Avoid Looking Like a “Squidoo Spammer” on Social Networking Sites

Tuesday, June 24th, 2008

A few days ago I posted a tip on my SquidTop blog about the importance of protecting your online reputation. I wanted to touch on that again and go into a little more depth here. Getting traffic and creating backlinks to lenses is a big priority for many lensmasters. So, we're ...

How Spam Hurts Everyone and What You Can Do About It

Friday, May 9th, 2008

Squidoo still has a bad reputation in some online circles. Thanks to the spammers who flooded into Squidoo and made a bunch of junk lenses a year ago, links to Squidoo pages are banned from places like Digg, Propeller and Wikipedia. Even promoting Squidoo lenses on your blog is risky, ...