I have 30 or 40 articles posted on Squidoo but never see any links or traffic from my Squidoo so is it worth the effort. I guess search engines might see the links from Squidoo but I cant. If search engines can see those links I will keep submitting to Squidoo. You advice is welcome
I know others are more knowledgeable than I am, but I think that the search engines need to see your Squidoo page for them to see the links on the page to you. I think this means that you need some links to the Squidoo pages and you need to have evergreen content that keeps the search engines again and again. This way the link from Squidoo becomes even more valuable.
Your lens need promotion too, otherwise they won't be indexed by google and can't see links from squidoo.
having the pages is not enough. just like a site or blog, your lens needs promotion to get backlinks and ranking which in turn will give you traffic. if its the backlink is what you are after, then just submit the lens to few top social bookmarking site and use the rss feed to ping all the feed engines and ping sites you find and your lens will be indexed and get some backlinks which in turn will give you good quality backlinks as well