Squidoo and Backlinks

You should be completely fine. let us know how it goes.

I build backlinks to article directories, I can see no difference.

Don't forget to throw a few links... at the the outside ring.. meaning other sites that are pointing to your main squidoo pages. As long as you are doing it manually and not using a bot, I'm sure Squidoo can handle it.

Yes, but don't you have your own site? I suggest you put all that work into something you own rather than Squidoo lenses.


Andrew

I think Rondo is asking why are you trying to rank a squidoo lens for this keyword, instead of your site?

I could think of a few reasons (His lens could be more optimized for the keyword) but he does have a point. Make sure you look over all of your options.

Why would you not do this on your own site ? I mean if you are planning on using squidoo as your marketing platform you may be in for a surprise no matter how many ebooks tell you to do it..

Think of all this work and then squidoo decides you are abusing the system by using it for your marketing platform and then they shut down your lenses ...

Personally I would build my own site up ...

James

now keep in mind that I am speaking from personal experience on this.

building backlinks to a well optimized lens has more benefits than just ranking in google.

High pr backlinks added to a lens also helps it rank in the squidoo top 100 for whatever category the lens is in.

Once you break top 10 in squidoo you will start seeing massive surges of traffic just from squidoo.

make sure to check the health in your lens in your squidoo dash board and it will tell you exactly what you need to work on.

also cloak your affiliate links or redirect them with your host for a higher quality score in google, and to up the health of your lens.

Isn't Squidoo seriously saturated already? How often do you see a Squidoo lens in the search results?

I have to agree with the previous poster.

I'm just not a big fan of putting a ton of effort into promoting sites on Squidoo, or Squidoo-like properties. Doesn't it make more sense to build the authority of your own site?

I'm not saying that you shouldn't use Squidoo at all - they can be nice feeder pages to your "real" site. But I wouldn't spend my time building backlinks to the lenses if it's seriously taking away from building backliks to your own domain.

Also...If you've truly found 10 keywords which you think are building blocks to your site/niche success, don't you want those on your site building authority right away?

(as a side note here - I hope when you say you've found keywords that you can be competitive for, that you've done a thorough analysis of the top 10 existing sites for each term and aren't solely relying on some arbitrary search number...sorry, it's really a pet peeve of mine )

Anyway, an option to consider is creating a page on YOUR site optimized specifically for each of the 10 keywords, and then start plugging away at the backlink building. If Squidoo is part of that backlink strategy, along with bookmarking, feeds, article marketing...etc, then so be it. It's simply a matter of using each of those types of properties for what they are intended.

In my humble opinion, they aren't best equipped to be the backbone of your business.

Hope that helps!

Steve

If Steve Jobs releases a new product with a new website (iTV). How many backlinks do you think he will get the next couple of days? More than you can make with all the time you have available for the next few years. And it will rank

You should be carefull about who you link from. I got my squidoo lens locked when I used one of the high pr backlink products from this forum.

Still the lens got no 1 position without content, and I registered it again when the lock was over and the domain was available to anyone.

I thought squidoo was a lost cause now. Anyone know their "link juice" now?

I dont think its as good as it used to be..

As I remembered, Squidoo allow only 1 do follow link, the rest will be no follow until certain condition met?

I don't see why "authority" can't be built to your own site, as well as exploiting Squidoo at the same time.

Using Squidoo gives you more variety when you are getting links and it doesn't take much more effort to get links for 10 sites, than it does for 1 site. Plus, you can leverage some of Squidoo's traffic for free.

Having said this, I'd mis things up a bit and would use some other 2.0 sites too, instead of having all 10 on Squidoo.

I'd also be careful about heavy linking to Squidoo, especially using bookmarking...I've had two friends tell me Squidoo closed their accounts due to "improper linking". So while Google may not care about links, it appears Squidoo may, another reason to diversify.

Plus, you can only get your site in the SERPs once (twice, with a double listing). But by leveraging the free 2.0 properties, you have a chance the really dominate the Top 10 results with multiple properties that you control.

The advice given in the posts above is solid, but I'd say there is still reasons and benefits to exploiting 2.0 properties...So do make sure building your own site is priority #1, but I believe you can do both.

Hi Kurt, nice to see you here

I always love your product, I've learn a lot from Kurt and really love his WSO!

I agree that if you leverage web 2.0 sites, don't just post all articles on Squidoo, use more web 2.0 sites like:

• Blogsome
• Jimdo
• Squidoo
• LiveJournal
• Vox
• Blogspot
• Articlesbase
• Tumblr
• Webs.com
• ArticleDashboard
• Wordpress
• GoArticles
• Weebly
• Yola

You will gain more link juice from these sites, and if you build backlinks to your articles on these sites, you tend to get traffic faster while getting more link juice / site because of the links !