Don't believe the hype, Squidoo is not the greatest thing since sliced bread. You won't make any money with it, and the world really doesn't need another lens crammed with cookie-cutter modules.
List of reasons why Squidoo is useless:
- You can't make any money of Squidoo. I've seen $2 per day mentioned in the FAQs, but you would need at least a couple of hundred daily visitors to make that happen. Not to mention that the Squidoo interface is slow and buggy.
- Squidoo doesn't have good content. Unlike wikipedia, which is maintained by volunteers, Squidoo invites you to make a lens in the hopes of making some cash. You end up with a lot cookie-cutter lenses made up of pre-fabricated modules.
- Other user driven content sites like YouTube, Ytmnd and Flickr feature a content portal on their main page, thereby attracting a large viewer base. Squidoo doens't give you a great reason to look around. The main hook is, make a lens, start making $$. As a result, the only people looking around Squidoo are other lensmakers.
- Squidoo lenses basically rely on other sites such Amazon, YouTube, Flickr, etc, for their content. There is little original or meaningful content on the site.
But don't take my word for it...
Here's what others are saying about Squidoo:
- Why Squidoo Monetization Sucks
- A much more in depth discussion about what's wrong with Squidoo, and it's not just monetization!
- Is Squidoo becoming a massive, dirty SEO back alley?
- An internet publishing heavyweight weighs in on the spamfest Squidoo was bound to have become.
- Squidoo, Edgeio and the "F-Word"
- Another industry pundit predicts failure for Squidoo because "the revenues haven't been great and the amount of work required is far higher than the reward."
- Squidoo: Seth Godin's Purple Albatross?
- Yet another web tech blog, TechCrunch.com, predicts failure and doom for Squidoo and it's founder.
- Does Squidoo Suck?
- Another fellow lensmaker expresses angst over the pros and cons of Squidoo.
Proof that Squidoo sucks...
Proof that Squidoo sucks and that you can't make any money from it.
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JigsawForte
This would make a great topic for a lens... if you did it right! *laugh* Shame, you know. You could really make this a better lens. Posted August 07, 2008 |
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jstonedotorg
Great lens. I don't agree with it all, but I thought you would want to join the Worst Ever Group. Posted June 11, 2008 |
I agree with Squidoo SUCKS! I have been building and maintaining my lens with my own effort and hardworking, without illegal contents, and with only 1 outbound link on it, suddenly closed for spam reason! What the f***!
Posted May 25, 2008
What do you mean? The world needed a great place for know-nothings to come and tell other know-nothings about stuff they know nothing much about.
Posted May 18, 2008
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dougler
Just joined Squidoo this morning and now I find out it sucks?!!! Bummer... Posted April 09, 2008 |
