Okay, what do I really do for SEO “best practice,” when I’m worrying about SEO and not just slapping stuff up on the web? After a year or so of exploring search engine optimization practices, here’s the procedure I use for search engine optimization.
Posts from ‘April, 2009’
Benefits of Non-Commission-Earning Modules
Some Squidoo modules are built-in affiliate marketing, supplementing Squidoo ad payouts with sales commissions. For example, Amazon modules send us “royalties” if a visitor makes a purchase through them. We get a commission for any purchase the visitor makes after clicking on that link! (Tip: if you regularly make 7 or more Amazon sales a [...]
SEO Blunders: Very Un-sexy Search Results
Remember how I talked about “making your search results look sexy” in my lens on Squidoo and SEO? I noted that the two-line blurb that shows up in Google search results is your big chance to “sell” your page to the searching public: A juicy, “I want to read more!” excerpt is what you want [...]
The Squidoo Dashboard: What Lens Stats Tell Us
Welcome back to the third and final segment of my “Lensrank secrets” study. In Part I we squeezed the Squidoo FAQ for every scrap of information it could tell us about lensrank. In Part II, we tackled the Squidoo Dashboard stats, on the theory that most of those factor into lensrank (the FAQ showed that [...]
Samhain the Cat’s Guide to Search Engine Optimization
I realize my first few posts on this blog are awfully dense, and the next one promises more of same. So it’s time to shake things up a little with my first guest blogger, none other than Samhain the Cat! Samhain is a real pro when it comes to getting noticed, and she’ll be the [...]
Lensrank Secrets Right Under Your Nose
In my last post I dissected the Squidoo FAQ to squeeze out every bit of official information about lensrank. There’s another possible source of official lensrank information right under our noses: the Squidoo Dashboard. I submit, ladies and gentlemen of the jury, that Squidoo is not expending great gobs of computing and hosting power calculating [...]
Squidoo Lensrank: The Shiny Bumper
Tier chasing or lensrank chasing is a bit like a dog chasing cars — there are better moving targets to focus one’s energies on, and why does it matter?! But that car bumper is very shiny.” —Greekgeek, in SimeyC’s SquidU thread “Lensrank Buzz” Lensrank has been a frequent topic of discussion in SquidU lately — [...]
I Do Squidoo, and SEO Do I
Welcome to my Squidoo and SEO blog! Rather than post my musings about How to Squidoo in the Squidoo member forums (SquidU Lensmaster Lounge), I’ve decided to start Yet Another Squidoo Blog. It’s easier to find entries later, and I can use my own lenses as examples without feeling guilty for self-promoting in the wrong [...]