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Entries Tagged ‘link flow’

Outbound Link Value on Lenses

I’ve heard several questions the past week about ‘when’ or ‘how’ to add external links (links to other sites) to lenses.
I try to follow a few basic rules of thumb that work quite well for me.
1) add ‘rel=nofollow’ to affiliate links – Especially if they link to some crazy domain or something. Besides, you aren’t [...]

SEO and Ranking Flux for Squidoo Lenses

I’ve been meaning to write a post about this for a while and I noticed that Spirituality wrote an awesome post on her blog yesterday about all the Dynamic Links in Squidoo and how it affects Search Rankings.
I want to expand a little bit more on a few of the ideas that Spirituality threw out [...]

What is No-Follow and why do you need it

After my SEO Tips for Squidoo yesterday, I had a few comments asking some great questions. One was by ‘A Course in Miracles’ and it read as follows:
Hi Captain,
What exactly is “No-follow your affiliate links”? Can I do that with my Amazon links for instance? Thanks for your great posts. Really worth reading.
No-Follow Links:
Adding ‘no [...]

Squidoo SEO and Tagging Part 3: The Discovery Box

This post is a continuation of my first two posts on tagging with Squidoo: Tags and Lenses, and Tag Pages.  If you are a little lost, go read those two to catch up.
Until recently, tag pages consisted of the majority of link flow that could be influenced within squidoo. However, with the recent release of [...]

Squidoo Link Flow and SEO Part 2 – Tag Pages

If you missed it, make sure and read the first part of my series on Squidoo link flow from and to lenses.
Now that we’ve established where the links from lenses go to, lets discuss a little bit about how those Squidoo tag pages I crow about so much play into the whole system.
About Tags on [...]

Visualizing Squidoo Link Flow Part One – Lenses

This is the beginning of a 4-part series I’m going to release this week that describes how I believe Squidoo’s internal link structure works to help you get better rankings and what you can do to take advantage of it.
Let’s start off by looking at the 4 different ‘types’ of links that go into and [...]