Squidoo Cracks Down on Marketing Lenses
Do you Squidoo? And if you do… Are you a marketer doing Squidoo? If so, you need to know that Squidoo has decided that they don’t like marketers. At least, that’s how it seems to me.
Here’s an email I got yesterday:
Dear Squidoo lensmaster:
During the Summer of 2009 we publicly updated our anti-spam policies to disallow the creation and hosting of certain topics on our site.
==WHY THIS EMAIL?==
You’re getting this email because one or more of your lenses have been determined to be on these SquidDon’t topics. We’re sure you’re a goodguy and doing no harm! But alas, such categories have demonstrated such an overwhelming attraction to spammers or tricksters that we’re not able to support lenses on them at all–even if the quality of the lens is high.
Un-frickin’-believable.
The lenses in question were both Overcome Everything lenses, and they’re just solid content. One is all about list building. It has articles, videos, and I don’t even think there’s a link back to the ListBuilding Club on that lens. The videos have the link in them. But there’s absolutely NOTHING spammy. You can judge for yourself: http://www.squidoo.com/listbuildingwarrior continue reading »
