Squidoo,...SQUIDONT!

21/03/10 19:14 Filed in: Computers & Tech

A while back I, like many people jumped on the Squidoo bandwagon. For those of you who don’t know what Squidoo is, it’s a web service where you can create single topic single page web sites called “lenses”. You can monetize these sites by signing up for various advertising campaigns etc. If you have 50 of these “lenses” you can become a “giant squid”. Sounds good right? Well not so fast there sporty! You now have to maintain and update those 50 sites, cause if you don’t Squidoo won’t feature them anymore. This means nobody will be able to find them!

They have some pretty lame excuses for refusing to feature your lenses too. From the looks of it some sort of robot occasionally looks at your site and determines things like, is your title appropriate for your content etc. This leaves little room for tongue-in-cheek jesting or sarcasm!

Anyhow once the novelty wore off I stopped checking in on my Squidoo pages. Today I had a look for the first time in ages. 14 of my 17 Squidoo lenses were no longer featured! I couldn’t help thinking, what a waste of time! So I will be transplanting my Squidoo pages back into this blog here. If you’re considering going the Squidoo route, don’t bother just get your own blog instead!