NOTE: in the coming month, squidoo will be changing their nofollow policy. 
I’ve been thinking about Squidoo and SEO lately. Well, what else is new, right? Turns out I’m not the only one. One of the issues is that there are quite a few useful modules where squidoo nofollows links, though you’d expect the links to be followed.
Greekgeek has a full list here: Squidoo Modules. Checking that list against the live modules IS necessary. Several modules I checked were not up to date. See below.
But that’s a large list and let’s face it, there are only a few modules we use regularly. So this post is just pulling out the modules you’d love to use, if ONLY the links were followed (and therefore useful for SEO purposes).
About Me – nofollowed will become followed
The about me module is great from a PR perspective: showcase your best lenses and who you are. Too bad the links are nofollowed.
My Lenses – nofollowed will become followed
List your lenses on some criterion (like newest, last updated, topic etc.) Really a great feature, if the links were followed, but they’re not.
Text with BIG Picture – nofollowed will become followed
This one is a surprise. Since the text/write module has followed links, I’d have thought this one would too. It doesn’t. So don’t put links in that module that you want followed. On the other hand, this does mean that you can link the image in the big picture module for an affiliate link. Affiliate links should be no-followed.
Text/write – followed
The links here are followed. If you upload a picture and add a link to it, that link too will be followed (and you can’t manually add a no-follow attribute). This means you should NOT link the image you uploaded here with an affiliate link. Affiliate links should be no-followed.
Featured Lenses – followed
Greekgeek’s list is wrong here, thankfully. The featured lenses module IS followed. (just checked)
Featured lensmasters – nofollowed will become followed
If you thought you were giving lensmasters you were featuring a nice backlink, you would be wrong: the module is nofollowed.
RSS – some followed, some not: will become NOfollowed
The RSS module IS followed (to my surprise). So you’re actually promoting your blog with links as well as exposure when you use the RSS module.
The RSS WIDGET on the other hand (on the sidebar) is nofollowed.
The RSS Mashup module (where you can show the latest posts from several blogs) is NOFOLLOWED.
Well, that’s the list of modules to watch out for. Just when you thought squidoo was easy 
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Thanks for pulling this together
Excellent – and very useful post
Squidoo have announced changes to which modules will be nofollow. Most of the modules listed above (About Me, My Lenses) were nofollow by accident, and this is addressed by the latest changes.