I am no longer going to use hubpages because it is too cumbersome to use, I have been successful with Squidoo which I have used in combination with hubpages and it is much easier, However I have traffic from both hubpages and Squidoo. Is there something else like Qauidoo that is easier to use and will allow links to you site, and blogs without counting them as excessive. All I wanted to do is make a link to my home page, my blog on my site and 1 off site blog and they say it is excessive promotional links. Even if I only use links to my site and the off site blogs they complain. Also when I tried to delete extra links they are still there and counted gains me. Anyway I am looking for something more like Squidoo where this hassles to not happen. I hope to replace what I am doing with hubpages with something like Squidoo in addition to it, There are other problems with hubpages I don't have time to get into
Hubpages are better. We get better traffic and indexed to fast in google compared to Squidoo.. But only the genuine content will accepted in Hubpages. Otherwise it wil ban your account....
I used Squidoo and it did give me a lot of traffic at some point. Never used hubpages but have been thinking of creating a Link Wheel in the near future.
Since you looking for site that look like squidoo. I would suggest you tried out launchtags coz IMO its better than hubpages.
Take a look at InfoBarrel and see if it fits the bill. I haven't used it but have heard it's similar to HubPages.