Multiple Squidoo Accounts: Yes, it’s Legal
January 30, 2008 – 4:27 amOne of the discouraging things about Squidoo is that at the moment, there’s no way to organize your lenses in one place. This isn’t a big deal if you only have a few lenses, but when you have 40, 50, 100 of them… well, it gets to be hassle.
The good news is that Squidoo allows you to create multiple user names. Although keeping up with different identities can be a hassle in itself (especially since you need a separate email account for each one), there are advantages to doing this.
A separate account helps brand you as an expert in a particular niche. People who see that you have lenses about everything from baked beans to web design might be a tiny bit doubtful about your expertise. (Not that this automatically prevents lensmasters from being successful!)
It also helps protect your assets. If somebody decides he wants to copy you, having all your lenses in one place makes it easier for him to do it.
I have a few extra accounts now for very specific topics, and it makes me feel a whole lot more organized. When I log into a specific account, I don’t feel overwhelmed. I can get into the right mindset right away. When I look at my main account of over 40 lenses, I get a little lost. I have to hunt around for the lenses I want and figure out which ones I want to mess with.
Not everyone will prefer this strategy, but I’m sure liking it right now.
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3 Responses to “Multiple Squidoo Accounts: Yes, it’s Legal”
I also find this strategy very useful. I think it makes more sense to do it like this!
By gert on Feb 2, 2008
Hi Gert, glad you think so too.
One of my dilemmas is deciding whether or not I want to move lenses from my main account to certain niche accounts. However, given that a lot of those lenses are already associated with me, it’s probably better to leave them be.
By Victoria Neely on Feb 4, 2008
Those are very good points. What about that Giant Squid status thought? You can only get it if you have over 50 quality lenses, so I thought it might be worth having a lot of lenses in your account just for that.
By Andrew on Sep 29, 2008