trichnosis and tushar, I have posted my source in post # 10, like mightyb mentioned. Here it is again: http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/10...o-due-to-spam/ it's always nice to read the entire thread before commenting on it
Yes, I have also heard of the "Squidoo Slap." I'm hard pressed to document my sources, but I believe that whereas it was once fairly easy to have a Squidoo page rank highly, that is no longer the case. It also appears that many Squidoo pages have lost their ranking. I also know that Squidoo has made it a little tougher for lenses to be included in their search directory. They pretty much tell you what to do to get it in the search directory, though. I'm guessing that Squidoo is trying to weed out junk pages and require some commitment to putting good content on the lenses. Evan
Squidoo had a huge spam problem a while back, where a group of folks created thousands of "lenses" on frivolous things like 'hiccup' or some such. They lost a HUGE amount of ranking in Google at that time and although they have corrected the problem and taken steps to ensure it doesn't happen again, they have not come back to their previous position. It has nothing to do with the "Web 2.0" aspect.
they better drop!!! way to many spammers use these as an extremely easy technique to screw search engines over and get to the top of rankings!!!
Lol, your right...I was watching a video from wolf-howl's SEO blog. Apparently he says you do something he calls "wiki jacking" Screw over your competition or a site you don't like by geting wiki to mess up there ranking! LOL
cheapseo, its not the design Google is penalizing. Its the misuse of the sites by some people to generate traffic.