Are HUBS any good for backlinks?

Yes, Hubpages is a good way to build backlinks to your other websites. If you use the link capsule, you can make them stand out more, or you can create simple in-text links. Pages on this site are crawled frequently, so it helps your other websites build Google rank.

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