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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Squidoo Changes Layout – Hysteria Ensues…..Again

Well, as Squidoo HQ has mentioned several times, they continue to adjust and update their templates for lenses and how users interact with them.
If you haven’t had a chance to go look at a lens in the last few days, go take a peek. It’ okay… I’ll wait.

Okay, so it looks a little bit different. [...]

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 [...]

Primary Tag Domination

In my Lens Publishing Checklist as well as in previous posts, I have repeatedly emphasized the importance of the Primary Tag in Squidoo.
Every one of your tags will include your lens on the related tag page. The Primary tag also is included on tag pages but only if it is also a normal tag. (I [...]

Have you Remodeled your Squidoo Lens Primary Tags?

Just wanted to give everyone a heads up and a reminder: If you haven’t remodeled your Primary Tags, Do It!
Fluffanutta has written an exceptional article on Primary Tagging as a forum post. I’m going to repost it here after offering a few of my thoughts on Primary Tagging.
1) If your lens is about polka dotted [...]