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Squidoo has hidden amazon sales...related?

by paulgl
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I know this isn't really for this part of the forum, but so
many amazon threads have made this a better place
at the moment.

I just realized that it's been a long, long time since squidoo
has reported any sales for amazon. That is, no sales to anyones
lens has been reported for what seems like weeks. All I can gather
is that they "are working on it." Some bug or something. However,
I can't fathom squidoo having a bug like this for this friggin long.

Anyone see any amazon sales showing up? My biggest amazon lens
is getting boatloads of traffic, so I am 100% positive that I am making
sales the way it's always done.

I am now think perhaps, just perhaps, because of the nonsense squidoo
has done, that are going overboard on amazon...something in the works
that will be even worse...I don't know exactly what, but if this bug is
still going on, in a month, who knows what's going on.

I hope I am wrong, but I'm thinking they will be tweaking their
amazon sales commissions. If squidoo trims that, man, they have
really lost it.

Just looking for a place to vent. No way should amazon sales go MIA.

I hope they get this fixed and I see all that cash come in at once...

Paul
#amazon #hidden #salesrelated #squidoo
  • Profile picture of the author Icematikx
    Why risk your content on Squidoo? Build your own site and do it the easier way. At least then, you have control over your rankings, your earnings and everything else. With plenty of Amazon sites myself, I can honestly say I wouldn't even waste a 1,000 word post on Squidoo.
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    • Profile picture of the author nik0
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      In your last post you said something that the largest affiliate site on the net was hit: Squidoo.

      And now you are saying that you have a bulk of traffic and income ongoing.

      Doesn't seem to be very much on the same line is it?
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      • Profile picture of the author paulgl
        No, I don't use squidoo for my content. But I do use it and
        have a zillion amazon lenses.

        Squidoo has only deleted a handful of my lenses. Others are
        getting whole accounts locked and lenses deleted.

        I never said that my best amazon lenses were hit. They weren't.
        Of course I'm crossing my fingers. Lenses I had hit were mainly
        for backlinks, not amazon. But they force you to put amazon
        on them, so, a few cents here or there across hundreds of lenses
        does add up. Then toss in a dozen great amazon lenses, and
        you can get a nice chunk of change.

        Thing is, they are admitting that their amazon reporting is
        "broken" at the moment, and has been for at least 2 weeks or
        so. Nobody, and I mean nobody, is seeing any sales. The
        admin assures everyone that their sales are being tabulated,
        but there is a "glitch." Not to worry, they say, as all will
        be settled up. Eventually.

        No way they can delete thousands of amazon lenses and
        not have some issues.

        Squidoo is in the tank, that's for sure.

        I've always earned a decent amount of cash from squidoo.
        Used to be backlinks and cash, now just cash.

        In fact, my best squidoo amazon lens has seen traffic tripled
        in the past week.

        Paul
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  • Profile picture of the author Icematikx
    It's like anything. Squidoo will rip off it's customers if they are dieing. If they are continuing to see growth, they won't rip you off, as they want your repeat custom. Chances are, in order to fix their "bug", they need to work with Amazon. As I'm sure, Amazon are probably taking weeks to respond, as do most corporate businesses. Also, I'm sure fixing reporting is not on Squidoo's top priority. Getting back their rankings is probably on the top of their to-do list.
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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    I don't know much about squidoo but can't you simply take all the content you submitted to squidoo & start your own site, where it's setup just like a squidoo lens/page?

    Does squidoo Amazon links pay out a higher percentage than a regular Amazon affiliate link?
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    • Profile picture of the author Stevie C
      They actually pay less but the internal linking structure means that you can get a lot of juice from other lenses, this meant up until recently that with a low competition keyword it was pretty easy to rank in Google with no external linking.

      I had a few lenses up that were bringing in a couple of hundred dollars a month but have given up on Squidoo now, its a sinking ship.
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      • Profile picture of the author yukon
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        Originally Posted by Stevie C View Post

        They actually pay less but the internal linking structure means that you can get a lot of juice from other lenses, this meant up until recently that with a low competition keyword it was pretty easy to rank in Google with no external linking.
        I can do that with a single category on my own self hosted domain & get double/triple SERP listings per individual target keyword.

        I don't get why someone would rank another persons web page for the sake of a longtail keyword.
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        • Profile picture of the author nik0
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          Originally Posted by yukon View Post

          I can do that with a single category on my own self hosted domain & get double/triple SERP listings per individual target keyword.

          I don't get why someone would rank another persons web page for the sake of a longtail keyword.
          Obvious your website has external back links, and thus juice flowing.

          He's talking about the situation where he doesn't have to build a single link if I understand it right.
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          • Profile picture of the author yukon
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            Originally Posted by nik0 View Post

            Obvious your website has external back links, and thus juice flowing.

            He's talking about the situation where he doesn't have to build a single link if I understand it right.
            If it's low competition like suggested any established site would have enough relevancy to boost a new page as long as the new page/keyword is relevant.

            Sounds kind of lazy to me, depending on Squidoo to rank a low competition keyword.
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            • Profile picture of the author nik0
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              Originally Posted by yukon View Post

              If it's low competition like suggested any established site would have enough relevancy to boost a new page as long as the new page/keyword is relevant.
              Yeah but you know how warriors are, they build a new site for each keyword
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              • Profile picture of the author Stevie C
                Originally Posted by nik0 View Post

                Yeah but you know how warriors are, they build a new site for each keyword
                Glad someone gets it

                As I said before it was a good way of ranking for low comp keywords very easily as well, with no external linking and you could test any keyword you wanted so if I found a product that didn't fit in with an existing site I could build a quick lens and probably get it ranked.


                Anyway this is all history now as Squidoo is dead in the water - I made a few bucks out of it and it was fun while it lasted.

                Love this comment from Yukon though;

                'Sounds kind of lazy to me, depending on Squidoo to rank a low competition keyword'

                In my world making money as effortlessly as possible is a plus, call me the lazy marketer
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                • Profile picture of the author paulgl
                  Originally Posted by Stevie C View Post


                  Anyway this is all history now as Squidoo is dead in the water - I made a few bucks out of it and it was fun while it lasted.
                  Yup. Squidoo a shadow of its old self.

                  Amazon sales are now slowly reporting...

                  Paul
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    • Profile picture of the author PROmotions LLC
      Originally Posted by yukon View Post

      ....can't you simply take all the content you submitted to squidoo & start your own site, where it's setup just like a squidoo lens/page?
      That's the idea were looking at here. Anyone with a Squidoo account can just take the content from their lenses and use it on other platforms. Personally, I didn't use Squidoo for the Amazon widgets and to make money, I did it to have more quality links and more content about my site out there.
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    • Profile picture of the author paulgl
      Originally Posted by yukon View Post

      I don't know much about squidoo but can't you simply take all the content you submitted to squidoo & start your own site, where it's setup just like a squidoo lens/page?

      Does squidoo Amazon links pay out a higher percentage than a regular Amazon affiliate link?
      Here's the thing. I'm not talking about content lenses. I have very little
      "real" good content lenses for content's sake. All that is on my dot coms.

      The lenses were teasers, funneling traffic with what was terrific backlinks.

      The other part, the amazon sales, was icing on the cake. I found out that
      for me, selling amazon stuff on squidoo was so much easier using their
      built-in amazon revenue share.

      The way it worked, is that you got quite a good percentage of the sale.
      The value of squidoo was amazing.

      They report all amazon sales on a daily basis, and add the cash to your
      account. They wait 2 months for a payout.

      Those daily reports stopped about June 1. That is, nobody is getting
      credit nor showing any sales. The data, squidoo claims, is held in
      some room locked with a glitch.

      So to reiterate, very funny that google supposedly makes an "amazon"
      update on the date this happened.

      Paul
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  • Profile picture of the author BKenn01
    I am confused. If you use your Amazon link on a Squidoo lens wouldn't Amazon be the one paying you?
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    • Profile picture of the author cpkc
      Originally Posted by BKenn01 View Post

      I am confused. If you use your Amazon link on a Squidoo lens wouldn't Amazon be the one paying you?
      You have to use links provided by Squidoo on their lenses. I think they take a cut of the Amazon revenue.
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      • Profile picture of the author paulgl
        To the 2 people above....

        Squidoo shares revenue from their amazon account with lens
        owners. They report this daily in your stats. For a 1-3 week
        period, these sales were not being reported. In fact, many
        lens owners are saying those sales are just lost. Squidoo is now
        back to reporting daily sales, or so it seems. Thise amazon
        glitch happened at the same time they were deleting lenses left
        and right, as well as other changes. That's what this thread was
        about. Taking your amazon sales away, taking lenses away, making
        TOS changes like nofollow all links, etc.

        It is PERFECTLY okay to use your own amazon affiliate links. You cannot
        add iframes, javascript, etc., so you are limited with images linked with plain
        text.

        This thread is NOT about using your own amazon links...

        Some of my lenses were earning well over $100 monthly from
        squidoo amazon sharing. Now, it's a trickle.

        Paul
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  • Profile picture of the author amithak50
    Thanks Kpcp,You are exactly right
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  • Profile picture of the author marco005
    Hi,

    how does squidoo payout to amazon affiliates who are non us citizen?
    through bank wire, paypal ??????
    Or ist it better to use own amazon affiliate links in squidoo and makes payout from amazon through payoneer card?

    When non us citizen split their commission with squidoo,does squidoo needs some of these W9 formulas or so?

    I have a theory; squidoo likes lenses who split their commission from amazon, affiliates who pu t their own links in it,so that squidoo not makes any profit from you, they will kick out you, they are not a church,they are an profit business company. They will make profit with you,when you will not split your commission,you are not an business partner in squidoo eyes.

    Please correct me if I'm wrong.


    best wishes
    marco005
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