I just got a note from Gil on my Rel=”author” Squidoo tutorial. (Thanks, Gil!)
The slots on our Squidoo Profile for “other profiles” (Facebook, Twitter, MySpace) are now labeled with rel=”me” automatically. So is the “My Blog” slot.
More importantly, Squidoo has now added a slot on our lensmaster profile for a link to “Google Plus” (which will work just fine for a regular Google profile account as well). This link is automatically marked with rel=”me” in the code.
Therefore, in order to connect your Squidoo lenses to your Google profile, the process is now:
- Create a Google Profile
- Edit your Google Profile, add a link to your Squidoo Lensmaster Page in the “Other Profiles” box
- View your Google profile and copy its URL
- On Squidoo, go to My Settings > Profile, scroll down, and paste your Google Profile URL into the “Google Plus” box
- Save, and you’re done!
(You don’t have to fuss with rel=”author” at all, because the bio box in the upper right corner of lenses automatically creates rel=”author” from each lens to your lensmaster profile page.)
P.S. Remember those slots in our Squidoo Profile that we haven’t been able to access since the Dashboard update? They’re editable again!
Great news and done! I found some links I wanted to change in my profile, and those would not “hold”, so sent in bug report. But love being able to add our google plus profiles to that list – and it did “hold” that info! Success! Thank you!