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Banned 12 years ago

Originally Posted by whitworldwide

I've built some websites. Have started social backlinking.

I want to start backlinking via Squidoo & Hubpages etc.

Should I:

a) Copy all my content - verbatim - and throw occasional links back to my pages
b) Copy extracts of my webpages, chop & change sentences - and throw occasional links back to my pages
c) Write a whole new article - and probably throw occasional links back to my pages (haha)

...I am open to suggestions

Many thanks in advance.

Defiantly pick C, write new content on the external sites.

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whitworldwide

12 years ago

Originally Posted by yukon

Defiantly pick C, write new content on the external sites.

Thanks Yukon. How much content though (amount of words)?

If I want to submit to a number of sites (Squidoo, Hubpages etc) should I write new content every time?

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addlinkweb

12 years ago

definitely you must write new content otherwise its time wasting because Google hates Duplicate Content.
Google want quality Links
Write minimum 200-250 words article
but i want to guide you further, if you want to write an article then start with www.blogger.com because its owned by Google and if Google finds a newly written article that have not more than 2-3 links then it will increase a great deal of the rankings of that links instantly

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- peterdevyn 12 years ago
  
  Squidoo lens is the best and very good method of marketing and ranking you site. But you have to create a good lens optimize title tag, description same as you do in onpage seo.
  
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  charabegley 12 years ago
  
  I have ranked up sites using squidoo comments as they are indexed fast and Accepted By panda updates
  
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  tylerherman 12 years ago
  
  You really shouldn't have to build links to your lenses if you are making them right.
  
  If you make 10 lenses on one category link them all together.
  As far as links go just share them on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and call it a day. Squidoo should take care of the rest.
  
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YellowGreenMedia

12 years ago

Originally Posted by addlinkweb

definitely you must write new content otherwise its time wasting because Google hates Duplicate Content.
Google want quality Links
Write minimum 200-250 words article
but i want to guide you further, if you want to write an article then start with www.blogger.com because its owned by Google and if Google finds a newly written article that have not more than 2-3 links then it will increase a great deal of the rankings of that links instantly

110% Nonsens, i have domains filled with dup content that i use for lead generation, i use a plugin called " local pages ninja" (LPN), i have created one (1) article of about a 1000 words... i have creates 500+ postings with that one article... the only difference in the articles is city + Niche, but the rest of the article is 97% the same content on one domain.

About 80% of these articles rank in the top 3 of google for city + niche, dup content is a myth, even if you have dup content on the same domain, i know there are more LPN users here and they will backup the statement i make here

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TheProgrammer

12 years ago

go with C: and here is the example of the lens
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MortgageLender

12 years ago

Squidoo will kill the page if it is duplicate content. I write a fresh intro with one link and an image to one keyword.

I write another text mod with fresh content with another keyword.

I feed my RSS feed into one module.

I feed my Twitter feed into another module.

I link my other lenses in the 5th module.

I have played with these for a while. You need 5 mods and you need unique content or they will switch the lens back to work in progress

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iceman006

12 years ago

Squidoo Lenses can play a vital role in your SEO but only if you have great content like you should have a very good Lens. Write a good content, Insert some photos and embed videos and you'll even get a lot of visitors. So Choice C is the best for you.

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abdulfahad66 12 years ago

Hi ICe Man I have Used a mixup of Links in My SEo Carrier to Get Rankings Including:
1-Qulity Content
2-Squidoo Lenses
3-Forum Posting
4-Profile Link
But now Mats Cuts is Indexing Eater on Google and Google has become a war zone between Spammers and Mat Cutts ;-)
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peterberry12

12 years ago

Originally Posted by iceman006

Squidoo Lenses can play a vital role in your SEO but only if you have great content like you should have a very good Lens. Write a good content, Insert some photos and embed videos and you'll even get a lot of visitors. So Choice C is the best for you.

Honestly, I have to say that Squidoo Lenses and Hub Pages Hubs are becoming a great source to earn Backlinks and a good reputation.

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cooler1

12 years ago

When you publish a lens to Squidoo and it has a green tick, it says that you need to update the content for the lens to remain featured.

How often do you need to update it so the lens remains featured?

Also, if the lens is no longer featured does this mean that you lose the backlink which you put in the lens?

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LarryHaywood

12 years ago

Definitely (C) as the others suggested... If you try to use content that isn't unique on Squidoo, the lens will be taken down pretty fast.

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PriceMaster

12 years ago

I'd go with C too. Unique content is always king + once your Squidoo page gets ranked, it will be passing a lot of linkjuice to your other websites.

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mrozlat

12 years ago

C is what i would suggest as a small part of your offpage SEO

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jaydenoctavio

12 years ago

Hello guys after reading all the discussion i also go with C but you have to know the right method of creating lens and squidoo lens is a best and great method for getting more and more traffic. These are some ways to optimize your squidoo lens;

Optimizing Title Tags on Squidoo
Optimizing Description Tags on Squidoo
Optimizing Keyword Tags on Squidoo
Optimizing Header Tags on Squidoo

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paulgl 12 years ago

The title is taken by what you title your lens in the
title module.

The description is taken from your opening paragraph in the
Introduction, Contents & Discovery Tool module. I believe
it's the first 200 characters, give or take. So, you can
"optimize" it by choosing words to fit the 200.

The keywords are from your tags. Why squidoo insists on
a bunch is something I can't figure out. The more the
merrier in their eyes. They probably use this for internal
linking.

The description and keywords are not used by google for
rankings.

You can't do any other regular metas except for the 2 above,
and there really is no "optimization" if google is what you
are after. Squidoo likes stuffing.

You can do "Open Graphs," (og:whatever) which is used by
facebook. You do these when starting the lens. Squidoo
puts in your opening image, title, article, etc. All that's
optional.

You seriously need to look at optimizing the content, not
stuff that does not matter. Title does matter.

Paul
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meatro

12 years ago

Definitely C.. Squidoo will give you a lot of rep with Google and they don't like being spammed.

1.) Go to Squidoo.com pick any of the "Explore Topics."
2.) Look at the Top Performers. Notice there are 10-20 on this page.
3.) Click "See More" underneath them... That will take you here: squidoo.com/topics/top/TOPICNAME

Notice anything fun about these lenses?

How about this..

1.) They are 3 steps away from Squidoo's PR8 homepage.
2.) Every link from Squidoo.com to these lenses is dofollow.
3.) The top 20 of these lenses probably have been at the top forever. (They are not leaving.)
4.) 99% of them will have a comment box for you to comment and...

Leave a nice dofollow link back to your lensmaster page.

Most of these lenses are PR4 and up. Squidoo is also a very friendly community and if you are actually building lenses, folks love for you to comment on their pages. This is an easy way for your account to become an authority on Squidoo as far as Google is concerned, which is what's important.

Well... Have fun...

https://www.google.com/search?q=site...2Ftopics%2Ftop

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NewYorkerRocks

12 years ago

its great to get links from squidoo- basically you are getting web 2.0 links which are good for your site.

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GGpaul

12 years ago

When you use squidoo as an external / backlink, what do you guys do to make that "squidoo" a strong backlink? Build backlinks to it? Therefore you have another web 2.0 leading towards the squidoo? (Tier 3?) Or do you just order spammy crappy backlinks to your squidoo? Since it isn't your money site anyways?

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carolrt

12 years ago

Originally Posted by GGpaul

When you use squidoo as an external / backlink, what do you guys do to make that "squidoo" a strong backlink? Build backlinks to it? Therefore you have another web 2.0 leading towards the squidoo? (Tier 3?) Or do you just order spammy crappy backlinks to your squidoo? Since it isn't your money site anyways?

I build a couple of decent links to my squidoo lenses, then
let squidoo do the rest. They really have some great
authority and love from google if you do lenses the
right way. The way they promote good lenses seems to
be all some of mine need.

Like Paulgl says above, I can't understand why squidoo really
likes you putting tons of tags in your lenses. In fact, you
must do at least 5 as I recall to satisfy that part of the 100%
thing. They may know something about google's algorithm
that I don't.

Carol

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daisy172

12 years ago

Originally Posted by carolrt

Like Paulgl says above, I can't understand why squidoo really
likes you putting tons of tags in your lenses. In fact, you
must do at least 5 as I recall to satisfy that part of the 100%
thing. They may know something about google's algorithm
that I don't.

Squidoo likes you to add tags because the tag pages then link to your lens providing internal linking support (which helps it rank better).

See the following article for how internal linking works on Squidoo:

Making money with Squidoo

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seokid

12 years ago

Squidoo Lenses can play a vital role in your SEO but only if you have great content like you should have a very good Lens I would say choice C is good for you

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cheech1981

12 years ago

Squidoo checks for copied content. If your lens has a lot of duplicate content they'll just take it down. I've never copied and I even had a completely original lens almost get taken down. I think people were actually copying me and I had to fight to keep my lens up but did get it back up. Anyway short story is you should always be creating unique content and never copying. Copying is simply not a long-term strategy because sooner or later you'll lose the content, will be punished for it, or simply won't get organic traffic to it.

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nasuryono

12 years ago

Absolutely C if you can do it. Search engines, especially Google loves unique and fresh content.

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dslfarms

12 years ago

Same as yukon said above
PICK C

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nikeman070

12 years ago

I actually have grown fond of squidoo it's pretty cool. So let's say I wanted to create 10 web 2.0s a day, would all web 2.0 sites need unique content or can I syndicate some of the content? For sites like squidoo, I will write unique content but it's not easy to write more than 2-3 articles a day for me.

Should I just stick to a 1000 word article for money site, then 300-500 words for web 2.0s like squidoo? Also if I can syndicate articles from my money which web 2.0s are the best for this?

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LilBlackDress 12 years ago

As others have said, you need to have unique content with Squidoo.

Just a little tip - the first tag is the primary one so make sure you use the best keyword in that first position.
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lsargent

12 years ago

With high quality web 2.0 sites, unique content is always the best way to go, and there's a good chance these authority sites will rank decently well on their own and pull some traffic to refer to your site, making them more valuable than just a backlink source.

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jordenstive

12 years ago

Squidoo is a great way to build free quality backlinks that are related to your website topic. Also,Squidoo lens creation is basically a marketing tool that is found online. It is the best choice when it comes to promoting businesses, advertising and marketing of products.

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alexhutton

12 years ago

High PR Squidoo Lenses Related To Your Website Theme are very Useful

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DNAWRealm

Banned 12 years ago

Squidoo's great!

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markwouter

12 years ago

yes love you Squidoo you suits too me

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smallpond 12 years ago

Squidoo's great because of the multimedia facility of it. You can post videos, Google Maps, RSS feeds and all sorts of other cool stuff, as well as your written content.
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- ohohdon 12 years ago
  
  It's pretty clear from all the posts before me from people who have experience with Squidoo that unique content is critical. I have to say, though, that it doesn't take a whole lot of content to make a lens that will stick. Just pick some carefully thought out keywords, add an appropriate number of modules, and write some content that is meaningful and useful.
  
  I must admit that some of my most profitable lenses are very thin on content. If you pick good keywords, you'll be surprised how well your lens can do.
  
  P.S. It's interesting to me how a question about Squidoo and Hubpages quickly became discussion about Squidoo only. Is Hubpages really that irrelevant?
  
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Jerome Y

12 years ago

The first choice I would go with is definitely C. The next best option would be B. Make sure your keywords are chosen very carefully. I know article writing may be hard and most people can only write 1-2 articles per day, so choose wisely.

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alfiecharleng

12 years ago

According to me, you can opt for c option because google want fresh content.

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Josh Jocky

12 years ago

I can say option C would be better not only for you for all who are making lenses in Squidoo. Link is worth enough only if content you created for lens is quality.

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raymondpollock

12 years ago

Google want unique and fresh content for fast indexing