Squidoo for link building?
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Hello Mozzers
I'm thinking about using squidoo as a part of my link building. I've never used squidoo before, I'd love to hear from Mozzers using sqidoo for link building and traffic generation.
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Hi Brad,
It might be too early to tell but I think Squidoo links are still just as valuable as they were before the most recent algorithm update.
As long as your Squidoo page and content is relevant to your link, then it should be fine.
What are your thoughts on it? How do you think it could have been affected by the new update?
Thanks
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Hi all, I'd be interested to know what people think of squidoo in light of recent google algorithm updates? Digirank - your tips are pretty good. Would you still recommend squidoo? Thanks, Brad
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Thanks Digirank, I will give it a try and try to get my squidoo lens featured.
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Hi,
Sorry - 'live' in Squidoo language is 'featured'. For your article to be visible to search engines external to Squidoo it needs to be a 'featured lens'. You can see if your article is featured by logging in and seeing if you have a red circle or green tick by it.
Another way you can get your lens featured is to encourage other squidoo members to comment on the article.
With regards to HubPages - you need to have a Hub Score of more than 40 or a hubber score of more than 75 for the links to be made 'dofollow'. If your article is good enough and you build some links into it, or promote it, it doesn't seem to be too difficult to get a score above 40.
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What do you mean by "make sure that your article is live on Squidoo before the link is seen by the search engines" ?
As for the Hub Pages, I think you have to achieve a score of 70+ or something like that before you're allowed followed links.
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Hi,
I've used Squidoo for link building before and it does provide a good backlink.
You need to make sure that your article is live on Squidoo before the link is seen by the search engines. This isn't easy, but it is possible.
Firstly, make sure your post is worthy of being published. Make your lens as interesting and unique as possible - lots of content, images etc. Squidoo seem to love 'top 10' articles.
Secondly, make sure your article is live. Squidoo will often put your post live at first and then take it down over the next day or so. This can be rectified by building links into your squidoo page (ie plug it on a social network page like Facebook, or build some free directory links into it).
Another site similar to Squidoo is 'HubPages', this is good for link building as well.
Hope that helps!
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