Comments on: Google Smacksdown Squidoo – It’s About Time

By: Howie

Howie — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 18:08:13 +0000

There have been a lot of comments and questions on what really happened with Google & Squidoo I interviewed Seth Godin on the "Squidoo Slap"

By: Jonathan (Trust)

Jonathan (Trust) — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 21:20:04 +0000

“I know this, I wouldnâ€™t want to be linking to, or be linked from any Squidoo lenâ€™s these days.”

I don’t see a problem with that. Your site being linked to from a lens isn’t going to do you any harm. If that was the case, it would be an easy way to take out the competition, just link to them. As far as linking to a lens, I would say the same general linking rules apply. You’re not supposed to link to penalized/banned sites but I’m not sure if there was any actual damage when that happened. You could link to a site one day and it could be fine but down the road they do something that gets them penalized and your site for linking to them when they were good shouldn’t be hurt because of that.

And I’m sure there will be/might be quality lenses that still rank well but the whole site (squidoo) could have a certain devaluing, not sure on that one, how that works. Years ago someone posted in a private (paid forum) what was supposed to be the algo or something like that for MSN or Inktomi I believe it was and it was very interesting to go thru it. I saw things along the lines of – 20% tripod where it looked like certain places just had a sort of devaluing to it. If the place is associated with a lot of spam or crap type pages/sites.

By: Jim Kukral

Jim Kukral — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 21:04:24 +0000

Tony, could be. You never know.

I know this, I wouldn’t want to be linking to, or be linked from any Squidoo len’s these days.

If you can penalize, it can probably be passed?

By: Tony Colan

Tony Colan — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 18:24:38 +0000

It looks like their traffic is actually going up and not tanking. All this controversy is probably driving good eyeballs.

By: Melody

Melody — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 17:55:55 +0000

It only takes one bad apple to spoil the barrel. I hope that Google will see that Squidoo is doing everything it can to promote great content. Spammers are “the bane of our life” causing misery to bloggers, and where ever you go on the net, so it seems.

By: Business Twins

Business Twins — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 05:53:31 +0000

It’s a pretty stupid idea, but there is a niche for everything and there is no doubt that Jon Waraas will make money off of this scheme. Well not a scheme, just a ‘business’ that he won’t have to do any work for because scripts will be doing it all for him.

By: purplebear

purplebear — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 18:49:28 +0000

Awwhhh I’m just starting to really like Squidoo.:( Have only recently been learning about it and making a few lenses of my own. Admit that I thought of it as sort of a way of taking baby steps to making a blog so am using it as more of a learning experience but really enjoy it.

May not be like others but I actually do visit the lenses that are in the emails they send every day and enjoy looking at quite a lot of them and think there’s a lot of information either helpful, entertaining or just some that put a smile on your face.:)

As with anything, there are going to be people who really abuse things but really hope Squidoo doesn’t disappear, I’d really miss it if it did.:(:(

By: seth godin

seth godin — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 12:21:54 +0000

Here’s my take on the issue.

http://www.squidoo.com/blog/?p=158

By: Crummy Two Cents

Crummy Two Cents — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 11:38:26 +0000

No surprise. All the smart black hats have been turning away from squidoo ever since it started becoming next to worthless.

By: Jonathan (Trust)

Jonathan (Trust) — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 07:13:47 +0000

What I was talking about back in February:

“I’ve heard about Squidoo.com a few times. Will read more to see what it’s all about. From just now checking around it seems most of them have affiliate links all over. So I’m thinking Google might love them now but will eventually get zapped and since they allow affiliate links, sooner or later will drown in spam.”

http://forum.abestweb.com/showpost.php?p=667710&postcount=25

Did it to themselves.