Days 67-72 Bum Marketing Adventure

Wow, long time no update.

Well, I'm still unsure on Squidoo. Some of them are still doing ok, others aren't. From what I heard, the reason many sites dropped (or get deindexed) was because a spammer got a hold of Squidoo and made something like 70,000 lenses in just a few days. I'd imagine it was someone using a scrapper (script to steal content from other sites to make you a bunch of automated sites. Individually not very effective, but 10,000 plus can add up. And it's completely automated.)

This, of course, made Google frown on Squidoo. Squidoo contacted Google to try and rectify the situation. While it seems somewhat fixed, this is bad news for us Squidoo users. First of all, it brings Google's eye on Squidoo. So, if they weren't before, they're now well aware of IMers on Squidoo. Secondly, Squidoo may have to drop the hammer a bit on spam lenses. While most of us should be ok with that, it may cause some problems. I'd expect to see some captcha on there as well. They do have some when you make a lens, but apparently that's not enough.

That said, to call it dead would be stupid. It's still pretty powerful and its future remains to be seen. If you can get your lenses some links, it's still very powerful. And even if you can't, it still works ok.

I, as usual, continue my poor attention span ways and waste time doing a million things. Oh well, at least I enjoy doing that. Although I have stumbled upon a new idea. If I can get creative enough, it could be huge. We'll see.