I’ve also reviewed Hubpages and basically, I still believe in what I say about it. I believe if you’re aiming to build an online business or make some decent cash, you should do it via your own website. If these main problems aren’t fixed with the acquisition, then they will fester and cause the same problems to occur again. This caused a a “blowback” type effect and many people ended up leaving. The problem Squidoo had was that their TOS was very broad and a lot of people including myself suffered their wrath even though we didn’t violate them.
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However, there are 2 main issues I see that may not help this acquisition, but only buy time before things go bad again:ġ) They need to prevent abuse of their site by having more manual monitoring.Ģ) They need to have MUCH better TOS. Their combined forces may fix this problem. On one hand, I believe this new move by Squidoo to move over to Hubpages is also being done because their policies are kicking out way too many people and they feel that if they don’t do something drastic, they may lose their business, thus they are moving over to Hubpages which I believe may also have the same issues. Is the move to Hubpages a good idea for Squidoo? I think Squidoo overkilled it’s reaction to the Google slap it received and it in turn caused even more problems to occur as now even it’s best lens makers were now angry (including myself) and this made a lot of us move to different platforms.
It wasn’t an easy transition, but I forced to adapt and move on. I explain the whole Squidoo story here, but in a nutshell, my lenses were erased even though I personally feel I wasn’t violating any rules and all the profits I once made with Squidoo were now gone. Now I didn’t have problems with this, until I was caught under the bus. In short, people who posted low quality content, among other things had their content deleted (including old content) and in some cases were banned from posting on the site again. This happened years ago, back when I was still posting and when this issue arose, Squidoo put in some very strict policies that would prevent abuse of their system. Lenses, which were blog posts on Squidoo that once ranked high on search engines now lost their positioning and a lot of Squidoo’s revenue went down the drain. Details of why Squidoo lost it’s favor with Google and eventually got acquired by Hubpages:īasically, a lot of issues were occurring with Squidoo in the past where their authority with Google was decreased due to a large amount of bad content being produced on the site (much of which was spam).
If you were a lens maker on Squidoo, an option has been made to move over your existing content to Hubpages. So with Squidoo moving to Hubpages, you’d basically have 2 times as many people posting content on 1 newly formed platform, with higher expectations to prevent a repeat of history and then the Hubpages site can technically have a stronger presence online and in rankings. Hubpages did similar things, but adjusted to prevent that which is why it’s still somewhat relevant today for rankings and used more.
Squidoo at one point at a high page rank with Google, but like most article directories, it died out due to spam and bad SEO practices. First, I want to explain the reasoning behind this move: Why Hugpages acquired Squidoo:Īs I understand it, this move was made to supposedly make the combined result more stronger. I want to talk about the acquisition that occurred about a month ago, if this is good or bad and if you should get in on it. I’ve used both Squidoo and Hubpages for online marketing projects for a long time.
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