Comments on: Squidoo: Seth Godin’s Purple Albatross?

By: dazzlecat

dazzlecat — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 23:36:33 +0000

Boy did you ever call it wrong. Squidoo is now a giant among web content sites and people are making thousands of dollars from their lenses.

Seth Godin took what he knew works in internet marketing and set up a site where everyone else could have the same kinds of tools for making their own online income. What a genius!

By: Squidoo Aims To Make Brands Pay For Dedicated Web Dashboards

Squidoo Aims To Make Brands Pay For Dedicated Web Dashboards — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 11:50:59 +0000

[...] 3 years ago (Michael Arrington thought it could become Godin’s ‘purple albatross’ at the time), Squidoo claims it has attracted 400,000 users who hand-built over 1 million pages to [...]

By: Social Media Marketing Gurus: Chris Brogan vs Seth Godin | Viralogy Blog

Social Media Marketing Gurus: Chris Brogan vs Seth Godin | Viralogy Blog — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 13:49:33 +0000

[...] ago that since Seth Godin has such high status of being a marketing guru, his reputation would be greatly damaged if Squidoo did not turn out to be successful. Not surprisingly, Squidoo is going strong today. [...]

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Social Media Marketing Gurus: Chris Brogan vs Seth Godin | Viralogy Blog — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 13:49:32 +0000

By: Chuck Rosseel

Chuck Rosseel — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 20:27:39 +0000

With Squidoo’s recent draconian censorship policy it seems Michael Arrington’s prediction about Squidoo is coming true.

Seth Godin’s purple albatross is weighing heavily on him.

By: Squidoo, Edgeio and the “F-Word”

Squidoo, Edgeio and the “F-Word” — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 03:41:08 +0000

[...] Arrington picks up on the fact that Squidoo isn’t performing all that well. Some might say “failing”. I had a nagging suspicion this might happen, but I probably [...]

By: Charlie

Charlie — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 03:46:56 +0000

Squidoo really doesn’t work for me. You build a page (lens). Fine.

Then, you need to update. The page gets longer and longer and has more and more ads.

Of course, you can make more pages and then link them around like a real web site. But, those pages drop too and need to be updated.

Updates can be a word change or a comment so not really anything new or exciting.

Squidoo pages may indexed quick, but I’ve never randomly run across one in search.

By: squidooer

squidooer — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 07:59:57 +0000

i think you have wrongly compared squidoo with wikipedia, wiki is some thing like a encyclopedia and you have only one page for a topic ‘ were as on squidoo anybody can write any thing,
plus i don’t think a person can make upto $30 from a single page from adsense as you can earn also form commission of affiliates

i would say for those who can’t write a blog i.e. giving out fresh content each day or week

squidoo is the best

By: Why I Believe Squidoo Has Potential | Kevin H Davis - Speaker, Mentor, Marketing Coach

Sat, 20 Dec 2008 04:45:20 +0000

[...] let?s go back to Michael Arrington?s TechCrunch article and talk about his concern of how the site does not intrigue their members to login and update [...]

By: Trusting the Internet | steppingintorivers.com

Trusting the Internet | steppingintorivers.com — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 01:00:54 +0000

[...] – it still made me feel a little dirty. I did some poking and found this interesting article on Tech Crunch. The author of the article, Michael Arrington, tears apart Squidoo, and all of the reasons why it [...]

By: The Eternal Business Approach

The Eternal Business Approach — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 14:47:21 +0000

[...] from tracking all the great news of startup funding and successful exits to covering layoffs and shutdowns, Squidoo just keeps on flying along. Fitting, then, that Seth takes the albatross metaphor to [...]

By: Kathy

Kathy — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 22:20:32 +0000

Hi.

Wondering if your thoughts are still the same about Squidoo. They recently had an $80,000 charity giveaway contest which I think netteed them 40,000+ responses in 3 days. I don’t know if that’s good or bad on the internet. It seems great to someone like me that doesn’t know much about technology.

I created a kens to help kiva. It was easy to do. Next thing you know I had a dozen lenses. Many have far more than me. I don’t have as much time. Admittedly my lenses wander all over the place. Still it’s a great place to learn some things and the people in the forums are wonderful.

Based on the things that Seth has done in the past is it only a matter of time before he sells and is off on another adventure? Or do you think Squidoo is his home for some time?

By: David

David — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 20:57:25 +0000

Reading the internet I’ve heard alot of negative talk about squidoo.

I like it. I find that it has built in features that make it very easy to promote my lens and site. It’s been about 10 days since I built my first lens 7 of those days I was gone and I’m already ranked at 3000 over all and rising. Very easily. My lens was in the top 20 for google within 1 day. At this rate I should be able to create a new massivly successful lens every couple days.

I’ve had blogs I’ve had myspace pages. It took tons more work to create anywhere near this level of success.

By: Google-Knol enters knowlege-sharing scene « Interactions

Google-Knol enters knowlege-sharing scene « Interactions — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 05:31:54 +0000

[...] Michael Arrington noted in his review of Seth Godin’s Squidoo, writers could build a name for themselves and possibly make more ad revenue by having their own [...]

By: A Few Thoughts On Google Knol

A Few Thoughts On Google Knol — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 10:13:43 +0000

[...] a product perspective, Knol is not much different than existing products like Squidoo and Hubpages. It’s a new knowledge base for authors. Anyone, eventually, will be able to [...]

By: Google Acting Against Squidoo Due To Spam

Google Acting Against Squidoo Due To Spam — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 03:07:45 +0000

[...] 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 [...]

By: morgan

morgan — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 22:34:04 +0000

By: greg cryns

greg cryns — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 00:03:16 +0000

I like the potential of Squidoo. I started up three weeks ago and I am seeing some nice results in visitor counts. Now I need to learn how to monetize.

By: N376

N376 — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 03:53:06 +0000

Whether Squidoo grows fast or grows slow I can’t see it shrivelling up and dying.

Sure, do your blogs, manufacture Made For Adsense sites, but if you want to have more than one iron in the fire and not have all your eggs in one basket then throw in a few Squidoo lenses.

By: BizMingle Founder

BizMingle Founder — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 21:52:57 +0000

I love Squidoo! And from the looks of it, Google does too. Google loves those Squidoo tags, which helps people get noticed. From my experience, Squidoo has helped me make a nice income all from free traffic piggybacking off of it’s authority site status. The numbers don’t lie.

By: jeffryv

jeffryv — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 09:23:50 +0000

Squidoo is still going strong

By: Lists Web 2.0 Squidoo Style » Webomatica

Lists Web 2.0 Squidoo Style » Webomatica — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 04:57:24 +0000

[...] Note: Squidoo confuses me to no end (I’m not alone), with its talk of “lenses” and “Plexo.” I suppose if I spent more time trying to figure out what the heck this marketing speak is referring to, it could be fun, but I don’t have the time or the energy tonight. So either check out the site yourself, or this summary. I just think if I can’t explain a site or figure out what the heck is going on in one minute, it becomes a chore. [...]

By: Bob The Teacher

Bob The Teacher — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 05:42:09 +0000

In case you haven’t noticed, Squidoo is an SEO magnet. Although there are too many lenses that have been claimed and abandoned, there are really great people making excellent lenses throughout the site.

Squidoo has done amazing things for my business online, and I can’t wait to share the strategies to make it an indispensable tool for marketing your expertise, affiliate program, and services.

Bob Jenkins
SquidooSecrets.com

By: Squidoo test

Squidoo test — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 00:56:28 +0000

I’m doing a web experiment to see what Squidoo can achieve, by trying to rank in all the most difficult markets (top competition)

Lets see the power of Squidoo, against all powerful corporations, black hatters and scrapers.

Wish me luck!

By: Squidoo to Be Renamed Spamdoo

Squidoo to Be Renamed Spamdoo — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 05:06:05 +0000

[...] Well, not really – but it might as well be. Squidoo is Seth Godin’s web 2.0 redheaded stepchild. It’s a user-generated experiment gone bad. The basic premise is that anyone can create a “lens” and become a “lensmaster” of a page about anything they want or are passionate about. But lately the only time I hear Squidoo mentioned is when somebody talks about parasite SEO or ways to get easy trusted one-way links. About five months back Techcrunch blasted Squidoo. There are just so many problems with the Squidoo concept once reality sets in. Here’s a few notable ones: [...]