Google not indexing Squidoo lenses?

I first became interested in Squidoo through my husband. He had a couple little nothing lenses that got indexed by Google and made it to the first page of their search results for his chosen keywords. They didn’t stay there long – they didn’t have much information as he was just using them as place holder lenses – but the fact they made it to the front page so quickly with no promotion effort was kind of fascinating. I had to give it a try. So far, my results have been mixed.

On June 11 and 12, I created 2 lenses. One is just a small lens about a park close to my house, Bodega Park. It’s a fun little lens but it doesn’t have a whole lot of information. It has been indexed by Google, and if you Google “Bodega Park,” my lens is in 3rd place on the first page of the search results. The other lens is one about the health benefits of walking to lose weight. It’s a much longer lens with lots of good info on the health benefits of walking, tips on where to walk and how to find the time, etc. In other words, it has a lot more information than the Bodega lens. Also, I’ve put links to it on several other sites I have. The result? Google knows about it, but it’s stuck in their supplementary index.

My other 3 lenses are a little more recent. On Sept 29 I made a fun little cooking lens on green fried tomatoes and another lens on my VitaMix blender. The third lens is about how to choose a web hosting plan. All 3 lenses have been pinged, submitted to Feedage.com and Feedest.com, and have at least one back link. So far, Google has not indexed them even though it has visited the sites with the back links. So, I’m a little confused. All of them have good content, I guess I need to work more on link building.