Hubpages or Ezinearticles???

I am a fan of hubpages. sorry but i have not really tried ezinearticles to tell you which one is best.

Best regards

IMHO, hubpages can both be used as a linking source and another income source for its ad program, although the share of you hub's revenue is tiny.

I recommend both the the hubpages get a lot of traffic and the article ezines get ranked well in the search engines

Hi Swatz,

Unfortunately, two of the answers above, however well-meaning, have just got their facts wrong and misinformed you.

The reality is that the two (HubPages and Ezine Articles) have totally, radically, completely different purposes.

Which one you should use depends on what you're using it for: what your purpose is - what you're trying to achieve.

Ezine Articles is an article directory. It has only one purpose: to make your articles available to others who are looking for content to re-publish. It won't (and shouldn't) be of any value to you for gathering customer-traffic (if it is, you're doing something wrong), and its own backlinks have no real value for you. Those are not what it's there for. This little thread makes it really clear: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ries-work.html

If you're thinking of posting your content on websites that belong to other people (EZA, Hub, or whomever), that little thread - including the links inside it - is "essential reading" first, I'd say.

HubPages is a whole different thing. It isn't an article directory at all. It's a "Web 2.0 site" on which you can build pages, without ever being able to own or control them, without being able to re-publish content that's already on your site, without being able to use affiliate links, and always subject to their ever-changing terms of service and their sometimes weird interpretations of them. I used to use it just as part of my backlinking strategy, but gave it up over 2 years ago and I'm very glad I did.

Always read the terms of service carefully, before posting on other people's sites.



Thankfully, this is completely wrong. And that would be a disadvantage, anyway: an article directory is the last place one would want one's potential customers to find through a search engine. That's not what they're there for at all. You, too, will be helped by reading the little thread linked to just above.





Sorry, but this is just nonsense - it's pure fiction: one of the "urban myths" of internet marketing.

Article directories (including EZA) do not require previously unpublished content.

All my 1,600+ articles in EZA had been published in various other places (some of them in many other places, some already ranking highly on Google), in identical form, prior to being submitted there.

EZA themselves specifically invite their authors to submit previously published articles (provided they're long enough and comply with the editorial guidelines, obviously). It says so openly on their site, in their blog, in the introductory emails they send out to new authors, in their article marketing course, and so on.

There are 100+ threads here discussing and clarifying this point, many of them with links to EZA's site, blog and so on. This one will start your collection, if you like.

hello friend ..
i am going to compare them and selection is in your hand:
Hubpage :
Get index in google in less then 24 hour for some article (based on my experience)
They allow only unique and quality contents
You can get backlinks as well as a source of income
hubpage hate affiliate links
most probably hubpage articles are found on first or second page of google
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Ezine article :
take a little time for index but not in less then 24 hour
now a day i read many post about ezine article that ezine is going to die(not based on my experience)

ezine article is a directory (it allow normal quality or low quality unique content )

by the way i want to make it clear that i like hubpage and squidoo.
and i recommend squidoo more then hubpage. because squidoo allow affiliate links, good in design, allow backlinking for their article by posting article links in SQUID forum and also a good source of income.

According to my rating:

1.SQUIDOO(page pank 8)
2.Hubpage(page rank 7)
3.ezine article, Article bases, article alley and wiki how.

hope it will help you
thanks friend

EZA wants ORIGINAL, not unique content. it was stated in their editorial.

I personally prefer guest blogging than article directories. these blogs/websites already have established, loyal traffic. so if you're confused to choose EZA or web 2.0, you might want to try guest posting as your traffic alternative....sorry for a bit off topic, just my .02

Why not use both? It's best to publish on your own site first, but then you can also publish it on as many article directories, Web 2.0 properties, social networks, etc. that you want.

I would suggest you to drop EzineArticles as I have experienced major drop in traffic from EzineArticles.com

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<< You know, it's always possible for people to say, to any question here, "Why not do that as well?". It sounds so logical, and positive, and constructive, doesn't it? But not always. One has to face the fact that all activities are not equal. Some are a waste of time compared with other, better things one could be doing instead. "Why not do both?" is actually not some wonderful panacea for all these situations! >>

Alexa, I agree that it's not a panacea for every issue. Granted, my answer was glib and not well thought out, especially since I haven't used Hub Pages myself in a very long time. However, in general, I think the strategy of "why not do both/all" is more productive than spending a lot of time worrying about which is better. Most of the time (there are exceptions, I admit), you don't lose anything by doing X, Y and Z, even if Y and Z turn out to be less effective than X. You're wasting time, of course, but when it comes to publishing, how long does it take to send an article somewhere? You make a good point, though, about checking TOS first, so you don't get banned from a site!

HubPages does not review articles prior to publication. This means that there is the possibility of more "spam" or other "junk" articles being published. Since the web is an array of connections, the quality articles written by an author may be lumped together with lower quality articles. However, HubPages does police its site, so the proliferation of junk or link loaded articles can be checked, although there is no guarantee that such measures will be sufficient. However, pre-review of articles is no guarantee of quality either.
Although Ezines does review article prior to publication, the review is primarily a technical one, ensuring that the writer did not place more links than allowed within the article, and that those links are not placed too high or in the wrong manner. While grammatically awful articles are rejected, there are plenty of "worthless" articles published on Ezines as well. Serious writers need not worry about ever having an article rejected based on the quality of the writing, nor the topic.


And, from my personal expirience, my vote goes to Ezines.

Hey Swatz89,

Just my two cents here. It is good that you are asking what works "better." Each of them are tools for you to use - no more - no less. Each has a purpose and if you are familiar with the "effectiveness" of Squidoo vs. HubPages vs. EZA with each specific kind of campaign then you either need to have PLAN and CRAFT your postings to achieve your GOALS or just blast stuff out and wait and see.

In my humble experience no 10 IM'ers are going to agree on which is the best way to go. Everyone has different experiences. The web is not static and the plain fact is that some campaigns may work better for some subject matter vs. other subject matter - depends on saturation, topicality and demand trending, etc. All the sophisticated honing and sharpening of your campaign can come in time. The best way to "know for sure" what works best for you with your specific campaign is to post in each and monitor and measure and tweak.

I prefer to use all high value unique content to measure results. This is one of the few variables I can control when trying to assess measuring success and it eliminates the possibility of discounted duplicate content while hopefully maximizing views due to freshness.

Study each of your targets for your chosen niche. Form a plan. Deploy your campaign in all three and measure and tweak. Repeat your success.

NB: Do not expect that the same approach will work with all your niches. You have to adapt to the terrain and stay nimble.

Good luck.

As of to date, Hubpages gets more traffic than EzineArticles, but i wouldn't rule EZA just yet. I think they can rebound from Panda. If you really want a good answer... use both of them.

Ezinearticles is more better.Hubpages hates external links and requires unique content.

Hubpages wants original content. If its been previously published elsewhere, it will alert you.

But if its content already in hub pages and you now post it in ezinearticles,you shouldn't have a problem. Ezine isn't fussy as long as you are the author.

Pls note that hubpages traffic already has alot of natural traffic has it is a network. Ezinearticles on the other hand is an article directory where webmasters go to find articles to republish on their websites or send to their list. This can send you loads of traffic.

lol -- , thought I'd throw some stats in to make this even more interesting. Check the Compete stats on both sites below:

hubpages.com 9,794,034 UVs for November 2011 | Compete
ezinearticles.com 4,988,702 UVs for November 2011 | Compete

Cheers!

This past 3 month I have been using hubpages and squidoo for my articles.. Since the google panda, ezinearticles have dropped drastically.

There is a thread about eza, read thru the middle, there were screenshots about the decline.

http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...continues.html

Hope this helps.

is it for link building or just getting traffic to the article?

Neither one is worth your time anymore, IMO. Try Squidoo or World Village. I have good luck with them. Buzzle is another good one, but they are stringent on what content they accept.

Thanks for the comparisons,they will be useful going forward
John.

Hi Swatz,

To answer your question - It will depend on what you are trying to achieve.

EzineArticles - EzineArticles is an Article Directory. This is where webmasters and publishers go to find content for their sites and ezines. They will re-publish your content, along with a link back to another article/landing page of yours. You first publish the article on your site and wait for it to get indexed in google. You then submit it to EzineArticles (obviously you cannot do this if you are using it on hubpages) with a link to another page of yours placed within the resource box. It is best not to have it link back to the original article, but it must link back to a page/site with the same/your author name.

If you find your content being used anywhere incorrectly, you will need to contact the blog owner to correct it. If they do not respond you can file a DMCA takedown with them, their website host and/or google (to get them de-indexed).

Do not bother to try and get search engine traffic or backlinks directly from EzineArticles. Your traffic and links will come from the blogs etc on which your article is republished. These are (hopefully ) going to rank higher than your article in Ezine, and most will already have established traffic and readers anyway.

Since google's Panda update, sites perceived to be 'content farms' are no longer ranking highly. There is some debate over what defines a content farm, but basically they are sites with large amounts of content designed primarily to game search engines, and generate adsense income. Their articles are usually relatively short, provide no real value, are loaded with targeted keywords, and surrounded by adsense advertisements. Google now applies a domain-wide penalty to these sites, in essence removing their content from the first page of the search engine results. Since (In google's opinion) EzineArticles and Hubpages both fit this category, they have taken a hit in google's search engine results.

Not to worry though - EzineArticles still gets something like 5 million views per month, which is not to be sneezed at! This, however, doesn't mean that you can just place an article on there and wait for it to be syndicated. You will need to actively contact and promote it to blog owners in your niche, until you [at least] start to get well known and develop a following of publishers.

Alexa Smith is the resident expert re EzineArticles (you may have noticed ) and I have learnt a lot by following her advice/threads. No doubt she will appreciate the fact that someone is actually listening lol, and I am even more sure that if wrong, I will soon be corrected!

HubPages - This, I do have a little more first-hand knowledge of, plus I have a bit of a soft spot for Hubpages. It is a community of 'writers', most of who are trying to make money from adsense, or Amazon. Personally I do not like adsense, google etc, and I have never bothered to get an adsense account. Relying on google for anything is kind of like gambling IMO, but hey - each to their own. (Having said that, there are still people making huge $$$ from Adsense by creating 'Authority Sites', but that's a whole other story! ) Thankfully though, you can have affiliate links at Hubpages, but not to clickbank (see my post#30 above). They also specify no links to ebooks but, since the use of Kindle ebooks is on the rise, I (/you ) would have to check if this still applies.

Since the Panda update most Hubbers experienced a drastic loss of income from adsense, due to the fact that google now treats HubPages as a 'content farm'. Since a domain-wide 'penalty' applies, it doesn't matter whether hubpages content was published on another domain first, or hubpages first - it is still not doing well in google's search engine. Most hub owners are reporting that their stolen/republished content is ranking higher than their original content, and once again, this is because google is treating Hubpages as a content farm. To combat this, and attempt to gain back their google rankings, Hubpages has introduced a lot of new rules and stricter monitoring.

Yes, you could once have 'duplicate' content on HubPages, but it was given a low 'hubscore' and was not allowed to have any outgoing links. Since panda, having your content anywhere else on the web is against their terms of service. If their software detects it on other domains it will send you a warning and place a red copyright symbol next to the article listing in your hubpages dashboard. You are not penalised at first because they realise that in most cases someone has stolen/copied and pasted it, so they give you time to get it removed. According to their blog, you are given two weeks (to file a DMCA takedown etc) before your hub is automatically unpublished.

There are reports that HubPages software is not picking up all infringements, so you may get away with republishing it elsewhere for a while. But it is definitely frowned upon by most people on Hubpages, because they believe that 'duplicate content' is the reason why google is penalising the whole site. In actual fact, Hubpages most probably wants it removed so that google has 'no choice' but to show their content instead of a scraped version. Oh, and did I mention it is also against their terms of service anyway?

If your content is not stolen/ copied, but instead detected as previously published on another domain, they will automatically unpublish your hub until it is removed (and de-indexed) from the other domain.

So is publishing on HubPages still worth it? IMO - Yes, if you are willing to get involved in the community. Hubpages is a community (similar to WarriorForum) and like WF - if you try to spam or take shortcuts you won't get far. There are many human moderators, plus software to detect infringements. You may get away with breaking the rules for a while, but it will catch up with you eventually. The benefit of becoming part of the community is that you can easily profile your potential buyers, and target your hubs around their frustrations and needs. You can develop a good rapport with, and gain followers - and we all know that people buy from those who they know, like and trust. Not to mention that every time you publish a new hub your followers will receive an email and you will have instant traffic. So, in a way, you have a ready-made list without the cost of an autoresponder, etc.

There is also an in-house system for promoting your hubs to other hubbers - if your hub is quality, and you are participating in the community (asking/answering questions, leaving comments, using the forum) you will receive a high hubber and hub score, be recognized as an authority, and get a lot of traffic. So in that way it is similar to WarriorForum, although most hubbers are amateur writers, and not marketers. There is a lot of confusion/ conflicting information there about what google wants, and how to make money. (Come to think of it, that is also a lot like WF! ) My point is that there is an opportunity for people who know what they are doing/talking about to gain a strong following there.

Further good news is that Hubpages still gets millions of unique views per month (roughly double that of EzineArticles and slightly more than Squidoo), plus the writers and staff are doing all that they can to recover their search engine rankings for the long term. You could currently rank highly there by using backlinks, but it would take quite a bit of effort. In that regard, hubpages doesn't provide any real benefit over owning your own site at the moment. In fact it would (probably) take less effort to rank your own site at the current time. If you are looking for search engine traffic, and don't want to start your own site, Squidoo will be much easier to rank. I have seen many Squidoo lenses ranking on the first page, but haven't noticed any Hubs there lately.

Either way - IMO both EzineArticles and Hubpages still have their uses and, if used correctly, can both be very effective. I also agree that owning your own site at some stage is still a must, and something that you should eventually be aiming for.

Hope that helps! :p

Max.

Personally after the panda update, they haven't been getting me as much traffic

I love hubpages a lot more than ezine articles. Both have guidelines and rules for allowable content, but hubpages allows more freedom in my experience. So many of my unique submissions to ezine articles have been denied for really picky things. I submitted a review and they denied it because it was negative toward the product! Not every review is going to be positive people, unbelievable. Also, there is a community at hubpages that is very talkative. People will actually read what you write and comment on it. It's a much better atmosphere.

Oops, forgot one important thing. At hubpages they provide modules that you can place within your hubs. This allows you to add your rss feed, videos or even ebay items to your hubs. They even let you earn for the adsense clicks on your hub if you set it up. It's really sweet.

Hubpages although less effective after Panda is the best in my experience. Ezine articles keeps hitting an obstruction with Google in the organic SERPs.