Between Squidoo, Hubpages and Ezine Articles, which one is the best?

[Success With Dany]

Or are they pretty much equivalent in terms of getting ranking, traffic, etc?

Should I focus on one of them or combine them?

[Barry Unruh]

I'd recommend doing all 3, the price is right! :-)

You're going to get more bang having diversity in your incoming links, rather than keeping them focused to one site.

[NetworxNZ]

Hey there Danny - I've have stuff ranked out of all of them and I suspect they all serve a purpose (and potentially are considered in different ways by googles algorithms).

I did an exercise a few months ago of looking at alexa ratings of each of the social networking sites and in summary the (significant and relevant) results were as follows;

blogspot was highest at rank 14 - 48.7m visitors per month
hubpages was next at rank 160 - 10.8m / mth
squidoo was next at rank 208 - 8.6m / mth

This compares to a traffic rank of 182 for ezinearticles

What I tend to do is to reword and article 3-5 times so I submit one version to ez, another to hubpages and another to squidoo....

I also like to tie the hubpage and squidoo lense together with rss and then both (if applicable) back to the money site - this seems to be the most effective way of cascading links in such a way to maximise the number of backlinks to your money sites.

Hope this helps.

Darren

[Success With Dany]

Cool! Will do then.

I already have a nicely-ranked article on Hub, should I copy/paste the same article changing just a few words to not make it duplicate on Ezine and Squidoo?

Or since it's my own article, copy/paste-o-rama?

[Success With Dany]

Thanks Darren! Can you elaborate "I also like to tie the hubpage and squidoo lense together with rss and then both (if applicable) back to the money site - this seems to be the most effective way of cascading links in such a way to maximise the number of backlinks to your money sites."

Thanks!

[Mr McDonald]

Use all three linking to a different article from each site. Post 3 articles everyday doing this. I would say ezine is best though on its own.

[johnjimat]

i would vote for Ezine Articles because there were a lot of traffic you can get with article marketing.

[Tanika50]

I would also vote for Ezine articles as the best way to drive traffic to your sites.
By all means submit to orther article directories as well, but the proimary focus should be on Ezine, then other avenues like Squidoo, Hub Pages etc.

I tend to use Squidoo as a test marketing tool. To try an idea, I will whip up a Squidoo lens and see what things are like in that niche, then if it starts to work, I'll move on to develop a full website.

[Ryan6]

Alot of support for Ezine I see, but the problem as I see it is that every topic under the sun has been done to death on there already and you can't direct link to affiliate sites, as well as having to wait for approvals. Just found Squidoo recently and have been impressed that you can create as many one-page sites as you desire adding inner page anchor text, affiliate links etc. No approval as well and they seem to rank well in Google.

[procoach]

Originally Posted by Ryan6

you can't direct link to affiliate sites

You probably want a presell page, if nothing else to capture the leads.

Pierre.

[dsmpublishing]

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[Success With Dany]

Thanks Samantha, will check it out!

[bigfriendly]

Waiting for approvals with EZ does stink but you can get around the affiliate linking by purchasing a cheap domain. For my bigger campaigns I purchase a .info domain from Go-Daddy for .99 cents and then forward my affiliate link to the purchased domain. This is allowed by EZ and is stated in their rules and regulations. Here is a link to Go-Daddys site that explains how to do this.

Forwarding Your Domain to Another URL - Help Center—Knowledge Base and FAQ

Hope this helps with your URL clickthru's!

[prasad581]

Originally Posted by Success With Dany

Or are they pretty much equivalent in terms of getting ranking, traffic, etc?

Should I focus on one of them or combine them?

i reccomend to work with all the three and you can work only on these three b'cas they will incease your traffic and sales for sure

[seogirl]

This is my personal opinion that I find Ezine the best out of all three above. However a little bit of all three would also definitely help. The only problem with ezine is that you have to wait for approvals as already quoted by BigFriendly with the advantage of allowed affiliate linking by EZ.

[apple87jane]

Ezine is the quality place to post quality articles, but it needs times to post. I suggest you can write on those three site.

[affiliated survivor]

EZA articles may rank better, but what makes more money per visitor? I think it´s easier to sell something with a Squidoo lens than with an EZA article. When people land on your Squidoo lens they are already where you want them. With an article they have to click your link first what makes you lose a lot of traffic.

[Jag82]

Originally Posted by Success With Dany

Or are they pretty much equivalent in terms of getting ranking, traffic, etc?

Should I focus on one of them or combine them?

Danny,

If you are going to be writing an article, maximize your efforts by spinning that article,
and submitting to all 3.

In that way, the search engine will see 3 unique articles, and you will get rewarded with more link juice back.

Let say you only have time to submit to just 1 site - then it undoubtedly has to be EzineArticles.

But I really recommend you submit to all 3. Such submissions can be easily automated with tools like SE Nuke.

Jag

[susanreed]

Hi Dany !

In my opinion all three are equally good to get listings on SE, however set your priority on Ezine as this will give you more traffic then the Squidoo & Hub.

Thanks
Susan

[CDawson]

Well you are talking about 3 completely different things:

EZA: is an article directory and is a great way to obtain traffic through articles.
Squidoo: is basically a blog that is 1 huge page. Squidoo has changed alot in the past month and I would only use it for a backlink.
Hubpages: is kind of like an article directory but not as favored as EZA. You can always use Hubpages for a backlink as well.

[acedalright]

Well, if your hub has more than a couple of links their nofollow, so that's out for one and squidoo is not far behind.

I far and away prefer ezinearticles because you write the article and forget about it, no updating lenses or hubs to keep them "fresh", what a jib.

[traceye]

I actually really like hubpages lately. I find that a few good backlinks can get my hub to page 1 fairly easily.

I usually write a hub and then point an ezinearticle at it. If it needs an extra boost then I'll add a few more backlinks but usually they do pretty good.

My squidoo lenses don't rank well on their own but with a few backlinks they do ok. But I'm not a fan of the new changes so don't use them much anymore.

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[traceye]

Originally Posted by acedalright

Well, if your hub has more than a couple of links their nofollow, so that's out for one and squidoo is not far behind.

I far and away prefer ezinearticles because you write the article and forget about it, no updating lenses or hubs to keep them "fresh", what a jib.

If you author hub score is less than 75 or your hub is under 49 then links are no follow otherwise they are dofollow. It's pretty easy to get your score above this.

You are allowed up to two links to the same domain but no more or your hub will be flagged. But you can have more than two links, just not to the same domain.

Tip: add a youtube video or a poll and your hubscore will improve.

[itcoll]

ezine is the best.hubpages was ranking well and has slightly got reduction in this ranking - this happens when ever G finds that articles are unmoderated.But it was not a big slap but still i could find that articles in hubpages are ranking less now adays than earlier.That is the truth.

[John Hixson]

I tired Squidoo before and struggled with it, whilst I have always done well with EZA.

BUT I have revisited Squidoo over the last few days and initial reactions are positive. I've managed to rank at least on the front page for a number of keywords I was targetting (admitedly no competition of note SEO knowledge wise), and thats after just a few days and 30 mins backlinking work per word.

I also love how you can have a number of in article links (I haven't tried any direct affiliate marketing links as I am trying to drive traffic to build a community in the first instance) which greatly increases the ctr over the end of article link on EZA.

As has been mentioned you can add an RSS feed to the squidoo lens which is likely to be a great help with regards keeping things fresh/indexing new posts etc.

The 'instant' thing, compared to having to wait for EZA's approval is great, as is the ability to quickly edit things you want (adding in another backlink because there is another keyword you want anchor text for, etc, etc).

Plus the rules re promotion are more lax than EZA so you can talk about what you are doing (in my case community building) and not just leave it for a paragraph or two in the resource box at the end.

As I say though it has only been a few days and my own experience with EZA has been hugely positive when it comes to ranking and driving traffic so I am far from saying replace EZA efforts with Squidoo, what I am saying is make sure that you are consider the positives and negatives of each platform in relation to what you are trying to do.

P.s. keep meaning to try hubpages but not done so yet

[TheRealDomainer]

ezinearticles 1
hubepages 2
squidoo 3

[markshields]

I know someone who does a new hubpage everyday and has over 60 of them now and swears by the traffic from them

[rmedlin2]

There are constantly new web 2 properties popping up on the internet. Although I do think some of them i.e. ezine articles, squiddoo, etc. have more authority in Googles eyes I think it's important to spread out your content over many of these web 2 pages. Also do some research on your niche and see what web 2 properties tend to rank on Google for your keywords. This could give you some insight on which ones you should be targeting.

[FriendlyRob]

I don't know what you have to do to get any traffic from squidoo. I have had about 40 lenses and I receive practically no google traffic. For my time and effort, its ezinearticles.

[Mohammad Afaq]

I think ezine articles is the best and then comes squidoo and third comes hubpages on my list.

Ezine Articles gets you the most traffic but it is difficult to get your article into the site and it needs to be original but if I were you I would have used all three to get most amount of traffic.

[Dean Shainin]

I've never been able to out rank EzineArticles for getting the top Google spot for the keyword phrase I'm targeted and getting my content indexed under 24 hours once my article has been approved.

1. EZineArticles
2. Squidoo
3. Hubpages

[NetworxNZ]

Originally Posted by Success With Dany

Thanks Darren! Can you elaborate "I also like to tie the hubpage and squidoo lense together with rss and then both (if applicable) back to the money site - this seems to be the most effective way of cascading links in such a way to maximise the number of backlinks to your money sites."

Thanks!

Hey Dany,

Sorry about the delay in getting back to you on this one - re the thread prior to this - no I would not copy and paste as what will happen is hubpages will drop the hub fairly soonb after they discover duplicate content - this is why they rank well with google - they have become very dragonian around orginality of content.

So in order, I'd do the ezine articles - then create a reworded version of that for hub pages and squidoon and have all three point back to your money site. I do a lot of stuff withy blogs feeding money sites as well so I also ensure that I have the following

Blog post ------------>RSS--------->Squidoo Lense----------->RSS---------->HubPage

and then link the hub page back to the blog / money site as well.

Hope this helps!

Darren

[John Hixson]

Originally Posted by rob123

I don't know what you have to do to get any traffic from squidoo. I have had about 40 lenses and I receive practically no google traffic. For my time and effort, its ezinearticles.

I found that first time. But looking back again now that I know more about keywording it is actually easy... the 6 I created in the last few days are ranking in the top 10 for my chosen keywords AND, judging by the info, for a lot of long tail.

Indeed that is ANOTHER advantage Squidoo has over EZA - it gives you the stats for what keywords people used to find you, which you can then use to edit and target more if worth it, especially as it is so easy to then alter the lens.

I found some basic backlinking (social bookmarking) got me flying up the rankings.

How it rates in competitive niches I'm not sure but from my own point of view I am impressed with it on 2nd viewing.

With your previous 40 did you try it with proper keyword research and backlinking, and in what niche? I ask not to be condescending but to see whether this Squidoo effect is simply because of my niche or if those that have struggled with it haven't given it the same treatment I have just started. Perhaps not brilliantly explained but I'm sure you see what I mean!