Guys, I am now commenting on blogs to promote my site, and I came across these 2 blogs about Google doing bad things to Squidoo lens due to the spam out there.

Here's the links

http://www.income.com/blog/2007/07/10/squidoo-free-traffic-ride-gets-squished/

http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/10/google-acting-against-squidoo-due-to-spam/

Not sure how this will end up...and not sure whether this will pull down sites whose lens got blackmarked...

What a surprise...was just working on my first Squidoo lens last week...

"Unfortunately, Google giveth, and Google taketh away."

An SEO expert(Jill Whalen) said this a while ago, posted about this at my blog in back Feb. Very frightening to see this actually happening.

Just got to let you guys know about this.

I think they are trying to get it fixed.
This is from Squidoo:

Those of you who track Squidoo pretty closely know that we had a lousy week. 30 spammers took advantage of us and blew Squidoo’s name all over the web.

The good news is that as of Thursday, July 12th, all of those holes are closed. We erred on the side of goodwill, and we’re going to be a lot more careful in the future.

The other good news is that the Net responded appropriately. Sites started blocking posts from and searches to Squidoo as a way of insulating themselves from the few dozen that would ruin it for the rest of us. Unfortunately, those responses dampened visits to all of Squidoo, not just the bad parts.

I fully expect that as we finish our cleanup, and as the number of good lenses continues to amaze the rest of us (check out this one on bamboo, for example; or this one on Ancient Greece; or even this, on the iPhone), the web will respond the way it should, and has, by linking back to the Squidoo pages that deserve it.

Thanks for hanging in with us. Growing pains!

We couldn’t do it without you and your support.

I hope it doesn't take long to get fixed!
Kathy