Comments on: Who’s Spammier: Mahalo or Squidoo?

By: Howie

Howie — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 18:10:17 +0000

There have been a lot of comments and questions on what really happened with Google & Squidoo

I interviewed Seth Godin on the “Squidoo Slap”

http://www.searchingdot.com/2007/07/17/interview-with-seth-godin-on-th e-squidoo-slap/

By: Darren McLaughlin

Darren McLaughlin — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 12:55:06 +0000

“they’re both about creating hand-crafted pages with the best content in the web.”

Hahahaha. That statement is the definition of irony

By: The Old Vic

The Old Vic — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 01:55:06 +0000

Squidoo DID e-mail their ‘lensmasters’ (how nice to be called master!) how do I know? Because I received it. How many lensmasters do they have? 100,000 apparently, I would have thought it was more. I like to think all this hooha was caused by MY post about Squidoo on my blog on 26th June – but I’m probably slightly biased !

By: This Week In SEO - 7/13/07 - TheVanBlog

This Week In SEO - 7/13/07 - TheVanBlog — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 03:44:51 +0000

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By: Terry Howard

Terry Howard — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 23:37:50 +0000

I liked Mahalo the first time around when it was called the Open Directory Project. Of course, we all know how well an over paranoid of spammers editorship and site submission review process worked out for them. They ended up with not enough editors and a total lack of any recent content being added.

Jason needs to realize that SEOs are the people who have the time and motivation to get good content in front of the people who’d like to view it most. We make a living out of matching quality content with it’s target audience, that generates the best results for the content provider and viewer both. By assuming SEO=spam and throwing the baby out with the bath water you have alienated the people who are actively wanting to do exactly what it is you are attempting with Mahalo.

By: Owen

Owen — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 14:41:50 +0000

Once again, Calacanis takes off on some sort of crusade to generate media interest around whatever cause he’s pushing today. And surprise, surprise, this time it’s in the interest of an organisation he has a stake in.

At the end of the day Mahalo suffers from exactly the same fundamental failing of all user-generated content systems. It’s all down to the community to govern itself and in the long run won’t be able to scale it’s quality control policies to encompass all it’s human components. The only reason it might have less spam on it than it’s counterparts is that it’s current much smaller than it’s competitors and hasn’t really attracted the attention of people trying to take advantage of it.

By: Jason

Jason — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 14:08:05 +0000

I like the concept of personal publishing platforms like Squidoo… I mean, I did co-found Weblogs, Inc. which built blogs and I’m doing Mahalo which is human powered.

However, Squidoo left themselves open to massive spam attacks and blackhat SEOs and spammers were using it as a safe harbor to launch attacks from.

Squidoo knew about the problem for a year and they did nothing. Now they have done three blog posts in a week addressing it.

It really has nothing to do with Mahalo and Wikipedia which both do a great job in fighting spam.

Blogger.com had the same problem two or three years ago and we all came out against them. This really isn’t about SEO–it’s about spamming and enabling spammers.

Mahalo for the feedback,

Jason

By: rick gregory

rick gregory — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 07:08:19 +0000

It’s things like this that make me lose faith in Google. Squidoo has been out there for a long time now. But they take action once a competitor whines er, talks about it? Please….