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IS SQUIDOO DEAD??????

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Is there anybody still making money off it.
Does google still rank them high?
#dead #squidoo
  • Profile picture of the author dvduval
    No way it can be dead with a pagerank of 8. They could do some things better, but keep in mind the first people to make money will be Squidoo.
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    • Profile picture of the author x3xsolxdierx3x
      Originally Posted by dvduval View Post

      No way it can be dead with a pagerank of 8. They could do some things better, but keep in mind the first people to make money will be Squidoo.
      Yes, their high PR is a result of both early entrance into the industry, as well as, some creative marketing and leveraging of their community. From a strictly revenue share arrangement vantage point, their business model leaves ALOT of room for viable competitors.Their referral incentivization doesn't even compare to, say, HubPages, that offers their writers 10% lifetime impression based rotation of advertisement ID#'s (Adsense, etc.).

      It's certainly not dead, HOWEVER, I do think their arrangements leave for quite a bit of viable competition. Seth Godin "should" recognize that the internet breeds new competition and continually evolves. This required business models and offerings to evolve accordingly.
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      • Profile picture of the author scott g
        Did you know that alot of the Squidoo Lens' are DOFOLLOW?! That includes links in comments...!
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  • Profile picture of the author redfoxseo
    I agree. I don't think it has as much juice as it did but nevertheless not dead or dying by any means.
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  • Profile picture of the author cevin
    It's not dead at all. I have heard they have made a video squido too. It will rock for sure this too.
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  • Profile picture of the author danaprince
    In my experience with making lenses for myself and clients, Squidoo is good for link building but I don't rely on it for income. But from what I've seen, HubPages is still good for both.
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  • Profile picture of the author TheGrooby
    I wasn't aware that it was alive. Unless there's a guy in the forums named Squidoo.
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  • Profile picture of the author clever7
    The secret about making money with Squidoo is creating many lenses about related topics. If you have only a few lenses, you won't have positive results.

    Here is a lens that teaches you how to make many Squidoo lenses in a short period of time, and what is important for getting traffic:

    http://www.squidoo.com/passive-income-website-traffic-squidoo-beginners-guide

    All the best!
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    • Profile picture of the author x3xsolxdierx3x
      Originally Posted by clever7 View Post

      The secret about making money with Squidoo is creating many lenses about related topics. If you have only a few lenses, you won't have positive results.

      Here is a lens that teaches you how to make many Squidoo lenses in a short period of time, and what is important for getting traffic:

      http://www.squidoo.com/passive-income-website-traffic-squidoo-beginners-guide

      All the best!
      I didn't read that link, however, I'll have to respectably disagree with THIS point of yours.

      "If you have only a few lenses, you won't have positive results."

      Whether you write for Squidoo, or another Web 2.0 property altogether, this just simply isn't true that you need a TON of lenses to do well. Go survey people and I guarantee that 90%+ of people who write for these sites aren't do any kind of research whatsoever before they create a lens/article/etc. It's a flat-out hit or miss approach, that shows very little respect for people's time and effort.

      There can certainly be benefits to having ALOT of articles, for sure. You can begin to track performance and views, and see where you can hone in your effort even more. Even still, there is plenty of data readily available to people, both free and not free, but they either don't want to take the effort or they simply don't know about it.

      Why should people have to spend 100's of hours applying a hit or miss strategy with a plethora of lenses? I haven't read that link, but I'm 'assuming' that it parallels the "secret" you are referencing.

      I'm not saying that people shouldn't work hard....I'm saying that there are smarter ways to go about it, that will help to effectively maximize the benefit you gain from using a site like that. Fundamental understanding of markets, and competition, would save ALOT of people ALOT of time.
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  • Profile picture of the author clever7
    Of course everything is important, but if you have only a few lenses you won’t get as much traffic as you can when you create many lenses about related topics. You get traffic through the Discovery tool, and through the window in each lens, where related Squidoo lenses to yours appear.

    Those who are really making money with Squidoo lenses are the Giant Squids, what means that they have created more than 50 lenses.

    Take a look at the link I posted because you’ll realize that you don’t need to spend as much time as you believe when you learn the basics.

    You can very easily build many Squidoo lenses about related topics (so that your own lenses may appear in the windows of your lenses, and attract more visitors) without spending time.

    Later, you’ll add more products, improve their appearance, etc.

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  • Profile picture of the author LauraJames
    Squidoo is not dead. Most people I know use it primarily for link building. Best wishes to you.
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  • Profile picture of the author islandville
    I still use it I believe it's not dead yet.
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  • Profile picture of the author clever7
    There are lensmasters making around $500 per month with their Squidoo lenses, or more. Everything depends on the topics you choose (for ex. lenses about how to make money attract more visitors than lenses about how to do something else, because the entire internet cares about making money online), on your ability to create nice lenses, backlinks, etc.

    Lensmasters who have created more than 100 lenses are making around $1000 per month.

    This is not “what I believe” but what many trustful lensmasters have showed us, explaining us how to achieve their level.

    In the beginning you won’t make more than a few dollars, but with time, as you create more lenses, and especially, as you participate of the Squidu forum posting your links, and leaving comments in other lenses, etc, you will get there.
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    • Profile picture of the author x3xsolxdierx3x
      Originally Posted by takeonepicture View Post

      Most people I know use Squidoo primarily for link building.

      Good luck!
      This is how I use it...at least now. Outside of those who have developed tools for Squidoo, or have been around since its beginning, Squidoo even said (the last I saw) that around October 2009, the highest Squidoo earner earned around $1,300. Sure, noone would turn down that payment each month, however, that was derived from their internal revenue share arrangement. There MAY be people earning in excess of a few thousand a month, although, that will more than likely be from emplacing their own affiliations.

      Not to bash because I really like the marketing genius behind Seth Godin, but their business model (from a revenue share standpoint) just simply can't compete with emerging business models. The highest earner earnings, I have replicated quite easily on much lower PR/authority Web 2.0 properties. Their referral incentivization needs to be addressed, as well.
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  • Profile picture of the author clever7
    Squidoo won’t make you rich, but remember that this is passive income. You create many lenses once, and then you keep making money with them.

    The only thing you have to do is to update them regularly, improving a few details once in a while, so that they may always have a good ranking.
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  • Profile picture of the author markowe
    I have noticed that lenses don't get indexed by Google as quickly as they used to, you can't just throw up any old lens and expect an instant Google ticket, possibly Squidoo don't even ping Google until you have done a bit more work on the lens.
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  • Profile picture of the author Always-A-Warrior
    Squidoo is way much better than before. They've added more ways to make money and has open up the affiliate playing field to its members and now with FB button intergrated on each lenses it gives you a lot more advertising power. You don't need tons of lenses to make a living on Squidoo, all you need is an fresh relevant content that pulls in the masses. The hardest part about it like any other blog or website, it takes time to build and build it right. I used to just slap on some affiliate link and blogroll, ping, rss, etc. and it got shut down I'm glad it was only that one account so now I know better and learned a few things from the wiseman, Bob the Teacher. We go way back. lol

    Squidoo is still a powerful tool and a great money maker.
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  • Profile picture of the author Nickolie0990
    I haven't had a Squidoo account for about 3 years now, I don't know if it is dead, but it is really useless, much like myspace.
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  • Profile picture of the author clever7
    No, Squidoo is not useless. There are many people quite happy with the money they are making with their lenses.

    Take a look at these blogs:

    http://www.squidoocool.com/

    http://thrivingmom-squidoo.blogspot.com/

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  • Profile picture of the author Slade556
    I've never made a substantial portion of my income from Squidoo but with such a high pagerank I still believe it is effective for backlinking purposes. I've always viewed it as establishing high quality backlinks instead of a means to rake in cash. Even if it is not as popular anymore I imagine the link juice is still worthwhile.
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  • Profile picture of the author rapidscc
    Well, they're not dead but I think they changed the way they share revenue.

    I have one lens that consistently earns me around 4 bucks each month until July of this year.

    It's not much, though enough to buy me 8 coke in can each month but things changed since August.

    I only received a dollar for august while for september I only got 40 cents. I checked the stats and I saw that the ad pool changed/lowered a lot.

    The squidoo lens receives the same amount of traffic each week, it still plays around the same ranking but the ad pool share lessened considerably. So I guess Squidoo is pretty much alive but you'll have to do a lot of work now if you expect to make an online income from there.

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    • Profile picture of the author x3xsolxdierx3x
      There are many aspects of the platform that need a serious makeover. People can run their businesses however they want to, however, in a very heavy saturated industry, Squidoo's revenue share arrangement is easily dwarfed by many other platforms. That's just a fact.

      Originally Posted by rapidscc View Post

      Well, they're not dead but I think they changed the way they share revenue.

      I have one lens that consistently earns me around 4 bucks each month until July of this year.

      It's not much, though enough to buy me 8 coke in can each month but things changed since August.

      I only received a dollar for august while for september I only got 40 cents. I checked the stats and I saw that the ad pool changed/lowered a lot.

      The squidoo lens receives the same amount of traffic each week, it still plays around the same ranking but the ad pool share lessened considerably. So I guess Squidoo is pretty much alive but you'll have to do a lot of work now if you expect to make an online income from there.

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  • Profile picture of the author dvduval
    Yea, I setup a couple of lenses and that's about it. I don't think of it as a revenue source so much as a method to publish content and get people or search engines to read it.
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  • Profile picture of the author kevinw1
    I find SQ very good for backlinks and useful for a few extra hundred $$ each month. This lens does a good job of talking about the earning potential - and non-potential - from Squidoo.
    Is Squidoo a Scam? An Honest Answer

    It certainly isn't quick money though - my best earning lenses are all several years old, PR3 and 4, and get about 1500 visitors a week.
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    • Profile picture of the author x3xsolxdierx3x
      Originally Posted by kevinw1 View Post

      I find SQ very good for backlinks and useful for a few extra hundred $$ each month. This lens does a good job of talking about the earning potential - and non-potential - from Squidoo.
      Is Squidoo a Scam? An Honest Answer

      It certainly isn't quick money though - my best earning lenses are all several years old, PR3 and 4, and get about 1500 visitors a week.
      Kevin,

      I'm familiar with the lensmaster who wrote that lens (Greekgeek). They have been around Squidoo for quite some time and have invested alot of time and energy into the platform (I have, as well). I have yet to read the entire lens (I will), but, I can tell you, the earnings are pretty weak for a PR8 site. (I'm curious as to how 'recent' that $300 figure is...)

      The platform interface, and revenue share arrangement, I believe, makes it very difficult to earn there. Of course, I am sure, those who care more about selling Clickbank products, can do really quite well there because of the high authority of the site. If you don't know what you are doing, it will be VERY difficult to earn there.

      I earn multiples of that figure on PR4 sites with much less authority.
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    I make some cash but not much, still I rather buy domains than putting unique content on Squidoo.
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  • Profile picture of the author warner444
    I have the impression Google lets new lenses simmer for a while before giving them much notice. Some I have done seem to sit around doing nothing much then after a few months come to life and the ranking improves noticeably.
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    It's part of a good marketing plan, but it's not the whole plan.
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  • Profile picture of the author clever7
    Everything depends on your efforts and talents. I started using Squidoo as a traffic generating method. However, after getting involved for a while in the Squidoo system and learning how to easily create lenses, I realized that this is a good method for having a passive income. Creating lenses a joke once you learn the basics.

    *Choose a topic after researching and finding the best keywords.

    *Choose from your article collection (or write at the moment) three 500 words articles about this topic, always using your keywords, especially in your titles.

    *Start creating your lens. Jump the introduction module, post your 3 articles. Share your content into many text modules so that it may look nice. You will easily include many ornaments so that your page may be very appealing. The visual aspect of a lens is very important.

    *Add many pictures, which you’ll find for free at http://www.flickr.com/ and use the tricks shown by many Squidoo lenses (you’ll find many useful lenses in the Squidoo world giving you free lessons about everything).

    *Now, add your products, Amazon products, eBay products, Clickbank products, etc. Post your links.

    *Then link your lens to other 3 lenses in the Discovery Tool, put on the Table of Contents and add your more enticing description in the introduction module, now that your lens is ready.

    *Promote your own lenses using the My Lenses module, and find around 5 lenses related to your topic (using Squidoo search at the top of all lenses), post their links in the end so that you may have a good lensrank.

    That’s it.

    Now promote it, improve it a little bit with time, etc. Your page is ready and it makes money. It’s working by itself, while you are doing something else. You work hard only once creating a lens in a few hours, and then you keep making money from it and sending traffic to your websites and blogs.

    Why shouldn’t you easily create around 10 lenses in the beginning? And have a few dollars coming by themselves, while promoting your products in a PR8 website? The Squidoo community is very friendly. If you get involved in the Squidoo forum you get a lot of traffic from a thousand lensmasters. This is a very nice way of doing many things.

    You can even make a lot of money, like the Squidoo Girl, who created more than 100 lenses at once and is making a fortune. She is giving lessons to everyone. Her success is quite inspiring.
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  • Profile picture of the author clever7
    No, Pot is also making a lot of money with Squidoo lenses, but this a new girl. Take a look at her lens about her Squidoo earnings:

    http://www.squidoo.com/squidoo-journey

    She is very helpful in the Squidu forum, and she posts many useful tips at her blog. Follow her example!

    I have many other things to do in my busy life, but I truly enjoy the conversations (and lessons) at Squidu; and creating lenses whenever I can.



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    • Profile picture of the author scott g
      Originally Posted by clever7 View Post

      No, Pot is also making a lot of money with Squidoo lenses, but this a new girl. Take a look at her lens about her Squidoo earnings:

      http://www.squidoo.com/squidoo-journey

      She is very helpful in the Squidu forum, and she posts many useful tips at her blog. Follow her example!

      I have many other things to do in my busy life, but I truly enjoy the conversations (and lessons) at Squidu; and creating lenses whenever I can.

      She's hot. I'd Squidoo her Lens...
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  • Profile picture of the author Dwight Anthony
    Definitely alot more competition on there for niches than it used to be. Need to go after microniches with decent search volume and you'll possibly see results.
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