Google Acting Against Squidoo Due To Spam

[The Bar Keep]

A couple of reports across the net suggest that Seth Godin’s Squidoo is being penalized by Google, most likely due to spam on Squidoo pages.

The reports indicate that some Squidoo pages have seen a 75% drop in traffic, and in other cases have either been removed from high ranking positions on Google, or removed all together.

The service, described last year by Michael Arrington as being Godin’s Purple Albatross, has long been a favorite of black-hat SEO’s looking to drive traffic and gain Google juice for their sites. In more recent times the spam issue has been highlighted by Jason Calacanis, who has written multiple posts on the subject.

Squidoo has recently responded to the issue, however given Google’s crackdown it would appear that Squidoo’s response may be a case of too little, too late. Anyone remotely involved with, or following the SEO community for the last 12-18 months would have been fully aware of the issue (or as some see it, the potential), so if Google is punishing or removing Squidoo pages, Squidoo has no one other than themselves to blame for the situation. Squidoo may also now be on borrowed time; being removed from Google or penalized by Google kills traffic, and Squidoo as a content creator would rely heavily on traffic from Google.


http://www.techcrunch.com...inst-squidoo-due-to-spam/

[vinewood]

   joe  thx  for the update    they have not  said anything to me   

[The Bar Keep]

Also, Squidoo is a publishing platform like Blogger or Facebook. It's not a search engine or even a directory. That's just not how it works. You can compare this by doing an iPhone, cancer, or Paris Hotels search on Google, Yahoo, Ask, or Mahalo and comparing it to Squidoo.

http://www.calacanis.com/...bout-the-squidoo-problem/

Those of you who track Squidoo pretty closely know that we had a lousy week. 30 spammers took advantage of us and blew Squidoo’s name all over the web.

The good news is that as of Thursday, July 12th, all of those holes are closed. We erred on the side of goodwill, and we’re going to be a lot more careful in the future.

http://www.squidoo.com/blog/?p=158

When marketing author Seth Godin joined with Megan Casey and others to found Squidoo in 2005, their stated mission was to give people a place to share knowledge online -- with the understanding that marketers would likely use it to project their expertise and generate new business.

What the company may not have counted on, and certainly failed to prepare adequately for, was the swarm of black hat SEO practitioners -- a.k.a, "search spammers" – that have pummeled the service with pages intended primarily, and sometimes exclusively, to boost their organic search placement.

http://clickz.com/showPage.html?page=3626420

[chiquita]

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