Accidental Ugly Squidoo URL - What to do?

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I just noticed that one of my squidoo lenses was reindexed with a very ugly URL

squidoo.com/my-lens-title?utm_campaign=direct-discovery&utm_medium=sidebar&utm_source=GreenerDay s

This will make it hard to get it ranked. What have I done wrong to get this? Is it anything I can do to clean it up?
#accidental #squidoo #ugly #url
  • Profile picture of the author Tom Goodwin
    Originally Posted by MisterMunch View Post

    I just noticed that one of my squidoo lenses was reindexed with a very ugly URL

    squidoo.com/my-lens-title?utm_campaign=direct-discovery&utm_medium=sidebar&utm_source=GreenerDay s

    This will make it hard to get it ranked. What have I done wrong to get this? Is it anything I can do to clean it up?
    Is that just what is showing up in google? That is, does squidoo.com/my-lens-title work to get you to your main URL (and then doesn't redirect?).


    If your URL is correct on Squidoo''s end, I would just keep on adding backlinks to my lens with the correct URL address in it until Google gets the drift.
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  • Profile picture of the author MisterMunch
    The original URL still works. The problem is only with google index.

    I think I will try building more links to it with the right URL and see if Google change their opinion. Still wonder why it got that way though.
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  • Profile picture of the author thefluffanutta
    Don't worry about the ugly URL - Squidoo have made changes to their system such that these URLs should disappear over time.

    Continue building links to your original 'clean' URL, and Google will eventually display that one instead.
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  • Profile picture of the author abelis1337
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    • Profile picture of the author Si_P
      As long as your lense URL can still be viewed, then i reckon like the others, its just a problem with Google indexing. Google always does silly things like that with me, i just move on to my next task and let it sort itself out.
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