.... or don't want us to notice a lens or few?

Woo hoo!  Found a whitelist and Associatedcontent is okay.  I'll suggest epinions as well... but even if they don't whitelist it at least I'll only have to edit/delete my lenses that have reviews on stuff.

I know this lens violates the too many links part of the new policy, but would you consider it spam or even just a bad lens? Please be kind.

Any one have any ideas on how to change it so it wouldn't get me in trouble?

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Got to feed the puppies and go to bed. I will check back in the morning to see if I have any replies.

Thanks in advance for any help.

I think that it's a useful lens, but did you cut and paste all those game descriptions?  That would remove the unique part of the equation.  I'm just a normal poster, so take my ideas with a grain of salt, but could you include one link to the web site, with maybe a list of all the games that you can find below it, a little like you are doing?  And if you're cutting and pasting those descriptions, rewrite them to bring a little of your own opinion and ideas into the game descriptions.  As far as the topic of game downloads, I'm still trying to learn these new rules myself :-)

Another question... are all fitness lenses now going to be SquidDon'ts?  I have a lens about how to get fit using the internet that includes links to reputable sites like Sparkpeople, the government's virtual walk program, etc., and I'm wondering if I should go take it elsewhere.  I'm also working on a lens that discusses the benefits of walking and how you can lose weight by burning calories through walking (no vitamins, supplements, or medicine is discussed), and I'm wondering if I should scrap that one?  The information is useful, and it isn't selling anything, but with all these new restrictions, I'm afraid they'll end up locking my account for publishing on these topics.

I know they said don't panic... but I'm a rules following type of person and I'm kind of nervous.  I wrote one sentence in one of my lenses once about how gambling was bad and can ruin your life, and I was surprised to find that I was making a SquidDon't page and redid the page rather than risk someone looking at it by hand and banning me from Squidoo.

OK Ricky - I am going to be honest here, this is really not my kind of lens but I can see how it will be useful to other people.

However, looking at it from a content and promotion point of view AND keeping the interest of your readers, this is what I would do:

Rewrite the intro to include the phrases "Games for the Gamer" and "Download free trial games" in the first couple of sentences - these are the ones Google searchers will see and they are your KEY words.

After completely rewriting the reviews I'd split the lens into multiple lenses. Categorise the games (you have already done that to a certain extent anyway) and make a lens for each category. Also split them up according to rating (G, PG, Adult etc). Some games will probably appear in more than one category, but that's OK.

Then make sure there's no more than seven or eight games in each category so that you do not exceed the max number of links and put them into a lens just for that category.

Feature the lenses about games that are relevant to each lens in the Featured lenses module.

Then make a lensography that links to all of the lenses.

Move the Do You like this lens module to the bottom - it's too near the top.

Also, try to put more modules to make the lenses more interesting. What about a Poll module asking people if they have played any of these games. Ask people to vote on their favourite.

And if you have tried any of these games then give a personal review and recommendation.

Hope this helps

Rick you need to read the newsflash on the SquidBlog AND the email you have been sent!

Non-Giants will only be allowed a max of 9 outgoing links to the same webpage unless they are on a Squidoo "whitelist" e.g Amazon etc

RickPhillips wrote:

Aj - thanks for the heads up - it was in my spam category - LOL.

The thing that I still don't understand is can we have 15 clickbank links to DIFFERENT clickbank products or is 9 clickbank products the limit on ONE lens?
Likewise, can we have the same clickbank ads on DIFFERENT lenses? Doesn't seem clear to me.

The limit is within each lens.  You can have nine links to each domain per lens.

Nine per domain.  If an affiliate site redirects things through their domain, you get nine.  Choose them well.

I am sure I read somewhere that if a page has more than 9 links to the same domain, then Google may consider the page as Spam - the more it does that with Squidoo pages, then the more it hurts the site and everyone who is publishing on it.

Katinka - you would know whether that is right or not. Where are you?

RickPhillips wrote:

I also find a thread STARTED by HQ - that is NOT monitored - to be hilarious. Yeah, right.

This means they will not be publicly giving their opinions of each individual lens, it doesn't mean they won't be stopping by and reading the posts.  I'm sure they will.

This is a strange way to address the junk lenses on Squidoo.