Well I signed up with squidoo last year while it was in beta for another blog I had. Never got a useful back link for it and looking at its lens rank even with the weight I sent it - its really not doing much good at the moment?

But now everyone is talking about how great it is for SEO purposes….. Looking - it seems google does like anything on it thats long tail - much like other high PR sites which if like me you have been building sites for a long time will have anyway. If not blogger and articles will do you well and still are free - always use the free stuff. Also looking at how much people are making on squidoo it seems theres not much gold in those hills yet - don’t give up that day job. And as for links - well as I said I didn’t really get anything for my lens thats now over a year old. Traffic is in the low digits and I’m not sure if it is in any shape or form targetted. Seems more random - but thats the rub too - no real stats in your lens so its hard to tell - you can’t even use statcounter as no javascript can be used

So do watch out for those squidoo ebooks - they maybe just cashing in on the next ‘new old idea’. If I’m wrong do mail me here ‘info’ at this address.

I plan to explore it for 2007 along with a few other hubs and will have some fun adding a few lens on things I’ve found or the stuff I love to talk about - all those pennies help towards the million…

The Million Dollar Blogger Lens

Well I got an invite the other day! Just set up 3 of my most important site (I love them all really). Amazing the info you get - I could spend days if not weeks playing with this…

The soider has been here along with yahoo and msn. But as yet no entry in google? Am I in the sandbox?

How will backlinks work in the future? See Google’s blog it seems google no longer likes link exchanges. Now I have a problem, they are saying that a ‘unrelated’ sites links won’t be counted maybe even count aginst you….. But what is an unrelated site? Lets take my network - they are releated - a site a day….. Theres a relationship. On another site I have links from the same area (Tunbridge Wells) - a very big spread of sites… I sort of understand why they are doing it, but it could backfire as relationships are a strange thing. Maybe google beta tool shows how they define relationships, I hope not none of my sites fit.