Just a bit about search engine optimization.

The world wide web 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 seem to have an unfair benefit when it comes to positioning well with the search engines. Along with Word Press, Ezine Articles, and of course Google Blogger, these two communities can get found almost at once. The issue is not whether they are useful forms of advertising but rather, which one delivers the most damaging punch?

Hub Pages is a community for authors, bloggers, or anybody wanting to share something interesting with the printed word. Your blogs at Hub Pages are recognized as hubs. You can choose from certain modules to augment the look and originality of your hubs. Hub Pages allows you to add your adsense, amazon, and Ebay ID to you hubs to generate profits from someone who clicks or purchases from your links. You can also insert keywords to your hubs to make it simpler for the search engines to position you.

Squidoo is also a community for writers and very related to Hubpages. The main distinction between the two is that Squidoo refers to its websites as lens. Just like Hub Pages, you can put up unlimited lens on any subject while earning additional revenue from adsense, amazon, and Ebay.

Squidoo is very Google friendly and allows you to add up to 40 keywords to your lens to increase your search engine traffic. As you can witness, these two powerhouse, high pr social communities share numerous comparable characteristics; So what are the dissimilarities?

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

Another difference are the guidelines and policies. Hub pages is extremely stern on self promotion or over promoting of affiliate products. They will prohibit you quickly if your intentions are to only offer content for the solitary purpose of spamming. Squidoo also frowns spammers, but they are more welcoming to internet marketers who are interested 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 furthermore does not allow adult content.

Squidoo has recently strengthen their policies on the types of lens that they will publish. Examples of lens that use to be standard that are no longer suitable are: Lenses on mature content, medicinal miracle cures, and lenses with more than 9 links to the same site. If you can accomplish giant squid prominence (50 lenses) than these policy may be waived.

Both Squidoo and Hub Pages present a place for like minded people to bring their visions, thoughts, products or artistic expressions to the World Wide Web. The question of which one packs the most damaging punch in my judgment, can simply be left up to each individual. I myself use both. Since both communities are free to sign up and free to share ideas, I find it that it makes sense not to show prejudice. The choice between one over the next would be the equivalent of leaving money on the table.