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Squidoo Marketing – Still A Worthwhile Endeavour?

Posted on June 23, 2009
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You may or may not have heard about the recent changes
to Squidoo and how this effects your Squidoo Marketing.
If you have not heard, you can read about it in more detail
at Squidoo, but in short, Squidoo has changed some of their Terms of Use.
Some of the changes include now only allowing nine outgoing links to the same
website from a lens and banning topics such as weight loss.

At first I thought that if you had nine outgoing links to the same site,
you may be a little nuts. But then I started really thinking about it and
I realized I had been using Squidoo lenses to link to ezine articles to boost
the PR of the ezine article (it works well, just make sure you are using
the linking system that is “follow” links. Their easy linker module is in
fact “no follow” (tricky…). So, in fact I did have to modify one lens to suit
the part of this new rule.

The second part is a bit more stinky for marketers. At first I was not
terribly concerned about the change because I’m personally only
losing a few lenses that never got visitors anyway. It was from a
Strip That Fat campaign that has to this day only sold one ebook. lol
But then I grew a bit more of a heart and truly felt compassion
for those that are going to lose a lot of work. That does stink.

So what should you do? Grab some hosting and post this information
on your own site. Do you feel you aren’t ready for this? If not, then
save the information on a blog at blogger.com or perhaps on
hubpages or xomba. It may take a few hours to transfer all off the information
but if it is truly of financial value to you, then move it. If it’s of sentimental
value, then ditch it. Start brand new. The learning process is over for that
site.

I have read by a few people in Wealthy Affiliate
that they feel that this has become
an opportunity for them because they
are now realizing that they should be
doing this for themselves on their
own domain.

So is Squidoo Marketing dead? Nope, not at all. In fact,
it just got waaaaay better. In theory anyway. PR should
go up, especially with the Purple Star program they
implemented. But at the end of the day, let’s
accept that this could have been a brush stroke
and erased much of our hard work. We
should all be prepared for when that day
comes… better prepared than getting
caught with your pants down if it ever does.

Diversify. Hubpages, Ehow.com, Xomba, on and on and on… (Please comment about
your favourites so I can continue exploring more).

Cheers!
Jodie

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2 Responses to “Squidoo Marketing – Still A Worthwhile Endeavour?”

Lynn on November 17th, 2009 7:57 am

Squidoo and Blogger are famous for deleting or locking people’s accounts. I say……build your own sites that YOU have control over.
auroral on November 28th, 2009 5:46 pm

I totally agree with you. Well, not necessarily with the blogger comment because I have never had this happen to me. But Squidoo is cracking down on what content is allowed on their site. I strongly suggest people read over the TOS and SquidDont’s if they are going to create a lens. It could save a lot of heartache later. But in saying all this, I still have over 100 lenses published on there.

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