Squidoo Modules that provide ‘evergreen’ content
One of the keys to having the Big G or Yahoo! or MSN come back to your lens over and over again is having unique content on your lens that also updates regularly. Contrary to popular belief, several modules do NOT help you with spiders when they crawl your site.
Here’s a rundown of the most common:
eBay search :� NOT evergreen – The eBay Module loads after the lens loads, so google only sees javascript, which it can’t interpret.
Amazon search: Evergreen� – the Amazon module picks load with the lens, which means google sees these changing over time.
RSS Feeds - Not Evergreen – Again, this uses Java and loads after the lens so no google love.
Google Blog Search - Evergreen – Loads with the lens, just like the Amazon Module.
Youtube - Evergreen (I think) -� The comments for the video load instantly, which is what google can see.
What does this mean?
Every lens you make should have either a Google Blog Search, Amazon module with search enabled, or a youtube video with search enabled in order to give you that ‘evergreen’ look that google loves so much.
What other modules do you swabbies want the Captain to check for evergreen content?
-The Captain
November 29th, 2007 at 12:46 pm
[...] all of the reviews are indexable by search engines. This is another module that falls under the Evergreen Content type we’ve talked about [...]
January 23rd, 2008 at 7:08 am
[...] Squidoo RSS Feeds show google new information everytime someone visits – False - the RSS feed is run on Javascript (AJAX), not php. Technospeak aside, this means that google can see your module title, description, and subtitle of RSS feeds. However, there are some Squidoo modules that will show different content to google every visit. [...]
January 23rd, 2008 at 9:10 am
Again, great tips!
Thanks Captain!
I’ll be switching out all my rss to blogsearch now.
January 23rd, 2008 at 10:26 am
I’m not convinced that the YouTube module counts, as the only content to change is the ‘number’ of comments. The comments themselves aren’t displayed.
Here are some modules to add to the list:
- Plexo = Evergreen
- GuestBook = Evergreen
- Dual Module = Not Evergreen
January 24th, 2008 at 11:04 am
What about plexo link lists and regular link lists? Any word on those?
Thanks!
January 27th, 2008 at 5:30 pm
Great info, I’ve wondered about which modules were evergreen for a while.
Anyone know about the CafePress module? Im guessing evergreen.
February 20th, 2008 at 6:53 am
[...] Modules now load when a page loads making them Evergreen! More evergreen modules is good for search engines and by extension, good for [...]
June 12th, 2008 at 1:01 pm
This post need updating. The list of Evergreen modules is now this:
- Amazon*
- CafePress*
- Dual
- Guestbook
- Google Blog Search
- Plexo**
- Twitter
- Yelp
- YouTube*
* Amazon, CafePress and YouTube modules only change if you let Squidoo pick what items they show.
** I would argue that the Plexo module doesn’t actually get much interaction, and often it’s just the order that changes.
Also note that the Google Blog Search has all links tagged as nofollow.
thefluffanutta
August 11th, 2008 at 6:47 am
[...] Arr… This Be The Captain! Thanks for Stopping by to check out my piratey bag of Squidoo Tricks! If you are new here, you might want to get free updates and squidoo tricks delivered straight to you via RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!As I was lensbuilding this weekend I noticed a new evergreen Module has been released into the wild for Squidoo lensmasters. (What is an evergreen module?) [...]
November 19th, 2008 at 12:30 pm
Useful post and comments. I’ve been wondering about these things myself and some evergreen modules I’d guessed right and others wrong so opinions from the experts helped enlighten the situation quite a bit more! Thank you all…
February 13th, 2009 at 8:03 am
One of the easiest ways to find out if a particular module is evergreen or not is to use the Lynx browser. You can download it for Windows and all it shows is the text. It doesn’t do Javascript. In other words, what it sees is what the search engines will see.
I know that these modules are Evergreen:
Amazon
Flickr
Google Blog/News Search
Youtube
I know there are more, but I find plenty of variety just using those 4 modules.
January 30th, 2010 at 10:15 pm
Is this still a good way to go. Never thought about indexing the lenses too much (stupid i know). Have been relying on tags, but I think they are only really effective in the short term and lose some of their juice over time. I suppose it’s because my lenses are making the most of some of the above suggestions.