Conversion Junction

The internet is full of social networking blogspots and communities, but two of the best out there are Hub Pages and Squidoo. Both of these social Journal networks seem to have an unfair advantage when it comes to ranking well with the search engines. Along with Word Press, Ezine Articles, and of course Google Blogger, these two communities can get indexed almost immediately. The question is not whether they are effective forms of marketing but rather, which one lands the hardest punch?

Hub Pages is a community for writers, bloggers, or anyone wanting to share something interesting with the written word. Your blogs at Hub Pages are known as hubs. You can choose from different modules to enhance the look and originality of your hubs. Hub Pages allows you to add you adsense, amazon, and Ebay ID to you hubs to earn income from anyone who clicks or purchases from your links. You can also add keywords to your hubs to make it easier for the search engines to locate you.

Squidoo is also a communtiy for writers and very similar to Hubpages. The main difference between the two is that Squidoo refers to its pages as lens. Just like Hub Pages, you can build unlimited lens on any topic while earning additional income from adsense, amazon, and Ebay. Squidoo is very Google friendly and allows you to add up to 40 keywords to your lens to enhance you search engine traffic. As you can see, these two powerhouse, high pr social communities share several similar characteristics; So what are the differences?

The differences begin with the earnings from your income modules. Squidoo has shared earning policy which divides the total earnings between the whole Squidoo community depending on the ranking of your lens. The higher your lens rank, the bigger portion of the earnings you receive. Hub Pages on the other hand allows you to keep 100% of your earnings from adsense, amazon, and Ebay.

Another difference are the rules and regulations. Hub pages is very strict on self promotion or over promotion of afffiliate products. They will ban you quickly if your intentions are to only provide content for the sole purpose of spamming. Squidoo also discourages spammers, but they are more inviting to internet marketers who are intereseted in creating lens to promote their affiliate products or programs. I guess you can say that Squidoo gives you a wider freedom of speech. Hub Pages also does not allow adult content, whereas Squidoo does.

Both Squidoo and Hub Pages offer a place for likeminded individuals to bring their visions, outlooks, products or artistic expressions to the World Wide Web. The question of which one packs the hardest punch in my opinion, can only be left up to each individual. I personally use both. Since both communities are free to join and free to interact, I find it that it makes sense not to discrimate. The decision between one over the other would be the equivalent of leaving money on the table.