HubPages and Squidoo

Links on squidoo are now nofollow.
I would not even bother with it.
Squidoo is run by people who have no clue
about SEO, duplicate content, sales pages, etc.

And I mean completely clueless. But the founders
will still make boatloads of money.

Paul

Links from Squidoo to your site may not hold much value, but you can get your Squidoo pages ranked in Google easily and make money through them.

I think hubpages and squidoo did not help much on ranking your website. just focus on your content and marketing to have a successful website.

Hubpages is leading a major crackdown on low quality articles and hubpages will indeed help you in improving ranking as well as earn some passive income.

Both are useless in my opinion. Hubpages doesn't allow duplicate content (content that I have written. Not plagiarized) and Squidoo is nofollow.

Focus on other strategies. These are old skool methods for SEO.

If your website is linked with any squidoo then you can not get lots benefits. you should publish your content on the tumble. It will give you best results..

I am writing completely unique, quality, original content for HubPages, and were looking to do the same for Squidoo.

I see that it doesn't do much in terms of SEO, both of them, however, I assume it might be of some help in building website's presence and some traffic.

And yes, ALL my hubs are scored at 75, over 1300 words and hitting all those quality marks HubPages are asking for (photos, videos, etc.)

In some ways Squidoo and Hubpages are still helpful in your SEO efforts because you can post content there, you'll just need a good content to post there...

You must also be careful of the links you build for your squidoo lens, if they see spammy links to a lens they will lock it.

So we already established that HubPages provide do-follow links for hubs with the score of 75+.

Any update on Squidoo? Is there any way to get do-follow from them?

both are very helpful esp with regards on traffic or visitors, create a good content, layout and followers then that's it.

I kinda like hubpages. Put up my first article. Got 50 views today. It was a little confusing, because at first it was 'denied', and then I noticed it was up and 'featured'. That was very confusing, but clearly it's there...

My score is 70.

Also links to my Adsense apparently. This seems like it could really be useful.

Both were good for seo, but now mainly they can be utilized for backlinking and free traffic generation to your site, where you can also build a list but they doesn't have much importance for seo as before.

I use to be a big fan of Hubpages but regardless of their linking strategy it violates one of my primary rules:

control

I need to have control over the website I'm posting content to. Control over layout, comments, onsite optimization, you name it. On the other hand, I think the site is fantastic for testing purposes.

Hubpages and Squidoo don't like Internet Marketers. Had 1000 word excellent detailed articles with images deleted and know many others that did as well.

Squidoo only has less than 600k pages indexed. There are probably 5 million + lenses in existence that Google doesn't know or care about.

Hubpages is like another web2.0 property. You can piggyback off the authority from the subdomain but the fact that it can go no follow, and worse deleted make it one of the more time intensive ways to build links with not much upside and decent risk.

In short, Squidoo and Hubpages would be good for side income vs an SEO strategy at this point. I know because I had 700 Squidoo lenses (all unique content, etc) making around $100 a month but the account went *poof*, and many lenses started to become deindexed due to their filter (only a handful of every lense created will remain in thier index)

Think of Hubpages as Blogspot. Both platforms offer some link juice, and some earning potential, but hubpages is heavily moderated. Squidoo has become a clubhouse, where only a select few "like" each other lenses and keep them at the top in the 600k or so index.

Why do you guys bother playing games with these types of sites (HubPages, Squidoo, EZA, etc...)?

Those types of sites are milking you people for all you've got while they bank big time from your free content for the next 20 years.

hey all, I am getting so confused in regards to hubpages... some of you testify to the fact that it works but i am having a hard time getting my page approved because it has one external link to my blog. My blog contains an affiliate link, so I understand that this may be why my page isn't getting approved.

Any tips on linking on hubpages??? Is there a proper way to include external links???

many thanks in advance!!!

If your content is unique and attractive on HubPages and Squidoo then you'll get a quality backlinks for your website, and you site SERP must be increased.

Squidoo and hub pages both are good. You can get lots of traffic from the post and also you will get backlinks from high PR sites. So overall I can say it is good. From SEO perceptive it wont help much.