The internet is full of social networking blogspots and communities, but two of the top out there are Hub Pages and Squidoo. Both of these social Journal networks appear to have an unfair benefit when it comes to positioning favorably with the search engines. Along with Word Press, Ezine Articles, and of course Google Blogger, these two communities can get found almost instantly. The issue is not if they are useful forms of advertising but rather, which one lands the most effective blow?

Hub Pages is a community for writers, bloggers, or everyone wanting to share something interesting with the written word. Your blogs at Hub Pages are recognized as hubs. You can pick from unique modules to enhance the appearance and originality of your hubs. Hub Pages permits you to include your adsense, amazon, and Ebay ID to you hubs to make revenue 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 position you.

Squidoo is also a community for authors and very comparable to Hubpages. The main variation between the two is that Squidoo refers to its pages as lens. Just like Hub Pages, you can create unlimited lens on any matter while earning additional revenue from adsense, amazon, and Ebay.

Squidoo is very Google responsive and allows you to include up to 40 keywords to your lens to enhance your search engine presence. As you can see, these two powerhouse, high pr social communities share many similar characteristics; So what are the dissimilarities?

The differences start with the revenue from your income modules. Squidoo has a shared earning policy which shares the total revenue between the whole Squidoo community depending on the status of your lens. The more superior your lens rank, the larger portion of the earnings you receive. Hub Pages on the other hand permits you to keep 100% of your profit from adsense, amazon, and Ebay.

Another difference are the rules and policies. Hub pages is extremely stern on self promotion or over promotion of affiliate products. They will prohibit you quickly if your intentions are to only provide content for the exclusive purpose of spamming. Squidoo also disallows spammers, but they are more inviting to internet marketers who are interested in creating lens to promote their affiliate products or programs. I guess you can say that Squidoo provides you a wider freedom of speech. Hub Pages additionally does not allow adult content.

Squidoo has recently stiffen their policies on the types of lens that they will allow. If you can accomplish giant squid status (50 lenses) than these regulations may be waived.

Both Squidoo and Hub Pages present a place for like minded individuals to bring their visions, thoughts, products or artistic views to the internet. The question of which one packs the most damaging punch in my opinion, can only be left up to each individual. I personally use both. Since both communities are without charge to become a member and free to network, I find it that it makes sense not to show prejudice. The decision between one over the next would be the equivalent of leaving money on the table.

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