I have just discovered Squidoo and HubPages. Wow. Talk about making it easy to publish content online.

For those of you who haven’t seen these sites before, they basically offer you free registration and then let you create endless one-page ‘lenses’ or ‘hubs’ about a niche topic. They also offer a number of different ‘modules’ that you can just plug content into, and then publish with one click.

Also, they both focus on monetization of your page.

On Squidoo, you can choose to keep all your income, donate half to charity, or donate it all to charity. You don’t control the ads shown on your site - and Squidoo gets a cut of the profit as well. HubPages is a little different - you can use your own ID for things like Amazon and AdSense, so you likely get more of a cut of the profits.

I can see how - over time - you could make a bit of money from these sites. You would have to build a lot of them, though, and probably incorporate affiliate links into them as well in order to make any decent amount of money.

Another positive is that you can use these free resources to drive traffic to your blog/website. So, in that sense they could possibly be a powerful marketing tool. By creating a lot of these one-page sites, and linking them to your blog/page, you’re also building links - which is great too.

I’m still very much at the experimental stage with these tools… so, I’d love feedback on how you have all used these sites - and if you’ve found them useful? Do they drive traffic to your blog/site? Do you earn any money from them? Are they worth the effort?

Jess