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Entries Tagged ‘links’

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 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 [...]

Google Serps Part II – Squidoo Tag Theory

In the first part of this series, I talked about what different kind of links there were and some basic ideas on using these link types to get indexed and ranked by google quickly.
Along those lines, you can also use tags on your squidoo lens to create some very awesome backlinks. I’ve recently done an [...]

How to Get your Squidoo Lens in Google SERPs Part 1 – Links

I’ve seen a lot of questions lately on getting your lens indexed in Google and keeping there. I’m no stranger to having my lenses dropped out of Google search results after a few days, or never getting indexed at all. From what I can tell there are several major factors that play a role in [...]