Comments on: Have you Remodeled your Squidoo Lens Primary Tags?

By: Gandree

Gandree — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 02:45:39 +0000

Tags seem to be an eternal battle. When I first started on Squidoo 40 tags seemed to be recommended, now, not so much. The internet is not a static place and you have to be changeable to keep up with it.

We do like it when the Fluffanutter gets tinkering on a project.

By: Spook

Spook — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 09:34:40 +0000

My problem seems to be that I keep on making lenses which nobody is interested in and I battle to tag these. Seems whatever I do, can’t get it right.

By: Sandy

Sandy — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 04:48:49 +0000

Squidoo still doesn’t like my primary tags. I guess I need to work on it. I have found out that changing 40 tags to 10-15 tags is more to squidoo’s liking. Why do they allow you to put 40 tags in?

By: Sinab D. Cabugatan

Sinab D. Cabugatan — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 06:24:30 +0000

yap! 100% clear…only, sorry to tell you that I’m down these days! I got a mild stroke, and thanks for all these tips, I can still read them, though my left eye was mildly affected. I’ll be your friend forever.

By: daria369

daria369 — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:04:57 +0000

The more I’m reading and researching about squidooing, the more I realize how many things I’ve been doing completely wrong – with the best intention…
Thank you for this post and newsletter and all the knowledge you so generously share!

By: Sumit Roy

Sumit Roy — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 17:16:00 +0000

Thanks for your advice. Good info. for me. So many things I am yet to learn.

By: Primary Tag Domination at Captain Squid

Primary Tag Domination at Captain Squid — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 11:55:04 +0000

[...] In my Lens Publishing Checklist as well as in previous posts, I have repeatedly emphasized the importance of the Primary Tag in Squidoo. [...]

By: H-jack

H-jack — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 19:22:19 +0000

captain; Yes the tags are a must.
But the word order and search power involved in
the given names, needs your advice as well. Looking
today for a lens on the new Google tool for finding
the right words for tags. If you can add that info
on your blogs it would sure help out.
Best and thank you so very much for your help and kind works, From H-Jack

By: The Captain

The Captain — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 12:49:40 +0000

LMP,

I think do follow is an excellent idea. I use it on my other blog, I guess I just forgot to throw it up here.

I’ll put that up tonight and make an announcement.

as far as tags go, I’ve seen some two word tags with good PRs if a lot of lenses have that tag But your point about traffic vs link juice is very appropriate and the essence of what I’m talking about.

Thanks for the comment!

By: LMP

LMP — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 10:32:56 +0000

Hi Captain: One comment on tags and one suggestion for your blog that has nothing to do with tags:

Tags: I have noticed that one word tags usually have a nice google page rank, often PR5 while two word tags rarely have a google page rank. Since the tag page gives a link to your lens, it would seem to me that we would want a balance of several one word tags in order to get improved page rank, and several two word tags in order to get traffic. Of course one word tags can also bring traffic.

Suggestion: How about adding a dofollow plugin so that commenters to this blog can get page rank? If you want, it can be moderated to avoid spam. As you know, it can be quite difficult to get good links to squidoo lenses. This is such an excellent resource, I think if it also gave dofollow links, it may motivate more interaction.

Just a couple of thoughts for you to chew on along with yer chewin’ tabaco.
LMP