Traffic from Squidoo and Hubpages

[dvduval]

I saw there was another thread comparing the two services, and it appeared to me that people were using them for the links (SEO). But what about the traffic? Are you getting any traffic? Any tricks to increasing it?

(and here is my account. if you have any advice, I welcome it)

[GuerrillaIM]

I find hubpages really easy to rank for longtails so I upload article to it and link it to my landing page. That generates traffic if the hub ranks in google.

[dvduval]

Ok, understood. So better to write articles about less competitive terms yes?

Anything else that will get traffic besides seo?
For example, what about making friends and liking each other's articles or becoming fans, etc. ?

[GuerrillaIM]

I do get traffic from inside hubpages but I dont think it turns into sales. The main goal for me is to capture someone when they are in a buying frame of mind.

[Sheryl Polomka]

If you make friends and are active within the community then your hubpage or Squidoo lens might get more attention and possibly rank higher and you can possibly make sales with them.

I personally just use them for backlinks, but I know others use them as pages that promote Amazon products for example.

[peter gibson]

Quick somewhat topical question: does anyone know if hubpages still has to achieve a certain "score" before the link becomes a dofollow link? I remember it used to be your hub had to get to 70 before the thing was valid.

[Dalyinx]

I get good traffic from hubpages for longtails. It has a good internal linking structure, so you usually don't need any sort of backlinks or anything unless the term has over 1200 or so allintitles. Even then, it might rank if it's well-optimized.

[nicholasb]

I personally found that well optimized squidoo lenses rank very easily in the search engines.

I use to use then as a way to get traffic to my squeeze pages by ranking them in the search engines after finding what keywords were converting well with ppc.

As far as getting traffic directly from squidoo, I had a top 25 ranked lens before and it really didn't get me that much traffic.

[dvduval]

Thanks, I am getting the idea. It seems most people just use Squidoo to rank for long takes and then hopefully direct that traffic over to their site. It makes sense. Squidoo is a pagerank 8 domain, so likely long tails will rank there.

[keyuria]

To get traffic to your hubpages and squidoo, you can use onlywire for distributing it among other networks free of charge and try to get some traffic to hubpages and squidoo.
Imagine one thing, the traffic that you get from such social networks most prominently are targetted traffic otherwise they would not click on the link to arrive at your page. Simple as that.

[singhavn]

I use to use them few years back. They didn't give me any trafic but rather helpful in generating some quality backlinks for seo purposes

[Josh Kotsay]

Hubpages is great. I get quite a bit of traffic from some of my hubs and they can rank really well in the SERPS. Just make sure to do some link building for them as well and treat them as you would your own site.

[FatterMike]

Originally Posted by nicholasb

I personally found that well optimized squidoo lenses rank very easily in the search engines.

I use to use then as a way to get traffic to my squeeze pages by ranking them in the search engines after finding what keywords were converting well with ppc.

As far as getting traffic directly from squidoo, I had a top 25 ranked lens before and it really didn't get me that much traffic.

I agree, squidoo works really well, you don't have to be a seo master to rank them and get traffic to your lense, I'm still using it now it's a lot easier than hubpage to me.

[x3xsolxdierx3x]

With any kind of research, one "should" be able to get decent traffic from those platforms. They are very high PR and authority websites....

[AFI]

I need help generating traffic so bad. It's my weakest area. I don't get very much from my Hubpages either. They're really just a backlink for me.

[lincolngsd]

Squidoo is one of the highest sources of traffic on my site. I post informative, educational lenses and get a pretty high CTR from the lenses themselves, but not from my profile.

[dvduval]

Originally Posted by AFI

I need help generating traffic so bad. It's my weakest area. I don't get very much from my Hubpages either. They're really just a backlink for me.

It's sounds like some people are getting the traffic, but they know something you and I don't.

Originally Posted by lincolngsd

Squidoo is one of the highest sources of traffic on my site. I post informative, educational lenses and get a pretty high CTR from the lenses themselves, but not from my profile.

That's great. I am assuming they relate to German Shepherd (as in your sig). I would love to see some example lenses that actually send traffic your way (can PM if you prefer). It just helps to see something that is producing, as I'm sure there are many lenses that produce little or nothing.

[tandren544]

So the theme I'm getting from this is these two aren't as effective for backlinking, but drive great traffic?

[rmoore]

Squidoo Works MUCH better than Hubpages (in my experience).

I have 10 lenses in Squidoo that get over 1,000 visits per week (one of them gets 3,000 per week). Out of that traffic, about 400-500 hit my site and about 5-8 will buy my product.

* When I was focusing on list building, these 10 lenses accounted for 50 opt-ins per day to my list.

1) The key is to make a 7 module lens that is a great resource for the keyword you are targeting. Make it really useful and entertaining.

2) Link build for a few months on it using the typical link building methods discussed on WF.

3) Use you SEO knowledge to drive it to the top 2-3 position in Google for your target keyword.

4) In the middle of your lens put a module that creates major curiosity to click over to your site or an affiliate site. You have to make sure this is your best looking graphic. A large Istock photo of the best quality, etc.

Honestly...Squidoo done properly is a great way to create the seed money to fund the rest of your internet marketing business. The cool thing is that you can use it directly to sell affiliate products first, but as soon as you are ready to list build...you can change out the affiliate pre-sales to direct people to your opt-in page instead.

-Rusty

[dvduval]

Thanks, Rusty! That is exactly what I was looking for!
Any particular reason you said 7 modules? That seems rather specific.

[skidog30]

I'm curious as well about what modules you are using and how exactly do you have links to your site? in the link list, or within the text as clickable links or something? I've made a few lenses, but am just getting started.

Thanks all for the help, and Happy Holidays,
Chris

[x3xsolxdierx3x]

There are some here who would say you should absolutely never use a website that you, yourself, don't own.

Originally Posted by rmoore

Squidoo Works MUCH better than Hubpages (in my experience).

I have 10 lenses in Squidoo that get over 1,000 visits per week (one of them gets 3,000 per week). Out of that traffic, about 400-500 hit my site and about 5-8 will buy my product.

* When I was focusing on list building, these 10 lenses accounted for 50 opt-ins per day to my list.

1) The key is to make a 7 module lens that is a great resource for the keyword you are targeting. Make it really useful and entertaining.

2) Link build for a few months on it using the typical link building methods discussed on WF.

3) Use you SEO knowledge to drive it to the top 2-3 position in Google for your target keyword.

4) In the middle of your lens put a module that creates major curiosity to click over to your site or an affiliate site. You have to make sure this is your best looking graphic. A large Istock photo of the best quality, etc.

Honestly...Squidoo done properly is a great way to create the seed money to fund the rest of your internet marketing business. The cool thing is that you can use it directly to sell affiliate products first, but as soon as you are ready to list build...you can change out the affiliate pre-sales to direct people to your opt-in page instead.

-Rusty

[skidog30]

I agree, but want to see how folks are using these social sites as traffic generators. Anyone doing it have any suggestions on how to set up these lenses to best do that?

Thanks,
Chris

[rwsseo]

I created squidoo lense and hubpage but i don't get traffic from it.