So I’m testing whether meta tag in Google is still IN or Kicked out of rankings factors?

What did I do?

I’ve changed the title tag of one of my top rankings business websites (Yes, I took this risk). But, I’m not a fool. I’ve set the new title that would convert the visitors if not the search engines (in case meta tags still exists)

So, if my rankings drop in next one week, meta tags still work.

If rankings are intact, it is OUT.

If my sales go up, I’ll set up the titles tags for all my sites to those catchy, “out-of-the-box”, and converting titles.

Now must be thinking, what’s the title? What’s the site?

Answer – wait! Let Google index it and I should update the status here again.

Cheers!

But recently, I noticed that now it takes no more than 3 days to get the lenses indexed in major search engines. Squidoo is getting back to its value and authority among webmasters and users. Of course, Google will not come to these pages and crawl by themselves. If you do the following, you can get full value of your lenses -

a) Get at least 600 words unique content on your lens and make sure it gives great value to the readers.

b) make good use of images with alt-tagging options.

c) Use anchor texts for backlinks and try to link some keyword with sites like wikipedia and other highend portals.

d) Submit to various squidoo lens directories so they get some backlinks.

e) Bookmark the lens to top bookmarking sites like digg, reddit, propeller etc.

f) Associate with popular squidoo groups and your lens there.

g) Share your lens with other squidoo members and on forums without spamming them. Be a quality contributor.

Thes steps will definitely help you get some strong backlinks out of your squidoo lens creation efforts.