What's the difference between blogs, squidoo lenses and hubpages

Blogs will give you more flexibility when it comes to the way you want to make it look and to what you add to your blog in terms of widget.

With a blog, you can add any widget you want by using html code. With a squidoo page, you are restricted when it comes to what you can add to your lens.

In terms of SEO, squidoo lenses, blogs and hubpages (similar to squidoo) are all on the same level depending on the keyword. I've had all three index first for different keywords.

The advantage that squidoo and hubpages give over blogs is that you can you get traffic to your pages from within the website. The more traffic your page gets, the higher it will be ranked and the more traffic you will receive... that's a sweet circle.

I personally use all three for the same niche. Each of which are optimized for a different keyword.