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July 18th, 2008 by lissie

Squidoo is probably better known than Hubpages - but for my money - Hubpages is the better bet for not only developing back links but also getting qualified traffic, and the potential to develop your hubpage home page with a good PR, a number of the better hubs have PR4 on their home page now. Oh and you can add as many links as you like on your home page!

What I like about hubpags includes:

  • easy to add videos and pictures to break up the text: and get a bit of traffic from image searches;
  • simple to use, no HTML is allowed and the capsules are more limited than squidoo’s but this makes it quick and easy to create an hub;
  • use news feeds and/or eBay capsules for automatic updates for your hubs;
  • limit to only 2 “self-serving” links per a hub keeps the spam level relatively low.

There are a couple of quirks with Hub Page that those who want to use hubpages for internet marketing purposes should know.

Hubpages Forum’s Ambiance
A number of the active community on the forums are primarily writers rather than online business people. There is a strong feeling that writing is important. Commercial hubs are tolerated - but anyone naively coming to the forums and asking what the community thinks of their very first hub: “How to Make Money Fast Online” will get short shrift - and probably get their hub flagged as inappropriate. Yes that’s right a lot of hubs which are flagged are done by community, so be respectful!

Hubscore Matters

Every hubber has an overall hubscore, and every hub as an individual hubscore. The two are somewhat related and both reflect traffic, particularly from outside hubpages, length of hub, and, in the case of the hubber’s hubscore, in activity such as rating other hubs, commenting and forum posting. And unless your hubscore is 75 your hub’s links will be tagged as “no follow” - a hub every month or so should see you easily maintain that score. This is the single most important feature of hubpages, in my opinion, because it keeps the spammers out.

Hubpages has never suffered from the fall from favour that squidoo has had. Most hubs are indexed within a few hours.

Hubpages appears to have a strong nternal linking strategy - with each home page have links to latest, hot and best hubs. Certain tags are routinely featured on the front page: make sure you include any that are relevant in your hubs: entertainment, how to, money, business, family are commonly featured. Tags are keywords and you should add a good number to your hub to improve your internal backlinks

Elisabeth Sowerbutts is an active hubpages author and wrote Hubpages and Internet Marketing for those who want to use Hubpages for internet marketing to best effect.

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13 Responses to “HubPages for Backlinks”

  1. Paul Edmondson Says:
    July 18th, 2008 at 1:19 pm

    Thanks for writing about HubPages. I think this is a good overview of how hubpages works and I found it interesting how you picked up on the connection of HubScore and how we nofollow links.

    It’s easy to get a hubscore were links are followed if you create decent hubs, leave comments on other hubs, participate in the forums, get and become fans of others. I just saw one new hubber get a 92 with two hubs in two days:)

  2. lissie (1 comments.) Says:
    July 18th, 2008 at 7:00 pm

    Thanks very much for dropping by Paul, its great community and resource that you guys have created and I am happy to promote it :-)

  3. Terry (84 comments.) Says:
    July 19th, 2008 at 4:55 am

    That’s a really nice first post Lissie!

    It leaves us in do doubt as to the usefulness of hub pages and how its also a spam-free zone! Makes me want to go write another hub…!

  4. Michael Austin (2 comments.) Says:
    December 17th, 2008 at 12:30 pm

    Lissie…I have an important follow-up question. I read recently that Hubpages gives you only a nofollow backlink until your “hubscore” reaches a certain level, then Hubpages turns the links into followed links…any comment on that? I don’t want to put a lot of effort into developing Hub content unless I see that backlink prize!

  5. online money journey (1 comments.) Says:
    December 17th, 2008 at 5:10 pm

    Michael that’s right- but geting the minimum of 75 is very easy - publish a couple or orginal hubs which are over about 500 words each
    Lissie

  6. Michael Austin (2 comments.) Says:
    December 17th, 2008 at 5:14 pm

    Thanks for that…

  7. Todd (1 comments.) Says:
    February 5th, 2009 at 11:13 pm

    If you want to build quality backlinks you might also want to try http://www.freetraffic.com they are a network that helps to build backlinks through their internal group. Its not a blog site but you do need to publish worthwhile articles.

  8. Ron Jacobs (1 comments.) Says:
    March 25th, 2009 at 1:34 am

    The comment “you can add as many links as you like on your home page” gives me some interesting options. Thank you for the idea.

  9. earn fast money (1 comments.) Says:
    May 25th, 2009 at 4:23 am

    thanks for giving me all the info i needed about hub pages, in a single article. :-)

  10. Jack Gregory (1 comments.) Says:
    August 29th, 2009 at 7:55 am

    Hubpages has got even more user friendly as time has gone on and I find much easier to use then Squidoo which though is good I think can get quite cluttered.

  11. Dennis (1 comments.) Says:
    December 10th, 2009 at 2:55 pm

    Thanks for the great content and information. I am always browsing the internet looking for good content to get ideas for my easy home based business blogs and articles. You have some real good content here so just keep on doing what you are doing as good stuff like this is always hard to find.

  12. Andrew Edmonds (1 comments.) Says:
    January 25th, 2010 at 2:36 am

    Excellent post, just wrote my very first hub and hoping to get a good ranking when indexed. This is definitely another of the many good tricks for seo for biusinesses

  13. new granite countertops(new comment) Says:
    March 10th, 2010 at 6:43 pm

    nice way thanks for share i will try

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