Do You Squidoo?

By Vlad Zablotskyy March 5, 2007

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I just joined Squidoo today. Needless to say the first lens I have created is called Affiliate Marketing (please head over to give me some “star love”). I joined the Squidoo, to explore it’s potential of generating extra traffic to my website. Not until I have created the lens did I realize that you can earn money as well.

Do you use Suidoo? I am just interested to hear what you have to say about it. If you Squidoo lens can use some link-love don’t hesitated to share it with me and my readers in comments (links in my blog comments do not have “nofollow”). I am just looking for ideas when it comes to Squidoo so if you leave a link to your lens I will make sure to give it 5 stars. I would appreciate if you can do the same.

Here is what I would want to know:

Can Squidoo help your site in terms of traffic/ranking?
Is it good for networking?
Can you really make money with Squidoo?
Other?

45 Comments

By 45n5, March 5, 2007 @ 6:10 pm

awesome video on that lens ;-P

I've only made a couple lenses to kick the tires there, nothing serious, however I see some affiliate lenses rank nicely

http://www.google.com/search?q=laptop+bag (not my lens)

Good luck
By Vlad, March 5, 2007 @ 6:16 pm

Yes I love that video too! lol

I also noticed that Squidoo ranks quiet well for some keywords. I am jsut experimenting with it for now let see how it goes.
By 45n5, March 5, 2007 @ 8:10 pm

awesome video on that lens ;-P

I’ve only made a couple lenses to kick the tires there, nothing serious, however I see some affiliate lenses rank nicely

http://www.google.com/search?q=laptop+bag (not my lens)

Good luck
By Vlad, March 5, 2007 @ 8:16 pm

Yes I love that video too! lol

I also noticed that Squidoo ranks quiet well for some keywords. I am jsut experimenting with it for now let see how it goes.
By Carsten Cumbrowski, March 6, 2007 @ 10:12 am

my 2 cents

1. yes
2. no
3. no
4. cover more spots in the SERPS

Don't give it too much, only a little bit, but make sure to attach the lens to many RELEVANT keywords. That will boost the lens and a link from the lens boosts your site.

I created my first lens over a year ago. I have only 4 lenses and it took me a while to outrank my own lenses with my new site, but now are they working together in tandem
By Vlad, March 6, 2007 @ 10:22 am

Thanks Carsten,

As mark mentioned above and from what you are saying Squidoo lanses rank well.

Since I am new to it all I did was to add the feed from this site. So I do not need to spend much time there editing and such.

Thanks for your comments.
By Carsten Cumbrowski, March 6, 2007 @ 10:39 am

your feed has complete posts. no wonder. I hope you stopped that, because Google might filter you out for good. Your site and the lens were basically identical with SQUIDOO as a domain out powering you and probably even considered the source of the content and not your blog.

“Don't give it too much, only a little bit” content I should have added .
By Vlad, March 6, 2007 @ 10:49 am

Carsten Thanks for the heads up.

Yes the feed has complete posts. But from what I have seen Squidoo grabs only a snippet of each posts. The reason my feed has complete posts is that I often wonder if partial posts will not disouradge subscribers to “unsubscribe”.

“Google might filter you out for good”
Can you explain this. I am not sure I understand it. I noticed that many so called “A List” bloggers also offer complete feeds.
By Vlad, March 6, 2007 @ 11:09 am

Carsten,
If you are following this. I just added feed from your blog to Google Reader. Personally I wish that the reader would show the etire post.

I think in FeedBurner you can add “noindex” attributes to your feed. Woudl that help?
By Carsten Cumbrowski, March 6, 2007 @ 11:19 am

I don't think that the fb noindex flag will help with squidoo. The setting is for the browsable version of the feed , the smart feed that renders HTML.

With Squidoo is it the same as with wordpress blogs at wordpress.com. You use it to your advantage without being spamming.
By Carsten Cumbrowski, March 6, 2007 @ 11:22 am

YOu benefit from the huge amount of inbound links to the main domain. Google still puts a lot of value on the overall trust and rank of the general domain.

If you start a site and a lense, the lens will outrank you for a long time. If your site grows further, you will outrank the lens. Simple as that. But even if you don't, make sure that visitors will find your site through the Lens as well. Win Win.
By Vlad, March 6, 2007 @ 11:23 am

Thanks Carsten,
I will have to reconsider adding my feed to the lense then. lol Actually I should probably delete this one and start all over. Thanks for the tips!
By Carsten Cumbrowski, March 6, 2007 @ 12:12 pm

my 2 cents

1. yes
2. no
3. no
4. cover more spots in the SERPS

Don’t give it too much, only a little bit, but make sure to attach the lens to many RELEVANT keywords. That will boost the lens and a link from the lens boosts your site.

I created my first lens over a year ago. I have only 4 lenses and it took me a while to outrank my own lenses with my new site, but now are they working together in tandem
By Vlad, March 6, 2007 @ 12:22 pm

Thanks Carsten,

As mark mentioned above and from what you are saying Squidoo lanses rank well.

Since I am new to it all I did was to add the feed from this site. So I do not need to spend much time there editing and such.

Thanks for your comments.
By Carsten Cumbrowski, March 6, 2007 @ 12:39 pm

your feed has complete posts. no wonder. I hope you stopped that, because Google might filter you out for good. Your site and the lens were basically identical with SQUIDOO as a domain out powering you and probably even considered the source of the content and not your blog.

“Don’t give it too much, only a little bit” content I should have added .
By Vlad, March 6, 2007 @ 12:49 pm

Carsten Thanks for the heads up.

Yes the feed has complete posts. But from what I have seen Squidoo grabs only a snippet of each posts. The reason my feed has complete posts is that I often wonder if partial posts will not disouradge subscribers to “unsubscribe”.

“Google might filter you out for good”
Can you explain this. I am not sure I understand it. I noticed that many so called “A List” bloggers also offer complete feeds.
By Vlad, March 6, 2007 @ 1:09 pm

Carsten,
If you are following this. I just added feed from your blog to Google Reader. Personally I wish that the reader would show the etire post.

I think in FeedBurner you can add “noindex” attributes to your feed. Woudl that help?
By Carsten Cumbrowski, March 6, 2007 @ 1:19 pm

I don’t think that the fb noindex flag will help with squidoo. The setting is for the browsable version of the feed , the smart feed that renders HTML.

With Squidoo is it the same as with wordpress blogs at wordpress.com. You use it to your advantage without being spamming.
By Mark from Bloglyne.com, March 6, 2007 @ 1:20 pm

Vlad / Mark@45n5 – After reading the comment about the video, I immediatley went over there to check it out… Imagine my horror when I actually saw it… I am still rinsing my eyes out with water, but they won't stop burning…

You should, at least, put a disclaimer on there!
By Carsten Cumbrowski, March 6, 2007 @ 1:22 pm

YOu benefit from the huge amount of inbound links to the main domain. Google still puts a lot of value on the overall trust and rank of the general domain.

If you start a site and a lense, the lens will outrank you for a long time. If your site grows further, you will outrank the lens. Simple as that. But even if you don’t, make sure that visitors will find your site through the Lens as well. Win Win.
By Vlad, March 6, 2007 @ 1:23 pm

Thanks Carsten,
I will have to reconsider adding my feed to the lense then. lol Actually I should probably delete this one and start all over. Thanks for the tips!
By mark from 45n5.com, March 6, 2007 @ 1:25 pm

“at least, put a disclaimer on there!”

Youtube doesn't require warnings, it doesn't matter how bad the video is.

and i can't be held responsible for Vlad's squidoo lenses.

lol
By Vlad, March 6, 2007 @ 1:30 pm

You mean the disclamer in regards to BumpZee right?

I am not keeping this lens anyway.
By mark from 45n5.com, March 6, 2007 @ 1:34 pm

vlad I think mark from bloglyne was joking about the quality of the video
By Mark from Bloglyne.com, March 6, 2007 @ 3:20 pm

Vlad / Mark@45n5 – After reading the comment about the video, I immediatley went over there to check it out… Imagine my horror when I actually saw it… I am still rinsing my eyes out with water, but they won’t stop burning…

You should, at least, put a disclaimer on there!
By mark from 45n5.com, March 6, 2007 @ 3:25 pm

“at least, put a disclaimer on there!”

Youtube doesn’t require warnings, it doesn’t matter how bad the video is.

and i can’t be held responsible for Vlad’s squidoo lenses.

lol
By Vlad, March 6, 2007 @ 3:30 pm

You mean the disclamer in regards to BumpZee right?

I am not keeping this lens anyway.
By mark from 45n5.com, March 6, 2007 @ 3:34 pm

vlad I think mark from bloglyne was joking about the quality of the video
By Mark from Bloglyne.com, March 6, 2007 @ 5:50 pm

@Vlad & @Mark45n5 – yes I was kidding Was trying to make a joke about the character that is shown in the video *grins*
By Vlad, March 6, 2007 @ 6:19 pm

Good one Mark from Bloglyne . As for me I don't think video is that bad. I actually like it!
By Mark from Bloglyne.com, March 6, 2007 @ 7:50 pm

@Vlad & @Mark45n5 – yes I was kidding Was trying to make a joke about the character that is shown in the video *grins*
By Vlad, March 6, 2007 @ 8:19 pm

Good one Mark from Bloglyne . As for me I don’t think video is that bad. I actually like it!
By Carsten Cumbrowski, March 6, 2007 @ 11:06 pm

They would not have made fun of the movie if they did not like it at least a little bit.

Right Mark? .. and what are you saying to that Mark?
By Vlad, March 6, 2007 @ 11:11 pm

I say good to both of them lol
By Mark from Bloglyne.com, March 6, 2007 @ 11:18 pm

@45n5 You know I dig your videos! (that is a dig with one g NOT two) I would only give you a hard time if I did

Well, now that we are waaaaay off topic – Vlad, I set up my first lens the other day, but I think I will let it die a slow and painful death. Going to focus on other things like getting started on the bloglyne monetize experiments.
By Vlad, March 6, 2007 @ 11:37 pm

That's alright Mark, even if comments are off topic they provide me with a lot of things I can write about in the future.

I am not sure I will be spending much time on my won lenses, but I will definetely like the idea of dontating to charities. I am actually thinking of my own church. I think if I can engage few people it can really work. Unless money making side of Squidoo is not that great.
By Carsten Cumbrowski, March 7, 2007 @ 1:06 am

They would not have made fun of the movie if they did not like it at least a little bit.

Right Mark? .. and what are you saying to that Mark?
By Vlad, March 7, 2007 @ 1:11 am

I say good to both of them lol
By Mark from Bloglyne.com, March 7, 2007 @ 1:18 am

@45n5 You know I dig your videos! (that is a dig with one g NOT two) I would only give you a hard time if I did

Well, now that we are waaaaay off topic – Vlad, I set up my first lens the other day, but I think I will let it die a slow and painful death. Going to focus on other things like getting started on the bloglyne monetize experiments.
By Vlad, March 7, 2007 @ 1:37 am

That’s alright Mark, even if comments are off topic they provide me with a lot of things I can write about in the future.

I am not sure I will be spending much time on my won lenses, but I will definetely like the idea of dontating to charities. I am actually thinking of my own church. I think if I can engage few people it can really work. Unless money making side of Squidoo is not that great.
By Carsten Cumbrowski, March 7, 2007 @ 1:40 am

My first lens.. or second.. can't remember.
http://www.squidoo.com/Affiliate-Marketing/

Vlad, I added your Aff.Mkt. lens to my lensroll for that lens.

http://www.squidoo.com/Datafeed/

This lens used to outrank me for anything datafeed related. Its still on mt tail . I had the datafeed article stub up there for over half a year, before I finished it and moved to my site. It still beats me for “datafeeds” though, but that's not tragic. Two spots on page 1 are better than 1 hehe.

I forgot about this one. I played there with some of those fancy plug ins that allow ratings and stuff. http://www.squidoo.com/Internet_Marketing_Resou...

http://www.squidoo.com/ascii/

My most “successful” lens was this one. Not commercial unfortunately. Made it to the top 25 in the arts category. I removed a lot of content since I have a site just for text art all by myself since last summer. No need to put the cream de la cream on squidoo

http://www.squidoo.com/bbs/
Remind me when they start selling 3 character lens names for a million bucks hehe… kidding.. another non-commercial lens of mine.

I get some traffic from the Datafeed Lens and negligible one from the Affiliate Marketing Lens.

That wraps up my old lens showcase. I let them just sit there and do whatever lenses do. The advertising within the lenses generated, I don't know, $5 ?! revenue over the course of 1 year. Or was it about $3?! … mmmh.. don't know, never cashed the check. hehe.

Cheers!
By Carsten Cumbrowski, March 7, 2007 @ 3:40 am

My first lens.. or second.. can’t remember.
http://www.squidoo.com/Affiliate-Marketing/

Vlad, I added your Aff.Mkt. lens to my lensroll for that lens.

http://www.squidoo.com/Datafeed/

This lens used to outrank me for anything datafeed related. Its still on mt tail . I had the datafeed article stub up there for over half a year, before I finished it and moved to my site. It still beats me for “datafeeds” though, but that’s not tragic. Two spots on page 1 are better than 1 hehe.

I forgot about this one. I played there with some of those fancy plug ins that allow ratings and stuff. http://www.squidoo.com/Internet_Marketing_Resources/

http://www.squidoo.com/ascii/

My most “successful” lens was this one. Not commercial unfortunately. Made it to the top 25 in the arts category. I removed a lot of content since I have a site just for text art all by myself since last summer. No need to put the cream de la cream on squidoo

http://www.squidoo.com/bbs/
Remind me when they start selling 3 character lens names for a million bucks hehe… kidding.. another non-commercial lens of mine.

I get some traffic from the Datafeed Lens and negligible one from the Affiliate Marketing Lens.

That wraps up my old lens showcase. I let them just sit there and do whatever lenses do. The advertising within the lenses generated, I don’t know, $5 ?! revenue over the course of 1 year. Or was it about $3?! … mmmh.. don’t know, never cashed the check. hehe.

Cheers!
By Vlad, March 7, 2007 @ 7:34 am

Thanks Carsten,

Thanks for sharing. I appreciate it very much. It definetely gives me a better prospective on it.
By Vlad, March 7, 2007 @ 9:34 am

Thanks Carsten,

Thanks for sharing. I appreciate it very much. It definetely gives me a better prospective on it.