Slapped by Squidoo – Will it Happen to You?
If you are into affiliate marketing you must have heard about the Squidoo Policy changes by now, changes that I feel will make Squidoo a better place. As you know I have been “into” Squidoo ever since I got the One Week Marketing Plan a few months ago and so far my work of building squidoo lenses has proven to be very benificial.
I did run into problems a while back though when all of a sudden I couldn´t get into any of my lenses, which I wrote about while doing my squidoo study case, and the whole situation made me realize again just how important it is to keep control over your own content, especially if that content is created to make you money.
That little glitch a few months ago was actually a good thing even though I was pretty shocked and upset when it first happened and I couldn´t access my lenses, lenses that I had spent quite a bit of time on to create.
So I decided to create most of my content on my own domains so that no matter what happened I´d have the control over it, at the same time sticking with the One Week Marketing Plan to keep growing my business and building links to my own sites.
In come the Squidoo Policy Changes and to be honest, I am really glad that they are going to slap down the crappy content and spammy lenses. I am not too worried that a lot of my lenses being locked or deleted because when creating them I did put effort in the content, making sure it was totally unique and quality content, plus I have not been linking too much to products they now consider big no-no´s and I am pretty sure I am not linking out too much to the same domain, so that is gonna be fine too.
I will have to go over all of them before the 15th of July which is when they will turn on the “squidoo slapping machine” just to ensure my content is 100% ok, the linking is ok and my content will be protected. In order words this means making a back up of the content I have on Squidoo at present so that IF they decide something isn´t up to scratch, I can still use it somewhere else if I feel I should.
I am also not too worried about the squidoo slap because I started with the FirePow system 2 weeks ago in order to create more blogs of my own, on my own domains and just use squidoo for them as another way of building links.
My original thought was to use the FirePow system to create a whole load of blogs, put content on them and promote them through the nifty promotional tools FirePow offers and use OWM to give them another push up the rankings in combination with article marketing.
And now seeing the squidoo policy changes all I can say is that I am glad that I already started protecting the “eggs in my basket” by putting most of my content on my own pages already, and that I am looking forward to seeing Squidoo become a higher quality site again, taking care of all the spam practices that have been going on for too long!
What are your thoughts? Do you work with Squidoo? Are you scared to see your content be slapped and deleted?
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To tell you the truth I’m not too worried myself about being slapped too hard and/or too much.
I did have one weight loss lens and I’ve taken it off…deleted.
Of course I forgot to move it somewhere else but that’s not too much lost. It was one of the first lenses I ever made and it was just practicing.
I DID move all the content I had on SBI since that expires on Monday and I will not be renewing it. So I have some posts for my different blogs.
I’m sure you’ll be OK with your Squidoo content. But you are right. We need our own domains where we have total control over what we put on there.
Keep up the good work and keep everybody posted on what you’re up to.
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Mirjam Reply:
June 30th, 2009 at 7:42 am
hey there Joyce!
The OWM does help to set up good lenses though and I am glad potpiegirl showed us the right way to use squidoo so i probably won´t have a lot of problems 
It looks like potpiegirl is sending a special guide to the OWM members to ensure their lenses are safe, but yeah, more and more convinced that it is better to have your own sites and use squidoo and other sites as an extra bonus to promote your own sites
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Squidoo was a popular place but then it was occupied with spammers. I already have stopped using it because it was going bad and bad. I think that their changed policy will make it a better place again.
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Mirjam Reply:
June 30th, 2009 at 7:52 am
well I think squidoo is doing the right thing by changing the policies and I am sure this will bring their quality levels up again
:D always great to see a site evolving!
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WOW… Need to check my lenses. I have update my lenses for a long long time.
Good to hear that you don’t put you eggs in on basket. Always have a plan B.
Keep it up! Seeing your progress motivates me on my own projects too.
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hey Terence!
yeah, better check your lenses once in a while, they seem to come down hard on a few niches now (especially the weightloss niche and a few others) potpiegirl sent out a special guide for the OWM members with how to proceed with these policy changes and protect the content on lenses, so it is good to know not all will be lost LOL
take care my friend and keep working on your projects!
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