It looks like Google’s love affair for Squidoo is over.  Google has apparently severely penalized Squidoo due to excess spam pages.  Squidoo pages have seen a 75% drop in traffic and have been removed from high  rankings, or removed all together (I can a attest to this).  Squidoo has been a favorite of Affiliate Marketers, as they allow affiliate links.  Squidoo is apparently trying to clean up it’s act, but everyone knows once you’ve been “Google Slapped”, it’s over.  No need to panic, Article Marketers, as I’m sure you’re well aware there’s plenty of other options out there with the same or higher Google Page Rank (EzineArticles, HubPages, and GoArticles, to name a few).

You can read more about this story on Michelle MacPhearson’s blog:
Never Put All Your Social Marketing Eggs in One Basket

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