http://bizammo.com/marketing/have-the-internet-marketing-sharks-killed-squidoo/ Your Small Business Arsenal Tue, 07 Sep 2010 14:32:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://bizammo.com/marketing/have-the-internet-marketing-sharks-killed-squidoo/comment-page-1/#comment-5467 Nick Bentley Tue, 06 Apr 2010 01:12:07 +0000 http://bizammo.com/?p=205#comment-5467 You can get good results from a lens, better than the article marketing sites anyway, but it's not exactly magic. I've seen mainly obscure or long tail keywords gotten this way, but nobody will link to a Squidoo lens that crap so you'll usually be in PR0 oblivion unless it was an easy phrase to get ranking for anyway. Squidoo has never taken any measurable steps to prevent spam or encourage quality. There's just no rewards for it, and that's got marketers using it like a tool, similar to Twitter. To be honest, you could setup a Wordpress domain and probably get more traffic to an entry there than a squidoo lens when it's all said and done (if you use the right plugins). I personally don't like to spend any substantial amount of time posting to a site some other company owns. You can get good results from a lens, better than the article marketing sites anyway, but it’s not exactly magic. I’ve seen mainly obscure or long tail keywords gotten this way, but nobody will link to a Squidoo lens that crap so you’ll usually be in PR0 oblivion unless it was an easy phrase to get ranking for anyway.
Squidoo has never taken any measurable steps to prevent spam or encourage quality. There’s just no rewards for it, and that’s got marketers using it like a tool, similar to Twitter. To be honest, you could setup a WordPress domain and probably get more traffic to an entry there than a squidoo lens when it’s all said and done (if you use the right plugins). I personally don’t like to spend any substantial amount of time posting to a site some other company owns.

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