Squidoo Tags Were Nerfed Ages Ago

So, Squidoo Tags were nerfed, and a long time ago at that. That is extremely disappointing news. I had read that Squidoo Loves Google but I suspect a lot of that was down to the tags pages.

My understanding is that the most popular tag pages used to have a lot of page rank. Adding 40 relevant popular tags to a new lens meant that it was born with 40 high quality backlinks which will no longer be the case. This change happened on Jan 10 2008. The fact that it is listed as a recommended technique in The Secret Cash Machine on Squidoo (copyright 2008) does not give me much confidence in the rest of the ebook.

I am going to continue with Squidoo for now. The new recommended technique for getting lenses listed in google seems to be to link to them from your blog. As I was hoping that Squidoo would provide good links for my blog and reciprocal links are discouraged that isn’t going to work for me. I will need to find another way.