Is Squidoo Still Powerful? Ranking Wise?

Hi GoGetta,
After searching the whole forum this is the only place I can contact you

I saw your firesales on the special offer page but i can't reply there as I don have enough post.
May I know what are the differences between Rent-a-site, offline stealth tactic and local seo magic?
I thought they all similar talk about step by step local seo?
I'm interested since it's on firesales now

Please PM me, thanks.
Perhaps with an even special price

I am using squidoo.com to promote any clickbank.com product.. I thing as long as we can do the best promotion, it doesn't matter...do you have any trouble with squidoo??..

Squidoo is a powerhouse. But you need to know how to use it.
I have been helping get squidoo lenses highly ranked. I help
make popular search topics for lenses. Then, funnel that
traffic. I even helped with a Lauren Conrad Hair lens.
Don't laugh. Lauren Conrad hair is one of the most searched
for terms. But truthfully, I only do lenses on popular
search terms. I am not really schooled on making a product
page. It seems to me the lenses that are from giant squids
and those that donate profits get a higher rank.


Paul

The reason Squidoo is still a great site to create pages on is because the domain name has a high authority, and a Page Rank 7. Any new lenses you create will automatically inherit this authority, and thus they "piggyback" off Squidoo's reputation.

It's important to understand however that there's nothing exclusive about Squidoo as opposed to any other high authority domain. If you create a new blogspot blog, it will have a huge advantage over a freshly created site, as it's inheriting the PR9 authority from blogspot.com. The same thing with an Ezine Article, a Goarticle, a Hubpage - any page created on a site will inherit the authority from the domain name itself. This is why you see articles from these sorts of domains ranking so well.

Just look at Wikipedia. A newly created page on that dominates the SERPs very quickly, even without any external or even internal backlinks, due to the authority the page automatically inherits from the domain itself. This is the exact same thing with a Squidoo lens, however it won't rank as well as a Wikipedia page since its base domain is a PR7, and doesn't have as much trust and authority as Wikipedia.

So to answer your question GoGetta, yes, Squidoo is still a powerful driving force for ranking, however so is any other site that you create a page on that has high authority. Once you understand this, you'll begin to see through the smoke and mirrors of "Squidoo is good because it's Squidoo" and see it instead as "Squidoo is good because its domain has high authority". You'll then be able to look at any domain and tell how easily you'll be able to rank a new page on it in the SERPs.

Some good points Steven. Last time I checked, hubpage links were no follow. Doesn't that mean links in Hubpage will have no authority?

Although there is a lot of changes in the rules making in squidoo flenses, i do using it every promotion i have..

Squidoo has such a high ranking and squidoo pages are coming out very highly in the search engines.

I just did my first squidoo lens so this post was very helpful. I like to master one thing then move on to the next. I will be spending some time working on more Squidoo lenses in the coming weeks.

I am getting good traffic via squidoo.com, but less than the traffic from digg or delicious.com (May be I have more diggs on digg as well as more people bookmakred my site on delicious :p )

Good stuff,

Going to get back to some lenses for linking purposes for my own blog and good to know that they still allow do-follow.

Squidoo is still powerfull. Though the thing most people forget is you must PROMOTE the squidoo page just like your would do with any of your websites.

- bookmark
- article submission
- etc etc etc

Intrepreneur, I think you can go into your intoduction and discovery tools and change this so that other lens won't be on your page. This disadvantage of this though is that then your lens will not show up on others pages either. Do you want that?

I use squidoo now while I am building a real site because its easy. I am new to all this (5 months old). When my site is up I will change all the links in my lens to direct to my site. My lens are simple and I have 6 so far and they are all linked together. I used pot pie girls one week marketing to get it up and going.

I love squidoo for one reason, it supports me and now I work at home in my pajamas every day. Yes it is powerful.

I have just started using squidoo... I'm liking it's ease of use and the added benefit of high page rank.