Squidoo Is Soon To Be No Longer - I'm Not Surprised, Are You?
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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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.
It's a shame because there were a lot of really good lenses made - but they were not commercial!
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.
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.
Quite agree!
One thing is, you didn't have any overheads which was a help to cash-strapped newbies.
Interesting, but you are right ... not surprising. Hey - does this mean there's an open door for a new provider? Not a serious inquiry, but it does make one wonder. God Bless! ~Cathy
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...
Hey - that's why God put eyes in the front and not the back ... keep looking to the future and never look back. You sleep much better that way! God Bless! ~Cathy
In its day it was a good platform which paid well. I suppose that's what attracted unscrupulous contributors.
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I never did deal with them but friends have told me they are a major pain. I guess it's true, huh? Poor customer service = poor return on your bottom line. I don't know the entire story, but it sure seems to me they have it comin'.