Comments on: R.I.P Squidoo: A Long Time Coming

By: Flynn

Flynn — Sun, 31 Aug 2014 17:47:13 +0000

…hahahahahaha. Oh wow. I just went and read my blog posts. So much ranting. I’m not sure I was at all graceful there (you’re just linking to me so you don’t have to be directly rude yourself. I’M ONTO YOU).

They were extremely cathartic, though. And if it weren’t for the sore hands, would have been five times as long.

By: Flynn

Flynn — Sun, 31 Aug 2014 17:32:43 +0000

(I would greatly enjoy reading your Squidoo rants should you ever feel like sharing)

I’ve been doing pretty well out of my several blogger sites, transferring the massive amount of niche content. It’s all been neglected for the last year, but the earnings are relative to the amount of effort I put in, and often outperforming Squidoo (affiliate. My adsense earnings are just sad!).

So if Hubpages isn’t an option (which it won’t be for half my stuff – *screams internally about the link restrictions*) there are other options.

…for people with less in the way of carpal tunnel and more time! I’m currently planning to ignore it all and then see how many lenses survive as hubs.

By: Marika

Marika — Tue, 26 Aug 2014 09:25:42 +0000

Was interesting to see your Squidoo stats. I got pretty much the same total amount of money since I’ve been on Squidoo (30k+) and my 300 lenses are ( were) still getting around 10-12k visits. Going down from 70k to 10k is a major drop though. But we knew the end was coming, it’s just the abruptness of it that gives us that bitter taste in our mouths…Seth Godin is no longer a name I care to read about any time soon.

By: Wendy

Wendy — Tue, 26 Aug 2014 02:43:40 +0000

It is sad to see Squidoo close down. But I haven’t been making much money there in the last year. Fortunately I started building my own niche websites and have been getting results that way. I am going to go ahead and let my lenses transfer over to hubpages like you suggested. I guess we will see what happens.

By: E. Brundige

E. Brundige — Tue, 26 Aug 2014 00:30:26 +0000

Sounds like a sound plan for someone who really is doing this professionally.

I was always, really, an enthusiastic dilettante. While my goal was to cover my daily expenses via online earnings, and I felt very proud when I hit that milestone in 2012, it was simply a matter of pride. After Squidoo earnings went pear-shaped, I eventually gave up trying to regain my high water mark.

So I can afford to dink around with Hubpages even if it doesn’t add up to a living wage. Whereas you and many other hardworking souls are true professionals and/or need to earn a living online as efficiently as possible. You can’t afford to waste time experimenting, investigating, and toying with trial and error as I do.

I hope I can at least offer some knowledge gleaned from dinking around that others find useful.

By: E. Brundige

E. Brundige — Tue, 26 Aug 2014 00:07:32 +0000

It depends on the source. Some require a link — many deviantArts do — while others only require text attribution. It sounds like kab took the time to contact many photographers individually and get personal permission, in exchange for a link (“I have promised others links.”) Hence Kab’s dilemma.

I’m glad that you asked. I just looked back at the creative commons license FAQ, and it seems that CC images do NOT require an active link, only attribution. It’s been so long since I checked the guidelines that I had forgotten that!

Sites like Flickr and Wikimedia Commons provide us with Creative Commons code that has the link built in. On Squidoo, I just copied their attribution code and added a dab of CSS to turn it into a caption centered under the image. But I see that was only a recommendation, not a requirement.

(For what it’s worth, Morguefile images don’t require attribution. Also, many images on Stock xchng — or whatever it’s called this week — do not.)

By: Paula Atwell

Paula Atwell — Mon, 25 Aug 2014 19:52:59 +0000

Is a link required for an image or just a statement saying where you got it from?

By: Paula Atwell

Paula Atwell — Mon, 25 Aug 2014 19:51:58 +0000

I agree with your statement wholeheartedly here Ellen. I think that once Megan left, no one was running the ship.

By: Paula Atwell

Paula Atwell — Mon, 25 Aug 2014 19:48:38 +0000

Ellen, you are a sweetheart. I was waiting for your take on this. Good to read your article and I think my favorite line was “the death by a thousand paper cuts is over.”

You are correct that diversifying is the key. I have been using that as my rallying cry for a while and last December started almost exclusively putting my time into contracted freelance writing. Money upfront and no bones about what you are earning.

By: E. Brundige

E. Brundige — Mon, 25 Aug 2014 18:49:04 +0000

Yes, that was what originally put me off of Hubpages in 2008 or so. Whenever the two-link-per-domain filter was added, all my image credit links suddenly resulted in my account being flagged as a spammer.

I’ve never entirely found the solution to that problem, although at least many CC sites are whitelisted.