Network Marketing News: Squidoo Policy Changes & Your Internet Network Marketing Business
Wednesday, June 17, 2009 at 03:39PM Network marketing news of the best kind! Squidoo just released a list of intended site policy changes that will make life much better for attraction marketers and internet network markters doing business there.
The goal of these policy changes is to increase the VALUE of the content being posted on Squidoo. With that in mind if you are providing VALUE to your visitor with your Squidoo content, as all Renegade Professional students are taught to do, these changes will bring a smile to your face and you’ll do just fine.
When ever changes like these are made to a content sharing site or when you inadvertently get into trouble with one of them (as I did… see here for details) it’s best to look at it as a learning experience. Sites such as Squidoo & Hubpages pay many experts BIG MONEY to determine how to best provide value to their visitors. This is YOUR opportunity to leverage off their investment. Learn from them what is optimal and adjust your content creation accordingly.
To that end, here’s a heads up straight from Squidoo on the changes coming in mid July…
1. No Spam. This one's not new, but it's worth saying again.
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. For a few years now we have had a very strict and enforced stance against spam. That's staying the same, and if anything, getting even more rigorous. If you actively spam people with your Squidoo lenses (by email, in blog comments, by stalking and harassing people on Twitter, by tricking people with the content in your lenses, and more) we'll lock your entire account.
2. No more X-rated or Porn lenses
If you came to Squidoo to create X-rated or pornographic content, the time has come to say farewell. We're not discontinuing these lenses because we've suddenly grown shy, or because we no longer believe in the freedom to publish what you want. We do. Practically though, supporting X-rated pages no longer makes sense, and it invites more spam and empty traffic and wasted overhead than anything. Find out more about why we're making this very hard decision, and what it means for your X-rated lenses. (Don't panic! You can export your content and take it with you).
3. No Junk Topics from our "SquidDon't" List
Lenses on free movie downloads. Toenail fungus cures. LoseBellyFatNow promotions. Reverse Phone Lookup 4U. You know junk when you see it. And lots more examples.
Unforunately, topics like these are overwhelmingly conditioned and proven to attract spammers. If a topic has displayed enough trickery and spam and bad activity, we choose not to support it. If we find a lens on a SquidDon't topic or something very similar to it, we'll lock it. For good. Our best recommendation: Don't bother with topics like these. There's plenty of incredible stuff to write about and recommend online without having to go near the edges of what we're got going here.
4. A new limit on overly promotional lenses
Making a lens to promote or recommend something is a terrific endeavor. It's a big part of why a lot of our people are here. But: Less is more! Sales lenses far too often turn into junk lenses, as described by the relentless number of outbound links to the same exact domain. Being overly promotional rarely works. "Buy here buy here buy here!" never does.
So to help you focus your lenses, and sell even better--and to help surfers find our pages more useful overall--we're introducing a limit to the number of outbound links to the same domain that you can have on a lens. If you have more than 9 links to the SAME domain on a single lens, your lens will get locked for review. Of course we'll have domains that are whitelisted out of this (meaning, you can have as many outbound links to them as you like), as well as sites that are blacklisted (meaning, even a single link to that domain will get your lens locked).
Of these changes the one most likely to affect internet network marketers trained and other Renegade Professionals most is #4’s limit on OUTBOUND links. I encourage you to become familiar with these new rules NOW and adjust your content accordingly so you’ll have no problems when the changes take effect in mid July.
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