Is Squidoo helpful to SEO?

[duia]

Although several articles of mine have been approved by EZA, I find it can't help me build more "DoFollow" backlinks to my blogs. So, I am ready to try another one.
Some friends advise me to try squidoo.com. But I am not familiar with it. So, are you familiar with squidoo.com and is it helpful to SEO strategy.
Thank your very much.

[gravtex]

I would say Squidoo can be helpful when used as a small part of your overall SEO strategy but it's not going to magically vault a site from 1000 to 10 in Google either. Creating a lens is easy and you can reuse a lot of the content you already submitted to EZA as material for your Squidoo lenses.

Gary

[Adam7]

I read a while back that it can be helpful so I went ahead and created some lenses. They have a nice, easy to use setup that allows for plenty of links. I figured it can't hurt, but I don't know that you'll get a whole lot of results.

[roshan1]

Yes Squidoo is very helpful for SEO the thing is that you need to promote your lense very effectively and on regular basis. Do not put some garbage content or article to your lense it will hurt your efforts so post less but some unique and informative content can give you great results in Search Engines..

Lens are not easy to cached by search engine you need to do good promotion for it.

[Steller]

I know a lot of people use them for there link wheels and what not. I think that's one the most effective ways to use a tool like Squidoo.

Regards,

Steller

[retry]

Squidoo is helpfull, but should only be one of the proberties.
When I build, I try to mix things up with multiple types of backlins.
- Articles
- Social Bookmarks
- Rss
- Blog commenting
- Web2.0 Proberties.

Before Squidoo lenses were very powerfull, but in my opinoin it has lost a little bit of it's value.

[duia]

Originally Posted by gravtex

I would say Squidoo can be helpful when used as a small part of your overall SEO strategy but it's not going to magically vault a site from 1000 to 10 in Google either. Creating a lens is easy and you can reuse a lot of the content you already submitted to EZA as material for your Squidoo lenses.

Gary

Yes, Thanks for your reply.
Perhaps I should find other "DoFollow" article directories sites for my SEO strategy.

[duia]

Originally Posted by retry

Squidoo is helpfull, but should only be one of the proberties.
When I build, I try to mix things up with multiple types of backlins.
- Articles
- Social Bookmarks
- Rss
- Blog commenting
- Web2.0 Proberties.

Before Squidoo lenses were very powerfull, but in my opinoin it has lost a little bit of it's value.

I have tried blog commenting, but it is useless for be because I can't find "DoFollow" blogs relevant to my blog niche.
By the way, could you tell me how to use RSS to promote my sites? Thank you,

[Crew Chief]

In the overall scheme of things "ALL" back links are helpful, including Squidoo. And contrary to popular belief, no follow links do pass some link juice

The mistake most IMer's make is engaging in back link building in "Willy Nilly" fashion.

Your back linking strategy should include:

(1). Your own private network, (a collection of websites, article directories, web directories, forums and blogs that you own, hosted on different Class C IP addresses.)
(2). Your corporate network, (this is a group of IMer’s you have banded together with who each have their own private networks like yours.) If your group consists of seven people, all which who have 30 web properties each - that you can use for back linking, your power to build one way back links multiples exponentially. In such a network you can literally - instantly create hundreds of powerful one way back links
(3). A bevy of web 2.0 properties. (That includes: Squidoo, Hubpages, Ning.com, Shine.yahoo.com, blogger.com, i.ph, flixya.com, etc.
(4). Free web hosting accounts
(5). Cheap web hosting accounts
(6). Social bookmarking
(7). RSS Feeds

You put/unite all of the above together by forming strategically placed Linkwheels.

Originally Posted by duia

Although several articles of mine have been approved by EZA, I find it can't help me build more "DoFollow" backlinks to my blogs. So, I am ready to try another one.
Some friends advise me to try squidoo.com. But I am not familiar with it. So, are you familiar with squidoo.com and is it helpful to SEO strategy.
Thank your very much.

[caseyho]

Yes, for my experience Squidoo is excellent for SEO ... I have rank #1 compete with 19,000 pages ... So, you decide.

[geyser]

Squidoo is a do follow website where in you can easily create a content and publish it unlike submitting to article directories where it needs to be approved. You can try squidoo to build link wheel marketing campaign

[retry]

Originally Posted by duia

I have tried blog commenting, but it is useless for be because I can't find "DoFollow" blogs relevant to my blog niche.
By the way, could you tell me how to use RSS to promote my sites? Thank you,

Hi again Duia!

There are many people who will state that blog commenting is useless if the blog do not have the DoFollow tag. In my opinion NoFollow is important as well.

About RSS.
First of all you will need a site which do support RSS.
For example if you are on a Wordpress platform you should be able to find your feed by going to "yourdomain.com/rss"/
If you are on other platforms this might be different.
When you have found your feed, you can submit it.

I normally use tools for this, however there are free services on Internet for doing just that.

feedsubmitter.com is a service for just that.

If you would like to know more what rss and feeds actually is I can recommend en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS

[duia]

Originally Posted by retry

Hi again Duia!

There are many people who will state that blog commenting is useless if the blog do not have the DoFollow tag. In my opinion NoFollow is important as well.

About RSS.
First of all you will need a site which do support RSS.
For example if you are on a Wordpress platform you should be able to find your feed by going to "yourdomain.com/rss"/
If you are on other platforms this might be different.
When you have found your feed, you can submit it.

I normally use tools for this, however there are free services on Internet for doing just that.

feedsubmitter.com is a service for just that.

If you would like to know more what rss and feeds actually is I can recommend en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS

I am appreciated for your reply indeed.
Thanks! I will try feedsubmitter.com later.

[NiceBlogger]

Squidoo is very helpful for SEO . Using Squidoo you can get some nice backlinks ...

[Crew Chief]

Why go to wikipedia when you're in the Warrior Forum?

If you want to learn RSS on B-L-A-S-T, you're in the best place on the planet; hands down!!!

Here's a list of RSS Aggregators provided by fellow Warrior Mark Hess: http://www.warriorforum.com/war-room...feed-free.html

Another fellow Warrior created the RSSBot, which I use and that tool is awesome.

If you are a War Room member, you can grab a copy of "RSS Traffic Wizard" free of charge.

I can absolutely GUARANTEE, nothing you find on Wiki is going to remotely compare to the insights, information and strategies you will find on the Warrior Forum!

Originally Posted by retry

Hi again Duia!

There are many people who will state that blog commenting is useless if the blog do not have the DoFollow tag. In my opinion NoFollow is important as well.

About RSS.
First of all you will need a site which do support RSS.
For example if you are on a Wordpress platform you should be able to find your feed by going to "yourdomain.com/rss"/
If you are on other platforms this might be different.
When you have found your feed, you can submit it.

I normally use tools for this, however there are free services on Internet for doing just that.

feedsubmitter.com is a service for just that.

If you would like to know more what rss and feeds actually is I can recommend en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS

[retry]

That's obviously true.

However as for an initial instruction to what RSS is, Wikipedia is good.

As for how to actually use RSS you will need to seek information elsewhere, and I suppose there is a lot of good posts around here.

Wiki is good for explaning things shortly, nothing else.

[mariahm]

I have found that squidoo can be helpful but only if you have done some serious keyword research in the niche you are targeting.
If you just create a lens about any old thing you are basically just building a backlink to your site, and you will not be bringing in any extra traffic.
So, bottom line, yes squidoo is helpful no matter what, but if you do keyword research and target good keywords you can drive even more traffic to your website.

[duia]

Originally Posted by mariahm

I have found that squidoo can be helpful but only if you have done some serious keyword research in the niche you are targeting.
If you just create a lens about any old thing you are basically just building a backlink to your site, and you will not be bringing in any extra traffic.
So, bottom line, yes squidoo is helpful no matter what, but if you do keyword research and target good keywords you can drive even more traffic to your website.

Yes, I can't agree with you anymore. Through my personal experience, it is difficult to gain some extra traffic because of keen competition there.

[neno]

Originally Posted by andrewdavid

Squidoo is a social media but now it is not very important and not very effective because Google has penalize it now that's why it is not very effective in SEO...

From where you got this news, that Squidoo got penalized by Google.

Squidoo is still a authority domain with high PR and when you create a lens on Squidoo, you get a subpage of your own on this domain. This is highly beneficial if you make a good squidoo lens with some good content and promote it a little bit. Although it will not do some magic for your site, but yes you will get a powerful backlink.

[duia]

Originally Posted by neno

From where you got this news, that Squidoo got penalized by Google.

Squidoo is still a authority domain with high PR and when you create a lens on Squidoo, you get a subpage of your own on this domain. This is highly beneficial if you make a good squidoo lens with some good content and promote it a little bit. Although it will not do some magic for your site, but yes you will get a powerful backlink.

A powful link is enough for me because I can't attract more visitors to my blogs.

[lmtech]

The competion on squidoo is a problem factor, you got to bet it's seo effectivness is being dilluted by the minute with so many IMers creating lenses, having said that another backlink can't hurt can it!

[jfinley]

Its somewhat easy to set up and worth it, I would give it a try.

[aarenlainey]

Personally, I think we shouldnt focus too much on Squidoo purely for SEO since they might eventually add nofollow tags to all outgoing links and thus remove all SEO benefits out of it. We should put relevant content on it to attract visitors and ultimately send more visitors to our money site but no purely for backlink purpose.

[webbyworld]

Squidoo lenses are good and can be used effectively for SEO and getting target traffic. But your content should be quite informative and unique and please don't try to give it a spammy look. Remember Squidoo is useful but takes time for achieving top position in Google. So keep hard working also for promoting your lens once it'll be published.

[limochicago]

Squidoo.com can really help you in your SEO journey. Pages from squidoo are indexed by Google and many people are reading pages from Squidoo.com. Another thing is you can also use it in making a link wheel.

[kan831019]

i thinks it's helpful~

[Orkhan Ibad]

I specifically tested Squidoo. It works and it is high quality do follow back link.

Hub Page is high quality too when it s do follow. Your hub becomes do follow after it gets score over 75.

[taufandilog]

well...I never using Squidoo, but some people says it worth for SEO

[kkchoon]

Originally Posted by duia

I have tried blog commenting, but it is useless for be because I can't find "DoFollow" blogs relevant to my blog niche.
By the way, could you tell me how to use RSS to promote my sites? Thank you,

Use special blog comment software to help you find dofollow blogs, you can try comment demon.

I've yet use any of these software, I usually go to DP forum to find people for the job, and many of them are not bad!

Kok Choon

[akki313]

Indeed squiddo gives you a very powerful dofollow backlink and is very helpful in getting a website ranking high in google.

Anyways I would recommend you to combination of many high PR dofollow web 2.0 properties and use them in creating a link wheel. It will surely help you in getting a high rank in google.

Don't forget to ping, social bookmark and RSS submission of those backlinks to get them indexed faster in google.

Hope I have helped
Good Luck

[giseo]

does anyone know of any sites similar to Squidoo and also any tips on how to get your hub score over 75?

[Warrior Y]

Squidoo annoys me.
It seems impossible to get your lenses indexed and even when they do, they are nowhere to be found in the search results. Other web 2.0 sites do not cause that amount of problems and are indexed within minutes\hours.

Has anyone else here had the same experience with Squidoo?
Does anyone know why do these problems occur?
I mean, Squidoo is supposed to be one the best web 2.0 sites out there but it seems like the search engines are ignoring it for some reason...

[Jamian]

Originally Posted by duia

Although several articles of mine have been approved by EZA, I find it can't help me build more "DoFollow" backlinks to my blogs. So, I am ready to try another one.
Some friends advise me to try squidoo.com. But I am not familiar with it. So, are you familiar with squidoo.com and is it helpful to SEO strategy.
Thank your very much.

How many articles did you submit to Ezine? Try to write at least 50 to Ezine then you'll see some results.

Jamian

[Jamian]

You can use squidoo and other web 20 sites. Plus posting to various forums will
help as well.

Jamian

[BlackFalcon]

I found that squidoo brings me ton of traffic, about 20% of my total traffic, the secret is creating a page for each long tail you have, I create for every long tail that is being searched more than 50 times a day

[duia]

Thank you very much. Long tail is a good strategy.
But for me, unfortunately, I can't find the lens in Squidoo from Google.

[actionplanbiz]

I always thought that Squidoo is one of those must have backlinks.

[Orkhan Ibad]

Originally Posted by giseo

does anyone know of any sites similar to Squidoo and also any tips on how to get your hub score over 75?

They don't reveal how you can do it over 75.

But in my experience, it becomes over 75 when you have

1) Back links to this hub
2) You are an active user.
3) Your content is good and long
4) People comment on your hub.

[jaratvit]

Squidoo is definitely one of my 4 favorite social media sites, and it can really deliver positive and high quality results for SEO and link building campaigns as well as in branding your site. Having a squidoo page for your website’s brand also helps in adding relevant pages for SERP’s when people are searching for your brand. This allows you to dominate the 1st page, if in case that your site has competitors that has the same domain name as yours.

[guslie]

squidoo,wordpress, article directories, forum and blog commenting are your really weapon to bat SEO. However, it needs your patience and high dedication to take care your web (web maintenance, I mean)

[Begbie]

I tried Squidoo three months ago. I took an online course on it and made good lenses. But, I have still not been indexed. So, I am not too sold right now on Squidoo.

[roger123]

For SEO benefit, you should create links to your website by creating one page websites (lenses) not only on squidoo but also other do-follow web 2.0 sites such as hubpages, vox, Quizilla, weebly, wetpaint, tumblr, yola etc. Search for 'Link wheel' approach on this forum

[guslie]

Originally Posted by Begbie

I tried Squidoo three months ago. I took an online course on it and made good lenses. But, I have still not been indexed. So, I am not too sold right now on Squidoo.

we should be patience my friend many of my lenses are also not indexed until this recent time...