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Squidoo Lense Locked – Lens Locked, What To Do

I have been building lenses since Squidoo launched several years ago. In the beginning my lenses ranked fast and made me a lot of money. From time to time it happened, that a lense got locked for whatever reason. I never created any spammy lenses. All of them were full of unique, quality content, and I never had more than two affiliate links on them.

Google was in love with Squidoo at that time and with some decent backlinks Squidoo lenses got No. 1 google positions fast for very competitive keywords. I loved lenses at this time. Then there was the Google slap. Due to the fact that spammers created thousands very low quality lenses, Squidoo was no longer considered a high authority site. Lenses dropped drastically in rankings.

At that time Squidoo started with new rules and policicies to weed out the spammers. Effectively. Squidoo lenses started to rank well again, but not the way as in 2007.

However, now Squidoo changed their policies again. In the past Squidoo was a great place for internet marketers and most lenses were created by affiliate marketers. Thus WE were the main source of income for Squidoo.

However, Squidoo now changed their rules again drastically. No more than 9 affiliate links (OK, fully understandable) and no more lenses on various topics (people search, reverse phones, download sites++++++) Well, I can understand this as well. But what really drives me mad is the fact Squidoo just went ahead and LOCKED all lenses dealing with these topics. They destroyed the hard work of hundreds of marketers.

What kind of practice is this?

Let me take Ezinearticles as an example. Ezinearticles does not accept e.g. articles dealing with movie downloads anymore. It is against their policy now. But all articles created BEFORE this new rule was established are still there.

They deleted over 100 lenses of mine created back in 2007. All of them were full of good content.

So what is Squidoo thinking? Who do they think they are?

And it does not stop here. Right now they go ahead and lock lenses for no reason at all.

I had over 50 lenses locked for no reason. None of them was spammy. None of them dealt with a topic that is against Squidoo's new policies.

Of course I contacted Squidoo. None of my lenses got unlocked.

If you have to deal with this problem as well, here is a small trick I did in the past to get my lenses unlcocked.

1. Delete your lense

2. Create a new account

3. Recreate the lense

Voila! It will be back online

If your lense was locked due to lack of content, make sure you add more content.

I am personally sick of Squidoo and do no longer care of locked lenses.

In the long run Squidoo's behavior will drive away more and more marketers.

I wonder if they are under the impression that they can make a huge profit without markters. I doubt they can.

So Bye, Bye Squidoo!