It was a rude awakening for many online marketers. They watched from the sidelines as Squidoo evolved into a SERP ranking powerhouse and finally invested in a guide to teach them how to do it themselves. They created content, did all the recommended traffic tactics and one day awoke to discover their lenses locked and their efforts ruined.

Squidoo has made many changes in 2009, and for good reason. They were in the good graces of Google until one day the search engine giant decided to teach them a lesson and slapped their search engine rankings into nowhereland.

To combat this horrible effect, Squidoo knew what they had to do. They had to lock down spam lenses, implement some new rules and take down unsavory content. Gone were the porn lenses that were previously allowed on this site.

A new Squid Dont lens was erected to help guide lensmasters in how to create a proper page on Squidoo. Many ClickBank products, which were the bread and butter of some affiliates, were blacklisted. Read the rest of this entry

Expect more competition both as a product creator and an affiliate marketer on ClickBank. While this prediction might make you squirm a bit, consider it a beneficial forecast. A thriving marketplace attracts more consumers.

ClickBank just introduced three tutorial videos to help bring on German, French and Spanish speaking sellers and affiliates. This will help widen the global audience and your potential for sales.

They will be doing more handholding for the masses, training product creators to stay above the board and not spam or do unethical things, and training affiliates to utilize tools to make more sales.

For example, in a recent ClickBank blog post, they even advised affiliates to use PLR to help promote ClickBank products. Thats a positive thing for marketers, because many online companies frown on PLR, not understanding its ability in the marketplace.
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