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Squidoo Tag Pages Have No SEO Benefit!

squidutils.com — For a long time, it has been common wisdom that adding tags to your lens would help it rank better on the search engines. In theory, your lens would receive link juice from these pages, loaded with relevance and PageRank.

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  • thefluffanutta, on 10/13/2008, -0/+2Search engines are blocked from indexing the tag pages on Squidoo - this means they won't get traffic and won't pass PageRank to your lenses. Avoid eBooks and Software that claim they do.
  • lakeerieartists, on 10/14/2008, -0/+2thanks for keeping up on all this. the tags can be used when we post the lenses on other forums like digg though, right?
  • byronshell, on 10/15/2008, -0/+2But pages do have a positive effect. We ran a test and the link passed value on a nonsensical word.
  • KonaGirl, on 10/16/2008, -0/+2since the tags don't work, how do you get recognized by Google? I have noticed that most of my traffic comes from Yahoo, MSN and some smaller search engines, with hardly anything from Google.
  • badmsm, on 10/13/2008, -0/+1Where did the erroneous tagging info come from then? Many of the lens masters you site are very knowledgeable. I wonder where it all started.
  • thefluffanutta, on 10/13/2008, -0/+1The tag pages *used* to be indexed, but then suddenly weren't. Some guys are still passing off old information. Another one is adding RSS feeds to lenses to get backlinks - not true!
  • pyngthyngs, on 10/15/2008, -0/+1There is some guy actually selling an ebook about the benefits of using high page rank tags. I'm embarrassed to say I bought it. Apparantly it still works for hubpages though.
  • loyalis, on 10/13/2008, -0/+1badmsm, I can vouch for that, we argued back and forth for a week or so on it... fluff has got the right of it. even though i still think tag pages are useful for...other things on squidoo :)
  • thefluffanutta, on 10/14/2008, -0/+1Yes, it's important to pick good tags when submitting to social bookmarking sites, like delicious, digg, etc.
  • Resdizi, on 11/14/2008, -0/+0I have only just began using squidoo as a tool for article marketing and it is good to know these things..thank you

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