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Is HubPages or Squidoo lenses any good?

by AkosBlog
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Hi everyone,

I just wanted to ask does any of the two really work? I mean in traffic generation or in income generation.
Thanks in advance.

Akos
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    Any response?
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  • Profile picture of the author Margo Tuul
    depends what you want to promote.

    It can be waste of time also. Both, Squidoo and Hubpages have some really weird rules and they shut down pages because THEY think it's a spam. But it's not...
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    • Profile picture of the author AkosBlog
      Originally Posted by Margo Tuul View Post

      depends what you want to promote.

      It can be waste of time also. Both, Squidoo and Hubpages have some really weird rules and they shut down pages because THEY think it's a spam. But it's not...
      Thanks for the tips. Yes, I agree. I created a hub on hubpages.com and I was about to add content when I received an email from them saying it's spam.
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  • Profile picture of the author webapex
    HubPages or Squidoo lenses are just 2 of many social freebies you can use to generate backlinks, one warrior said he mainly used hub pages to accelerate his adsense payout rate they have a 60/40 click split on adsense and amazon ads. Your links are doFollow with a decent profile rating of 75+.

    Their page building tools and easy adsense/amazon registration help makes it an easy place for a beginner to get their feet wet.
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    • Profile picture of the author Az Ozegbe
      Originally Posted by webapex View Post

      HubPages or Squidoo lenses are just 2 of many social freebies you can use to generate backlinks, one warrior said he mainly used hub pages to accelerate his adsense payout rate they have a 60/40 click split on adsense and amazon ads. Your links are doFollow with a decent profile rating of 75+.

      Their page building tools and easy adsense/amazon registration help makes it an easy place for a beginner to get their feet wet.
      Thanks man,I agree with you.
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  • Profile picture of the author OnlineMarketingSys
    Originally Posted by John McEachern View Post

    For me, HubPages is decent for a PR-0 backlink. That's about it. I don't use them much because I recall them giving me static over the number of backlinks I'd try to pack in there, so I bailed on them.

    Squidoo, for me, wasn't fun or easy to work with - and I just wanted to use it for a backlink.
    Don't take this the wrong way, but you are sorta not seeing the whole picture, if you just consider it in terms of backlinking. One of the main benefits to these authority sites is, they are on high PR domains and the sites can get ranked more easily than your lesser PR or fresh site.

    You can get a lot of visitors and take additional spots on the SERPs if you build up your backlinking to these properties, and write compelling information with a call to action back to your site.

    This is especially true with longer tail keywords with less competition, and still quite a bit of search volume. You can easily get 25,50 or 100+ extra visitors a day through these "feeder" sites, if you write compelling information and a strong call to action
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  • Profile picture of the author joe12joe
    Hubpages and squidoo lenses really works. Both are having a great significance in SEO and i always recommend them. Although, you have to be careful that hubpages doesnt accept any duplicate content or the content quality below average but in squidoo lenses, you can add videos and links and can experiment alot.
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    • Profile picture of the author Dahlia Valentine
      I don't use Squidoo. But I do use HubPages.

      In fact, I use HubPages strictly to promote products on Amazon. Many of my hubs are ranked #1 for the most obscure, silly looking phrases that I was really just experimenting with.

      One of those experiments generated $700 in Amazon affiliate sales by the third month, so I took the formula and applied it to other hubs. Needless to say, it works.

      I don't do any backlinking on those hubs. It's really just a matter of knowing how to pick your keywords. That's actually the hardest part.

      Sometimes it's not the most obvious keywords that work. You really have to think the buying process through. And I try to focus on secondary customers, instead of thinking of people who primarily buy the product.

      Once you find that psychological sweet spot, you're in the money.
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  • Profile picture of the author TheHawk
    If you are going for a high competition niche then it will be tough to generate traffic and also money.. If you are on to a less competition then you can generate a good amount of money..

    For high competition you will have to put some effort to get it indexed high in search engine..
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  • Profile picture of the author EliteIM
    I would say that even after being misused by certain section of Internet Marketers, both these websites (Squidoo in particular) have still not lost their authority. Google still ranks them as I have seen on several low to mid competitive keywords. But given a choice, I would rather use Ezine Articles
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  • Profile picture of the author Fun to Write
    I have used hubpages on and off and have gotten good traffic from them. Never made a dime in Adsense sharing, but I mainly use them to direct traffic to my own website or blogs with linking inside the article. I guess they can be used for backlinks too.
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  • Profile picture of the author acopson
    Hubpages and Squidoo can give you a high PR ranking backlink to your site, this is how they are best used.
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