Comments on: Search Spam Fight – Mahalo: 1; Squidoo: 0

By: searchingDOT

searchingDOT — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 17:20:19 +0000

There have been tons of theories on what is going on with Squidoo & Google . . .

I had the opportunity to interview Seth Godin on the “Squidoo Slap”

http://www.searchingdot.com/2007/07/17/interview-with-seth-godin-on-the-squidoo-slap/

By: oggy22

oggy22 — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 20:39:00 +0000

The problem with Mahalo other than scalability is that its editors are not very bright. I submitted my tshirt web site there, and found that they had placed my link in the makeup page’s top submitted links. Here it is at the time of this writing: http://www.mahalo.com/Makeup

I got a screen shot just in case.

What does my site have to do with makeup??? nothing. The word doesn’t even appear once on my site. With Squidoo at least I could control where my website should be, and since I know what my website is about, the results made sense. Plus Squidoo has a scalable business model.

In the end I had to report to Mahalo that my own website was in the wrong category. oh and I got 0 referrers from that link, so where’s the traffic Jason?

By: Aaron Wall

Aaron Wall — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 06:38:00 +0000

How can anyone syndicate Jason Calacanis’s public relations spin, with Jason appointing himself as a spam czar, when he was the guy behind selling links to “VoIP & Microgaming Casino” and “Scuba Underwater Blackjack”?

See threadwatch.org/node/6312 for more comical spammy text links he was selling to make Weblogs, Inc. marginably profitable.

If historical background is important this character should be painted as a hypocrite every time he pulls one of these anti-spam PR stunts.

By: Fionn

Fionn — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 20:37:53 +0000

Cute Cat I wonder if Matt feeds his cat spam you know the Monty Python version. So what is next my vote is for “Linked In” its far too useful for getting your name high in Google results for Google to not slap it.

By: Fionn

Fionn — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 20:37:12 +0000

Cute Cat I wonder if Matt feeds his cat spam you know the Monry Python version. So what is next my vote is for “Linked In” its far too useful for getting your name high in Google results for Google to not slap it.

By: crimsongirl

crimsongirl — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 20:11:48 +0000

No to sound cynical, but…

when Squidoo started, it seemed obvious to me that it would be a breeding ground for spam. Early content was heavily weighted toward what is thought to be high CPC topics. The site was running AdSense and contributors got a share of the money from their “lenses”, right? How could it NOT turn into a spam center?

By: Seth Finkelstein

Seth Finkelstein — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 17:34:45 +0000

“Maybe it’s not a dark back alley as he accused Squidoo of being.”

Of course not. It’s “in your face” :-)
(or at least that’s the goal …)

By: delrond

delrond — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 16:16:07 +0000

I always thought that Squidoo would fail eventually. It's time to move on to pastures new... Hub Pages lets see how long this one lasts!

By: PaulReilly

PaulReilly — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 15:25:09 +0000

My lenses still rank, but my blog which was linked from my squidoo profile is back to the same position it was in before the link was powering it. I’ve posted details at my blog.

Long story short.. it seems that Google have set Domain_Flow_PageRank=Null. ;)