Comments on: FINALLY: Why Squidoo Tags Are Useless

By: Alex Zorach

Alex Zorach — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 19:19:46 +0000

This article is dated; Squidoo’s robots.txt page has changed back, and now allows indexing of tag pages. And I did a quick search and found what looks like about 2 million search results on squidoo’s sites, of tag pages. (There aren’t anywhere near that many tags, but keep in mind, there are many pages for a given tag, and there may be other ways duplicate results are showing up).

I’ve personally found that tagging influences a page’s visibility in google. In general, I’ve found that without good tagging, squidoo lenses rarely rank well in google at all. Good tagging doesn’t guarantee it but it opens up the door to it.

Also, don’t downplay the benefit of having other lensmasters discover your lenses…this can help you get squidlikes, and links to your lenses. Often, when building a lens, I like to see what’s out there. In fact, I think, per-view, views from other lensmasters are more important than views from internet users at large. Keep in mind that many lensmasters are also bloggers or webmasters, so reaching this audience can be a key part of networking if you want to connect with others who are in a position to share your own works!

By: MrLewisSmile

MrLewisSmile — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 06:20:06 +0000

I will update this post to say… Squidoo has changed their policy on this in some ways!

There is a later post on this. I’ll link them together.

By: Bill

Bill — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 22:33:14 +0000

If Hubpages is allowing its tags to be crawled while Squidoo isn’t, that totally explains why my Hubpages rank high in Google so quickly (and stay there) while my lenses languish. I have had no success with lenses so far getting ranked!

By: Roo

Roo — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 20:37:11 +0000

WApinoy, I think the thing that you are up against here is the sheer number of people promoting WA, if you just search squidoo you will find hundreds of (not very good) lenses on the subject. Also, if you don;t have any backlinks you’re not going to get any traffic for this subject, no matter what Tags or Keywords you use.

By: WApinoy

WApinoy — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 02:01:03 +0000

I have research enough for the keywords I used in my lens about Wealthy Affiliate. I had tweak them several times and even added some more tags. But still, my traffic is still close to zero. And maybe this is the reason why I am still getting a very small traffic to my lens. I am asking the same question on why would Squidoo not want Google to find us? And you are right about the Squidoo Search bar. Viewers would prefer clicking back to Google or Yahoo Search bar instead of using Squidoo’s. What’s in for us now?

By: jooloo

jooloo — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 09:19:52 +0000

Oh my, more problems. I just start to get the hang of things and Google or Squidoo changes them. Keeps everyone on their toes.

By: Alethea Spain

Alethea Spain — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 19:26:46 +0000

and also, maybe the reason Squidoo are doing in this is because they have capitalised on the many people who want to make money from home, online and are planning to take Google on in the future?

By: Alethea Spain

Alethea Spain — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 19:24:54 +0000

Call me old fashioned but the concept of “classified” avertising ie search criteria is that you can find what you want, easily quickly and use it time and time again because it’s trusted ie; quality – why not put specific related tags in,? am I missing something here?

By: Susanna Duffy

Susanna Duffy — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 08:26:15 +0000

We all stopped using meta tags at least a year ago (although I still faithfully write them into my HTML pages) but it all seems just a waste of time to add them into Squidoo. As for building lenses that are related to each other, I assumed everyone would do that?

By: allan

allan — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:08:14 +0000

I’ve read reports that used no-follow links with a long nonsense word to a page without the word. The target page did eventually show on search results for that word. Google writes their own rules (and changes them) for how their robots will act; at least at the time of the reports they seemed to follow, but did not weigh.