I started on Squidoo years ago and still have lenses there, but I have stopped adding new ones with their constant changes in rules and the filters that lock lenses for no apparent reason. It takes me a few hours to create a lens and don’t want to make new ones that could be locked and not even know why they are locked. I do still get blog traffic from lenses that are still alive – so if you can manage to beat the filters, it is a source of traffic – just no longer one I pursue.
I do understand why less people are on Squidoo. It’s traffic is down to where it was in 2009 and Tier 1 lenses barely made $6. However, this is also a point for new and emerging lensmasters to grow on Squidoo in anticipation for Squidoo to get right back to where it was. If a lensmaster creates 20 Tier 1 lenses now, that may only be a little over $120 now, but if Squidoo gets back to over 1 million daily visitors, those same lenses are making over $1,400 every month not including the affiliate sales. Squidoo’s decline has leveled the playing field for lensmasters who want to have 20 or so Tier 1 lenses, but it’s a rough patch for all of the established ones. It is still important to remember that although Squidoo is not where it was, it is still getting hundreds of thousands of daily visitors.
I started on Squidoo years ago and still have lenses there, but I have stopped adding new ones with their constant changes in rules and the filters that lock lenses for no apparent reason. It takes me a few hours to create a lens and don’t want to make new ones that could be locked and not even know why they are locked. I do still get blog traffic from lenses that are still alive – so if you can manage to beat the filters, it is a source of traffic – just no longer one I pursue.
I do understand why less people are on Squidoo. It’s traffic is down to where it was in 2009 and Tier 1 lenses barely made $6. However, this is also a point for new and emerging lensmasters to grow on Squidoo in anticipation for Squidoo to get right back to where it was. If a lensmaster creates 20 Tier 1 lenses now, that may only be a little over $120 now, but if Squidoo gets back to over 1 million daily visitors, those same lenses are making over $1,400 every month not including the affiliate sales. Squidoo’s decline has leveled the playing field for lensmasters who want to have 20 or so Tier 1 lenses, but it’s a rough patch for all of the established ones. It is still important to remember that although Squidoo is not where it was, it is still getting hundreds of thousands of daily visitors.