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:
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Can Squidoo help your site in terms of traffic/ranking?
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Is it good for networking?
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Can you really make money with Squidoo?
- Other?
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
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.
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
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.
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 🙂
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.
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 :).
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.
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?
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.
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.
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!
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 🙂
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.
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 :).
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.
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?
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.
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! 😉
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.