If you have spent even a few months in the internet marketing world, you have heard of Squidoo. It is a place where anyone can go and write about a topic that interests them. It is an easy platform to write and sell. And it is free.
Well, Squidoo recently went through some major changes. Smart changes? That is up for debate and I am still on the side of no. But it remains to be seen.
They locked lenses, gave warnings and made it nearly impossible to fix the lenses. And even lenses that didn't get flagged or locked were locked when you tried to edit them. It was a mess. While this craziness was happening, the people running Squidoo were in hiding. They were not answering concerns on their own forums. They were not one bit helpful. Very unprofessional. They would just post once in a while about how Google was telling them this or that. Ummm. No Google is not even going to tell Squidoo what their ranking algorithm is! They were guessing like the rest of us.
It seems that they guessed wrong, at least for a while. My lenses dropped in ranking. They flagged a lot of my money-making lenses and it was just a complete disaster. My earning dipped very low. And thus, I am sure theirs did, too.
Now, however, they are telling you what exactly to fix to get published. It seems they have cut back on the strictness of publishing a lens. Maybe they missed the money? Maybe they realized they had gotten some really bad advice and Google didn't love them so much anymore? Who knows what happened.
Now, I would say, yes....go publish a lens. But do so with caution. They have shown very little concern for the very people that make them money. They are putting stuff on the front pages that is so off-beat and not what a lot of people are interested in. But they are doing much better at remembering what makes them money and who makes them money.
I am publishing again. Are you? Please comment.
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