My first squidoo lens locked

by johnknow

Posted: 14 years ago 14 replies

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Woohooo, I got noticed. I got my first squidoo lens locked.
It was, I thought, an honest review of carbon copy pro.
I didn't dis the product so much as I was objecting to the
hard sell approach to the relationship building approach and
I found the price, well, wayyyyy higher than any beginner might wish to spend and the nature of how much you "might" spend isn't really spelled out clearly in the sales pitch.

Anyhoo, questions: can I get a lens unlocked from this type of complaint?
Is it even worth it?
and how in hell can someone get my lens locked just because my opinion of "product A" isn't the usual "butt kissing, buy it now, love it love it love it" piece of bull**** you usually see?

Oh, lens being locked there's really no point in posting a link but I thought I was fair in my representation of ccp's limitations without being over critical.

any opinions, help would be appreciated.

Oh, after thought, yes I emailed the owner, apologized if I offended and asked for more details as to what "legal" errors I may have brought on in my lens. As that was the nature of the complaint: locked for a "legal" complaint.

I wish you guys could read the damn thing because I'm not a lawyer but certainly my opinion can't be a "legal" problem; can it?

#lens #locked #squidoo

pcpupil 14 years ago

Except the owner of the product thought you where hurting his sales at this time of year.
And no,i doubt seriously it will be unlocked.
What was the title of the lens?
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- johnknow 14 years ago
  
  squidoo.com/lensmaster/new_workshop/carbon-copy-pro-1
  
  Strictly speaking I found it from reading a post here about abandoned squidoo lenses and how to piggyback existing traffic off them. In this case after I updated it and linked to it from a couple of articles I actually got to page one on google (yeah, I was totally stoked ). But as to traffic I've averaged about 180 peeps a day, not huge but the traffic didn't really convert well as I'm just not real good at getting that traffic to product to customer connection just perfect yet.
  
  Quite frankly I was helping my parents move and I'd been designing a different way to direct the carbon copy review traffic but never got a chance to implement the changes of course.
  
  I stand by my review; the cost is HUGE for a beginner. Not to mention I really don't like the hard sell over the relationship building business model.
  
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  johnknow 14 years ago
  
  I read all the tos stuff at squidoo and I read my lens again; carefully. The only thing I used that could be considered "legal" was a picture from the affiliates area. Yes, I signed up as an affiliate as I sometimes do, then I did a lot more research on the product itself.
  
  Question? Do you think it's due to my google first page ranking that caused an issue? It's not as if that particular key word set was setting google on fire; it was like 3k searches in september total.
  
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pcpupil 14 years ago

Shoudnt hurt to be on page one unless the person got a bug up there butt because you where ranked higher than them.
Maybe pissed the person off a lens was beating there site after all the hard work they did.
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- mikeyman120 14 years ago
  
  Squidoo locked 4 of my lenses months ago but they are still up and running I just cannot access them. The lenses are completely the way I left them with all links still working fine. They keep saying they will check into it but then I never hear from them. I gave up on them at least for now.
  
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  johnknow 14 years ago
  
  Thanks for the replies. I checked again but there's nothing I've used that could be copy infringement as I actually did all the writing myself. The use of the photo is allowed as I am an affiliate;
  
  I'm just miffed because I got it ranked to 1,089 and page one on google before it got locked . I haven't been able to repeat that success; yet.
  
  Oh, I also have a warriors lens but in all honesty I have NO idea how to monetize that lens.
  
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rakoom2002 14 years ago

I hate how they leave the locking up the other users to flag, annoying, almost like craiglist.
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sbucciarel Banned 14 years ago

I have a fear of rejection so I deleted all my lenses when Squidoo implemented this new crapola. ha ha ... beat them to it.
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x3xsolxdierx3x 14 years ago

Do you all REALLY find that Squidoo pays well?...

For the better part of last year, my one lens fluctuated from being ranked #2 to around #20 in the "Business" Category (the Business category, IMHO, is one of the most competitive...).... (I know, it could be argued that lensrank doesn't really account for much anyway....)

It received over 270+ 5 star ratings, and still didn't earn very much....

Not saying to not use Squidoo, but I found other websites to be much more lucrative...in fact, I only really use Squidoo now to link to my articles on those sites....
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eaglechick 14 years ago

Don't be too harsh on Squidoo. They still provide excellent value and probably just want to stay inside the legal parameters.

Rather put your honest/unbiased review up on a personal blog and name it realinternetproductreviews or honestinternetproductreviews or something like that.

1. Test the products step for step in the trial period and note down your income/progress on the blog
2. Ask for reviews in the forum and put it up. Real reviews from people that have tried the product service
3. Do not sugar coat a review like most affiliates just to make a sale
4. If people sense that you are honest in your reviews the word will spread on the forum and in the IM Marketing (use Twitter and Facebook) and you will get a lot of visitors to your blog and sales of products that really work and that you have tested out yourself and have proofed that it can indeed make money\
5. No fake clickbank screenshots and fancy house and car screen shots. Very few people fall for that one any more

I've tried Carbon Copy Pro and it isn't worth the money.

I've bought Mini Site Formula - Joel Peterson - will start implementing it in the new year

Busy with X-factor Adsense Course - 5 sites up. End of Febr will be able to give an honest/income based review

Looking into HyperVre and NBI.

If you decide to put up an honest review blog and keep to basic decent down-to-earth reviews PM and I'll send you my reviews and I'm sure other marketers will do the same. We are fed up with all the crap out there and will someone just tell the truth for once and put it up, in stead of sugarcoating it for a few affiliate sales. You can make a killing with this if people in the market start to trust you.

Pursue other streams of income in the meantime and build this up slowly and for real.

MY BAD EXPERIENCES

Google Snatch
Carbon Copy Pro
Loot4Leads

GOOD EXPERIENCES SO FAR

X-Factor Adsense Course
Brad Callen - Software King - Any of his products is worth it
Big Mike
Don ad Jeremy Kellsall
Allen Graves - Article Directory

Take this "locked Squidoo lens" and turn it into a money making advantage and then you don't need them anymore, do you?
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- sdentrepreneur 14 years ago
  
  I created a Len's on Internet Marketing Videos, I even show Carbon Copy Pro's back office. I don't mention them by name, it could be a trademark infringement.
  
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  johnknow 14 years ago
  
  I never really considered squidoo lenses money makers per se. I only used my lens for the obvious reasons; page ranking, popularity, ability to add many lenses at a whim.
  
  I emailed the owner of the ccp but he hasn't emailed me back. I just wanted clarification as to what "legal" issues I'd created and how I could still keep my review lens while correcting it for any legal transgressions. If I can't I can't; np. I was doing fine without it and I'll still do fine. It was just nice to make google page one without breaking my ass for once.
  
  CCP is totaly over priced and quite frankly, in THIS economy, and THIS environment, calling someone and telling them to max out their credit cards to pay for PPC advertising is simply IRRESPONSIBLE.
  
  Anyways, I guess I'll have to delete it and find a different method for recommending my affiliate product.
  
  OH, SD, great site. hope you don't mind but I'm going to set up my next lens quite similarly.
  
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  rhondaklewis 14 years ago
  
  I did a lens last year on Magic of making up. Two days ago I added two post with no links and they locked it.
  They did warn me before they did so I could make changes but they did not tell me what I needed to change. I guess they still profit off the locked lenses even if the creator doesn't.
  
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  johnknow 14 years ago
  
  Yeah, I just decided to delete the damn thing; sigh. Now I'm going to change one I had started to traffic to my affiliate page.
  
  I got some great ideas from one of the members blogs. Hey, why invent the wheel right; hehe :p
  
  Thanks for the feed back though guys; it was much easier to delete it than to jump through hoops or put the rest of what I do at risk of possible "legal fees".
  
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