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Rel no follow in squidoo

September 8th, 2008 by spirituality | Filed under Squidoo tips 6 Comments »

All lensmasters should know a bit about SEO (Search Engine Optimization). Recent news however has made the task of deciding how to implement SEO on squidoo a bit more complicated. So for this post I decided to get back to basics: what links within squidoo actually count towards your link popularity? In other words: which links will help your page be found by search engines like google, yahoo and (perhaps) MSN Live search?

For this post I simply looked at the source of a random squidoo page. I did NOT check every module or every squidoo feature. I did get a look at a decent percentage.

Here’s where squidoo uses the rel-nofollow tag.


6 Comments »

  1. Harmony said :
    September 8, 2008 at 8:42 am

    Hi Spirituality!

    Even though it may sound great to have Squidoo link juice pass through tag and profile links, I think it was a good idea for Squidoo to add the no-follows. It gives the lensmaster more control over what is followed and what is seen as the lensmaster’s recommendations in SE’s eyes.

    It appears the do-follow links you have listed above are within the lensmasters control. And those that aren’t are no-followed. And they even no-follow affiliate links, which is great, also. We don’t want Ebay’s ‘antique cars’ search to gain more weight than our ‘antique cars’ lens that features Ebay’s listings.

    Anyway, good post. I’m sure this subject could use a whole lot more discussion and analysis.

    -Harmony

  2. katinka - spirituality said :
    September 8, 2008 at 10:11 am

    I agree. This is bad news for spammers. (I’ve got a post planned for tomorrow that goes into that a bit more deeply)

    The one link out that lensmasters only partly control is the ‘related links’ bit and the links out to the general squidoo pages. And we can turn ‘related links’ off – but if we do, we also get less inter-squidoo links back to our lenses.

  3. thefluffanutta said :
    September 8, 2008 at 12:04 pm

    Any html links that are coded into the Guestbook comments are tagged with nofollow, which might deter spammers (it might not).

    Here are some more nofollows: Twitter, YouTube, Google Blogsearch, Fresh Lenses/Lensmasters (on Groups) and Group Discussions. Probably a good thing.

    Also, remember that the RSS and eBay modules can’t be ’seen’ by search engines, and so don’t count as links. And something else to be aware of: if you create a link in the description of a YouTube, eBay or Amazon module, it’ll get tagged with nofollow.

    thefluffanutta

  4. katinka - spirituality said :
    September 8, 2008 at 3:22 pm

    Thanks for that one. I looked it up and that ‘ever green’ module captain squid keeps talking about ‘feed my search’ also has rel no follow. Might as well use rss feed if the links don’t count anyhow.

  5. Tipi said :
    December 28, 2008 at 2:13 pm

    An interesting subject that I need to learn more about. Thanks for the post and for those that commented on the subject!

  6. randki said :
    July 21, 2009 at 5:03 pm

    Very good article. CU in poland seo :)

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