Squidoo vs Hubpages?

This is a topic you see a fair number of blog posts, lenses and hubs about but I wanted to see what people on here thought.

I was discussing on another thread the power of Squidoo and Hubpages for backlinks and traffic. Now I tend to prefer Hubpages, even though I like both - whilst the person I was talking with tends to prefer Squidoo.

So what do you think? which do you prefer and why?

My Thoughts

A few thoughts on advantages of both

Squidoo

* Very supportive community
* Can transfer lenses
* Links almost always dofollow
* Few restrictions on number of links
* Don't need an adsense account to start making money

Hubpages

* Tend to rank higher (reason I went to them originally is I kept seeing them in the SERPs when doing keyword research)
* Use your adsense account (means tracking is easy)
* Payment terms clear (never understand Squidoos methods)
* Can use Google analytics (a massive plus in my book)

For me the simple fact that Hubpages tend to rank higher is the clincher, with everything else a nice bonus. Don't get me wrong I love Squidoo as well, and would like a site that did the best of both, but for me Hubpages edges it.

What do you guys think?

 

Hubpages. They are better but tend to disable overly promotional hubs.
But why not do both?

 

For me is both, if instead to choose 1- SQUIDOO~~

 

Both.
But I prefer squidoo

 

I use Hubpages mainly but have recently started using Infobarrel. The Alexa rank has shot up in the last few months and it's still quiet.

 

From a backlink point of view Squidoo is better initially, because you can have an unrestricted backlink immediately. Hub Pages requires your Hub to reach a certain level before the backlinks are no longer nofollow.

Hub Pages does have a better internal linking structure and fewer total external links per page. Eventually your Hubs will be of more value.

But use both.

 

If you can write original content, why do it for other websites? Why not for your own website? Hubpages shows their ads along with yours. You write original content, build links, make your hubs popular and you bring visitors to your hubs - thus Hubpages gains more than you do (in terms of original content + putting their own ads alongside yours). If you can do all that, do it 100% for yourself, don't share your hard work

 

Both are good to use, but if you need to focus in only one of them, go for HUBPAGES.

 

I would recommend Squidoo based solely on its ease of use.

 

You're right I also choose squidoo.
Easy to use and I am more comfortable using it

 

Hubpages is good for me also as it is very old website, if you researched keywords well and then you have posted any articles based on that keywords, you would get good ranking in search engines.

Apart from this there are many affiliate networks to use compared to Squidoo.

You can use
Adsense
Amazon
eBay and some more.

 

It's your personal hubscore that matters. Whilst it is true if a hub drops below a certain score (40 iirc) it goes nofollow almost no hubs do that (I have never had one). It is your own hubscore that matters (think it needs to be above 75 or so)

 

I like them both, but I prefer Squidoo

 

I prefer Squidoo but hubpages is much better in terms of crawling links.

 

I made a page on the Squidoo with a link to my main project and it got pr 3, although I did not make links to it.

 

Squidoo - Hubpages are nofollow unless you continue to put work into them

 

I like them both.

 

out of interest then what is it that makes you prefer Squidoo?

 

to create contextual backlinks that also build PR.

If you have numerous hosting packages, with high PR/trust across diverse IPs then there is little point I agree - but 99% of people on here don't have that.

 

I think Squidoo are better for affiliate marketing as you can add banners ect, but Hubpages are quicker to produce.