Making Money Online: Squidoo vs Hubpages Which is Better?

Which one will help you in your drive to make writing for a living something you want to do, or at least make it something you believe is possible? This whole idea of making money online can be a challenge. the challenge is also time, you might have to choose one or the other to make the money you want to make online. This is a business world and you might not like to think of it this way, but it is your business and you will need to do the hard work.

Will Squidoo help your business or will hubpages help you? Should you consider at some point writing on both?

What sort of business will you want to build up to get to the dreams you have always wanted to go to for money and money making? See, every writer wants to highlight the work that they have and every writer wants to be a part of a community. Success is on every persons mind in this writing business. They want to make money with the writing that they do, and they will use Google AdSense or Amazon or eBay or any other number of choices to make the money they want.

Yes, it is a business and you need to understand that while one might be better than the other (Squidoo or Hubpages), the other one should not be discounted at all.

There are also other websites out there to consider but these two are ones which you must work with to make money long term.

Yes, you can make money with Squidoo: You need to make lenses as often as possible and you need to edit them frequently but Squidoo makes it easy to find out, which need some help, and when. Keep on writing and you will make money. Unlike HubPages you do not make money directly from clicks on ads but on your lens preformance, so build on that. The higher your lensrank the more likely you will make money. If you focus on three or four lenses and build up fromt here you will see success.

You can add tons of modules: There are thousands of ways to make your lens an original work of your own. You can add almost any module to a lens to improve it.

Squidoo has advice lenses and this will improve your business: many people do not use the help that Squidoo provides in countless lenses. They all say the same thing except in different ways, but all of them tell you to have passion and have fun!

You can add scoops and not just lenses: So there is another way to get your profile up on Squidoo.

You will find new ways to improve: There is a lot of information to begin with but after a bit, you will find helpful lens masters all over the place! There are many who have top 100 lenses and many who will tell you exactly how to make money.

You can write on pretty much any subject: There are no limits, except what you mind places on you!

These and more will tip the balance to Squidoo. It is like any business to be successful you will need to understand the basics, but love what you do and you will see success. You will need to keep an eye on traffic and how backlinks since this is the only way to keep and to build up your lens rank, which is one of the big factors in making money.

Two Big Benefits to Squidoo: You can quickly learn about the health of each of your lenses and you can quickly correct any problem by going to squidultils (in beta) but also you can learn about what increases traffic by using this health check and fixing up areas in big need of help. You can learn about the "value' of your lens, and how to increase it. Again, the more links you have otuside of Squidoo the more traffic you will get. Keep an eye on yoru stats and how many links you have.

Squidoo also lets you know quickly what lenses make you money so that you can build lenses like them and improve your earnings, which is vital in any business. Improvement is key, and you need to think about this when working on your online business. It is about deciding where to focus-- squidoo or hubpages

Just like Squidoo there is another large site called hubpages. This works in a similar manner and with time, you will make money, the idea is the same, but here are a few pointers.

You need to publish hubs: A lot of them, although there is no minimum but about 100 hubs all interlinked is when you find that you will see success. Of course that number varies depending on how many hubs you have in the same niche. The mroe hubs in one niche the better and the more promotion to drive traffic the better. A high quality hub is as important as a high quality lens. This is more true now than ever. People are looking to their subdomains and fixing, editing their hubs is a key to long term sucess.

You have to check yourself about edits: Hubpages does not tell you when you last edited your work. Only when you publish this particular hub, which can make it harder to fix up in a timely manner.

You can make money faster: See, you use Google AdSense affiliate pogram, it is your AdSense code, and for 60% of the time your AdSense publisher ID is up and you can potentially make money that way. please note that since the beginnning of March they have a Hub Ads Program, and if you join they have noticed a significant decrease in what money you make with the Google AdSense Affiliate Program. It appears that you get paid by Impressions from the Hubs Ad program, but many on hubpgaes have noted that the Adsense revenue has all but dried up.

You cannot put every subject or topic up there: They do not have a spot for subjects, which are not meant for the general public.

You need to write on a regular basis: Once you have established yourself, you will need to write on a regular basis or your hub score will drop... which means your standing in hubpages will be lower. comments and other "paticipation" does keep these scores up so this is a must to keep and maintain your hubpages business.

Hubpages and Content: How you make it look with the capsules that they offer is a fine art, and you will need to spend time looking around to get it correct.

Yes, in the end Hubpages can work for you, but you will need some time to get used it like with Squidoo, hubpages offers a lot for each writer who is passionate about building their business.

These days content is harder to define and hubpages is going through a lot of growing pains, so it is writer beware.

How about trying both Squidoo and Hubpages and begin to link between them?

Hear me out a lot of things we love to do in the online world is expand our visibility and using both hubpages and Squidoo is a great way to make a splash. There are other sites out there as well. (such as bukisa and wikinut and other online writing sites)

Still if you write and you write with passion, you will make money with Squidoo and with Hubpages. For some the fact that they make money each and every day with affiliate programs such as Google AdSense or amazon is a reason to use hubpages more than Squidoo. There is another view to using both.

If you only make a few lenses you will be in the same boat as hubpages, you will not make a lot of money, so it does take time and effort. Which is why establishing yourself on both will make a huge difference on your earning online and making more money online. Be passionate about writing and it will shine through. Love what you do and people will see you love your work. Now there is one exception to this point, if you have a lot of links that are ourside of Squidoo you can make a lot of money and this is important, since a part of a good healthy lens is to make sure that you have a lot of links to as many different domain as possible.

Both have benefits and both have drawbacks, still each used together will make you more money online.

At this point it should be noted that with the recent Google Panda update. there has been much talk about how Hubpages was hit hard with the algo. change. This does seem to be the case as many of the hubs on hubpages were "product based" since this time hubpages has done some massive changes, however it also seems to have helped. it also seems that if your lenses or hubs did not have links from outside of the main website (Squidoo or hubpages) your traffic decreased as well.

With Squidoo there does not seem to be much in terms affected lenses, however linking and getting traffic from outside sources is key to making money here.