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I am almost done with SQUIDOO - they locked my top making money on email this discussion to a friend?

myLot reputation of 91/100. sergeantrom (1279)   ranked 2 out of 90 in squidoo.com3 months ago

the internet lens. I had this lens for over a year and its been good enough all these years. I am still in shock and now have to move years worth of content to a new site. Just a warning, anyone with ptc lenses on Squidoo, get ready to be blocked. Guess I better start looking at my mother lenses. Has this happened to you yet?

 
 
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1. myLot reputation of 36/100. Laurie1986 (285)   3 months ago

Yes--they have a random, pointless vendetta against Acme People Search, which was also my top money making lens. They left it in the spam filter for four months when they're supposed to make a decision in seven to ten days, and they finally locked it permanently. I was very upset because that's a perfectly legitimate affiliate marketing program, but I've invested too much time and backlinking into Squidoo to leave the site over it.


myLot reputation of 91/100. sergeantrom (1279)   ranked 2 out of 90 in squidoo.com  3 months ago

All of my sites are on Squidoo, great sites I have invested a ton of time into creating. I am upset too but for now, I have to spend my time rebuilding my site. I just cant believe this happened sad

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2. myLot reputation of 78/100. mysdianait (12116)   3 months ago

Oh gosh! confused

You have worked so hard there too doh

At this point would it be worth making your own site with your own domain to avoid those sort of problems somewhere else in future?


myLot reputation of 91/100. sergeantrom (1279)   ranked 2 out of 90 in squidoo.com  3 months ago

You said it, worked very hard. I had 19 lenses down to 15 but that lens was my top traffic lens. I will have to consider that idea soon. For now, will stick with the freebies.


myLot reputation of 78/100. mysdianait (12116)  3 months ago

We have a friend who no longer posts here who has a brillinat updated lens about scam sites. Will that have to go too?


myLot reputation of 91/100. sergeantrom (1279)   ranked 2 out of 90 in squidoo.com  3 months ago

It depends on her content and links. They first told me I broke the 9 links to the same site rule but I pointed out to them I only had 3 links. Then they said I must have violated a rule but they didnt explain what rule. Just gave me a link. The only thing I can think of is my lens does generate a lot of spam. The lens about scam sites might come close to this rule. They allow have a rule about junk sites.

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3. myLot reputation of 90/100. taztheone (1209)   ranked 38 out of 90 in squidoo.com   3 months ago

There is no doubt that it can be really upsetting, however you should consider making a blog or a free website of your own & trust me, you can earn 10 times more than squidoo. thumbup
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myLot reputation of 91/100. sergeantrom (1279)   ranked 2 out of 90 in squidoo.com  3 months ago

Already on it. Thanks for great advice.


myLot reputation of 69/100. salam1 (735)  2 months ago

i think i agree with taztheone, blogging with a right technique is more lucarative than squidoo. plus we can get income from adsense directly if we us blog.

i dont know what happened to me, when i write a lens this lens will appear in google first page but after around two weeks the lens is gone, sometime it is de-index by google. do you know why?

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4. myLot reputation of 97/100. coffeebreak (4845)   ranked 90 out of 90 in squidoo.com   3 months ago

What do you mean locked? Shut it down? And it is a PTC lens advertising your fav PTC's? I have one, just "advertising" the few sites I work wiht, but haven't done any more to it. I'm getting rather done with PTC anyway. Never got any referrals with it anyway.
Was it just your PTC lens? Are your other ones okay? I think something like this just predicts the end of the PTC industry. They have gotten themselves such a bad reputation that honest places don't even want them advertised on their sites anymore. I'll leave them on my blog but that is far as I am going to do it anymore. And just the handful that I have been with for years nad have paid consistantly and honestly. Granted, only couple bucks a month, but since it don't take any more time than it does...couple bucks of free money is worth it. It pays for "3 girls day" that I have with my 2 grand daughters. I take them on every other friday to a fast food with a playground and they get to play together for an hour. That is pretty much all the time they get to spend with each other cuase the family is kind of far apart and work schedules and all never coincide.


myLot reputation of 91/100. sergeantrom (1279)   ranked 2 out of 90 in squidoo.com  3 months ago

Locked means I cant make any changes. I dont know when and if they will delete it. Yes it was my ptc site but I had more "lessons for ptc" than ads. My other lenses are ok for now but who really knows. I dont have many ptc sites left either thats why I was shocked they blocked my lens. I wont totally give up on ptc. Like you, my small money goes to taking my hubby out to dinner and movies. He just loves it, being treated by a woman. lol

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5. myLot reputation of 69/100. trekkiemelissa (151)   ranked 4 out of 90 in squidoo.com   3 months ago

When was it first locked? I need to ask that. Lenses have been getting locked on false positives this week. I can't really tell without look if your lens is on the do not list.

If you are fully sure that your lens is not on the do not list, try to ask them to hand review it for you. I think the worse thing they can tell you is that its not allowed.

They changed some rules in July. It may have taken a while to make its rounds. The thing is, is that some of those spammers out there probably have ruined for everyone else.

Don't give up on squidoo totally.

You may want to try to change directions a bit.
If you have topics you write a lot about on your lenses, you should create a blog around that idea and basically link back and forth between the two. You won't loose out as much if you have the two.


myLot reputation of 91/100. sergeantrom (1279)   ranked 2 out of 90 in squidoo.com  3 months ago

It got locked Saturday and that was after the review. I even explained to them that I had one module giving details about a traffic bar and thats when I got the alert so I deleted that module. I told them there was more content on my lens and it generated a ton of traffic for 1+ year so why now? I believe it got flagged on a false positive thats why I got the review. I still have one good lens on there so not totally giving up yet. Im just shocked because that was my top lens. Thanks for the kind words.


myLot reputation of 69/100. trekkiemelissa (151)   ranked 4 out of 90 in squidoo.com  3 months ago

I sorry about that. Like you and even though I have giant and mentor status, I am still a lensmaster like you.

It is their site though. I know it sucks. Have I been in that situation no, but I would be upset if that ever happened to me. I have just been lucky. If I know someone has written a lens that may hit the filter, I will try to let them know as I always try to stay safe side of things. I did that recently to another giant as they had something about losing weight and let her know that even though she is a giant, it could still end up getting locked because weight loss has been recently been added to the list. It was a small section of a lens, but still its best to err on the side of caution if you can.

I think I know why. Take a look at this lens:
http://www.squidoo.com/squiddont

Look under the section called affilates. They added that around July. PTC may come under the category of affiliates. I had one lens that had information about affiliate programs. I wanted to be safe so I ended up moving my lens on all of that information to my blog. I have a section called making money online. I was not going to take a chance at it getting locked.

Oh and I just found ptc is out.

go down a bit down until you find the section about PTC.

I took a quick look at your lensmaster account. I know you didn't ask for my opinion, but I am still going to give it to you. I would pull off those all caps on your titles and module titles. If would look better if you capitalized at least the first letter of the word.

You do have some good stuff in there like about this site mylot. If there are some really great post that you like here on my lot, you can write a new lens for each category and then link to that thread. If you hit the 9 outgoing link, create a second lens to pick up where you left off and so on. You can get traffic that way back and forth between your blog and your lens. There is a featured lens module to link to the next lens. If you need any help with anything, I am more than happy to help you. If you are stuck on ideas for lenses, I may come up with some general ideas that you can work with.

I think part of the reason they changed, they had to. There are some areas that are getting out of hand.

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6. myLot reputation of 97/100. moonchild1au (843)   ranked 67 out of 90 in squidoo.com   3 months ago

I haven't had this happen yet but I will keep an eye out...have you found another site to put your lenses onto? Good luck & let me know when you've moved it as I'd like to check it out.


myLot reputation of 91/100. sergeantrom (1279)   ranked 2 out of 90 in squidoo.com  3 months ago

Yes and working on it now. There was so much content, it will take me a few days to copy and paste info. I will let you know when its done and thanks.

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