Squidoo Rising...   by jackclee

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Rating: 1 - I can do better 2 - Jury's out 3 - Pretty darn good 4 - Splendiferous 5 - Awesometastic (by 17 people)   Your rating: 1 - I can do better 2 - Jury's out 3 - Pretty darn good 4 - Splendiferous 5 - Awesometastic

The success of Squidoo

Since its inception last year, Squidoo has been growing by leaps and bounds. This is directly the result of thousands of lensmasters contributing their time and skills and knowledge and energy and creating over 80,000+ lens.

Congratulations to all lensmasters!!! 

We made it happen.

Milestones:

90,000+ lens (2/24/2007)

100,000 lens (3/15/2007) 

119,000 lens (4/15/2007)

130,000 lens (5/03/2007)

150,000 lens (5/31/2007) 

160,000 lens (6/11/2007) 

200,000 lens (7/18/2007) and 70,000+l ensmasters!!!

300,000 lens (11/15/2007) 

Squidoo won web 2.0 award

How much is Squidoo worth? 

Squidoo Site is worth
$18,295,600


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  • Domain Name Scoop will provide much more detail information. Just enter www.squidoo.com.

Some information on Squidoo 

  • What is Squidoo?
    Squidoo FAQ

    What is the traffic activity on the Squidoo site?

    Here is the plot from Alexa for the past year (2/2006-2/2007):

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  • Current Alexa ranking (2/15/2007):

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  • Details from Alexa report on (2/15/2007):

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Unofficial Business summary: 

as of (5/24/2007)

Squidoo founder: Seth Godin
Company location: Irvington, NY (Westchester County)

number of employees: 4
About Squidoo

number of Citizen Squid: 6
Current Squidizens

number of SquidAngels: 12

number of lens: 140,000

number of lensmasters: 55,000 (estimated)
The heart and souls of Squidoo

Total number of registered users: 128,000

total amount raised for Charity : $34,000

Compare to www.wikipedia.com 

Here is the Alexa traffic for Wikipedia (5 years):

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Rank: 12
Current number of entries: 1,400,000

Some related links... 

Alexa home page
A site that tracks web traffic on any website.
Squidoo in the news
An article posted on April 2006.
A contrary opinion
Another opinion piece.
Squidoo on Wikipedia
Wikipedia entry.
Wikipedia
The competition.
Squidoo 2nd Quarter report
From the leader's mouth - Seth Godin.
Working with Squidoo...
Another message from Seth.
Some issues pending...
My personal views on improving Squidoo.
Best kept secret of Squidoo
The ability of Squidoo lens to rise to the top of Google page ranking.
Seth Godin's talk at Google
A 48 minutes video worth watching...
Seth Godin makes it to web celeb 25
Seth came in at number 5 of 25.
An article on eZine.
A positive comment on Squidoo.
Hubpages
A new competitor just came out of beta test. Imitation is the highest form of flattery.
New article on Squidoo
Using Squidoo for marketing.
Squidoo Traffic Stats on the top 100
Someone has created this site to keep tabs on Squidoo.

New New York Times 

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Reader Feedback 

Please send me any corrections or updates on Squidoo.

ahndunk

Amazing lens, I agree with you, sqidoo is great web 2.0 site!

Posted May 09, 2008
MeganCasey

interesting writeup Jack. thanks for taking an interest.
btw, a correction: we only have 4 employees. cheers!

Posted April 04, 2007
Lady_Gotrocks

Thanks for all the great info.

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Posted March 18, 2007
sherrysplace

I like your overall concepts in making these lens. I enjoyed your research on this topic.

Posted March 17, 2007
KCStargazer

Wow - amazing stats! Thanks for sharing the info.

Posted February 23, 2007
 
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Hi, I'm Jack. I am currently enjoying some time off from work. I worked for IBM for 28 years on various projects dealing with Museums and Libraries. I have travelled...

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