I've never heard of Squidoo. Was it like Xanga or MySpace?
RE: My Belated and Unorthodox Introduction
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Squidoo was more like HubPages. As a matter of fact, if memory serves me, Squidoo was acquired by HubPages a few years back.
Squidoo was a good platform. A place to stretch your writing muscles, develop a following, tweak your style — the quintessential fun multi-topic platform to get your message out.
Unfortunately, unscrupulous affiliate marketers and spammers started flooding the site and gaming the system. The user experience began to suffer as a result. Soon it became polluted with useless posts — you know, rehashes of rehashes, plagiarized articles, promotional posts offering no value to the reader, etc.
HubPages, of course, is still around but, while a decent site, it lacks that fervent bite and boldness of the early Squidoo days. It still relies on user-created content, but it is blander — more sanitized and controlled by rules and restrictions imposed by HubPages itself.
I understand HubPages' approach, they had to steer their ship toward a more conformist path in order to avoid Google penalties. Otherwise, their monetization model, which relies heavily on AdSense, would be compromised.
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Thanks for those Crumbs of your Cleavage. That's your name, and that makes me laugh, smile, blush, because that's more creative than my nickname, Oatmeal. I think I never did Hub Pages. I did try to do AdSense but never got that to work as YouTube terminated 2 of my channels. Here is an upvote. That is interesting.
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