Just wondering what all you lensmasters out there think about groups. I used to be pretty good about surfing the list of groups and adding my lenses to what I felt was appropriate. Sometimes I get in, sometimes I get rejected. Anyhow, I have to admit that while I used to surf the list of groups, I never really surfed the lenses IN the groups. So I guess I never gave traffic to any other lenses in the group. Therefore, it seems unreasonable for me to expect traffic to MY lenses from groups. Because of that, (and some laziness) I stopped surfing the groups and didn’t really add my new lenses to any groups in the past few months.
Has being in a group helped anyone? Do you find it good to be a part of a group?
I suppose you could join groups for SEO reasons. I’m not sure that it counts as a real backlink (or rather, a really useful backlink) because the link is still from the Squidoo domain. On the other hand, I think some group pages have decently high PageRank so then it would definitely help to get some Google juice from them. But then, do you have to be linked from the front page / headquarters page of the group?
Just wondering. Anyone have some thoughts?
I just went through and added my lenses to tons of groups. I feel like a spammer. 
