Guess what? My lenses aren’t all original. Of COURSE not!
My “How to Get Your Lens Found” tutorial includes some tips I learned from PotPieGirl and Spirituality and Fluffanutta, and I used to cite Mr Lewissmile, before I decided I disagreed with some of his tricks and changed my recommendations. My CSS Codes Tutorial includes something [...]
Posts from ‘April, 2009’
Squidoo Lensrank Tip: Cite Sources
Lens Review: EditorDave’s Lens on Guam
I wasn’t planning to do lens reviews on this blog, but spouting about my own stuff all the time could get dreary. So why not use someone else’s lens as an example of a good use of Squidoo?
When you find a lens you like, ask yourself: WHY do you like it? You can get insights [...]
Making Search Engine Results Look Sexy, Part II
In SEO Blunders: Very Un-sexy Search Results, I showed off my first Stupid SEO Trick! I’d decided not to worry too much about optimizing this blog, since I don’t want to shell out the money for a second webhost and domain name (a URL is the best spot for keyword optimization after page title). However, [...]
My Squidoo Successes
A lot of Squidoo members post in SquidU when they reach various milestones. I’m too shy do that, although I’m not too shy to plug a lens when it answers a question somebody’s asked!
However, for a week or so now, I’ve hit a new threshold that I want to toot my horn about:
18-20 lenses in [...]
Two More Quick Squidoo SEO Tips
Here’s two easy steps I do as a quick “freshness boost” for a lens about to slip past the bottom of its tier. It’s no substitute for adding new, updated, exciting content, but it’s a quick fix.
In traffic stats, I change the window to 30-day-traffic and add any keyword phrase to my Squidoo Tags that’s [...]
Links and Copyright: How to Solve Copyright Issues on the Web
As a writer and sometime teacher, I care a great deal about copyright and vigorously reject plagiarism. At the same time I appreciate that the web lets people combine material, collaborate and build on each other’s work in ways that were not possible before information and content were available instantly and on a large scale. [...]
“My Lensrank or Traffic Is Dropping– Help!”
Hey, it happens to all of us. You wake up, check the dashboard, and– eek! Traffic on lens X is going down, and lens Y is now in a lower lensrank tier than it was yesterday. I want to throw a question out to my readers: what steps do YOU take, reflexively, to combat lensrank [...]
Two Quick Squidoo SEO Tips
I’m assuming most of you have read my Squidoo SEO tutorial, teaching you how to optimize your Squidoo page to help boost it to the front page of Google or other search engine searches.
Now, here’s two quick tips to help tweak the your SEO of existing Squidoo pages — and give it a lensrank boost [...]
Some Squidoo Tutorials: Navigation Aids
Since my lenses tend to be looooong, I tend to develop various strategies to help folks navigate them. I like little inset tables of contents, “shortcuts” that jump to relevant parts of the page, or navigator bars.
So I was working on a Fancy Tables of Contents tutorial collecting my various ways of creating tables of [...]
Dog Medicine Side Effects: A Plug for a Good Lens
Flowergardener is one of many, many great Lensmasters.
About a month ago she reported a bizarre case of webpage traffic hijacking. Someone’s managed to divert a TON of traffic from one of her lenses to a spam webpage. Their page has NOTHING to do with her topic. I can’t understand how they did it, and I’m [...]