Squidoo and Hubpages…PR7 and PR6 consecutively. Let’s talk about these Web 2.0 collaborations and see how we can use these to our advantage.

Granted, these strategies are not new, but sometimes forgotten and/or undiscovered by new internet marketers. Squidoo & Hubpages are part of the Web 2.0 trend that involve blogging, social networking, podcasts, wikis, etc. These things have been around for quite some time but have really come into focus within the past couple of years. Squidoo & Hubpages kind of fit into the categories of blogging and social networking.

Squidoo’s description of Squidoo:

Squidoo is the world’s most popular site for building free, single pages about your passions. Highlight books, blogs, vids, online shops, or just spread the word about stuff you love. Bonus: you raise money (for you or charity) at the same time. It’s fast, free, and supereasy.

Hubpages description of Hubpages:

Simple to use, 100% free, HubPages allows you to:

• Publish online with easy, non-techie tools
• Be widely read thanks to the heavy internet traffic of HubPages
• Create ongoing royalty opportunities

So, what’s the point?  Use these pages as a marketing tool, a backlink tool, and get visitors to your main site.  Both of these sites have become wise to affiliate links, so you need to point your links to your actual page instead of to an affiliate page (at least with Hubpages).  Put as much content into your pages as possible and use keywords throughout.