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(From this time onward, Panda is ongoing.) Sistrix shows Squidoo 17% DOWN, Hubpages 3% DOWN. On May 28, HQ replaced it with a popup for non-logged-in visitors. Mar 12, 2013: Squidoo implements new “Discovery Bar”, at first covering part of first screen of content, then moved down, then removed on Mar 18.A ll Amazon module content blocked by Adblock on Mar 6, and on Mar 7, Squidoo discontinues “You may also like,” but Adblock continues to block Amazon modules for several weeks. Mar 5, 2013: Squidoo adds “ You may also like” with 5 supposedly-related products to the bottom of every Amazon module.Feb 28, 2013: Bonnie posts about Spun Content problems (the day before, Bonnie warned against thin sales lenses, but that “Showercurtain” blog post was removed.).Jan 22, 2013: Panda #24. Sistrix shows Squidoo 15% UP, Hubpages 3% DOWN.Sistrix shows Squidoo 14% UP, Hubpages 9% DOWN.

Quizzes, polls, and some Amazon and eBay modules break or lose content, and new ads appear in the middle of lens body content for mobile devices and on some web browers (Chrome OSX).

Dec 7, 2012: Squidoo implements “ Responsive Layout“ redesign.

These have finally been replaced with “related” Google ads not sure when that happened, but it’s after Mar 1.

Nov 26, 2012: Squidoo implements Crowdignite Ads.

Nov 21, 2012: Panda #22. Sistrix shows Squidoo 60% DOWN, Hubpages 33% UP.

I have never been able to correlate this to a known Google algorithm update, unless it was a Nov. Several veteran Squids report significant traffic drops at a time when traffic is usually increasing due to holiday shopping season.

Nov 12-16: Sporadic Squidoo traffic drops.

Nov 5, 2012: Panda #21. Sistrix shows Squidoo 35% UP, Hubpages unchanged.

Oct 31, 2012: Squidoo implements Postcards.

Oct 9, 2012: Page Layout Algorithm #2. Sistrix shows Squidoo unchanged, Hubpages 17% DOWN.

Oct 5, 2012: Third Penguin Update. Sistrix shows Squidoo UP 13%, Hubpages DOWN 32%.Sep 27, 2012: Panda #20, EMD. Sistrix shows Squidoo DOWN 4%, Hubpages DOWN 12%.Sep 18, 2012: Panda #19. Sistrix shows Squidoo UP 1%, Hubpages DOWN 2%.Aug 20, 2012: Panda #18. Sistrix shows Squidoo UP 3%, Hubpages UP 9%.Aug 15, 2012: Departure of Megan Casey, Squidoo co-founder and Editor-in-Chief.Aug 10, 2012: Pirate / DMCA update. Both sites unaffected.

Sistrix shows both Squidoo’s and Hubpages’ overall visibility in Google search results DOWN 10%. Squidoo and Hubpages both draw ~1 million global unique visitors a day Squidoo is on top. (Also available on YouTube, where you can pause and move the playback position, but video is a little fuzzy.)

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I’ve marked specific dates of Google algorithm changes plus significant events at Squidoo. Quantcast Chart of Squidoo & Hubpages traffic, July 2012-2013 (Hubpages took its big Panda hit in Jan 2011, and has been climbing back ever since Squidoo was mostly unaffected by Panda until Nov 2012). This is my attempt to round up a year’s worth of changes on Squidoo, with particular focus on which Squidoo changes and which Google algorithm updates may have caused traffic gains or losses.Īs usual, I’m using Hubpages as a reference, because it’s a comparable site, although its traffic trajectory has been quite different.

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