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What happens if the lense is not featured?

by FaisalKhan
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I have written few articles on Squidoo. Some of them are not featured. My question is will I get any benefits from the search engine if the lens is not marked featured?

Please share your opinion.
#featured #lense
  • Profile picture of the author talfighel
    You might get exposure from Google if it is not featured.

    As long as your article is there on Squidoo and is LIVE, there is a good chance that Google will pick it up and have it on page 1 or 2. Just make sure to post new content all the time.

    I would also get your own website and post your article there. This is very important.
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    • Profile picture of the author FaisalKhan
      Originally Posted by talfighel View Post

      You might get exposure from Google if it is not featured.

      As long as your article is there on Squidoo and is LIVE, there is a good chance that Google will pick it up and have it on page 1 or 2. Just make sure to post new content all the time.

      I would also get your own website and post your article there. This is very important.

      "You might get exposure from Google if it is not featured"
      How?
      As far as I know, if an article is not featured, then it does not get any traffic from Google. In fact, non-featured means it is not indexed--written clearly on Squidoo I think.
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      • Profile picture of the author talfighel
        Originally Posted by FaisalKhan View Post

        "You might get exposure from Google if it is not featured"
        How?
        As far as I know, if an article is not featured, then it does not get any traffic from Google. In fact, non-featured means it is not indexed--written clearly on Squidoo I think.
        I think you should read my post again.
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      • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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        Originally Posted by FaisalKhan View Post

        In fact, non-featured means it is not indexed--written clearly on Squidoo I think.
        That isn't "written clearly on Squidoo". Nor is it necessarily true. Google, not Squidoo, decides which sites are indexed by Google and which are not. If Squidoo decides not to feature a lens which was previously featured, you surely don't imagine that Google immediately de-indexes it, as a result? What you haven't told anyone is whether this lens has never been featured or whether it was previously featured and isn't any more. Potentially a pretty significant distinction, in this context! :rolleyes:

        In spite of that, both Tal and Johnny have given you potentially helpful replies, above.

        These might help you also (they took me all of 10 seconds to find) ...

        WHY IS MY LENS NOT BEING FEATURED?

        What to do if your lens is 'Work in Progress' on Squidoo

        How to Get Your Squidoo Lens Featured

        Originally Posted by FaisalKhan View Post

        My question is will I get any benefits from the search engine if the lens is not marked featured?
        A more interesting and relevant question, perhaps, is whether you'll get any benefits from the search engine even if the lens is "featured", and whether - even if so - you'd actually still be better off (as I was) using a page you yourself own and control for that (even one on free hosting, if money's an issue) rather than one on Squidoo's site.
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        • Profile picture of the author John Romaine
          Originally Posted by Alexa Smith View Post

          Google decides which sites are indexed and which are not.
          Alexa, do you mean "pages" ??

          Originally Posted by Alexa Smith View Post

          If Squidoo decides not to feature a lens which was previously featured, you surely don't imagine that Google de-indexes it, as a result?
          Hang on. What does having a lens featured or not, have to do with whether or not it's "indexed" in Google? Or have I missed something?

          I had a lens that hit the top 100. I was tracking its performance in the SERPS. It maxed out at page 3, then disappeared completely. The lens received 5 Squidoo likes, 74 FB likes, 2 tweets, and 4 G+ shares.

          I cant understand, given that it was so well received, and that it was featured in the top 100, that Google isnt ranking it for its target keyword (as it was previously)

          Then again, it doesnt matter - but your comments about how Google treats lenses based upon their performance on Squidoo has me curious.

          Thoughts Alexa?
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          • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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            Originally Posted by John Romaine View Post

            Alexa, do you mean "pages" ??
            Yes ... sorry - I did mean "pages"! Thank you, Johnny.

            Originally Posted by John Romaine View Post

            Hang on. What does having a lens featured or not, have to do with whether or not it's "indexed" in Google? Or have I missed something?
            No.

            Faisal has. He's assumed there's some connection, I think. And I think he's also assumed that Squidoo says somewhere on their site that there is, too. (Must have mis-remembered something else he'd seen there, somewhere?)

            Originally Posted by John Romaine View Post

            Then again, it doesnt matter - but your comments about how Google treats lenses based upon their performance on Squidoo has me curious.
            Me also ... don't think I said that?! I didn't intend to, anyway.
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  • Profile picture of the author nicholasb
    You should still focus on actively sending traffic to you lens though a variety of sources, don't just sit around and wait for it to get traffic get out there and get traffic.

    If you jsut sit around and do nothing you most likely will not get any traffic.
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    • Profile picture of the author FaisalKhan
      Originally Posted by nicholasb View Post

      You should still focus on actively sending traffic to you lens though a variety of sources, don't just sit around and wait for it to get traffic get out there and get traffic.

      If you jsut sit around and do nothing you most likely will not get any traffic.

      If it is not featured, how could I get traffic from Google?
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    • Profile picture of the author dsimms
      So you think people that have 200+ lens are sitting around trying to figure out how to send traffic to their lens? most likely they are not, most likely they are working on their next lens, they are not sitting around wondering if their very first lens is making money....hahaha...

      If you can not consistently turn out lens like this one, then you surely have
      no business touching a lens; People tend to think if they create a lens then
      that that will solve their financial problems, just like anything else, people put junk out on squidoo because they have no real talents, then they
      wonder why their lens do not go anywhere....

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      People do make money using squidoo; if you are not one of them,
      then just man up and say "I dont have what it takes...."
      not everyone is or will be a master lens creator....

      People are still looking for that easy payday...squidoo is no different then
      any other, you have to work it, you have to do your research, and dont
      just slap what you think will work, then you ask, why didnt i succeed?

      Originally Posted by nicholasb View Post

      You should still focus on actively sending traffic to you lens though a variety of sources, don't just sit around and wait for it to get traffic get out there and get traffic.

      If you jsut sit around and do nothing you most likely will not get any traffic.
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  • Profile picture of the author trevord92
    Squidoo add in "noindex, nofollow" to non-featured lenses.

    So if it was indexed, it will likely be removed the next time it gets crawled.

    Send a bit of legitimate traffic to the lens - article links, video links, etc - and Squidoo's algorithm should move you up the ranks and get featured again.
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  • Profile picture of the author cooler1
    Originally Posted by FaisalKhan View Post

    I have written few articles on Squidoo. Some of them are not featured. My question is will I get any benefits from the search engine if the lens is not marked featured?

    Please share your opinion.
    Did you fill out all 5 modules with unique content? If you add content to your lens then it should become featured in the next lens update. That is the biggest pain about Squidoo that lens become non-featured so you need to either have a constant flow of traffic or keep updating it.
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  • Profile picture of the author John Romaine
    Not sure what to think of Squidoo.

    Personally I think its a waste of time. You're much better off concentrating your efforts to your own site.

    I tested Squidoo recently and the impact it had in terms of search placement was dismal.
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  • Profile picture of the author PotPieGirl
    If your lens has a lensrank of 400,000+, it gets a red mark next to it on your dashboard.At that point, it is considered a WIP (Work In Progress) lens. When it becomes WIP (with a red mark), Squidoo puts a "no index" tag on your lens (ie, no longer featured).

    If your lens WAS already indexed by Google, this does not mean that it automatically disappears from Google's index. As Alexa pointed out, only GOOGLE decides what pages are, or are not, in their index.

    What does happen is this... your lens gets a red mark and gets a no index tag put on it by Squidoo. Google eventually comes back to your lens to recrawl it and they find the no index tag. They may or may not remove it from their index at this point since Squidoo said "hey, take this page out of your search results" when they put the no index tag on it. Google tries to respect the meta tags we put on our web pages.

    What I have found is that the first trip back to a WIP lens by Google doesn't do anything. Google knows accidents happen and will give a bit of leniency to a web page that suddenly turns no index. But if Google comes back a second time and the no index is still there, odds are really good they will remove the page from their index at that time.

    Getting it RE-indexed at that point is a bit more difficult.

    All that said, here's what you can do about it.

    If your lens turns red, open it to edit... add some stuff...republish. This, alone, tends to be enough to take some borderline WIP lenses out of the red. Best option is to also get some traffic to that lens. Traffic is important for all web pages, but really important for Squidoo lenses to keep them OUT of the red.

    The red mark next to your lens will not go away automatically when you republish. You will have to wait for a lensrank update internally on Squidoo. This happens about every 24 hours.

    Hope that helps =)

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