Comments on: Squidoo, Blogspot and Related Services are Overrated!

By: Jacquelyn Dunn

Jacquelyn Dunn — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 04:02:38 +0000

Well I’m a little late on reading this post but I have just started building Squidoo Lenses and I haven’t measured the results yet. I think I will before I start to many. I really like article marketing so maybe I’ll stick to that. thanks for the information Josh

By: Directories

Directories — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 07:40:53 +0000

Josh, I always like the way you say things as YOU see them without fear or favor (got to be that military training) but man, you have definitely over-extended your conclusions here.

First off, Squidoo, Hub Pages, Propeller and the like are really just glorified blogging sites. They offer for free a functionality that you would otherwise have to pay for. They also do it very well – most Squidoo lenses are more attractive on the eye than any Blogger page I get to see.

As a side benefit only (and it is only a side benefit) they offer huge domain authority in the form of sitewide incoming links. If you never link to your lens THAT MEANS NOTHING. But if you do link in properly then that additional site authority will shoot your rankings up the SERPs.

Getting onto the first page for any search result is always a matter of simple math. Take a search for ‘acne cure’ for example. Why does a Buzzle article with 11 incoming page links and a PR2 come out ahead of a PR3 page on Therapeutix with 2633 incoming links? Because it has 154,614 incoming sitewide links as opposed to 2643 for Therapeutix, that’s why. And in the same search why does Amazon.com with 29 page links and a PR3 come out ahead of Getacnetreatments.com with 12195 page links and a PR4? Because it has 150,431,745 sitewide links as opposed to the latter’s 14491.

The math doesn’t lie.

If you just set up a lens or hub and leave it at that, failure WILL follow, but if you actually take the bother of promoting them just as you would your own site (which is what Howie Schwartz – and I’m no Howie fan – actually says to do) then you’ll be gold.

By: Squidoo Case Study Part 1

Squidoo Case Study Part 1 — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 18:30:02 +0000

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By: Jonathan@Friends&Money

Jonathan@Friends&Money — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 21:57:16 +0000

totally agree with you on this one, many of these so called successful sites are a waste of time. Personally I would prfer to promote my own blog than waste time building up the reputation of Squidoo or Blogspot.

By: Bizintros.com

Bizintros.com — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 05:58:53 +0000

All roads lead to Rome. I agree with the rest. There are plenty of ways to boost rankings and get traffic to your site. I love to hate ezines, especially since there’s a time delay. I am not sure if you can pay to have your articles read and approved faster, but my wait time is generally 3 to 5 days.

I have never created a lens so it sounds like I am not missing out on anything. Or am I wrong?

@josh it surprises me that you would ask above poster to remove your content from his blog. Isn’t it another link for you? Well assuming he links to you that is, which brings up another interesting topic. Do bloggers have the same copyright protections as other writers?

By: Rick Hoover

Rick Hoover — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 20:08:45 +0000

I have worked on other domains. I worked in page maker from Google. It was very successful. A ton of people were building webzsites. There was a pretty good community for help in Yahoo groups and Google Groups. Google is dropping Googlepages. Arg.

I will only put a lot of work into pages on my own domains.
Rick

By: Josh Spaulding

Josh Spaulding — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 14:19:58 +0000

Hi ViticleDotCom,

As much as I’m flattered that you want to syndicate my content, you do not legally have the right. Please read my copyright statement then remove my content from your blog.

Thanks,
Josh

By: ViticleDotCom

ViticleDotCom — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 05:39:49 +0000

Josh

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By: Nikola Govorko

Nikola Govorko — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 10:14:25 +0000

It depends on what you use Squidoo for. If you just want to build backlinks then yes there are better and faster ways to do that.

However if you want to build a good pre-sell or review page and then draw people to your website there are not many free places that can do that better then Squidoo.

However no matter why you use Squidoo for – reader must come first, publish good quality content and Squidoo will help you drive traffic more traffic to any site you want.

By: Franck Silvestre

Franck Silvestre — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 07:15:37 +0000

Awesome Josh,

I’m waiting for your case study.

As for Squidoo, I’ve been saying this for more than one year, but everybody seems to get caught in the hype.

I’m having a case study right now on my blog, and I just told my readers that if they can’t afford a domain name when they start, I recommend Blogger.com and weebly over Squidoo because Squidoo has too many links that will make you no money.

In fact, I am testing a new way integrate Squidoo and other sites in your article marketing efforts to promote your own website.

Always promote your own website.

Franck