Seth Godin's Squidoo sets out collect social buzz

[Jeff Kershner]

Seth Godin announced today that Squidoo would start aggregating online social buzz (good and bad) for larger companies, calling it Brands in Public - "You can't control what people are saying about you. What you can do is organize that speech."

Seth's Blog: Launching Brands in Public

This might get interesting if car manufactures start getting added to the list. I suspect that if this really takes of as I'm sure Seth sets out to do, this could eventually migrate to smaller companies including car dealers.

How about paying $400 a month to respond to positive and negative online PR??

 

[umer.autojini]

Squidoo lost all its SE benefit while back... I would say they are bit late with this and $400.00 for a single page... no thank you.

 

[CFrentzen]

Squidoo lost all its SE benefit while back... I would say they are bit late with this and $400.00 for a single page... no thank you.

That's what I'm curious about. It can't be $400 for one page on Squidoo - that seems kind of odd to me from my experience with the site.

 

[parushing]

Squidoo lost all its SE benefit while back....

I am glad you believe that. Screen cap below was taken on 9/26/09 at 12:40 pm. 29 lenses getting roughly 10,000 visits per month all from the search engine.

 

[umer.autojini]

Let me further clarify this... am I seeing the same SEO benefit form squidoo lens... as in early 06/07... NO. Am I getting paid more... then what I made before... yes... as the number of lenses have increased... so have the community payout pool. But if I put the same effort on a my own adsense site I could be dbling that amount... just my 2 cents.