Of course, article marketing being one of the prime ways of getting targeted traffic (or sale), when do you actually use squidoo or hubpages? Do you ever use one? I am confused about this because many tell squidoo and hubs are great ways to get traffic and backlinks. Does anyone here have a website and a squidoo (or hubpages) page for the same niche and affiliate product? When are they supposed to be used?
I'm not sure I even understand the question.. you should put your articles onto squidoo and hubpages because they rank faster and better than your blog -> free traffic for you (almost) instantly. You should make a new lens for each of your articles. Look at Squdioo if it was ezine articles because basically we use it for the exact same reason!! But Squidoo is more flexible: you can put up more links, more content, multimedia, etc.
That's why I am confused So it is advisable to have squidoo lenses too? Even if you have a website? Btw, only one article per squidoo lens?
The way I have been doing it is.. writing eight or more articles, written differently, all pointing to the same squidoo page. I think if you have different points of clicking (different routes to that page) you will be ranked higher... so if you get hits on your squidoo page that have come from many different places rather than the same place, it is good. You can also make a few other squidoo pages and link them to your main page or use say three or four leading to one main/best one. I think.
I understand the tactics of using a squidoo page but my confusion here is "If you have a website promoting a certain niche, When do you create a squidoo or hub page???" Because my understanding is that squidoo is used when there is no monetary investment required. They also act like a website right? So you need to promote them too. Why not put the content of squidoo page on your website itself?
I always put it sandwiched between the articles and the sales page, using different or more of the same keywords on the squidoo page. With the extra hits the squidoo page gets from articles the squidoo page itself gets elevated with the ranking and might lead to searches finding the squidoo page, it has the squidoo.com name as well which helps. I think squidoo is mainly for people without a website and with a smaller budget that are promoting other peoples products. If someone clicks through a bad squidoo page and lands on a CB sales page, that same sales page will get a hit and elevate it in the rankings. I think.
i only use these properties for backlinks ... that is, i have my own website, but posting content on these sites helps build up by backlinks (eventually)
I don't use Squidoo as much as many but I do use it for backlinks. I have also used it on a site that was having trouble being indexed by G, a few days later it was indexed. Don't know if Squidoo made the difference or not but I had been trying to get it indexed for two weeks and then four days after the Squidoo page went up it was indexed.
Oki, so I understand that squidoo and hubs are used for gaining backlinks through your own network. That's a nice piece of information and something that I was looking for. Anyone who uses it for any other purpose?
So which one of these would be better? 1. Article >> Squidoo/Hub >> Pre-sell page >> Landing Page 2. Article >> Squidoo/Hub >> Landing Page I would imagine that a lens should be treated as a sort of pre-sell page, so then am I right in assuming that it would be overkill to pre-sell twice? I think this would annoy me if I was on the other end of things.
This is what you can do: If you have a website: write an article, submit it to ezine articles linking back to your site. once that article is submitted, do a rewrite of the article maybe adding some small stuff, then publish on Squido linking back to your site. You may also put your products on your squido page if you choose to. If you can, do a rewrite and publish on hubpages linking to your site and to your squido page
You can use Squidoo to drive PageRank and traffic to your landing page, or you can use the lens itself as a landing page. Either way, good content on a Squidoo lens will often rank well in the search engines.
Thank you to both waxman1000 and Cryogenius - awesome advice, that really helps put it into perspective.
Yes. I use them. They both have their advantages and disadvantages. There are a lot less rules with Squidoo (ie you can put in as many links as you want to as many different sites as you want etc.) but I find Hubpages ranks highly on Google more easily than Squidoo does.
I use both to earn money. You can use it to try and get traffic THRU the lens/hub. But I get traffic TO the lens/hub.
Squidoo is ok if you work to get it ranked. Hubpages is a waste of time. Even if it is ranking higher, their design is bad for your CTR. Very low Ctr on Hubpages, mainly and because you are not allowed more than two links, no affiliate links, ad their website is more for adsense not poeple promoting affiliate products. Squidoo supports charities while Hubpages is a business(adsense one). So you figure out which one is better in their attitude. I saw somebody who suggest it first article than squidoo than pre-sell page than sale page. This is a bad advice because you will lose many sales this way. Always try three steps advertising. If you do it more than you lose the people interest.
Take a look at this thread too. You may find it interesting: http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=1334864 (Who has made the biggest money on Squidoo)
Because a business supports charity it doesn't make it less of a business. I wouldn't judge a businesses attitude on their charitable efforts. Customer support is far more important when it comes to feeling appreciated as a user.