What is Squidoo?
What does Squidoo do? I mean truly I spent an hour setting up my lens only at the end to feel so rejected. It doesn’t actually serve any purpose. In fact it’s my belief that Squidoo could be just an ego booster. Or is it a secret conspiracy to sell our important customer data to some marketing company that Mr. Godin works for. Either way I haven’t actually figured out why its so useful. And why do they want to pay me for putting up information I already have on my blog?
Didn’t someone tell Seth about blogs or wikis? Is he trying to reinvent the wheel? Or is he just creating a new spammer’s heaven ?
What ever shall we call them spamoodoos or spuidoos, or possibly splogoodos. Can someone, anyone please tell me what to do with my squidoo besides creating one of these spamoodoos.
Ummm….you don’t know Jack!
Some research before you do something could help!
read the book behind the premise, you did know there was a book right?
http://www.squidoo.com/pages/EveryoneIsAnExpert.pdf
then maybe your half cocked, devils advocate, post might get some more steam! Of course I just listen to music all day so what F! do I know? I am sure you will tell me.
Redd
redd said this on December 8, 2005 5:06 pm
Who wants to read books when you can read blogs. Fuck Books Blogs are all I read. Maybe they need a squidoo blog that will explain it to me better.
Cowboy said this on December 8, 2005 5:12 pm
Well, they do have a blog.
http://www.squidoo.com/blog/
Kamemada said this on December 8, 2005 6:06 pm
Thanks for the link love Cowboy, as a former dark hat search engine spammer I do love the anchor text!
I admit that I didn’t read the book neither the related blog posts. However, when I stumbled across Squidoo I got the idea, and the potential of a content network populated by self-declared experts, rated by knowledge consumers. Seth’s approach is fucking intelligent and will generate a shitload of revenue, produced by countless more or less unpaid content vendors.
I do appreciate a great idea when I spot it, especially when it is based on exploitation of willingly slaves not able to realize the big picture, but horny on an opportunity to feed their ego. Think of a commercial ODP-Wikipedia-Delicious… powered by major search engines, the blogosphere (the source of content shipping slaves) and whomever else.
Raising the spam exploit in my blog post was just selfish propaganda. I do not like the idea of loosing a source of—perhaps in the future—trusted links to spammers, coz there ain’t that much places where one can get a valuable link for free;)
Well, besides irony, black humor & sarcasm, there are really a few good reasons to participate in Squidoo, if they darn the spam loopholes.
Cheers
Sebastian, the Jack of all SEOs
Sebastian said this on December 8, 2005 6:07 pm
I know they have a blog. I just hate PDF’s they should have made their book into more of a blog.
Cowboy said this on December 8, 2005 6:18 pm