Watch Out For Squidoo! Locking/Deleting Many Articles!
Last Update: May 25, 2010

My very long lens (Bittorrent For Dummies) that's over a year old just got locked at Squidoo.  

They've put up a more restrictive "SquiDon't" spam filter and are knocking out or locking out many kinds of articles.  

Here's a partial list of what they now consider Spam:  Any articles dealing with:

weight loss (Strip That Fat?),
pharmaceuticals,
network marketing,
network marketing systems,
gambling,
satellite TV online,
any downloading products or guides that might lead to violations of copyright laws (I guess that was the one that got my article),  
dating,
love life,
currency trading (forex),
etc. etc. etc

Any of these kinds of articles will be blocked, deleted, and/or locked.  With no warning as far as I can tell.

Anything on that list look familiar?  And I've just hit a few high spots.  

For more info, here's a link:  http://www.squidoo.com/squiddont 

Cheers (?) --

wizard

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Marcus Premium
Thanks for the heads up on Squidoo, Wizard.

I did hear recently that even more topics are being banned from Squidoo, and the issue with your lens is further proof of that.

The unfortunate thing is, there's no way of knowing when your lens will be locked. People are investing a lot of time and effort into creating them, only to have them locked at a later date.

Definitely not worth it in my opinion...too risky.

Thanks for keeping us in the loop!

Cheers,

Marcus
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