is squidoo deleting legit lenses?

I wouldn't doubt that they are. They shut down a couple of mine.

Not the case with mine.

My lenses weren't on any of their prohibited topics.

Nope. Weren't overly promotional.

Nope. Not at all.

Not that I'm aware of.

Squidoo was unwilling to tell me what was wrong with my lenses. When I inquired, all they did was point me to their TOS and say it was in violation. And then they put that big ol' "EVIL DOER!" message on the lens, basically accusing me of being some sort of "evil doer" whilst not being able to tell me what the issue was. My feeling is that if they had reason to suspend it, there was a reason for that suspension and they should be able to tell me what it is so that it can be corrected. Pointing me to a TOS with a laundry list of potential reasons, none of which appeared applicable to my lenses, does me no good.

At any rate, it was a good lesson. If you're going to put time and effort into building an informative site or page, do it on a web property you own and control. Then you don't have to worry about your work going to waste because some third party site decides to take it down due to unspecified alleged violations.

HubPages is entirely different story, I stopped using them long time ago, simply stay away from them

Not so. In many ways (and especially in the ways being discussed in this thread) it's actually a very similar story. And for the same reasons.

This. This was the post that people need to read. But the one that many will choose to ignore. Those are the people some of whom will end up having "accidents" and each typically imagining that they've been "terribly unlucky". This one thread and its links are all that anyone needs to read for further information: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...en-locked.html

I had only one lens blocked first and deleted later. I had posted the same content in a different place.

Squidoo is great. But, as Alexa keeps saying again and again, you have to think bigger than that.

At this point, my lenses served their purpose. I am on first page, position 4, for my keywords with MY site. If they kill my lenses, I don´t care one bit.

Sandra

I have not seen squidoo deleting lenses. I have read comments about many getting locked recently from people that put too much content that was else where on the Internet.

Just make sure that squidoo is just one spoke in your earning machine and use it to build to better things with your own sites and blogs.

Thing is... the TOS changes from time to time. So a lens that were ok, can become a bad boy any minute.

It is easy though to get into the spirit of squidoo, what they want. All the changes are corrections going toward that goal.

I don´t love the concept of having to post completely unique content, but the platform works for me so I go with it.

And sometimes people are fully aware of them, take great care over them, and still get their lens removed.

And sometimes the rules change and thousands of people find their lenses locked overnight (as has happened twice in the last three years).

That's what happens when you host your pages on someone else's site and let them make up, change and interpret all the rules, and "share" your money with you, rather than being in control of your own business.

This thread tells a story: http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...en-locked.html