Is it a good idea to make HubPages? Or Squidoo lens?

[giftbasket4kids]

Hello,

I would like to promote the products in http://www.giftbasket4kids.com  with Hubpage and or Squidoo.com.  we are starting with Christmas Items. Please share your ideas as

Should we use Hubs or Squidoo

Presently he website is under reconsideration with Google for Penguin hit. We have lost most of the keywords on three landing pages. We do not have a lot of time before Christmas sales. How fast can we publish the pages?

What are to do and what not to do list.

I  appreciate all your comments.

Thanks in advance.

[bradkrussell]

Hi Saeed,

Don't bother with the Hubs or Squidoo. Focus your efforts on creating great content for your own site and blog.

I noticed the blog - http://giftbaskets4kids.blogspot.com.au/ - is quite spammy looking and probably not content that is going to get shared. What I would do is create a Christmas gift guide on your site with several different categories and pages, and then go about creating a plan to write great content for your site and blog that will promote these gift ideas.

When writing content for you blog, make sure it's going to be useful to the customer. Don't be afraid to link to outside sources.

Thanks

[giftbasket4kids]

Thank you so much for great guidance.  In last 2-3 months, I added 80 fresh contents for my products keeping the customer in mind. I added 10 new page contents to guide the customers to choose product. I added video to all my product page. I am planning to add more content at regular pace. I see Google loves it they get index very quickly.  Do you think I should do more?  The guest blog is best idea. I am trying to find the authority site in gift basket that allows me to guest blog there. I had no luck yet.

Please help me to understand. Penguin deals with inbound links, repeated anchor text. Adding the content will help my internal link. How does it help to recover Penguin ?

[benjaminspak]

Agreed

[David_ODonnell]

IMO If you want to recover from Panda, building content on crappy free-for-alls like Squidoo or Hubpages isn't the way to go.

If you're going to create some new unique content, make it awesome and post it on your own site OR create extra-awesome content and try and score a guest blog on an authority site in your niche.

[somes]

Hey,

I think Squidoo would be the better choice, because of the community and easy of use. I don't think the user-base of HubPages will be very receptive to any promotional efforts from you, because that's simply not their thing. HubPages is more formal and professional, whereas Squidoo is the opposite and thus, in my opinion, would be a better choice for you.

Here's an example of a relevant Squidoo lens...

http://www.squidoo.com/bubble-guppies-toys-dolls-and-figures

Cheers,

Marko