How To Get Your Hub Pages Banned
Here’s a good article on Hub pages. If you want to get banned from Hub pages, this is real good advice.
Hub Pages - Here’s a Sure Way to Get Your Hub Page Banned
By Donna AbreuHub pages are similar to Squidoo lenses and blogs. There are differences though, so let me outline those for you as well as give you some tips to save you time and effort of learning the long way!
1. When you first publish your Hub (from the Edit mode, there is a Publish button), it takes a couple of days for them to approve it. It was not super obvious to me that the page was “in review” and not yet published.
So when you start wondering what happened to your Hub page, it’s probably still in review.
2. When you “test” your hub, you have to be sure you are logged out of your Hub pages account to perform a “true” test. I was logged in after I first created my Hub page.
And so when I went to my hub page, it appeared as if it was published. But it really wasn’t! Others could not see it. I could only see it because I was still logged in without realizing it.
3. You can’t have many links going out from your Hub page. One url at the beginning to your domain, and one at the end. That’s about it, or it won’t be approved!
4. Overall, building a Hub page is not as easy to build as a Squidoo lens. The interface is not as easy to use, and you can only insert pictures in between the other modules (such as a text module). So, your picture can’t be to the right or left of your text.
Also, the image module will only support one picture. So to have multiple pictures, you need to create multiple image modules. This limitation makes it harder to get the layout that you desire.
5. Squidoo lenses and Hub pages can be thought of as blogs on steroids. Try to get in the habit of updating them regularly with new content, such as adding (or replacing) a new video, adding a new post/comment. Ping the site every time you make a change (do it immediately after the change). You can use iPings to do that. The frequent pinging will bring traffic.
For those of you newbies to internet marketing, creating a Squidoo Lens or Hub Page will be much easier and faster than creating a blog. You can do a Word Press blog later on, when you’ve gotten your feet real wet.
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I’ve never built a Hub page or Squidoo lens, but the comment above about them being “blogs on steroids” is quite questionable. I highly doubt it. For one thing, if you own a domain name and have a blog on it that is infinitely better than creating content on someone else’s website. The advantage to Hub pages and Squidoo lenses is that those sites are very popular and you might initially have more traffic from those sources than you would from a new blog. The links from Hub pages or Squidoo lenses may or may not be as valuable or more valuable than links from your offsite blog pointing to your website. That depends on several other factors, which we won’t get into here.
I’m not saying that Hub pages and Squidoo lenses don’t have value. They do, but starting out with the idea that they are more valuable than a blog isn’t accurate. You can use these tools in lieu of a blog if you wish, but I would recommend them in addition to your blog. In fact, if you incorporate an offsite blog with a company blog that sits on your company website in conjunction with a Squidoo lens, a Hub page, a Google Knol, and article marketing then you’ve got yourself a pretty good marketing strategy there.
We have clients that have their own Hub pages. If this is something you’d have an interest in pursuing for your company then let us show you how you can incorporate Hub pages, Squidoo lenses, and Google Knols into your article marketing strategy with well-written articles by a ghostwriter.
