Squidoo - Quite The Resource For Spammers

Squidoo is quite a website. It’s an easy to use “publishing system” for just about anyone. In fact, all of the content appears to be generate by third parties and none of it is checked for accuracy. Amazingly enough, Google must actually think that the site is somehow one of “quality” because they list over 1/2 million indexed pages! That’s a pretty good number when you actually look at the content.

As usual, this is more proof that Google is a sucker for links, and can’t actually differentiate from quality, when a simple reality check by a human would completely determine just how good the info offered on Squidoo really is.

Lately, more and more form spammers are pounding away on behalf of their Squidoo pages. They make a dumpy page and then create guestbook and blog links, and apparently this is enough to trigger the Google “authority” ranking and make the pages look better than they really are in the results. Once one spammer has success using the method, it’s likely more and more will join the job.

I guess you could, in theory, find some useful info on the site. But frankly, I can’t imagine how much literal mind-numbing crap you actually have to crawl through before that happens. I can only imagine that the end might be near for this site if someone doesn’t start looking at the quality of the “Lenses” that are being created and unethically promoted daily.

What do you think of Squidoo?