What's the difference? What's the same?
HubPages and Squidoo are alike in that they both allow the user to earn money by creating unique content and sharing that content with the host site. People using both sites are trying to drive more traffic to their own web pages, or make money from home, or have a web presence without their own site.
HubPages is to Squidoo like a ...
- text capsule is to a text/write module
- photo capsule is to a Flickr or Polaroid module
- video capsule is to a YouTube or Video module
- links capsule is to a link list module
- news capusle is to a news module
- rss capsule is to an rss module
- comments capsule is to a guestbook module
- eBay capsule is to an eBay module
- Amazon capsule is to an Amazon module
Please note, both sites are evolving rapidly and frequently update or expand their features, so this hub and its contents are subject to change as I review and compare all the new stuff!
Tell A Friend - Referral Earnings
Both web sites have little bits of tracking code that let a user earn a referral bonus for recruiting other new service/community members.
HubPages: When a new user signs up within 30 days as a result of a referral, the referring hub author will earn 10% of the advertising impression of that new author's hubs for the life of the hubs. Authors can build custom codes to track their own ad campaigns and referrals. You can access a list of who was referred via what tracking code, how many views that person's hubs are getting and even click through to see their profile and full hub list.
Squidoo: Originally at Squidoo, when new users would sign up via one of your lenses, the referring lensmaster would be in line to earn $5 when the new lensmaster has earned $15. From the stats page of the dashboard, you get a list of who signed up from one of your lenses and you can click over to view that person's profile and lenses.
My fave: HubPages wins this one, mostly because in the fall of 2008, Squidoo decided to do away with the referral bonus, but don't expect to get rich from referral percentages either. Overall, the folks who join up are going to mostly be duds unless you've got links bringing people in from an actively-writing web population and those people are looking to create. Looking at my Hubs to Squidoo traffic and vice versa, I've had more success bringing Squidoo writers to this site and getting them to build lenses than the other way round, but either program has resulted in more duds and/or spam than genuinely-good referrals.
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