Just a friendly heads up for some of you working or planning to work with Squidoo. Tecrunch article: Google Acting Against Squidoo Due To Spam Anyone notice the same thing?
Yep, My squidoo page with deindexed, it wasn't spammy though... It never had a good ranking in the first place..
I have a few Squidoo lenses for brand protection purposes that aren't getting the rankings they once did. Anyone have any ideas on a similar service I can use to replace Squidoo?
If squidoo is being penalized for spam, Blogger should be banned from Google for the biggest spam EVER seen
the thing that gets me about squidoo is they are doing away with the iFrame feature. I use the iframe feature to add a lead capture module to my lenses
Yes, I have noticed the lack of Squidoo pages in the Google search result, whereas before, Squidoo lenses used to rank highly for a number of search terms.
Big traffic drops here also. If spam is the problem then this shouldn't last long. Squidoo are working really hard to tackle spam, and with their huge team of loyal helpers they should be able to win the battle!
There are some signs of slow traffic increase and a partial comeback to the first page positions in serps for some of my kws... let's go again
one of my lenses that was doing well and getting more than 100 referrals from Google/week .. has dropped to 2/week
I've never tried squidoo myself, but I agree it has got a bit spammy and I'm not surprised if Google have decided to devalue its pages. Hubpages sounds interesting, I might give it a go.