Is Squidoo still okay to post article to?

Hi:

Shireen here :-)

No offense, I quit using squidoo already...

To post an article in Squidoo is not so easy now,they required at least 5 likes from members to publish your article.And..I think that is too many OBL there,around at least 20...for me looks to be too many for an unranked article.But if you like to use Squidoo,you can do it...

It still has a high page rank and Alexa ranking (indication of incoming traffic). The reason a lot of people don't like it anymore is because Squidoo is very picky about the niches and even products you promote. I might use it to test out a niche idea before I bought a domain or use it to link to my blog. I wouldn't, however, put like a product review on there. I would put that content on my actual blog.

Good luck,
Joey

I use Squidoo for articles and sales from Amazon and eBay, and it's still working. My lenses ranks easily on 1 page of Google with only social bookmarking.

The site is what you make of it, just like any site. Don't underestimate the value of using it in conjunction with a much broader online marketing strategy.

It's still working & one of my lens is showing on Google 1st page for competitive keyword.

Squidoo is great for generating targeted traffic as most lenses have related lenses in their sidebar.

So if a squidoo lens is getting traffic, and you write on the same subject, you might get a tickle of traffic from that (similar to youtube).

Squidoo should mos def not be your main strategy, but it is a good place for generating some extra eye balls to both your squidoo lanses and your website or affiliate products.

Dispite soem of the answers above, I still use Squidoo for backlinking purposes.

I find it does extremely well when you push social bookmarking links onto them.

Squidoo in and of itself is a GREAT source of non-SERP traffic! I made some CJ - Your Performance Marketing Partner sales after I published on Squidoo and I still make a few sales here and there on auto-pilot. Why not just post unique articles containing useful information for people on that platform? Like the other Warriors said, you will get trickles of TARGETED TRAFFIC from related lenses. Just a thought

During this year, there was an individual named "Squidoo Girl" who emerged on Squidoo. With some interesting marketing tricks, she accelerated her earnings from Adsense/Amazon, through simple Squidoo lenses, to over $800+/month. I know she blogged about her experiences, but has since moved on from the blog (as per her last post on it).

Squidoo is Okay to used. It's like the other free used web blogs like blogger, hubpages, etc.

I used it to promote my articles but like everybody said. Its hard to get approve or rank your articles for you need lot of stuff to do before they will appear.

I think Squidoo is not effective to use anymore. Many quit in using the site already.

Squidoo is a high ranking PR site, which makes it still worth it in link building.

I still use Squidoo, yes, I have a few lenses that got PR3 and even a PR4 without having to do anything for it, except build it. It's some nice link juice to my money site.

It's not a big part of my business, but I still create them.

Leslie

I still use Squidoo, however HubPages has gone and lost their mind.

Evidently, they got slapped real good the last Big G update, and so they have now revamped their policies.

The DO NOT allow Clickbank hoplinks anymore. Nor do they allow links to squeeze pages, landing pages, or one-page blogs that link to a Clickbank sales page.

Basically, they took down all 40 of my Hubs (some that were making me $20-$30 per month between Clickbak and Adsense). Also, duplicate content is not allowed at all anymore (it used to be allowed, but you would have a low Hub Score).

Basically, if you are a marketer, HubPages is not an option anymore.

If you just like to write and want to belong to a writer's community and make a little off Adsense every month, then it's alright. But if that's the case, why not just put up a Wordpress blog, publish to that, and take 100% of the Adsense money?

i create squidoo lenses on topic which i'm totally interested in, to build up some 'kicks' and have fun (certainly not mmo niche).. & NOT to earn backlinks or generate some fast money etc..

By all means, squidoo can be your secondary (hobby) but my advise to you is never make it your primary (generate income)..

Hope this help,

may God bless you,
Jeremiah

I can only speak for myself when I say that squidoo still works well for me. I posted about a dozen squidoo lenses last week and then spun the squdioos and did some social bookmarking and for keywords with about 300,000 competition I am front page of Google and this is over a period of about six weeks.

All I can say is give it a try and see how it goes.

I left using it after panda update as like several other article sites its traffic decreased from search engines so the article on it lost their portion of direct traffic. Second It gives no-follow links which is not helpful in terms of link building.

Be sure to have long articles in your lens to get seo benefit

I think it is still a good place to post articles to. I have some squidoo lenses that are making me money on auto-pilot since 2008. I haven't touched them since I created them for the first time and they bring me $100's each and every month.

They don't make a fortune, but who complains about receiving "free" money?

Well the Squidoo TOS is really a pain. I totally agree with that. And maybe for some, I agree, that it is not the best. But it is still worth creating Squidoo lenses. I'd rather not make it a priority to create one but an option worth a try.

I think for backlinking purposes, it can always benefit. Not too sure about ranking the page itself but the same process would be needed. Build links to the page if you want it to rank.

Squidoo's posting guidelines is now too strict. I wrote an article, 500 words long and Squidoo rejected it. But when I submitted it to EzineArticles, it is accepted.

This is still very useful to post articles, as long it is high quality and gives value to the community. But take note that Squidoo has changed their rules after the Panda update (just like Ezine) and its tough for your lens to be accepted.

Even if Squidoo isn't as useful as it once was (and that's arguable), relatively speaking, it's still among the best places to get exposure for your website. You can't really argue with getting your brand/links/content on to a website with an Alexa rank in the top 250.

The true benefit to posting to sites like Squidoo is the ability to manipulate their internal linking structures and traffic for your benefit.

Squidoo is a good web2.o site that i helpful for both article submission and link wheel. I often use squidoo to publish my contents and in link wheels. The best thing of squidoo is that it have high traffic that is good for a website. If that traffic search for my keyword then my article should come in results i will get a crawl from there>

Squidoo is helping me send traffic to my websites and this traffic is staying longer there. Creating lenses is also a passive income.

I hated Squidoo's rules and their numerous changes without asking us if we agree with them. However, now that I became a Giant Squid I'm having many advantages.

Now it's quite easier to become a Giant than it used to be before; you only need 25 good lenses with original content, while before you had to create 50 lenses.

You can also create lenses using a few paragraphs of your old articles, or simply create stores without text, even though a short description-review of your products is always helpful.

My lenses are based on content because I'm a writer. They are immensely helping me promote my business. I'm getting traffic from the Squidoo community and sending this traffic to my websites and to my blog.

I advise you to do the same. Creating lenses is a money-making occupation that gives you the opportunity to sell your products, or many affiliate products, besides being an excellent traffic generating method. If you'll write your own content, you'll get a lot of traffic from Google after publishing a lens. This advantage lasts for one or two weeks, while your lens is still fresh.

Later you have to build backlinks and promote your lens to see it appearing at Google's first page. However, if you are smart, you will create a new lens every week so that you may always have a fresh lens appearing at the first results page because Google gives this advantage to new lenses. I guess that this advantage works also for lenses that are merely stores without text, but I'm not so sure. Based on my experience I can say that original content is the best option today, not only for creating lenses, but for everything you do online.

Squidoo feels a bit awkward to post to for some reason, all that building lenses is counter intuitive, like you've got enough on your plate writing, without having to do a jig to put it all together.

I wish Google would reward people who had neat handwriting and could spel proply without using electronic aids...

I've only written one lens - and mustered one visitor, I feel embarrassed that some people seem to write a handful everyday...

But writing is a hobby, I'm only just learning that it may garner traffic for my site :-)

There's little doubt in my mind that the time I've just spent sprawled out on my bed, scratching my backside, puffing a cigarette and supping a whiskey with the Transatlantic Sessions streaming on BBC iPlayer was better spent, more productive, and worth more to my bottom line than if I'd instead read threads intent on filling my consciousness with the sort of talk that has me going away believing Squidoo is anything other than highly distilled sewage.

Well I've been there a long time. I was pissed when changes took place but later happy they did - it was a nice cleanup, even if some babies got thrown out with the bathwater (even some of my own).

But I use them now as part of my marketing strategy. Here's how I use them:

1. I test niches there. It's perfect for it because I get to easily create a nice looking layout that gets me almost immediate search traffic without having to register a domain and set up a site.

2. I use the pages to supplement my spots on the SERPs. If my own domain grabs spots 1 and 2, why not grab #3 with a Squidoo lens, too?

3. I use Squidoo to get additional category exposure. They promote other lenses (like mine) on other lensmaster's pages (something that bugged me as a marketer who hates link leakage, but loves it as a recipient - hypocritical).

I like that newbies can set up a page with ease and without having to have web building skills.

I like that it's free.

I like that there's a community there of people generally very helpful and kind who help spread the word of your lenses IF you actually get social there and interact with them.

I like that Seth, Gil and Meagan are all in the trenches interacting with the community to make it better.

I like that I can use it for silly niche ideas I have NO plans to go into on a full website - because there's just not enough for me to make one on. For instance, here's a lens that's made me $17+ this month: Yankee Candle Electric Refill - Shop and Save - no, it's not much. But building something one time and having it work like that and knowing I can make unlimited pages like that is pretty neat.

I have no plans to build a Yankee candle refill site LOL - but I had the idea, and now even with very little traffic, it converts. (I think it had about 110 visits in the last 30 days and shows $17+ profits).

I like that I can see all of the keywords my lens is being found for. I can do further research and build out new pages like that if I want (or if I want my ghostwriter to).

Is it something I, as a marketer with my own sites and products, invest a ton of time and effort into? Not anymore - but it's like a nice side dish.

I like it better than article directories. Someone else was right - it's not a place to "throw up an article." It's a place to create a page about something you like.

I like using multiple places, but as someone else said, I no longer enjoy HP. I do like Google Plus, FaceBook, Twitter, and I count Squidoo as another place to share information in a network where others can help spread the word about it.

Tiff

Just be careful i heard someone with all his income coming from Squidoo got their account shut down and all his articles lost plus his income. He may have been doing something against rules tho. Good luck

Squidoo is a good place for submitting articles. The reasons are-

1. You can make money online
2. You can get huge backlinks from squidoo lens. But the articles must be good & content rich.
3. There are options of posting pictures, video clips & advertisements in your article.

Unfortunatly I found some of my squidoo lenses suddenly lose its search engine ranking. I think google has changed its algorithm and has affected squidoo lenses too.

Hi guys, squidoo is not just offering to post instant article. It is much more that. It had so much modules for the enrichment of your content here.You amazon product you can put on your lens. This is amazing. The views of you lens and popularity checker is available on it. Its not just an article directory.Lens is like a mirco blog.

It's ok I supoose. At one point I was thriving with it, making about $500-$600 a week with it but it soon died when for some reason unknown to me I was finding it incredibly hard to rank the pages.

I think there still a great way to get traffic from .
So why not post your articles to there , plus if
your lens is good enough and you have enough
rank you can sell them for extra cash , I think that
alone is enough to keep using it !

But i see it different than most !

Hope that helps !

I would prefer Squidoo over hubpages and blogger. Please don't treat squidoo like article submission sites. Squidoo provides you a solid platform to sell your products. It's still a good source of income. But all it demands quality content(700 to 1000wordcount) with sales modules like amazon, ebay etc.

One more thing, don't try to cover every point of product in a single lens. Just write lens about a particular product and stay focused on that.

One last thing call to action, is very important in the end.