures, and lenses with more than 9 links to the same website. If you can reach giant squid position (50 lenses) than these guidelines may be waived.

Both Squidoo and Hub Pages offer a location for like minded individuals to bring their visions, thoughts, products or artistic views to the internet. The question of which one packs the most damaging punch in my belief, can only be left up to each individual. I myself use both. Since both communities are without charge to enlist and free to share ideas, I find it that it makes sense not to show prejudice. The choice between one over the other would be the equivalent of leaving cash on the table.

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