10 reasons why SQUIDOO is better than blogging

SQUIDOO has taken the online world by storm. It's the best thing that had occurred to us since beginning of Internet itself. Ok Ok!! I would be taking things too far, isn't it? But the fact remains is that SQUIDOO.com has grown up to a big and respectable web portal within a short span of time. The idea is really simple. Create a platform where anyone and everyone can come and start building a single page about anything which he / she like.

So don't be surprise to find a page on SQUIDOO on making cookies and lemonade. On the other hand you can find also some pages rare or rich (content wise) enough to cost a WOW!! from you.

Now everyone knows about Blogging and how it has taken the internet by storm. Gone are the days, when you need to hire professional web designers and administrators to manage your web portal. Now you can start your own website (blog) within minutes. What more, you can also do it without spending a penny. Free service providers like Blogger.com and Wordpress.com give you a easy way to set up your own personal blog for free.

SQUIDOO with its concept of lens takes the user generated content to a completely different level. A lens is a page created on any topic the user finds interesting. So you pretty much get the idea. If you want to write about "why Leather pants makes girls look hot" a SQUIDOO LENS is your best bet. But if you want to write about "Dating Tips" clearly a SQUIDOO LENS would not suffice and a Blog would be a much better idea.

Now if only life was that simple as BLACK and WHITE. Often users, especially newbie get confused on which one to choose. Here are top ten reasons on "WHY SQUIDOO IS BETTER THAN BLOGGING"

SQUIDOO is an established site. SQUIDOO was launched in March 2006 for the masses. For all the newbie out there, Search engines like sites which are old and established. SQUIDOO is well established and over two years old as of the writing.

Note for Newbie: When you search for a keyword in a search engine say "MONALISA and DAN BROWN" and you have them appearing in a SQUIDOO lens and your own webpage (or a blog), the search engine will display your result lower (most of the times) just because your site is newer than SQUIDOO (other parameters being the same) meaning more hits going to the SQUIDOO LENS.

SQUIDOO is as free as FREE BEER at BEERFEST. Create one LENS or create thousand LENS, no problem. I know Wordpress.com and blogger.com are popular free services, but each has their own limitations like 50mb for free users and blogger.com also gives 1 gb photo storage limit.

That said this does not qualify as a competitive point against blogging but none-the-less it stays in my list. Anything free sounds music to my ears.

So what do you want to write a LENS about? What to set up a NICHE STORE, Make a Photo Gallery, Show off your PROM VIDEO or simply write your PEOTIC FEEL. Its all possible.

SQUIDOO LENS is simply a collection of modules arrange in a page. Each module serves a purpose. For example, you are writing about Jessica Alba - the sexy actress.
Now you can add a Flickr module to display Jessica Photos, another text module to list her TRIVIA / HOT NEWS and then yet another for YOUTUBE CLIPS of her. You get the idea. Develop a structure for your lens and keep adding modules to complete it.

With blog, you can achieve this via plug-ins and hacks. It is not easy for everyone. Ever heard of the term GEEK and why are they called so?

When you write a blog post, you have to wait for Google bots crawl it before it appears on the Search engine or go amnually submit to various social media sites like stumbleupon and dig to let the world know.

That said even in SQUIDOO you have to do the same, like adding the lens to digg, stumbleupon, del.ico.us etc. But there is also a chance that you have existing traffic of visitors for another lens getting landed on to your page. This is what I term the spillover effect.

Making a LENS in SQUIDOO is as easy as filling up a web form. Its really that simple. No knowledge except about you LENS topic is needed.

That said, even blogging platforms like blogger.com and wordpress.com are very easy to use. But then again you have to set up the theme of the blog, use plug-ins and hacks to give it a nice look.

SQUIDOO by default adds a few Google Adsense units to every lens. Apart from that, it have modules like Amazon, ebay and cafepress which the user can use for targeted ads and earn income from it.

The best of it is whatever revenue is earned via advertisement clickouts from your lens, SQUIDOO shares with you. On blogging platforms you have to set up plugins to handle your ads

It's a fact that most blogger leave their blogs in between. While the reasons may vary from having no extra time to professional commitments, the fact remains that it is very difficult to comeup with great posts on a particular topic periodically.

Blog readers like Bloggers who can write on a constant basis. They like to read from people who are committed and authorative in the field.

SQUIDOO does not require this. You may be a newcomer who have aggregated all his information about a particular topic and want to share with the world. Alternatively you can be an expert in a field and want to enlighten your readers about the topic. Bottomline, you do not require to be commited to a topic to write a LENS.

Infact the main reason bloggers abandon their blogs are simply because they cannot come up with original stuff.

This is a very important factor in the SQUIDOO vs BLOGGING fight. In SQUIDOO you can create a lens on any topic which may be completely irrelevant to your previously created LENS. So you can write on "JENNIFER LOPEZ FAN CLUB" followed by "10 EFFECTIVE ONLINE MONEY MAKING TIPS"

The way SQUIDOO is organized; the search engine optimizations have already been taken care of. Plus you can contribute to it via tags. Tags are a very important feature for categorization not only by SQUIDOO's internal search engine but also by major search engines like google, yahoo, msn and ask.com

Also the compartmentalization via implementation of modules helps the crawler understand the page better. In short, tag relevant terms, tag more often and use modules sensibly (not too much, not too less).

SEO can e taken care of in Blogging platform via custom plugins. You ahve to try out a few before you can decide which one to choose. Why do the hassle..?? ;-)

You are reading this lens is reason enough. Also well I you want to just post on a random topic, then SQUIDOO is your if not the only then definitely the best choice. The way it is promoted and organized, kudos to its developers.

That said, This lens does not ends here. I am sure there are tens and hundreds of reason for you to choose SQUIDOO over blogging. I and other users would like to know your say in it. So shoot out the comments%u2026..

So what are you waiting for.... Join SQUDOO today. Don't hold back. You know you have something you are passionate about. Well, Share it out with the World. What better way than to start from an establish platform.

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