Comments on: The New Text Link Ads VS Your Own Intro Link Ads

By: drew

drew — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 17:35:57 +0000

I think they are annoying also. I opted out the first day I joined. But from squidoo’s point of view if they are bringing in revenues I can see where they would want to stay with them.

By: VictoriaNTC

VictoriaNTC — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 21:03:14 +0000

I agree!
I have anchor text in all of my intro modules.
Should one track these links, the results would be impressive!
Cheers,
Victoria

By: Ecolicious

Ecolicious — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 02:33:31 +0000

I dont mind them as long as they relate to my lenses. If they don’t then that may be a problem.

By: Chuck Harmon

Chuck Harmon — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 06:28:08 +0000

This is great information, I just built two lenses tonight after not having visited Squidoo for many moons.

Yes, it was a shock to see multiple green ad links all over my lenses.

Off to the intro, lol.

By: Chuck Bartok

Chuck Bartok — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 01:22:04 +0000

I thank you for your energy Mr Lewis but I still don’t see the “hover ads” through Seth’s Introduction or are they somewhere else?

By: Brett Jarvi

Brett Jarvi — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 22:38:11 +0000

Most of my lenses were doing well on Google ( I work at it) they have been dropping off the radar like nose-diving flies. I thought it is because I added banners to the sidebar. I figure if a flashy banner is going to be distracting readers, it might as well be mine.

Do you think those ugly irrelevant text links screwed up my SERPS ranking? I think so.

By: June

June — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 15:44:29 +0000

I didn’t realize that this was going on and just went to have a look at one of my lens. Like Jaguar Julie, I have not had any links in my intro, and I have discovered that I don’t like Squidoo’s choice of links. What the hell does Maryland have to do with Hawaii? Not a damn thing. More work to do removing these links and adding one of my own instead of 3 irrelevant links. Funny, but it seems by lens rank has plummeted the last 2 weeks. Could this be related?

By: Paula Atwell

Paula Atwell — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 23:04:08 +0000

Interesting point. What about nosefly?

By: RickyRobi

RickyRobi — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 21:51:13 +0000

Now, why didn’t I think of that. Great idea! Time to get to work.

By: Ramkitten

Ramkitten — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 21:43:27 +0000

I wish we could opt out from having the ads in our intros only, but perhaps that would be too much to ask. I haven’t opted out yet … but I don’t know what I’m waiting for, because I REALLY don’t like the ads at all.

Personally, I wonder how many of those who click on these spammy links in our intros then leave our lenses right away and never read the rest.

And I certainly hope that, for those of us who haven’t opted out (yet), we’re getting “credit” for all those additional clickouts and the related lensrank increase, whatever that may be.