"To Use Squidoo for SEO?" : Dec.20 update

After my experimental lens was indexed by Google, I placed a special link in it, with an anchor text having two mistakes. Two days later, the search for that exact anchor text gives no results in Google. The link will stay there, and I am not going to place that text anywhere else, so if one day it appears in search, I will know that Google refreshed my lens' content in its index.

"Using Squidoo for SEO" : Dec.19 update

Nothing happened in Google/Bing so far. The phrase search for the words in subject still does not return any pages the page I made from the Squidoo site.

Let's place a link to the "lens":

Using Squidoo for SEO

I am aware of the low level of that article's content and design. This is done intentionally and is a part of  the experiment.

A side note: my first impression about Squidoo is: a large well-done piece of junk, a huge MFA ("Made For Advertising") website, which should have been demoted to zero by infamous Panda, together with all "article" websites. This impression is based on reading of a few articles in the "Giant Squids" area. I seriously doubt anyone goes there to read. A "writers'-only" website.


Update: the link worked immediately. Google shows this blog entry and my Squidoo lens as crawled at the same time.

Unsuccessful attempt to submit an article

I decided to post a test article. Not through an automatic submission service, but manually, directly on one of the "Article Friendly" sites. Registered myself. After verifying email address, received the confirmation. But - login did not work. Not immediately, and not after 24 hours.

Abandoned site? Let's wait a bit and see it that's a live thing or a zombie :-)

Research: "Articles" on the web

Goal: to find as many "submit your article" websites as possible, categorize and evaluate them.