And a good one at that too! Write a lens on your niche and get it indexed by google in hours, oh, and did I mention PR7 backlinks? Top tool this one. Don't make it spammy though.
Yeah, I've heard the same thing. Apparently, it's because of the spam situation they had a week or so ago. Squidoo has resolved the spam situation and I'm sure the Google thing will be ironed out, too...but it's a good lesson to be learned about not "putting all your eggs in one basket".
I disagree. I have a squido lens ranked in the top 10 for a very competitive key phrase. It draws targeted traffic every day. BTW, I took the time to modify the lens to make it look nice.
I started using Squidoo a few weeks ago at the time of the "google squidoo slap" I made a few pages on my topic, then made a few to see what it could do. I guess I have made about 40 lenses ranging from pretty useful to a youtube video and some amazon adds.The last week has had 2 pages get 50 visitors from search engines. Some of the new backlinks to my site were in before the google link upate so now i can see those in webmaster tools. Even if the links become nofollow one day, you might just get some targeted traffic from the lens. Now I have my website page plus a squidoo lens in the top 10 serp for some of my target keywords. Who wouldn't want that? Squidoo is putting lots of effort into spam fighting, and there are a lot of really good lenses on it. There is really no reason why you would not want to make a lens on your topic in your on going deep backlink quest. Will be interesting to see how well the lenses fare in the toolbar pr update
I heard that google is penalizing some social media sites like squidoo! I also have a lense their, unfortunately it ranks around 24k!
if we suppose that google penalizes squidoo, this means that my submitted pages to squidoo will face problems?
Squidoo brings me a little bit of traffic to me website, a number of deep links that show up in the google webmaster tools, and earnt me $25 last month. (that payment was from July when I started and my Transformers Movie lens had 150 visitors a week). Currently I have about 50 lenses (most of them 10 mnute jobs) and get about 500 search visitors a month. Squidoo even gave me $1000 credit on the "squidoo offers" for being a giant Squid. I even made $10 on squidoo by taking half an hour and registering a set of lenses with good keywords then selling the lenses on DP. It is a nice thing that they allow you to transfer lenses so easily.
Here's the thing, Squidoo was good a while back but then it got spammed really really badly and Google started penalizing Squidoo for it. As a result, Squidoo has gotten vigilante and actually hired a bunch of moderators who actively go through pages and delete sites if the content is too spammy, or if someone reports it. Personally I'd say it's a waste of time now, if you're selling a product you will have more success with doorway pages then you will with Squidoo (I don't condone doorway pages, but if you're going to spam - at least do it successfully rather then wasting your time). Try to get a wikia account, those are rock solid for promotions, but they're harder to get.
If people are only wanting to make doorway pages then I for one would prefer they use something other than Squidoo too.