Des from 199Media, another  WA members area sent me the info even before I got round the email from Squidoo!

I haven’t been around for long enough to be ‘slapped’ looks like we have a bit of shaping of our lenses to do.

wamembersarea.squidoopolicy9 Seems to be a magic number to avoid when it comes to links  pointing to a single affiliate site (NO over promotion) so check out your squids and make sure they don’t have more than 9 links pointing to any of you affiliate links.

There is going to be plenty of info on Squidoo anyway… If your a member of squidoo you will have an email in your inbox today. If not here are the changes in summary:

1. No Spam.

It’s simple: Squidoo Squidoo tance against spam. That’s staying the same, and to be real, getting even more strict. If you actively spam people with your Squidoo lenses (by email, in blog comments, by stalking and harassing people on Twitter, by tricking people with the content in your lenses, and more) The hand of squidoo will lock your entire account.

>2. No more X-rated or Porn lenses

If you read in between the lines I deduce that the X-rated lenses dont really contribute to the community or the image, thats my take. ” supporting X-rated pages no longer makes sense, and it invites more spam and empty traffic and wasted overhead than anything. Find out more about why we’re making this very hard decision, and what it means for your X-rated lenses.”

3. No Junk Topics from the “Squid Don’t” List

This scould be one to look out for … Lenses on free movie downloads. Toenail fungus cures. Lose belly fat now, promotions. Reverse Phone Lookup 4U. You know junk when you see it. And lots more examples.

Unforunately, topics like these are overwhelmingly conditioned and proven to attract spammers. Don’t bother with topics like these. There’s plenty of incredible stuff to write about and recommend online without having to go into squid war.

4. A new limit on overly promotional lenses

One for the Marketers, I say pay close attention to this! “Sales lenses far too often turn into junk lenses, as described by the relentless number of outbound links to the same exact domain. Being overly promotional rarely works. “Buy here buy here buy here!” never does.”

If you have more than 9 links to the SAME domain on a single lens, your lovely lens will get locked for review …Of course will still have domains that are whitelisted out of this (meaning, you can have as many outbound links to them as you like), more detail here as well as sites that are blacklisted (meaning, even a single link to that domain will get your lens locked).

What now? First, take a deep breath.

Squidoo won’t be starting these new policy changes until July 20, 2009 or later. So there is more than a month to review your lenses to make sure we’re all towing the line… and playing by the rules.

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