Squidoo - nofollow links?

I signed up for Squidoo and wrote an unique for my lens. I threw in some links to one of my sites in the article (the article is all unique and 1500 characters long).

When I check the page it shows the links are nofollow. I've checked other lens and they are not showing the nofollow (which I thought was the norm).

Do I need to gain some sort of points/rep for my links to turn into dofollow or is there some amount of time that has to pass.

Thanks
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At the moment Squidoo are working on fixing up a few bugs that occurred when they changed to a new and better server. One of the bugs is that recently created lenses have got stuck in WIP mode (check the lens on your Squidoo dashboard - if there isn't a green tick next to its lensrank then it's still in WIP).

While in WIP mode the lens links are nofollow. It usually only takes the daily lensrank update to get out of this mode and for the links to become follow. Once the bug is fixed your problem will be solved.

 

is it not because the lens isn't worth rankings as it's considered a 'work-in-progress'?

 

Squidoo have just fixed the LensRank bug.

 

yes - you're right on this

 

Nofollow??? I have some lenses with dofollow. For default, you should to get the dofollow!!

 

Now the green check mark is showing in my dashboard and the page is dofollow.

Thanks for all the help folks.

 

It may not help much though.... new lenses have PR0. sigh...

 

It takes 24 hours give or take to change the nofollows to dofollows

 

Think_Big thanks for the info I noticed squidoo was down for a while

if you do not mind do you've any free e books on how to write top quality lense s or you dont mind sharing wisdom and ways and means optimizing the lens properly! thanks you can pm their

 

I've sent you a PM.

 

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Think_Big great but inlight of the fact can you show us a good example of a really good way to write a hot lense??/

 

You need add more backlinks... and wait 1-2 months. You will see the lenses become PR1+. If you choose right keyword optimized and create original content and gain backlinks, your lenses will be PR3 in 2-3 months.

 

Here is an example of a hot Squidoo lens http://www.squidoo.com/success_secrets

It has original content, is tagged properly, clean layout, a good combination of modules, products that are related to the topic, attractive images and content related affiliate links but not too many.

 

Thats some very informative Squid food their""' just what I was looking for in a lens "" I just updated one om older lenses im sure by going back and refixing them could set the pr off a little but theoretically that pr determines vies not traffic or baclinks pointing in you could use a back link checker to see such"" thanks do you know any free pdf on squid creations""'

 

Thanks for the tip, I thought another site was falling to nofollow tomfoolery.

 

Thanks for you help everyone. I just made some new lenses and they were no-follow. So I hopefully this works

 

They are only no-follow while they are "wip" lenses.

 

They usually come out of WIP after a day or so. See www.squidoo.com/wip for info.

 

Make your lens live and then check it after one or two days