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Negative-SEO Technique Strikes Squidoo
onefineham
Published on May 15, 2013
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Earlier in the day good-sumaritan Potpiegirl posted content specifically made to address the problem of the current policy changes at squidoo. She mentioned there was no way to necessarily peel back the veil and look behind the curtain to see what changes were taking place that were causing the problem.
I may be able to shed a little light based on what I observed in an effort to preserve one of my squidoo pages. I followed Potpiegirl's sage advice and attempted to salvage my page but lo and behold when I tried to re-publish my new content over the deleted page I was greeted with the following error:
"A large number of "nofollowed" links pointing to this lens were found. Avoid linking from blogs or forums where links are nofollowed due to high rates of spam.
Because of the large number of suspicious inbound links on this lens we're locking it. Unfortunately there's no way to fix this problem so the lens will remain locked.
The best advice we can give about suspicious inbound links is to avoid linking from places like forums or blog comments where untrusted links are typically "nofollowed" due to high rates of spam.
What would you like to do?"
Based on this idea - it seems clear to me that if a black-hatted / or negative SEO minded individual sends a bunch of crummy links and points them at your squidoo lens then you (and your precious lens) are doomed. I think Seth Godin and Team Squidoo have screwed the pooch on this update - and average folks like you and me are gonna get squished.
I may be able to shed a little light based on what I observed in an effort to preserve one of my squidoo pages. I followed Potpiegirl's sage advice and attempted to salvage my page but lo and behold when I tried to re-publish my new content over the deleted page I was greeted with the following error:
"A large number of "nofollowed" links pointing to this lens were found. Avoid linking from blogs or forums where links are nofollowed due to high rates of spam.
Because of the large number of suspicious inbound links on this lens we're locking it. Unfortunately there's no way to fix this problem so the lens will remain locked.
The best advice we can give about suspicious inbound links is to avoid linking from places like forums or blog comments where untrusted links are typically "nofollowed" due to high rates of spam.
What would you like to do?"
Based on this idea - it seems clear to me that if a black-hatted / or negative SEO minded individual sends a bunch of crummy links and points them at your squidoo lens then you (and your precious lens) are doomed. I think Seth Godin and Team Squidoo have screwed the pooch on this update - and average folks like you and me are gonna get squished.
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