I'm actually seeing more Google love now than I had been for months.

Tim... Google is not going to show you much love - not with that bunch of identical spammy lenses. You'd be better off deleting them and making one or two QUALITY lenses on your topic.

Google only picks up two lenses with the same keyword. Go check it out. Do a search on cupcakes or wind energy - I bet only one or two Squidoo pages will show up on the first pages of Google.

Bev

theraggededge wrote:

Google only picks up two lenses with the same keyword. Go check it out. Do a search on cupcakes or wind energy - I bet only one or two Squidoo pages will show up on the first pages of Google.

Bev - just to be pedantic: Google picks up all lenses, but only shows the top two for any single query. Slightly different queries may show a different pair of lenses at the top, depending on the ranking factors involved.

What I think is very weird is that AltaVista hits has had a huge increase lately. I thought that AltaVista was gone.

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Last edited by tim1505 (07/29/2010 5:53 pm)

I'd like to throw a couple of points in to the melting pot here:

Firstly, early in 2008, I was recommended by a friend (an offline one - nothing to do with Squidoo, or any other site) that I submit a lens I had which was doing very well in Google and getting a lot of hits from same to one of these "Auto-linking/promoting," whatever sites that we all see around the Web. It was only earlier this year that particular lens next got a hit from Google search engine and although it now gets a few, not a fraction of its former level. Painful lesson learned.

Secondly, I happened to check the Google PR of a non-Squidoo site I have just a couple of weeks ago. The last time I checked - a few months back - it had a PR of 4. Now? Zero! Yet it still shows on the front page of Google search results.

It is my honest and sincere belief that if one focuses above all on producing quality content, linking effectively and totally legitimately and giving the reading and browsing public what they want, the desired results will come themselves - as a very welcome by-product - and that merely chasing same serves as being wholly counter-productive.

That has been my experience, at least...

I try not to pay much attention to Pagerank, since we really have no way of knowing how much Google factors it in or how Google calculates it. The pagerank toolbars floating around out there are guessing-- they don't have Google's proprietary algorithm, so they can't be sure. But yeah, I've got a bunch of lenses that are page rank 5.

Most are also within the top 1-5 results on Google for their keyword.

Google doesn't penalize Squidoo, it's just that the web has matured, and there's a heck of a lot of competition no matter where you publish a webpage. As usual, trying to get your needle to show up in a whole haystack of needles is a challenge. It has to be a very shiny needle.

Last edited by Greekgeek (07/27/2010 2:49 pm)