Do some dofollow blog comments for your squidoo lens. I didnt have much problem with my lenses at all. It might take sometime but it works. If your account is really new then it might take some time. DOnt worry, just work on it I will try to answer all your queries. Squidoo ranks well in google and it has been created by Seth Godin for marketing purposes. I doubt that it will be nofollow since it has been dofollow for years. If you lenses go below 500k in ranking, it becomes nofollow; orelse its good. Squidoo is good for seo plus it gives good backlinks to your site. You can combine squidoo, hubpages and ezine and do wonders with them , good luck
Mate, it's already 10-11 months old account and I have also linked it at my DP signature for 1 month and also did some linking on my linkwheel but nothing worked for me.