Squidoo and Hub Pages

[SageRave]

Hubpages had one big drawback when I last used the site.

Your affiliate links are limited to those they provide. With Squidoo, I can place my own affiliates, like my Amazon affiliate stores, within any lens I create.

Since I am definitely a control freak, I thrive on that option!

[genuwine4532]

That is definetely true about HUB, the money generation is slow and weak and you only 60% of clicks and affiliate sales.

[SageRave]

So true. One might do better writing articles for Associated Content or Constant Content, and getting an up front payment.

Of course, the best venue depends on your goals.

[genuwine4532]

You are right, the best thing I got out of the Hub Page experience is again more hands on education as far as, writing good articles, traffic sources, what keywords are hot and the like. I think if you're new at this, as I am, this maybe of some help because it leads to other questions and answers in the Affiliate Biz

[vicks]

I haven't use Squidoo. Are they good? Do they use dofollow tags in the links?
I don't know how much traffic do they bring..

[genuwine4532]

Squidoo may be even better than Hub pages, because you have total control of what is on your page, as far as banners and adsense
BUT
Squidoo is a total pain if you don't know HTML, they had an editing tool but it crashed so they took it off, now unless you just want to have a run through text, you have to use HTML to bold, italics, and the like, and use different capsules to separate your text into paragraphs

You can add unlimited tags, that part is easy

[gallito89]

I'm a diehard Squidoo user, I use both of these mediums to boost my sales but I prefer Squidoo over hubpages for the simple reason that they gain more backlinks on average than my hubpages do. This is due to the huge network that is set up when you creaete a lens of backlinks within Squidoo itself. I have done NO promotion for 5-10 of my lenses and they came back with Google PR's of 4, which is the same as this forum.

[jumar112]

I use squidoo and I like it. Yes, you do need to know some HTML but with so many free tutorials online. It is not difficult to learn.

The few pages that I have up actually have links to my website, but also the the product I am promoting. By using a mixture of both, it seems to help with having the teaser on squidoo and then using my own website for the more indepth stuff.

I have not used hubpages yet, but will be going into that in a short time.
The social networks are becoming huge online and trying to figure out where to begin can be quite difficult.

[genuwine4532]

Yes the social networks are VERY powerful.

Especially Digg and Drop Jack,

I wrote two stories on my BLOG (which links to my website and squidoo lens) and drop jacked and dugg them both.
The next day they are both on Google Page 1 and have received several votes other than mine since AND this is for high comp KW's.

And this is not the first time this has happened, last time my blog entry stayed on G pg1 for over three weeks.

Also STUMBLE IT, with that bookmark you can actually STUMBLE your WEBSITE and it stays on their site as a backlink and is seen by many people. The day after I stumbled my new site I got 40 visitors to my site from there.

[Darwin]

That is excellent Genuwine. The system does work when you use it. Keep up the good work.