How to index my Squido Articles in Search Engines!

[Dejeesh]

Do you still stuck in Squidoo ? Your none of the articles haven't indexing by search engines which is shared in Squidoo ?

yeah, I had the same problem before, I have an account in squidoo since last 6 month and I posted number of articles in it. But the articles are visible by only direct click. If I am searching the same link or article in search engines, I can't found it there. I am just dig deeply to find the solution for this. Finally I got the answer for my question 'Why not search engines index my Squidoo articles?'.

There are two types of Lenses is in squidoo.com,

1) Featured Lens : If you got Featured Lens for your articles, that mean you have earned the privilege of being promoted the articles in Squidoo and is indexable by search engines like Google and Yahoo and Bing. When an article is Features in Squidoo, then the alt attribute '<meta name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow">' is not showing in back end of article, that means our article has been published in Squidoo and we got a do-follow link from it. The sign of Features Lens is a little green check mark .

2) Work in Progress (WIP) Lens: It have little red minus signs . A lens is under WIP, because of, the article or content you have posted, isn’t worth promoting in Squidoo, so the alt attribute '<meta name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow">' will be there by default. Squidoo have their own algorithm like Google and it changing always. So we should komw

WIP lenses don't get featured within Squidoo search results, on Squidoo profile pages, or to outside search engines. If you've published them, these lenses are still visible via a direct visit, like if you email someone your lens or post it on a blog or Facebook or Twitter.

Below I mentioned some points to getting a NEW lens featured and existing lens out of WIP

Five tips for getting a NEW lens featured (and out of Work in Progress!)
a) Publish the lens when you're ready for it to go live. An unpublished lens will always be Work in Progress.(Make sure it not saved as Draft)

b) Make sure the lens has at least more than 4 modules (Video Module, Text Module,RSS Module, Amazon Module etc..)filled with content (original content that you wrote). Most importantly, it requires an Introduction containing at least 200 characters and an image. The intro module should explain what your lens is about and make your reader want to learn more. This is the first impression readers will get of your lens, and you want it to be great. Check out these tips for writing a great Intro.

c) Wait a day (Minimum one day). Brand new lenses that get published, and meet the criteria above, will be 'indexed' by Squidoo when LensRank updates, usually the next morning.

d) Once your lens is published and ready for the world, share the link with a few friends ( Share the published link through Facebook, Twitter, Google +,LinkedIn etc..). Show it off. When your lens starts getting visits, it will start climbing in LensRank (which helps keep the lens Featured). Why wait (im)patiently for a third party search engine to find your lens -- get the word out now when it's fresh in your brain!

e) Make sure your lens is filled with useful, interesting content (unique content) that you've written yourself.

Five tips for getting an existing lens out of Work in Progress
a) Update the lens and re-publish it. A stale lens is an unhappy lens. And usually, a WIP lens. Lensmaster Waxing-Lyrical writes: "If the lens has been sitting around for a long time without fresh content, this is a good opportunity to remedy that. Make sure you have a great intro to draw in your visitors. Add some new modules, such as a poll or duel, so you can involve your readers with your subject. Change your pictures, or add new ones, ensuring you have permission to use them. Add some new sales modules, such as the Amazon Spotlight. Hopefully, these will promote extra clicks on your lens. Always a good thing!"

b) Shortcut! Update your intro and republish the lens. This is the easiest way to keep the lens relevant and feeling fresh for your visitors. This also gives you a chance to make sure the lens meets our content requirements for Featured lenses, which includes an Introduction containing at least 200 characters and an image.

c) Check in to Squidoo at least once a week and see which lenses is Work in Progress. Set aside 10 minutes to update the ones that need it, and you'll be well on your way to a full host of Featured lenses.

d) This is probably the best tip: Keep your lens in front of interested readers. If a lens is getting 0 visits, it will probably fall to Work in Progress. It doesn't take a lot of traffic to boost the lens back up, so make sure whenever you update your lens you share it with people who really dig your topic. Think Twitter, Facebook, your blog, email, whatever you use to share your activities without spamming strangers.


e) Adding social interactive modules to your lens is a terrific way to keep it relevant and shareable with friends. Post a Poll module, a Guestbook module, a Quiz module, a Duel module and invite people to sound off!

Squidoo provides a big source of referral traffic, if we are using it in a proper way.Follow above mentioned steps while posting a content in Squidoo and make your post as Featured one.

[Mike-R]

This is great stuff Dejeesh. I'm glad to hear that there are some specific steps we can take to get our lenses noticed and indexed. We'll have to implement this with some of our best lenses that are still in WIR Mode to see if we can get them featured.

[Arya]

That's good stuff, I think we need to create the best lens in order to get more traffic. SO lets produce many more lenses, and post them through social media platform and update it regularly so that it doesn't go into WIP.

My concern is like will Squido really let you republish the content? it assumes the content good enough when you publish while you create the lens, but the case is not the same when you add some more content and republish it.

[Mike-R]

I would like to do a quick review of the best lenses we have. It's hard to know how achievable this is. Do we have any lenses that already got featured?

If it is a large amount of work to get featured we'll want to just drop it as an option, but if it only requires a few more updates and additions then it would be good to get at least one lens up for each client where we're distributing content off-site.

I don't want to spend a lot of time making a lot of lenses only to have them never be seen.

[Dejeesh]

We haven't any Squidoo Lenses has been featured yet.

We can make WIP lenses to be featured by adding few simple modules. In my opinion, no need to update contents, because our content is good, but the only thing is, we hadn't added any modules, short description and Images to the lenses. May be this is why our lenses is in WIP.

We don't want to spend more time on this, for updating and sharing WIP lenses, only need 15 Min/Day.

The Squidoo have DA-96 and PA- 95 and it's page rank is 7. So by 15 minutes spending for each client, we will get a high quality backlink.
After the lenses have been featured, its enough to follow or update it at least once a week.

[Mike-R]

Yeah, the Squidoo site is quite powerful. Though of course the PA of an article is going to be significantly less than the PA of the home page, but that's not to say it wouldn't be quite valuable if we can meet the criteria for getting a lens featured with minimal extra work.

On that note, if this trainwreck of a lens can get featured and have a PA of 72, surely we can get featured with some minor tweaks: http://www.squidoo.com/phototools

Well I still stand behind trying to update 2-3 of the best lenses we have previously made. I guess lets discuss further by email. Maybe someone familiar with most/all of our previous lenses can send over some suggestions?