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Squidoo Is Soon To Be No Longer - I'm Not Surprised, Are You?
Last Update: August 19, 2014
Just heard the news that Squidoo will be closing it's doors very shortly. They are offering contributers the chance of moving their content to HubPages.
I'm not at all surprised, as I was one of the early members from 2008, and have not written a lens there for 9 months now.
In those days you got paid well and every month, but since Google slapped them last year, Squidoo has taken a long time in trying to clean up its act - they hosted such a lot of affiliate rubbish.
I felt I was writing useful and interesting content, but never earned as much as those offering useless tat on Amazon without ANY content. They have now paid their price! But there are so many genuine authors writing great stuff who have been left on the shelf.
Are you with Squidoo or HubPages at the moment?
What are your thoughts or experiences?
You may be interested in this: Squidoo And HubPages – Time To Move On?
We are fortunate at WA to have a quality program full of great content with so many high quality members, let's treasure it!
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uniqueone
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That would mean Pot Pie Girl and her number one ranking site( under I forget which key words or combination of them)that trashes us bigtime will be out of business with her One Week Marketing program that is supposed to get you up and running with squidoo. When I was looking for things to get me going making money online I saw her program (that was before she longer was with WA and put up the site mentioned above) and just something screamed squidoo temporary. I just didnt like the idea of it.It felt cheesy.
rob3
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Hi Meryl, I've known of PotPieGirl for years and in fact bought her first version of OWM, second version was too expensive!
I'm sure she has covered her tracks and has multiple income sources by now, but I know she did a lot of Squidoo promotional stuff. The web is like quicksand and always moving and changing. We have to learn to adapt.
I'm sure she has covered her tracks and has multiple income sources by now, but I know she did a lot of Squidoo promotional stuff. The web is like quicksand and always moving and changing. We have to learn to adapt.
BIS
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It was obvious that it was going to happen. I have a lot of sympathy for the good writers but very little for Squidoo themselves. They left the mess they had created for a long time and when they did start to react, it was too little too late and they managed to antagonise many of their writers. :) Beverley
Shawn Martin
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I am a member there and at hub pages.
There are a few here at WA who have done very well with Squidoo in it's heyday but sometimes things fall apart, and thus Squidoo is a thing of the past.
Thanks for the heads up and all I can say is Hub Pages is OK, and they have grown considerably. You can now do some really cool things there with your blogs, but I do not use them much anymore.
When I joined WA there were no free websites or such, and many members used both Squidoo and Hub Pages for our temporary sites until we could afford to buy our own domains.
I am glad WA has evolved into what it is today and still is evolving.
Shawn>>
There are a few here at WA who have done very well with Squidoo in it's heyday but sometimes things fall apart, and thus Squidoo is a thing of the past.
Thanks for the heads up and all I can say is Hub Pages is OK, and they have grown considerably. You can now do some really cool things there with your blogs, but I do not use them much anymore.
When I joined WA there were no free websites or such, and many members used both Squidoo and Hub Pages for our temporary sites until we could afford to buy our own domains.
I am glad WA has evolved into what it is today and still is evolving.
Shawn>>
rob3
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You're right! Squidoo is done, but WA has gone from strength to strength.
I joined WA 5 years ago, and there have been so many additions and improvements. It's a terrific program to be involved in with the best community interaction of any.
I joined WA 5 years ago, and there have been so many additions and improvements. It's a terrific program to be involved in with the best community interaction of any.
garyrethford
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Yeah, I am with squidoo, but have not written any lenses in a long time. Got tired of their BS, I've got better things to do.
rob3
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I know of several top Squidoo writers who have done the same. They never got the message as their quality contributors jumped ship over the treatment they were being dealt!
graycarrot
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No surprise. I began affiliate marketing using Squidoo and walked away from them over a year ago. All my content was original but they said otherwise...impossible to deal with. My loss was a tremendous amount of time and effort.
rob3
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It's a shame because there were a lot of really good lenses made - but they were not commercial!
SowAndReap
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I never used them, but every time I came across a squidoo page, there were so many ads that I didn't want to even read it.
steveo5770
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Unfortunately, I was one of those people putting garbage out there too. I was new to all of this online marketing stuff and there was so much rubbish out there, I thought that was just how it was done.
When I could no longer keep my lenses from being demoted to WIP's, I gave up on them. I do feel for the people who were making money with them tough.
For me, this just confirms my argument that you're better off publish content on something you own.
When I could no longer keep my lenses from being demoted to WIP's, I gave up on them. I do feel for the people who were making money with them tough.
For me, this just confirms my argument that you're better off publish content on something you own.
rob3
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Quite agree!
One thing is, you didn't have any overheads which was a help to cash-strapped newbies.
One thing is, you didn't have any overheads which was a help to cash-strapped newbies.
rob3
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They are offering to transfer all content to HubPages, and if you don't like it - tough, it will be deleted! You will be able to download it and take it with you if you prefer to.
That's the thanks you get for supporting them with hundreds if not thousands of hours of lovingly-created content.
Oh well, we must move on...
That's the thanks you get for supporting them with hundreds if not thousands of hours of lovingly-created content.
Oh well, we must move on...
rob3
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In its day it was a good platform which paid well. I suppose that's what attracted unscrupulous contributors.
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