Comments on: Woo Hoo, Another “Squidoo Surprise”! http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2011/08/woo-hoo-another-squidoo-surprise/ Adventures in Blogging and Article Writing (since 1993) Mon, 10 Aug 2015 00:23:27 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 By: giltotherescue http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2011/08/woo-hoo-another-squidoo-surprise/comment-page-1/#comment-319 Wed, 31 Aug 2011 21:59:59 +0000 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/?p=1393#comment-319 A while back, Google indicated that there were some problems with duplicate content on Squidoo. We suspected that Featured Lenses modules, with their links to related lenses and excerpted descriptions of those lenses, might be a factor. This is especially noticeable for lensmasters who use those modules religiously at the bottom of their lenses, where it could potentially be perceived as “doorway pages.”

We took several steps to remove platform-level duplicate content sources from Squidoo, and this was just one of them. As I mentioned in another post, internal inbound linking is no longer a significant ranking factor, and we figured it would be better safe than sorry.

We may consider allowing Google to crawl Featured Lens modules again at some point in the future. In addition, we are continuing to implement new tools to identify and remove user-level duplicate content.

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