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They’re the industry leader, continually pushing the envelope in terms of their content, its presentation, and the traffic and traction they get online. In the announcement on the Squidoo site, Godin explained: In common with many revenue-sharing sites, Squidoo's traffic and income had been declining for some time and if it had not been sold to HubPages, it would not have been financially viable to maintain the site. On August 15, 2014, Godin announced that Squidoo had been acquired by HubPages in a friendly takeover. Squidoo challenged established information Web sites like and eHow for traffic, while it remained similar in unique visitor numbers to other revenue-sharing sites like and HubPages. The site was given top prize in South by Southwest's community/ wiki category in 2007. Reception Īfter its debut, Squidoo was profiled in CNN, The New York Times, MSNBC, and The Washington Post. Godin announced in January 2006 that the company would start a profit-sharing system whereby lensmasters would receive affiliate income from ads they placed in their lenses. In Squidoo's early stages, Godin noted that Martha Stewart and Jane Goodall's lenses did not receive large amounts of traffic, whereas lenses on myspace and the online game Line Rider were among the site's most successful. Godin called articles 'lenses', because he saw them as ' light and us what we need to see.' Writers were called 'lensmasters'. Squidoo was a user-generated Web site which allowed users to create multimedia pages without an understanding of HTML. The first version was developed by Viget Labs. The launch team consisted of Seth Godin, his book editor Megan Casey, former Fast Company employee Heath Row, Corey Brown, and Gil Hildebrand, Jr. On August 15, 2014, founder Seth Godin announced that HubPages had acquired Squidoo.ĭevelopment started in 2005. In 2010, the site consisted of 1.5 million lenses as of October 2010. Non-consent will result in ComScore only processing obfuscated personal data.Squidoo was a revenue-sharing article-writing site. ( Privacy Policy)ĬomScore is a media measurement and analytics company providing marketing data and analytics to enterprises, media and advertising agencies, and publishers. This is used to provide traffic data and reports to the authors of articles on the HubPages Service. We may use conversion tracking pixels from advertising networks such as Google AdWords, Bing Ads, and Facebook in order to identify when an advertisement has successfully resulted in the desired action, such as signing up for the HubPages Service or publishing an article on the HubPages Service. We may use remarketing pixels from advertising networks such as Google AdWords, Bing Ads, and Facebook in order to advertise the HubPages Service to people that have visited our sites. We partner with Say Media to deliver ad campaigns on our sites. Google provides ad serving technology and runs an ad network. This supports the Maven widget and search functionality. No data is shared with Facebook unless you engage with this feature. You can use this to streamline signing up for, or signing in to your Hubpages account. No data is shared with Paypal unless you engage with this feature. This is used for a registered author who enrolls in the HubPages Earnings program and requests to be paid via PayPal. Some articles have Vimeo videos embedded in them. Some articles have YouTube videos embedded in them. No data is shared unless you engage with this feature. This service allows you to sign up for or associate a Google AdSense account with HubPages, so that you can earn money from ads on your articles. This is used to display charts and graphs on articles and the author center.

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Javascript software libraries such as jQuery are loaded at endpoints on the or domains, for performance and efficiency reasons. This is a cloud CDN service that we use to efficiently deliver files required for our service to operate such as javascript, cascading style sheets, images, and videos. This is a cloud services platform that we used to host our service. Unless you are signed in to a HubPages account, all personally identifiable information is anonymized. This is used to collect data on traffic to articles and other pages on our site. This is used to provide data on traffic to our website, all personally identifyable data is anonymized. This is necessary to sign in to the HubPages Service. This is used to identify particular browsers or devices when the access the service, and is used for security reasons. For more information on managing or withdrawing consents and how we handle data, visit our Privacy Policy at: Show Details Necessary

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