Don’t Waste Your Time With Squidoo Or Hubpages
At least that’s the advice from Steve Clayton and Tim Godfrey from Commission Blueprintfame. Hey, before you grab the pitchforks and the torches, I have to tell you that I agree with them. Sure once in a while on some obscure, super long-tail keyword you might find a Squidoo lens showing up, but for the most part, you won’t.
More than likely because Squidoo wasn’t designed by or for those who want to make money on the Internet. It seems it was designed for conversational information, not selling. I am sure some will disagree but go ahead and start a Squidoo lens and load it up with an affiliate linked article and see what happens.
And if you do get your article posted (yep, you got that right..they will decide what you can post) don’t be surprised if down the road they decide to pull the plug on you.
Steve and Tim reviewed approximately 60,000 “popular” Internet marketing keywordsto see what was penetration in the Top 10 Google results for those keywords. What they found was that Squidoo and Hubpages only showed up about 2.5% of the time. That’s enough data for me!
Oh and also for you supporters of the almighty article marketing wave…fuhgettaboudit! While Ezine definitely reigns supreme, the other directories are basically non-existent.
Check out what Tim and Steve found out here.
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It depends on what you are marketing. my squidoo pages are always first on google right along side my website pages so its fun to rank for several spots on the first page of google. i think that it has done nothing but help my marketing strategy. of course if you are selling spammy things like weight loss pills and home mortgage relending and credit repair there is a ton of other keyword rich sites that are way ahead of you so good luck on getting rank with those type of writings no matter where you write them.
Hi Bill and thanks for your comment. You must have found a REALLY longtail keyword. Ranking is one thing…anybody can rank. It’s traffic and conversions that matter. Hope it’s working out well for you. What’s the niche?