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    Squidoo earnings decreasing ?

    I used Squidoo for back links not as a revenue source but there are people who has 300 - 400 lenses and used to earn 1000+ usd per month from Squidoo. It used to be one of the easiest if you have a Paypal account which can receive money.

    But not anymore. Something has gone wrong. Maybe Squidoo Alexa ranking dropped from 32 to 420+ has to so something. Clearly they traffic dropped and they deleting lenses right and left and more real authors are moving to other alternatives and their own blogs.

    Anyone here used to any from Squidoo ?

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    Yes, I had 10 good lenses, 5 of them were suddenly deleted for unknown reasons, I couldn't get any clear explanation from the support.

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    Squidoo got hit hard by the last updates. My top Lens is a tier 1 ranked between 100-200 overall. The payouts just a couple months ago were over $50 per lens in tier 1 but this dropped to like $25.

    They have made a lot, and I mean a lot of changes over the past couple months. They are trying to get rid of low quality pages, pages where people are using black hat link building, etc. They are trying to recover but many good lenses (including a couple of mine) have got the ax. I did do some link building to a couple them and they are the ones that got axed. I do not fully agree with how they are doing things but I know they are trying to recover and make a comeback.

    I use them for affiliate links, they are about useless for back links anymore. And in fact, they are looking at the sites you back link to and will lock it if it is a spammy site.

    I still have a couple ranking well. I think in the long run it will get better, maybe not as good as it once was but better.

    What other sites are out there besides HubPages (and still ranking)?
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    I was using Squidoo one year back but then Squidoo started deleting my lenses. After that I noticed that getting a lens approved and published on Squidoo has become really very difficult so I left Squidoo and do not have any plans to join it in future.

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    I've never heard of Squidoo, what is it and what are its benefits?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Oldschoool View Post
    I've never heard of Squidoo, what is it and what are its benefits?
    It was good for backlinks a couple years ago. You create a "lens" using modules. All it is good for now is affiliate marketing and ad share. They are going through changes so I would hold off for a while. They have taken a hard hit. If they can get rid of the spammers and keep the good lenses, it can be good again.
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    i do have squidoo lens back in the old days but now, they are no more my favorites

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    I had some epic case studies going for Squidoo (can google them) where I owned around 700 lenses and making close to $100 per month. The issue with Squidoo is that they begin to deindex internally and externally (google wont even index them once Squidoo internally deranks) because they only have 500k indexed pages, versus the millions and millions of lenses they have on their website. Bad long term business plan as a content creator to use Squidoo.

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    I don't think their new policies helping them a lot. Most of their faithful real users have moved to other places.

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    It is my understanding that Squidoo wants lenses (their term for posts) to be as personal as possible. You have to put yourself into the lens. Instead of saying things like "This is the best product in the market" they want you to say things like "I just started using this product and I love it." You can fake it if you want. But YOU have to be part of the message.

    If you used to have lenses and they were silenced by Squidoo, just go back and re-write them. Make them personal stories. Don't make them "sales-y"

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    Squidoo destroyed themselves by reacting to news of pending algo changes. The owner Seth Godin has insiders that warned him of the upcoming, (now past) changes. So they locked lenses from top earners starting back in March 2013. 150 of my lenses in one account, the infamous Shower Curtain lenses, got the ball rolling. Eventually, they closed all lenses that were ever associated; destroying the income of two people in the 70's. One died in July. Weakened by the disappointment.

    All combined, these lenses/pages (700+) were earning more than $7,000 each month on average with more than 250,000 monthly uniques.
    I know of another lens master that was not commercial in style with very similar earnings and around 500 lenses that had all of her material locked just 3 months later. Her uniques were nearly 500,000 a month. All of her lenses were very long, 100% original, with videos, photos, and very unique and personal.

    When Squidoo, Seth Godin, decides to destroy his own business in expectation of some future algo change, I lose ALL faith in anything he writes and says.

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    Quote Originally Posted by MarkUpshaw View Post

    LESSON LEARNED: never build a business on someone else's platform.
    That's very true indeed. Even if you build, make sure you have required back up.
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    Sad to read your message, Mark. Nevertheless, despite whatever awful stuff Squidoo may have pulled in the past, it is still available today. From the information I receive, it is a matter of re-writing 10-20% of the old lenses to turn them into new lenses that will work today.

    PS love t the blog you link to. GREAT information. I hope Becker makes you some $$$$.

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    Quote Originally Posted by MarkUpshaw View Post
    LESSON LEARNED: never build a business on someone else's platform.
    Yes. Indeed ! better build your own how slow it is and how hard it is. Lenses I had there were not even Sales lenses or even had any my own ads apart from those ads Squidoo forced on. I wonder these changes has brought more income for Squidoo.

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    Yes, I had my staff and even had to outsource so that every single lens was rebuilt from the ground up. 100% new unique content, only 1 sales module from Amazon. Seth and team refused to reconsider my material after they stated I had to change it to conform to standards. However, they still have plenty of people using the exact format that I used, with spun content ranking in top spots on their site. SO...build on another's platform at YOUR OWN RISK.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bluearrow View Post
    I wonder these changes has brought more income for Squidoo.
    No it has not, ,my tier 1 lenses are not making much still.
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    First they allow all link spammers to leverage their platform. (Squidoo was also earning though that business model)

    Big G penalized them and they started massacre of lenses.

    But I must admit that yes I still have soft corner for Squidoo and once it back I will try to use it again.

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    I do hope they make a comeback. I have started to let my Lens sit. I made $12 off a tier 1 lens this month...
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    As more and more marketers and people wanting to make money join Squidoo, they can pay less and less.

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