Organic Response

The spammers on Squidoo have hit the trip wire, and Google has begun to penalize a lot of Squidoo pages. Jason Calanis cites a few examples of the spam.  We’re talking real –  free rington, porn, viagra - spam, not spam like my client creating information rich lenses, that could actually be useful to someone moving to Charlotte. Ed Dale’s blog TubbyNerd.com, sites several reasons for Google penalizing Squidoo’s ranking, non of which have anything to do with spamming.  Either way, Squidoo has lost a lot of its initial zazooo given to it by its high rankings on Google, so it appears it will be necessary to build some backlinks to your Squidoo pages if you want to see them rank.