HubPages and Squidoo can both be great money makers, but which one is “better”? Which one should you use?
Well, I’ll be honest with you, I use BOTH. There’s no reason to NOT use both. In fact, I use other sites, too. (Like Weebly, Wet Paint, and others.) But I do tend to focus most of my energy on Squidoo.
There are a couple of reasons for this. First of all, I just find Squidoo’s interface a little cleaner and easier to use. I also find their actual pages more attractive. They do contain a lot of links, but they are well-organized, and the AdSense ads blend in nicely.
On the other hand, HubPages interface seems a little awkward to use. Their pages are cluttered, and the AdSense ads don’t blend. In fact, their method of randomly choosing AdSense styles and colors can make their pages absolutely ugly. HubPages is also very picky about advertising, and you have to be careful to follow their rules. Squidoo is MUCH more relaxed towards marketing.
I also find that my Squidoo lenses tend to rank a little higher than my HubPages hubs. HubPages seems to perform slightly better in MSN for me, but Squidoo does better in Google. Remember, this is just my experience. Yours may be different!
Overall, I vastly prefer working with Squidoo, but I do use both equally. I would prefer to have TWO pages on the front page of Google whenever possible, rather than just one. If I can get a Squidoo lens and a HubPages hub listed on page one for the same keyword, I could potentially get double the traffic.
So the bottom line is this: use both. You may prefer one over the other as I do, but there is absolutely no reason you shouldn’t be using both and getting more traffic. I like to create a mirror on HubPages for every lens I make on Squidoo. (No, I don’t mirror the content!) I just write new content for the same keywords, potentially doubling my search engine listings.
