Comments on: Squidoo Health Check Tool – Tagging Your Lens Video

By: Erin

Erin — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 20:45:00 +0000

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By: Graham

Graham — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 19:31:12 +0000

Hi Jennifer,
Every time I have been to your Lens you have given me really good advice. My Primary Tag is now “Good” as the Health check would say.!
Best wishes,
Graham

By: Brett Jarvi

Brett Jarvi — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 13:51:13 +0000

Thanks, That health check deal used to bug me.
The other gem in this post is using the External tool to have Google show you some great keywords for your lenses!

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By: Barry

Barry — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 13:56:27 +0000

Hi PPG! Thanks for the search link at the bottom of the page (where my eyes usually finish your pages!)

By: eric

eric — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 08:53:55 +0000

wow, wow, that was awesome. I couldn’t understand at first why the lens health tool was not liking my primary tag. Now I see. Thanks a lot a million times.

By: PotPieGirl

PotPieGirl — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 17:19:44 +0000

I think it is TOTALLY possible that the health check tool may never “like” things on your lens! haha!

Don’t get too consumed with pleasing it, tho. The health check tool is just that – a tool. It is a wonderful indicator of potential problems and also can help remind you of areas on your lens you may have some opportunity to improve.

It’s not a MUST, it’s a good suggestion =)

By: Jolene Christopherson

Jolene Christopherson — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 14:49:46 +0000

Jennifer,

First and foremost, thank you for all of the help you have given all your readers, myself included.

Here is a question. Is it possible that sometimes there is just nothing you can do to get squidoo to like the name on your image photo for the purposes of SEO? I’ve tried everything that should work but the health check keeps saying no. Based on my lens I think it is fairly simple what should work. So how important is the image title? Thanks again.

Jolene

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Sun, 04 Jan 2009 05:47:28 +0000

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By: Alexander Conway

Alexander Conway — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 17:42:29 +0000

Thanks Jennifer – for two things:

First, for reassuring me that the ‘Health Check’ is not infalliible – I’ve spent two days trying to rewrite and re-arrange my squidoo lenses so the HC will give them the thumbs up..

Second, for showing us how to make those changes if we do want to ‘listen’ to the health check.

Thanks.

By: Julie

Julie — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 22:50:29 +0000

Jennifer – were you reading my mind the last two days? Your tag method worked like a charm! I have been going NUTS trying to figure it out. You are one smart cookie. I almost emailed you personally to help me out with this problem. THANK YOU – THANK YOU -THANK. You share so much information freely – you are amazing.

By: thefluffanutta

thefluffanutta — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 20:57:30 +0000

As Lewis says, adding your Primary Tag as a regular tag is what works for most people. I wrote a blog post about choosing a primary tag on SquidUtils. It's important to note that the Health Check is only a recommendation. Having a few bits of orange is not going to affect your Lensrank or search engine traffic. If you don't agree or understand what it means, don't worry about it. Also bear in mind that the tool does not pick up your changes right way.

By: Lewis

Lewis — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 20:28:57 +0000

I haven’t watched the video as I’m reading this on my BlackBerry, but adding the primary tag as a regular tag worked to fix the problem Squidoo seemed to have with the lenses I checked! I don’t use the health check tool at all. I just look at the lens!