I also like the fact that with Squidoo you can link out to anywhere. It may cause a bit more spam to make it’s way into the community but I think Squidoo have done a good job of keeping it as clean as they have.

The one thing I really like about Hubpages is the usability factor. You can insert html into pages a whole lot easier than Squidoo.

Concerning #4, it sounds like you haven’t seen Squidoo’s extensive traffic and other stats tools, which cover not only traffic for each lens, but sources of traffic, backlinks, what key terms are being searched, and what the clickthroughs are.

– The figures given in Mr. Menayan’s post are somewhat misleading. Squidoo’s 500,000 lenses include many that are not yet “featured” — ones which do not have enough content to be indexed, and are hidden from search engines until lensmasters make the effort to improve them.
See a recent Squidoo update by Seth Godin on the number of featured Squidoo lenses, and how this works to separate wheat from chaff.

– Therefore the average visitors figures listed above don’t match the real-world performance of Squidoo lenses.

– Note that non-featured lenses are not the same as spam: Squidoo deletes certain categories of lenses as spam (see SquidDont).

– Of the list of changes Mr. Meneyan mentions, Squidoo does #2, #4, #5, and the help forums at Squidoo. Other steps mentioned above are addressed in different ways.

– “Forums” can encompass many levels of community. There’s a LOT of different kinds of help, resources and mentoring available on Squidoo forums that I haven’t gotten in my brief forays to Hubpages’ forums. Perhaps I’ve just not found the right threads, though.

It comes down to this: Squidoo does a lot of things Hubpages can’t, and vice versa. Apples and oranges. I’m a member of both, and use both.