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A Definition of Evergreen Squidoo Modules

Posted by Captain Squid
November 10, 2009

In my writings here on Captain Squid, you will often hear me mention the term ‘evergreen modules‘. I wanted to dedicate a post defining evergreen modules and what it means when I am talking about them so everyone is on the same page.

Evergreen Module - A squidoo module that can be updated either automatically or by interaction on a lens without entering the workshop. In addition, an evergreen module is indexable by bots/crawlers/spiders even if they can’t read javascript.

What does this mean?

If a squidoo module can provide ‘fresh’ updated contact on your lens that you don’t have to physically add yourself and the search engines can see those changes, I call it evergreen.

Examples -

NOT Evergreen -
  • RSS
  • Twitter Storm
  • Ebay
  • Amazon Search
this is by NO means a complete list but it should give you a general idea.
How to tell if a module is evergreen -
When you are looking at the lens, right click and select ‘view source’ to view the source code for the page. If you can’t see the content of the module in the source code, then the search engines cant see it either (probably).

Any Questions?

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Comments

Exactly what I needed to know! Many thanks.

Comment by Kathy Shaidle on November 10, 2009 @ 2:20 pm

I am having trouble with getting straight the weight of a refresh. Or maybe that is not important. Does any change or refresh no matter how small count the same to the search engines?
Thanks, Sherry

Comment by Sherry Venegas on November 10, 2009 @ 4:25 pm

Awesome Captain! I never knew what that term meant, thanks for the explanation!

Comment by Julie Boesen on November 10, 2009 @ 8:28 pm

Very, very helpful. I knew blog search was, but I had no idea about the featured lenses. BINGO!

Comment by Jimmie on November 11, 2009 @ 7:32 am

Thanks for clearing that up. I thought I had understood evergreen (but really didn’t) - Now I get it! About to jump on my lenses and really make them evergreen now.

Comment by Karen Jones on November 11, 2009 @ 8:31 am

thanks for the update!

Comment by Linda Randall on December 15, 2009 @ 8:52 pm
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