Yesterday was a shocker for all Squidoo writers because the owner of the site announced it's sold to HugPages which is the main competitor. I saw this coming years ago when They had started changing things. Everything they did to get rid of spammers only worked other way. They successfully got rid of most of quality writers from Squidoo and the site was keeping going down. So I stopped using it since last year and even predicted Squidoo won't last long.
They haven't send any mail about this or given members a chance to do anything about their lenses. They say you can export all your content but their so called "export function" is not working at all. I don't think old Squidoo owners want people to remove content since HugPages wouldn't want to buy a blank site. Right now I don't think there are many who want to move to Hubpages. Also they seems going to keep money of members how haven't reach minimum payment.
Well the problem is there aren't too many alternatives out there either. HubPages is not somewhere you can learn like at Squidoo. There's Bubblews which might be a good place to start again but don't expect to learn a lot since their model is different. Also I have heard Zujava which is similar to Squidoo has lost their Amazon account too. Now there are so many people who has nowhere to go.
There aren't too many places where you can earn money online. If you are a Squidoo or Zujava writer who is wondering what to do next then you have two solutions. You can buy a domain name and hosting space and start your own Wordpress blog which is the best thing you can do. Cost would be around $20 and maybe $3 per month.
If you can't afford paying that or want a free solution then you can try Google Blogger which is free. But you need to be careful with Amazon affiliate stuff because they are very touchy about these sites. Sometimes they delete blogs for "SPAM" or ban from Google search engine saying "pure spam". You need to built your blogs carefully if you decide to use Google Blogger.
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