Squidoo - Dofollow or Nofollow? Worth It?

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.

 

The links are not 'nofollow' in text modules.

 

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.

 

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.

 

thanks alot for answering my question.

rep added.

 

Does this raise the pr of your squidoo home page - ie will your squidoo home page gradually gain more weight with the search engines?

 

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.

 

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>

Code (markup):

 

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 .

 

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

 

The module used to insert text on the lens page.

 

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

 

dcristo - many thanks for this: