Google ignoring and not indexing squidoo

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Hi

I am new to IM, working on my first site and just wanted to check if I'm missing something.

Set up some blog site authority site type stuff backlinks and am not expecting them to index very quickly.

However, I did do some article marketing as well. All were origional articles with decent content as far as I'm aware.

I have loads of ezine articles which all did tremendously and have all been indexed, some within the space of half an hour from being published. I have a hubpages article that has been indexed. I also had a blogspot and three squidoo articles that havn't been indexed yet and have been on the web for about 2 weeks but still not indexed. What's strange is that I have an ezine article that's indexed and links to the squidoo lense, but for some reason the squidoo lense won't get indexed.

Am I missing something really obvious here. I've just recently socially bookmarked them and added them to some directories. Could it be something wrong with the content? Perhaps the keyword was used too many times??? Why will google not enter these onto the SERPS?

Finally just a general question. If I comment on a blog post or write an article somewhere outside of my own site but on a web 2 site or some kind of authority site, can I rest assured that it will eventually be indexed. I'm happy to write a bunch of articles and sit back and chill knowing that google will eventually pick them up but is there ever a time that you will need to do something about it for google to pick it up?


Thanks for any answers as I have only just realised this now checking backlinks with SEOSpyglass and am concerned. It says I only have 7 backlinks when actually I have loads more than that.

Thanks again
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  • Profile picture of the author paulgl
    I get my lenses indexed very fast.

    As to exactly how many backlinks you have, well, it's
    not an exact science. And google may not count as many
    backlinks as you think they do.

    If it's on the web, google sees it. Just a matter of
    time before it's indexed. If it's worthy, that is. There are sites
    that do get your links indexed faster, due mainly to the fact that
    google loves some site's links better. Like this forum. Your post
    here will be indexed quicker than you can hit submit reply. But
    again, google chooses to index what it chooses. You cannot
    force it.

    Paul
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    • Profile picture of the author birdman87
      Thanks for your reply Paul.

      Could it be to do with repeating the keyword too many times? I've had another look at the article and it seems I was given a different writer to my usual one. The keyword density seems quite a bit higher than usual. If google see that, would they ever refuse to put it into the SERPS? Or would they just rank the article lower down?

      thanks, any feedback greatly appreciated.
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  • Profile picture of the author alghaz01
    I have no problem with my lens. Anyway, we must patient with their "invisible" policy.. hmmmm..
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  • Profile picture of the author freddy smith
    i also have a new lens with unique article, but untill now it still not get index after 10 day
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  • Profile picture of the author myfreelance
    When I created my first lens I did not have a any trouble getting it indexed by Google. It was indexed really fast and it had a PR2 once. The PR went down because I stop updating it. What I am saying here is that Google usually index Squidoo lens fast unless somebody from Google found something not so good in your lens
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  • Profile picture of the author ztws
    I have a few lenses that have been around for years and get very little traffic from google, yet rank well in Yahoo and other places.
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    • Profile picture of the author birdman87
      So perhaps ignoring squidoo would be a good idea now and start looking into alternative sites similar to squidoo?

      I'll look into it.

      I've used hubpages, any other sites you would recommend that are like squidoo?
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      • Profile picture of the author birdman87
        I've just checked on seospyglass, it's yahoo's search engine they're using and it's yahoo that hasn't found the backlinks. Hmmmph it's a nnoying because I was using an ezinearticle to link to that link, bit of a waste of another link.
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        • Profile picture of the author Warrior Y
          I have the same problem, EXACTLY!
          I've created my first 6 lenses, followed ALL the rules that suppose to get my lenses indexed and in the end only ONE got indexed, the others didn't.

          The weird thing is that almost all of the backlinks pointing to the lenses were indexed within a few hours and some of them also rank somewhere between the 2nd and 5th results pages.
          Oh, and the lens that got indexed is not even ranked in the top 1000 results for the keyword I'm aiming(!).
          I've heard the same thing has happened to others as well.

          I also couldn't get a clear answer to why this has happened and I do consider using Squidoo less than before because of this.
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  • Profile picture of the author webbyworld
    Generally squidoo lenses take time to get indexed. You could expect to get high ranking in Google and also can get traffic from over there, but you should have uniquely written content which should be informative also. I've my few lenses and they rank well in Google. Try to get good backlinks for your squidoo lense from several sources and also ping it at pingler and pingomatic.
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    • Profile picture of the author Warrior Y
      I forgot to mention that it's been about 3 weeks since the lenses were published.

      Each lens has unique content and got backlinks from Ezine, social bookmarking sites, 3stepads and some from scribd and goarticles. They were all pinged with pingomatic and their RSS feeds were submitted to numerous aggregators.
      I think it's supposed to be enough for them to get indexed and ranked at the very least in the top 1000 after three weeks. Am I wrong?
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      • Profile picture of the author Warrior Y
        Hi benivolent,
        I do not know what you have to do, but If you want a high page rank for better rankings, keep in mind that page rank has a very small influence on your rankings for your keywords, so I wouldn't worry about that
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  • Profile picture of the author Vendor-Lock
    I find squidoo one of the fasted pages to get into google.

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    • Profile picture of the author ktrainer
      i'm extremely annoyed and am having the same problems BOTH with squidoo and hubpages- have waited over a month, updated, seen backlinks come into the top 20 and fade out, and STILL no INDEX. my backlinks are indexed, but not the acutal lens/hub. :confused:
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  • Profile picture of the author thefluffanutta
    Pinging your lens can sometimes help get it indexed faster: Blog Ping for Squidoo Lenses

    Also, create backlinks to your lenses from good bookmarking sites and blogs.
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