Google Slap on Squidoo
lurksteraz on July 18th, 2007
Andrew Wee has a great write up about the recent Google slap on Squidoo. If you have searched for anything on Google, you may have found yourself landing on a Squidoo page that reads more like a sales letter. I personally have.
Squidoo was recently hit hard as alot of their pages were dropped. Makes sense though if you think about it. Google has been trying clean out the search engine from spam or from what they deem spam. I think Squidoo was a perfect avenue to have additional sales pages included in the SERPs that were very effective. But it seemed whenever I would search for something, I would see the same basic sales pages but made by different people.
Anyways, check out Andrews write up which contains

July 19th, 2007 at 1:18 am
Thank you for bringing attention to this interview with Seth Godin.
The original / full version is available here:
http://www.searchingdot.com/2007/07/17/interview-with-seth-godin-on-the-squidoo-slap/