I, myself was starting to earn pretty decent money with Squidoo, but now it’s severely depleted!īecause of the success these marketers were experiencing, everyone jumped on the Squidoo bandwagon and that’s where the problem lay. Unfortunately, they suffered badly during that 2013 period of annihilation. Some marketers made a ton of money from Squidoo and had blogs detailing their earnings. There were only a couple of courses that offered any value, PotPieGirls One Week Marketing course and some of Erica Stones WSO’s…among one or two others. Most of these ‘courses’ were truly awful and openly contained material to spam the hell out of Squidoo. It then became a bit silly with countless WSO’s promising a quick way to make a buck from this easy target. These lenses would then shoot to the top of Google because of the weight Squidoo gave to them, Page Rank wise. It all went belly up when Squidoo became a magnet for getting great backlinks and as marketers caught on, it was inundated with quick 300 word articles splashed with boatloads of spammy links. They openly wanted us to earn money from our articles. And who wouldn’t, seeing as that is how, and why, Squidoo was conceived for the first place. They wrote great content and applied Amazon, Etsy, Zazzle links to earn a few bucks on the side.
It is these lensmasters I really feel for. There were thousands of lenses that were first rate, written by very clever and intelligent writers. Squidoo had been good to me in the past and I enjoyed making lenses (well around 2010/2012, that is) so a little bit of me is sad to see it go, but on the other hand the way they treated good honest lensmasters during the cull of 2013 was shameful. Only the best, well written lenses will transfer successfully whilst others, although good enough for the Squidoo filters, will be refused entry like a annoying drunk at a night club. I have a few pages, around 20, that have earned me nowt and I’ve had a few refused to even be accepted…what they would make of my Squidoo lenses, as is, isn’t worth thinking about, because they are pure sales pages! I don’t think it’s worth bothering anyway…I’ve spent too much time faffing around with them as it is.īesides that, there will be thousands upon thousands of lenses that won’t get through the Hub Pages QC, so saying all we have to do is transfer them is a bit of a porky pie. I’ve found Hub Pages pretty hard to get along with. I have over 100 lenses still hanging on for dear life and I feel the only option I have is to save them to my hard drive, wait until they’re de-indexed and then bother some other content website that allows Amazon links in their articles. That’s what the Squidoo HQ claim anyway, but I feel it won’t be that easy. I’m a little surprised it’s gone altogether though because it was held in such high respect by content writers, but if you fall foul of the Big G, then it’s a slow and painful demise.Īll Squidoo lenses will be transferred to Squidoo’s biggest rival Hub Pages. Lenses have been almost impossible to rank in the Search Engines since…it’s as if every lens had a black mark against it in Googles eyes and was punished beyond recovery. I suppose it was on the cards since early 2013 when Google gave them an almighty slap in which they never recovered. It’s official… Squidoo has finally given up the ghost and joined the choir invisible!
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