I just recently started making and marketing squidoo lenses. Last week the one in my sig made it to the first page for a relevant search term. I was so proud of my first one that I marked the event in Outlook. Today, I search the same term, notice it is no longer on the first page and try to find it. Only to find out the thing is no longer indexed. Anyone have any ideas why this would happen? Edit: I just tried a tool that checks multiple google datacenters, and found that the site is aparently in only 3 of them. I guess that may have something to do with it. Anyone know how lonk it normally takes for an indexed site to spread?
Google gives some SERP boost to new sites for low/medium-competition keyphrases and then drops them to where it belongs. You need some more SEO to make it visible and rank well. I'd recommend starting with driving inbound links for natural search traffic: http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=224828 Then do some social bookmarking for traffic & links.
I did a bit. There is a link from my blog, netscape, and I made an article that has yet to be approved at ezinearticles. The netscape page ranks for those same terms. Edit: I'm not sure how that would explain going from front page to disappearing completely. I could understand dropping a bit.
I've been working a lot with squidoo lately and have not had any fall out. I recently did a video on how I use squidoo which is available for free at my website. I have yet to see a squidoo be de-indexed, maybe the sites linked in squidoo have been de-indexed, but not the squidoo itself.
Submitting the squidoo lense to the social bookmarking site will definitely index the site. Try to get some back links for that lense.
I think it's normal. I created a lens 2 weeks ago and linked to it from my blog. A couple of days later it was ranked on page 4 and then it totally disappeared for a while. A couple of days later, it re-appeared again on page 1.
yes...squidoo lenses are fluctuating. Google used to index squidoo vigorously in the olden days...not now!
Happens all the time to new sites. You get a bump, then dropped. I learned a while ago to never get excited over the initial SERP as they very rarely last. Build links, promote your site, and provide quality content. Your true SERPs will come in time. Good luck! Morty
How long does it take before a new squidoo page start to rank? I created a few pages about 1,5 weeks ago and only one of them have been indexed so far Thanks, mads
I've found one very important thing to do is with Squidoo is to make sure your lens name is the keyword phrase you are after. Additionally your username should be a keyword phrase as well. This is because you bio will get a link something like: - squidoo.com/lensmaster/your-username I've had great success getting the above listed very high up in search engine results. Make sure if you linking to another affiliate site, etc that you have a link to that here for people to click who find this page in the search engines With the pages (lens) you create, they get a link like: - squidoo.com/your-lens-name You will still get search engine love with them, so choose the names wisely! Cheers Tim Buchalka
Having my keywords in the lens title, etc. is exactely what I have done, but still no luck getting them indexed An example: http://www.squidoo.com/kildevand/ Keyword: "kildevand" (Danish, meaning "mineralwater") 1,5 weeks old and not indexed yet... http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site...
you probably have some lens competition. if you have a competing squidoo lens, build more backlinks to try and knock them out.