Squidoo is a community website with user-generated content, from that perspective it works well. Want do you want it to do?
Squidoo work in business owners in creating page or lenses for their product its a good way to promote your site.
I think for the long term phrase the result from squidoo have higher ranking than others... it will surely works but you just need to be sure that your post would not consider as spam other wise it has strong anti spam system which will never let you create another lance or post ..