Traffic - HubPages vs Squidoo
BundleBoy wrote:
When I joined back in April 09, Squidoo were ahead in traffic, but I knew hubpages would catch up (I even wrote a hub on it). The reason being the quality of content here and the awesome community that is more than willing to help.
Squidoo allows a lot of affiliates and there is not real check on what goes on.
Way to go Hubbers!I write on both sites - and to be honest there's not that much difference between the two any more. Squidoo has tightened things up a lot (reducing number of links allowed, not allowing 'sex' sites etc.) Both sites have their pros and cons.
My preference is Hubpages at the moment, but I'm more inclined to think that creating 'sister' sites on both will benefit me more!
The community on Squidoo is similar to here - a lot of helpful people etc. There are more and more quality Lenses being created.
I realize that both sites are competitors, but the internet is a huge place and there's plenty of room for both!
99- Whitney05
- 2273 posts
- Joined: 2 years ago
- Hubs: 670
- Followers: 1867
I'll still vouche for my content doing MUCH better on HubPages. Even similar topics that do poorly on Squidoo do wonderful on HubPages.
Whitney05 wrote:
I'll still vouche for my content doing MUCH better on HubPages. Even similar topics that do poorly on Squidoo do wonderful on HubPages.
Which is why I prefer Hubpages - I get far more traffic here! I guess I use Squidoo to make 'beautiful' lenses, and then come to Hubpages to get 'real' and get some traffic!
95- lindagoffigan
- 254 posts
- Joined: 11 months ago
- Hubs: 773
- Followers: 555
Hubpage writers are responding to analytics that were posted two years ago. It is great to compare Hubpage and Squidoo but in all fairness should not the initial posts be recents so that the current comments would be justifiable. The leading post was initially posted two years ago and hubpage writers are commenting one minute and eighteen minutes ago. This post will be recorded as a response seconds ago to an initial post two years ago.
It is apparent that responses are not alway immediately available to the posts, but current information on the hubpage facts and the squidoo facts should be issued for the real time comments.SimeyC wrote:
BundleBoy wrote:
When I joined back in April 09, Squidoo were ahead in traffic, but I knew hubpages would catch up (I even wrote a hub on it). The reason being the quality of content here and the awesome community that is more than willing to help.
Squidoo allows a lot of affiliates and there is not real check on what goes on.
Way to go Hubbers!I write on both sites - and to be honest there's not that much difference between the two any more. Squidoo has tightened things up a lot (reducing number of links allowed, not allowing 'sex' sites etc.) Both sites have their pros and cons.
My preference is Hubpages at the moment, but I'm more inclined to think that creating 'sister' sites on both will benefit me more!
The community on Squidoo is similar to here - a lot of helpful people etc. There are more and more quality Lenses being created.
I realize that both sites are competitors, but the internet is a huge place and there's plenty of room for both!Ahh SimeyC, I did not know those changes did take place in Squidoo. Good for them.
I find hubpages highly user friendly taking into consideration all other similar types of writing sites and the hub community is very amiable-very much like family type.
95- darkside
- 4730 posts
- Joined: 3 years ago
- Hubs: 218
- Followers: 1127
74- shanekruger
- 181 posts
- Joined: 3 months ago
- Hubs: 26
- Followers: 59
Thanks for sharing useful information.
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Thanks for the link Darkside, it was a very informative read.
Whichever site you use, it's what you make of it.
81- xriotdotbiz
- 12 posts
- Joined: 8 months ago
- Hubs: 26
- Followers: 7
I had joined HubPages for SEO reasons (after the 30 day challenge) but the 100 Hub Challenge opened my eyes to the money making possibilities with HubPages. It changed how I do things not just on HubPages, elsewhere also (building links for my hubs).
A 100 lens challenge would not work on Squidoo because of their pooling of ad dollars.
I still use both but not equally. HubPages is part of my revenue stream now and gets a lot more attention from me now.Great news! I never was interested in Squidoo anyway.
lindagoffigan wrote:
Hubpage writers are responding to analytics that were posted two years ago. It is great to compare Hubpage and Squidoo but in all fairness should not the initial posts be recents so that the current comments would be justifiable. The leading post was initially posted two years ago and hubpage writers are commenting one minute and eighteen minutes ago. This post will be recorded as a response seconds ago to an initial post two years ago.
It is apparent that responses are not alway immediately available to the posts, but current information on the hubpage facts and the squidoo facts should be issued for the real time comments.Very good point.
I have never had much success with Squidoo, it is very spam filled, which in turn reflects poorly on anything you write for them.
Hubpages has a lot of quality content, which in turn reflects well on your content.
I think Squidoo went downhill very quickly, i remember when it used to be alright, but in the space of a year it went from quality, to barely English dross.
94- Georgina_writes
- 24 posts
- Joined: 4 months ago
- Hubs: 46
- Followers: 40
i guess we all like to think that the grass is greener, but I'm really happy with Hubpages. I'm considering Squiddoo too, as I guess it makes sense to put your eggs in as many baskets as possible, but the stats speak for themselves.
I am fairly new, but hubpages is my favorite. i have made more money on e-how, but I feel more like I belong here. I believe this is a great community!
91- mythbuster
- 62 posts
- Joined: 2 years ago
- Hubs: 55
- Followers: 119
darkside wrote:
This article contains very useful information!
Darkside, have you written on what niches each site conveys best? Is there information somewhere about what sorts of content works well for each site, Hubpages vs Squidoo?
