Comments on: Squidoo NoFollows Links to Strangle Spam

By: E. Brundige

E. Brundige — Sat, 12 Apr 2014 04:39:51 +0000

My idleness on this blog and Squidoo shows how pleased I am about the direction the site has gone over the last year or so. “If one can’t say something nice, don’t say anything.” I’ve been having decent luck on Hubpages, however!

By: Kymberly

Kymberly — Wed, 24 Jul 2013 06:19:38 +0000

While I agree with the policy of no-following all outbound links, I’d love to hear your thoughts on the locking of lenses with ‘too many suspicious inbound links’.

By: Greekgeek

Greekgeek — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 16:02:48 +0000

I absolutely agree. I thought they might add that to Giant perks, although they’ve lowered the qualifications and standards for the Giant program so much that it would have to be for Giant 50 or higher.

By: Rachael Perry

Rachael Perry — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:22:25 +0000

I think you may agree with me on this one, but I think that authors should be able to earn the ability to remove the “no follow” attribute on their outbound links. This will thus encourage authors to submit high quality content to Squidoo which then links to their blogs, but also discourage spammers from using Squidoo just to get backlinks.

Either way, I’m not a fan of a blanket addition of no-follow on all outbound links.

By: Greekgeek

Greekgeek — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 17:29:09 +0000

Don't worry about the Amazon links. You're fine. You don't have to do a thing! Squidoo will automatically add nofollow to the codes that Amazon gives us, as long as you're posting Amazon links on Squidoo. On your own websites, well... I try to remember to add nofollow to Amazon affiliate links, but I don't always remember to do so. It's not a big deal. And it probably doesn't matter .Here's why. Google has said in its guidelines that we should nofollow all paid advertising links. What Google has never made clear -- and there have been VAST debates in the SEO industry -- is whether that means we should also nofollow affiliate links such as Amazon links, since we get paid for them. But Matt Cutts of Google says that it can generally figure out affiliate links. Google must recognize Amazon associate links, as they're about the most common kind of affiliate link on the web, so it know what they are and can bally well nofollow them if it thinks that's important. So based on what Cutts says, I think that Google's going to handle Amazon links just fine, whether or not you nofollow them.

By: Astro Gremlin

Astro Gremlin — Sun, 07 Apr 2013 01:29:05 +0000

Glad I don’t have to do anything. My Squidoo lens rankings are going through the floor.

By: Vikk Simmons

Vikk Simmons — Sat, 06 Apr 2013 01:37:14 +0000

Okay, then. First, for once I sorta kinda understand what you are saying and that’s a good thing. I, too, haven’t read anything as concise or easy to understand as what you wrote above.

I now have a question more about the affiliate no follow rule. I normally use the html codes that Amazon provides for my book selections either through the text link or the image. I thought that was all I had to do. Am I wrong?

If I’m wrong, does that mean I better go back into all those pages and change everything? (Really hope that’s not true.)

Thanks in advance!

By: Keithppc

Keithppc — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 18:34:31 +0000

Great post that explains backlinking in detail. I have couple sites linking out from some of my lenses, but it’s not my intention to skew my Google ranking. I have no problem with Squidoo’s decision to make outside linking nofollow, perhaps it will stop some of the spammers. Many thanks for sharing.

Keith

By: LisaAuch

LisaAuch — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 15:02:05 +0000

Hi GG
Great to see you post on this, Thanks to AJ for pointing me to it, I always appreciate your view on this sort of thing. And know you have the finger on the button

Lisa

By: Carolan Ross

Carolan Ross — Sun, 31 Mar 2013 14:41:13 +0000

Thanks SO much for this very detailed explanation about ‘no follow links’. I have never seen it explained it a more comprehensive and complete manner.
While I understood parts of it, it wasn’t until I read this article that the big picture about ‘no follow links’ begins to make sense. Best to you!