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How does Penguin see Squidoo, Hubpages, Ezine links

by italiangrecko
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I was wondering about how exactly my initial SEO strategy should be for a new site and came across this 'formula' that I had read somewhere before Penguin struck (don't remember where exactly...may be in one of the WSO that I had purchased here). It went like this...write the content for your site....create a squidoo lens and a hub page (or two) related to your site's theme (though post-Penguin this means using only the site-name as link rather than any anchor text), write a couple of articles for ezine with one link pointing to your site (provided I get info regarding whether or not google sees EA as spam or not) and another towards the lens/hubpage (basically try to build up the link juice to the lens/hubpage in question so as to improve the quality of link that you get from there) and then the usual blog/forum commenting or guest post link etc etc...My question is...how does google see links that you get from squidoo, hubpages, ezine articles, social bookmarks (not facebook) etc....does it consider them to be spammy?
#ezine #hubpages #links #penguin #squidoo
  • Profile picture of the author Negotiator74
    I look forward to other thoughts on the subject, however, my own view is that they can not hurt as long as the content on each is original. What do I base this on? I look at the top 10 competition... For the niches I have been targeting lately they do have links for the sites you have mentioned.

    What does anyone else think?
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    • Profile picture of the author paulgl
      Squidoo has been decimated...but only by the idiots who run it.
      Scared of google, putting their tail between their legs, and
      running around in circles. I think they did it more to protect
      their amazon and adsense accounts, however. Google updates
      were just a smokescreen. Just goes to show you that you may
      suffer from fallout or shrapnel from other idiots than your
      own doing.

      EZA has been in the same boat. Cleaning up idiotic stuff like
      links and keyword density.

      Seriously, what do people use EZA for? To write for a
      pulitzer prize? Or links? Go figure if google discounts the
      heck out of that.

      I don't know about hub, but talk seems to me that hub is
      dying as well.

      Squidoo is now nofollow, but can still funnel traffic. That is,
      what little it's now getting.

      I would not join squidoo, nor write any articles for EZA.
      It's a lost cause. Don't waste your time.

      Paul
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