It's Bye Bye Squidoo And Hello HubPages
Did you get your email from HubPages about your extra featured hubs? I did and I had to investigate.. I haven't written for any web 2.0 platforms for ages.
HubPages have bought Squidoo. I had no idea because...
It's been awhile since I checked my Squidoo accounts, and with good reason, I don't like being frustrated. For at least 12 months now squidoo have been making changes to their affiliates agreements and essentially cutting us out of the picture.
Is real shame because squid was where I got my first break! My first 2 lenses were on Forex and gave me a residual of $400 pm for a few years, until squinny decided that Forex wasn't something they wanted to be associated with.
However Forex lenses weren't the only issue for squidoo, any lens that had a promotion or affiliate links was deemed as bad mojo...
Essentially Squidoo started deleting lenses left right and centre! At one time I had 80 lenses, from stuttering help to Green fingered gardening, now with almost all of them with violation warnings and content locked.
So I started using Squidoo for serious heavy hitting backlinks... Then that stopped, the ever changing face of IM eh!
Anyways, believe my surprise when I see an email from HubPages telling me that I have more features lenses.
So I wonder is it worth tweaking those hubs, I suppose I'll work on a couple and see what happens.
Will you be tweaking any of yours?
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i had two pages but never made any money - just had them linking to my other sites - i did get an email notice that they were merging - i might go back and check but don't know if i want to
I have heard (though I don't know whether it's accurate) that Hub Pages is now being hit by Google with all the pages they've taken on board from Squidoo and so they are beginning to tank.
I've been presently surprised at the visitor figures in my hubs dashboard, and judging by the comments below, seems 'it ain't over till the fat lady sings'!
Thanks for sharing, I have not even heard of those. I am going to spend some time to find out now,
Mahinthan
I was a Giant Squid and was down to 47 lenses and i had my first $300 day on there. I am now all transferred over and am finding a 100%+ increase in traffic. So drop by polish up your new Hubs and you may well get a pleasant surprise!
You will not earn anything unless you sign up for their ad program Amazon and eBay. You will need your own Adsense number too. Hope you do great. Check me out I am Dressage Husband there too.
Yip Yip - you hear that peeps = get on that train.
Thanks I've signed up added my paypal and I'm off to polish in the morning ;)
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Hi MissionOps. My lenses were transferred to HP recently but I'm not bothered with them. Was wondering if it would help to build hub pages to point to my website? Any experience with this? Is it useful?
That's what I'd say was the best course of action. Get a decent few solid links to your website. After all targeted traffic is traffic!
Hi Emerald that is the way to go definately