This is a guest post by Ryan who writes on his personal finance blog – PlantingDollars. Through this post, he is contributing a case study that he did with his articles on two sites – Squidoo and Hubpages, to see which got ranked better on Google in first 24 hrs. It will be interesting to see whether Google “really” loves Squidoo over other sites or it is just a little mythical thing. Let’s get started reading this case study…
I’ve been building websites and blogging for a few years now and somehow had managed not to wander over to squidoo or hubpages. Both sites are easy to set up, offer the possibility to make money, and admittedly get a bit addictive. However, I wanted to see which one ranked better, and caught the eye of Google.
Before I talk about what happened when I used both hubpages and squidoo I’d like to explain…
The Three Reasons I Signed up for Squidoo and Hubpages
1. Backlinks – Squidoo offers dofollow links right off the bat, and hubpages offers dofollow after you build up some notoriety on their site. Either way, you can build links to your blogs and websites with ease every time you create a lens or hub. Backlinks are the key to ranking well so either way, you should probably consider signing up to get some linkage.
2. Unique Topics to Write About – I run several blogs, but what do I do if I want to write a post about “where to find boric acid“? Why would I want to write something like that? Because I see an underutilized niche, however I don’t want to build a whole niche website about this. Creating a lens or a hub is a perfect option that allows me to write pages for the search engines without setting up completely new websites.
3. Income – Your posts have ads which squidoo and hubpages will share with you if someone clicks on them. Pretty neat considering you don’t have to set up any contracts. All you have to do is have a paypal account with squidoo, but with hubpages you’ll need to set up adsense, amazon, kontera, and other types of accounts in order to make some moola.
Comparing the Two
I wrote a post on my personal finance blog about a credit card documentary I watched, called “In debt we trust.” I wanted to do a bit of promoting so I then created a squidoo lens and a hub on hubpages about “credit card documentaries”, both linking back to my main site about the documentary.
They’re very similar posts and talks about practically the same thing, but the difference in results in the first 24 hours really surprised me.
After 24 hours What Did I have?
Hubpages was number 11 for credit card documentaries.
Squidoo was nowhere to be found for the term credit card documentaries.
This is just my first test run to see which site performs better in rankings for similar posts, but I’m already leaning towards hubpages since I’ve seen it rank well already for my other hubs like where to buy boric acid.
This is by no means a complete analysis, just some observations. I’ll be watching over the next few weeks to see which article service is ranking higher to determine where I’ll focus most of my efforts.
Do you use squidoo or hubpages?
Do you like one more than the other, or have seen one rank significantly better than the other? Let us know that by using the comment form below…
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Squidoo has lost its importance but Hub pages it moving towards pinnacle of the career. Hub pages also pay good article writer that is a main interesting aspect.
I am using Squidoo for quite a while and never got any money from ads. I have never tried the hubs before but it is good to know that it exists and i will definitely try it out.
Thanks for the info
Wow 24 hours and Google already had it indexed and ranking 11th!? Doesn’t Google own hubpages? I have always used Squidoo and like the interface, but am considering using Hubpages after reading this blog post. How do you get the links to be followable on Hubpages? What are the requirements? I cannot seem to find them anywhere. Nice blog btw! Just subscribed 🙂
– Sarah
There is no need to compare them they are both useful and effective in there on way.
I’ve been using Squidoo for a few weeks, and built four lenses. So far, only two are indexed. I think I’ll start building some hubs on hubpages to see how tat site works. I must admit I see a lot more hubpages urls at the top of my google search results.
I have always preferred Squidoo services but your articles has explored me a different results.
After the recent google update, your squidoo pages is in the 1st page while ur hubpage is still in thr 2nd page!
Now, it seems that google loves squidoo more!
Both the sites are worth signing up and building your portfolios. Irrespective of the attribute ( nofollow/dofollow) backlink from these two domain counts for sure. Anyways good post.
Result within 24 hours is very, very impressive. I’m not sure about Squidoo but I’ve been leaning more towards Hubpages. The site does not promise fast or huge money by working less so it pays depending on the time and effort we put on the hubs. I’ve seen my folks trying to achieve 100 hubs in 30 days!! its possible for some people but I’ve not taken up even the 30-30 challenge 🙂 but ‘yes’ I work at my own pace and I’m just glad with whatever I’m earning from hubpages. I believe that as long as the content is evergreen its going to rule and by this I mean the content should not get outdated over the years. However, after reading this post I’m curious about Squidoo as well.
What determines when HubPages allows do follow links? # of hubs? Hub score?