If You Have a Group on Squidoo Consider Yourself Lucky

Because Squidoo just said, "As of right now, no new Groups can be created."

Group pages are powerful and my business partner Lewis Smile conducted a little study and found that group pages almost always outranked regular lenses for the same keyword.

If you started a Group on Squidoo, keep it! Do not delete it because you'll never be able to rebuild it. I'm not sure of the logistics but I'm checking to see if the groups can be sold like lenses. They might be some hot VRE now that they're no longer allowed.

Here's what Squidoo says about those who own groups: "Some time before June 1 2009, we're going to choose up to 100 of the very BEST groups on Squidoo and unlock a special tool just for them. These groups will fit a list of our criteria and be nominated by SquidStaff and our Angels. At the same time, we won't be shy about locking spam or junk or abandoned Groups over the next few months. So make sure yours don't get mistaken for such."

So clean up your groups, get the wax out and make them shiny and beautiful!

Some of the tips Squidoo passed on that are great:

1.) Make sure your Headquarters looks nice.

2.) Clean out the garbage. If you see lenses that are not relevant to your group in your group, kick 'em out.

3.) Use the Featured modules - lenses and lensmasters - to showcase your group members.

4.) update it.

5.) Check the lenses you let into your group because if they're spam, YOUR GROUP will get locked down. ACK!

Just a heads up - you have a little bit of time to get things in order but not much!
Tiff