Squidoo Question

There isn't any value right now. You should get them in the status of being indexed and then start link building again to them.

That's what I was thinking... unfortunately I don't feel like trying to figure out why they are WIPs. When they were built years ago, they worked fine.

Squidoo now classifies anything with a lensrank under 400,000 as a WIP. Such WIP lenses will not be featured in Squidoo's internal search engine.

Lensrank and WIP status, however, have nothing to do with whether the lens is indexed in Google and have no impact on Google search engine rankings.

Your decision to backlink the lens should be based on whether or not the lens has the potential of making money if it were ranked higher in the search engines. If that's the case, it may be worth promoting.

At the very least, if the lens has acquired any page rank since you last checked, it may make a decent backlink for other projects.

Hi Sojourn,

Thanks for the thorough reply.

From Squdoo, relevant section underlined:
This makes me think it DOES have an impact on Google PR and its usefullness as a link layer to my money site(s), in that it without it being indexed by Google, it's no good for using in a link ladder/schema.

You're right. Not sure why I thought otherwise but might have been because my lenses that have slipped to WIP still get traffic. However, I checked a few, brought up Page Source and Squidoo has applied a "noindex" rule search engines on those lenses.

BUT the ones I checked are still indexed in Google and coming up in search engines. I assume this is because Google does not delete them from their index just because the page has changed to "noindex". They must fall out at some point but it looks like it takes awhile.

It usually only takes a day or two of slight editing to bring a lens up from WIP. Depends on how far those lenses have dipped but if you just add a few sentences or maybe a new module of content, republish, and do that again the next day or two, the lenses should come back up above the 400,000 mark at which point they'd get crawled again and you'd be back in business.

Or, you could always take the information down and put it up on a new site. It still comes down to whether or not the content has the potential to make money.

I'm glad I ran across this thread. I never heard of a published lens becoming a WIP and I thought surely some of my lenses must be over 400,000 in rank. But I just went and looked and my lowest is at 383,xxx in rank -- so it's still sneaking in there. Hmm... maybe I should add something to that lens. I've got 3 that are in the 300K range. Think I'll go add a poll (or something) to each of the ones in the danger zone.

In the beginning I had abandoned my attempts to create Squidoo lenses because I found them too complicated and I didn’t know how to get traffic. When I learned what I needed to, I created a lens explaining the basics to everyone. I did it basically in order to attract traffic from internet marketing to my field.

Learn how to easily create perfect business lenses and get traffic at:

http://www.squidoo.com/passive-income-website-traffic-squidoo-beginners-guide

Squidoo pays you depending on Tiers, which are based on lensrank. If you have a leans on Tier 1 you get paid $24 for it every month, but this lens must have a lensrank from 1 to 2000. If you have a lens on Tier 2 (lensrank from 2001 to I don’t remember how much…) you get paid around $8 for it, and if your lensrank is higher than 85.000 you are not paid. I don’t remember the numbers exactly right now, but you make money with Squidoo when you create quality lenses and you know how to get traffic. Of course, you make more money when you also sell various affiliate products.

I’m using Squidoo basically to send traffic to my websites, but it also is a passive income.

All the best!