We passionately believe...
... that everyone deserves a voice online, and a free service for sharing and spreading recommendations, ideas, products and passions. Not just the gatekeepers. Not just paid editors. Not just A-listers and marketers. Everyone.
We also believe that to be featured in Squidoo search results, and to our community, and to the rest of the world, is a privilege. Authentic pages built by real people with good intentions are the future of the web, and we're more focused than ever before on making it easy for you to do that.
But, here's the catch: if you're a spammer, you're out. Even if we just suspect your work to be spam.
Welcome to Squidoo's Zero Tolerance policy.
Read these first!
These 4 lenses will give you a really good idea for what kinds of topics aren't kosher on Squidoo. As well as give you some ideas for new lenses you could make!-
49 Ideas For Awesome Lenses
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...or 10 or 100! It's pretty easy, non-techy, and of course, free. Right? Right. Sure, to make your lens a real knockout it takes some time, but chances are you've already learned the basics and are looking to do more. Congrats. That's the best pl...
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Locked?!
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Squidoo is a place for passionate people to make single pages, for free, to share expertise, personal opinion, recommendations and links to the best stuff online. It's a place for handgathered, unique, useful, recommended, genuine content. Written b...
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6 ways to improve your lens, right now!
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You've already done the hard part. You've had a big idea, something you want to talk about or share on your lens, and you got started. Way to go. So, this lens is about what comes next. It's a quick, 30 second overview of just a handful of easy thin...
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SquidDon't!
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Don't do it! It's simple: given our pedigree, our point of view and our dyed-in-the-wool, we-will-never-change-our-mind conviction on this issue, spam is not okay at Squidoo. This page outlines our thinking on the issue. It supplements our terms of...
A few reasons your account could get deleted
Spam (the noun):
1. Lenses that autoredirect surfers to another site. (No iframes, no other hacks, nada).
2. Lenses and accounts that just pump out uncurated, copied and pasted content.
3. Lenses that are egregiously irrelevant to the Squidoo category they're posted in.
4. Anything else that smells spammy to Squidoo official and the Squidoo community.
Spam (the verb): This kind of spam is the worst. It means bad behavior from people who are out to ruin the good things online for us all.
5. Spamming bloggers with trackbacks, comments, or links to your Squidoo lens.
6. Email spamming people you don't have permission to talk to, pointing them to your lens.
7. Spamming our lensmasters, via the Contact form, or in Guestbooks.
8. Hacking the Squidoo site in any way that outputs spam to people anywhere online.
AND... Top 8 Reasons Your Lens Could Get Locked
If not deleted :(
2. Spam, the noun. Spam the noun is content on your lens that looks like spam. Examples: reappropriated and uncredited content from other sites or lenses; cut and pasted, uncurated content; tag stuffing--jamming a bunch of tags into a module or title, hoping to trick search engines; and more.
They are also: Lenses that autoredirect surfers to another site. (No iframes, no other hacks, nada). Lenses that are egregiously irrelevant to the Squidoo category they're posted in. Anything else that smells spammy to Squidoo official and the Squidoo community.
3. Lenses on one of our SquidDon't topics. Be sure to read up on topics that Squidoo just doesn't allow lenses on, like gambling lenses, pharmaceutical sales, credit card debt, ringtones, some affiliate networking sites and products and more. Read more here.
4. Spamming, the verb. This is an aggressive act of forcing your lens on someone without permission. Perhaps you've been reported for spamming a Squidoo Group, Guestbook, lensmaster, or someone off the site, like a blogger. If your lens is only locked, you're lucky. We usually delete those accounts entirely. Read up on Squidoo's Zero Tolerance policy.
5. Yikes! Someone has reported your lens for having illegal content, for plagiarizing, or for violating a copyright. Squidoo is a fair harbor platform that doesn't check or endorse the content that is put on lenses. As the lensmaster, you're responsible for the content. Likewise, with nearly 1,000,000 pages on Squidoo, we can't mediate every battle. So we'll probably just lock your lens if we get serious copyright or legal complaints about it. The good news is you can avoid that hassle easily: Don't copy. Don't steal. Don't quote content without crediting it to the original source.
6. You're running a hate lens. There's no room here for hate, sorry. Sure, you can write reviews of products and services you don't like. Sure, you can have whatever opinions you want. This is not a censored happy wonderland. But hate lenses? You know those when you see them. These are lenses specifically ripping on another person by name. Lenses that are just there to make someone else feel bad. Sorry, we'll lock 'em or delete 'em if we find them.
7. Any TOS violation, really. Getting featured on Squidoo, in search results, and to our community is a privilege. If you abuse anything in our Terms of Service, you'll probably have your account deleted instead.
8. Copying someone else's lens. Guess what: In this one rare case, we know who got there first. We can see when content was written. So if you think you're just gonna copy someone else's successful lens: think again.
Have you been spammed by someone on Squidoo?
Luckily, you're in the right place.
Send in your SquidSpam report. Please be sure to include the URL of the lens in question, and tell us why you think this lens (or lensmaster) has been engaging in spam behavior. The more specific you can be, the faster we can act. Thanks!
Do you know the difference between spam and junk?
make sure you're really reporting SPAM and not just junk
There's plenty of junk inside of Squidoo. Pages you don't like so much, or find a waste of time. But it's not up to us (or you) to ban these people. Sure, feel free to give them a low rating, but just as Amazon doesn't decide which books to sell, we don't decide if a lens is lame or not.
Spam, on the other hand, is an aggressive act. It's about tricking people, redirecting traffic, larding stuff with keywords just to deceive. Spam is about unsolicited email and stuffing pages into searches where they don't belong. We don't tolerate spam at Squidoo. If you find spam, please tell us! If you find a great lens, tell everyone.
Don't ruin it for the good guys!
There are hundreds of thousands of handbuilt lenses featuring genuine content, real recommendations, and personal expertise.Real people making great stuff.
Want to know what spam DOESN'T look like? These are representative of what the Squidoo comm...
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