Squidoo Lenses and Hubpages for Backlinks?

People have talked about using Squidoo lenses and Hub pages for High Quality backlinks in the past, including myself.   Both Squidoo and Hubpages are High PR sites with some authority coming from their backlinks.  But they are both stepping up their spam and junk policies with guarded gates.

Hubpages which I haven’t used in awhile, I’ve just learned they do not have follow thru on with their hubpages so no backlink juice from your hubpages, unless you have a Hub score of 75 or Higher.  That’s not impossible but let’s just say you won’t be able to slap some crap together and call it a Hubpage!  Once you hit the 75 or higher score then all backlinks are yours.

Now squidoo does have DO Follow on for their links on their lenses but they are cleaning house from now until July 20th or later they said.  They are getting rid of all spammers, junk lenses, xrated lenses and the list goes on and on….check it out here www.squidoo.com They want better quality and less affiliate spamming pretty much.  They now won’t let you create lenses with the following subjects:

Free movie downloads.
Hoodia Gordoni.
Acai berry reviews.
Toenail fungus sales.
LoseBellyFat!
Pharmaceuticals.
WoW gold farming.
Forex reports.
Adult content.

This will be bad for some and good for others.  Cleaning out the junk and making stronger policies will make Squidoo and Hubpages look more authoritive and higher quality to the search engines and thus should produce even more backlink juice for those of us who use both of them and abide by their rules.