I am a programmer. Despite my previous websites, I started learning and working on internet marketing with Squidoo and felt it was uncontrollable.

I eventually chose to build my own blog. But now I think I was totally wrong because my site is a blog. What I am doing is BLOGGING but not e-commerce. I have been spent a lot of time creating posts instead of building functions and design.

I hope I could treat Squidoo and Hubpages, whatever I use, more seriously in the beginning.

Thanks
Preetam

Also Keyword Research is vital if you are trying to get traffic from the big search engines and not just through Hubpages.

I myself, have been very successful with the promoting of Clickbank Products within Hubpages and in fact in the last couple months I have seen those profits absolutely skyrocket!

And I’ll surely be more active on the forums. Thanks for the tips!

You have some valid points on your comment.

Many people use hubpages along with other publishing sites like Squidoo, blogs, social networking and bookmarking sites as part of a larger niche marketing plan. Essentially placing backlinks in multilple places to drive traffic to their desired targets. It’s not easy and can be a lot of work but, if done well, can generate substantial traffic and revenue.

I have done a little math regarding the number of articles actually needed to realize $100 per month on Xomba or Hub or combined. The magic number is 600 articles.

And, as you know, there can always be a wildcard (one particular article) which will propel you on the fast-track to more revenue. I like to call this the “dice-roll” for Adsense revenue.

Your points are absolutely true. Using writing platforms to write will not make you wealthy fast — unless you get a winning dice-roll, but, for most I believe its 600 articles + 2 to 4 years of regular posting, and don’t forget to bookmark.

I use my website in a way like a pathway between Xomba and Hub using links and extensions of the articles content…

So, listen to Mr. Scocco, he speaks truth….

And, Daniel thanks for following MyrtTheTurtUSA on Twitter….

I wonder why Google banned Squidoo and why Google approve HubPages.com, i’m a little bit confuced on it.

i feel little proud of writting on my own blog

I’ve heard a lot of good things about Hub Pages and that it’s good for getting some dolif traffic and back links, but i still think you’ll be better of with a own hosted blog or website where you have 100% control.

I didn’t do much split testing but at the time when I was using both squidoo and hubpages (about a year ago) for driving traffic to another website, my hubs were ranked higher than squidoo lenses. But it really means nothing, depends on your niche and keywords.

There’s another thing… as far as I know it’s against hubpages rules to publish content that is not original.

You are much better off using such basic platforms as blogger.

Thanks for the tips!

Although it is a lot of work, some folks do earn $1-2k/mo, not bad if you don’t have much else going on.

For me, I’ve used Squidoo and eHow to help drive traffic for my sites. Kinda like killing two birds with one stone.

I didn’t know that having a score over 75 would make your links dofollow. It sounds like that could make it worth your time to increase your PR/SERP.

If you are writing different content for your hubpage for backlinks, why not just write slightly better work and try to secure some guest posts? I would think the link would be more valuable and the traffic is already there…

You mentioned the backlinks. But the referrals are important as well. My HubPages articles bring the maximum referrals to my site.

What I normally do is write part of an article in HubPages while dropping a link there to my site for the rest.

However I do agree with your contention that one should have contents in his own site.