I think it’s Google’s way of saying to change topics and try something new.

I haven’t done a lot with Squidoo over the past year. I just have too many other things on the go which seem to have a greater priority.

But now that it’s on my mind again I think I will create a few more lenses and see what happens to them.

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On the other hand, I have about 6 months’ of salt dough posts on my blog. Could this have any effect on my squidoo lens showing up in first position for these keywords/phrases?

Elsie

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Thank you much

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Great thread! I’ve found (as what has long been true) that content rules. I think what you are saying pretty much leans in that direction as well. In other words, just a little passion goes a long way.

One of my sites, http://www.theofficialpigeonforgecabinguide.com (feel free to remove the URL if you don’t want it here-no problem) sat for a long time without much happening on it. I just really started focusing on writing about things I was really interested in and two things happened…

One, it became easier and easier to write because I liked the subjects and I had a sincere interest in them and;

Two, My pages began to get much more traffic from the “Big G”.

So, I think the bottom line is that we all (as site owners seeking traffic) need to start from the gates with something we are truly interested in. It will be easier to sit down and write and the whole process will begin to evolve naturally and lead to traffic.

Thanks for a great little site Miss PPG 🙂

JW

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The other thing that might work for you is to create a link to your lens from another site that is getting crawled. So, let’s say your digg profile page is getting crawled – point a link to your squidoo page. Bingo, in the primary index.

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-OT

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Lewis

Here is the article I referenced earlier. http://promote-my-site.com/index.php/myBlog/Page-4.html

Hiya Sunshine!

So glad you’re reading and getting something out of this blog. I do tend to ramble on and on…and on =)

The article you referred to – about getting back to a more natural order of things – would be a good read. Any way you could share the url?

I think this post deserves an update/follow up….

Time to ramble some more! Stay tuned.

What a relief to see you writing about this. I thought it was just me wanting to just crack over this mystery. My most recent experience was G indexing my lense quickly and successfully. The lense ranked on the first page of G right up there with a few very large sites like about.com and askmen dot com for a long tail mothers day holiday keywords.

The traffic was awesome to say the least and then the whammy came exactly one week later. Talk about a bummer. The site is no longer appearing anywhere in the results on its own. Except for a few relevant theme lenses where I left an appropriate comment is all that shows up within the serps relating to the squidoo sphere for this lense.

One of my web2.0 article submission sites does show up with this squidoo lense in it but not the squidoo lense itself. I really do think in the case of heavy web2.0 promotion, G may be cracking down on the quick rankings by way of digg, delicious, etc. According to an article I read recently, they want to get back to a more natural order of things with respect to their organic serps.

On a more upbeat note, I really appreciate the insight you share about Squidoo. I’ve learned quite a bit from your knowledge over the last 2 months.

Sunshine

Update: Both Google Blogs and Google Web crawled and indexed this post 8 hours ago… which was about 20 minutes after I published. As of this moment, neither lens is showing in the Google index.

@Fluffanutta – Yes, I use the ping tool at Squidutils.com very often. Only thing is (was) that these two lenses were so new that they didn’t even have the lovely green check next to them yet. As of this morning, they both are within Squidoos index so they should also be listed on my SquidUtils dashboard.

@ Linette – Yes, Google can be a very fickle creature, thats for sure!

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