Squidoo - Dofollow or Nofollow? Worth It?

[jj1]

I have just created my first Squidoo lens and then noticed that all of the links to Amazon and their suggested blogs were all Nofollow. Also the link that I had put in to our own website (under the Your blog I have to admit) was not there.

Will this change if/when the lens gets approved?

Also, is it worth spending the time making this lens really good? Is it more likely to get a dofollow link if it's very long - or does this just depend on how many Squidoo users vote for it - or are all Squidoo lenses nofollow?

Do the Squidoo staff come back to approved Squidoo lenses and delte all external links?

Would appreciate any advice.

PS - I may well continue with Squidoo for the pleasure of it but would like to know whether it's worth spending time on for SEO purposes.

[dcristo]

The links are not 'nofollow' in text modules.

[jj1]

I am starting to find my way around Squidoo now - but can anyone tell me - when posting a comment on a lens - do you need to leave an actual link to your own squidoo lens to get any benefit or does your user name tag do this for you?

[dcristo]

I am starting to find my way around Squidoo now - but can anyone tell me - when posting a comment on a lens - do you need to leave an actual link to your own squidoo lens to get any benefit or does your user name tag do this for you?

When you post a comment it just links to your squidoo profile.

Leave a good comment without spamming and link to your squidoo lense in the comment. Even though it's 'nofollow' it's good for traffic.

[Giamatti]

The links are not 'nofollow' in text modules.

can you use html tags (for example the href_tag) in the text modules?

question simplified: can i anchor links in text modules?

[dcristo]

can you use html tags (for example the href_tag) in the text modules?

question simplified: can i anchor links in text modules?

Yep, you can use anchor links in text modules.

[Giamatti]

Yep, you can use anchor links in text modules.

thanks alot for answering my question.

rep added.

[jj1]

When you post a comment it just links to your squidoo profile.
Does this raise the pr of your squidoo home page - ie will your squidoo home page gradually gain more weight with the search engines?

[jj1]

Does anyone know how to add anchor text into the links in text modules? I tried the same code that I use in forum signatures and it doesn't work:
[ url= http://www.mysite.co.uk/ ]anchor text[/url]
Obviously I didn't include all the spaces - I had to here to show you guys what I meant.

[dcristo]

forums use bbcode, which is different to html code.

this is the anchor link code in html:

<a href="http://domain.com">Website Name</a>

[jhn2001]

what the heck is anchoring in text module ?

i always knew that <a> Tag </a> was anchoring but i do not understand the concept of anchoring in text module are there any other module ? is yes please list them out .

[bruce_robart]

buddy if it will not give you a back link then it's not useful to you but i saw some lens in Google so you may make a lens for get visitor on your lens

[dcristo]

what the heck is anchoring in text module ?

The module used to insert text on the lens page.

[blazinrachel]

Anyone know whats the best way to improve the visitors of the lens?

[jj1]

dcristo - many thanks for this:
<a href="http://domain.com">Website Name</a>