Anyway, there’s a huge fuss going down in the Wealthy Affilate forum and in loads of other IM forums and blogs about an upcoming Squidoo Policy Update.

More details here from the Squids themselves.

Whole topics (like weight loss) are gonna get canned. Yep! No matter how good your lens is, no matter how non-spammy you might think it is. Come mid July they’ll be gone. Poof!

So, what to do?

Well, first check out that lens about the changes and think about how it applies to your own lenses. Do it before the clampdown… and if in doubt pull the lenses. You do NOT want your whole account locked!

Next… I don’t think people should abandon Squidoo, etc… just make sure you create good quality original non-spammy content (but not in the ‘banned’ topics).

And remember the bigger picture…

The thing is, if you are making any kind of sales with Squidoo, you should already have started thinking about branching off, having your own site, getting other traffic sources…

I mean, Squidoo has got to the point where it’s almost as complicated to build lenses and get them indexed as it is to build your own site and SEO it, so start thinking about that.

Squidoo is certainly good to use in some ways, but to build an entire business and income source around it, is probably NOT a good long time plan anyway.

These so called ‘slaps’ have happened before… at Ezine, at Squidoo, at Hubpages… and they’ll happen again!

So start preparing now!

I have to say that you’re better off in the long run creating your own sites and blogs on your own domains.

It is NOT that hard to do. Even with something like Dreamweaver, if you can do the HTML stuff on a Squidoo lens you’ll soon get the hang of it.

Ditto WordPress. But with WP make sure you host those on your own domain and use Themes. There are plenty of free ones and some really good paid ones (for a one off fee).

And before you dismiss the idea of investing in Dreamweaver or some of the better WordPress Themes consider this…

How much would it cost you to set up an offline shop (or business)? An awful lot more than the cost of DW or a good WP Theme. And you can set up an unlimited supply of online ‘shops’ with either.

Check out Affilate Theme for example. Couldn’t be easier to set up a really professional ‘review style’ landing page.

Building sites is just another learning curve…

And if I can do it, anyone can.

Hell, I’ve even got a lens on it.

Oh… before I forget the vid…

Don’t panic and blunder about blindfold…

Get a plan… stick to it… small steps… Into Action!