People find things on the web by searching. SEO helps you get your page in front of people searching for it. SEO is like throwing fishing hooks into a sea full of hungry fish. The more SEO you know, the better you’ll be able to ensure your hook gets seen by lots of fish.
But a [...]
Posts from ‘November, 2009’
Add Tasty Bait to Search Engine Results!
SquidQuiz — A Great Way to Build Relevant Backlinks
SquidQuiz is a fun, quick kind of Squidoo lens. Create a trivia quiz on a topic you love, add a Featured Lenses module to your other quizzes, and you only need one more content module to get the lens featured. For those of us who tend to make long, involved lenses on topics, this is [...]
Using Squidoo’s Traffic Stats to Tweak SEO
Last time I talked about Squidoo Tags functioning as meta keywords. We know that meta keywords don’t boost SEO much, because most search engines, apart from Yahoo, don’t give them any more weight than any other link text on your lens.
So when you check your traffic stats tab on a lens, what good does it [...]
Squidoo Tags and the Meta Keyword Tag: SEO or No?
Squidoo tags are funny beasts. They work in two entirely different ways: on Squidoo, as a way to cross-link lenses together, and in search engines, they help target search traffic. Just to be more complicated, we’ve got some conflicting info on how, exactly, search engines handle meta keywords, which for our purposes are Squidoo tags.
It’s [...]
Recipe for a Successful Squidoo Lens
Now and then I like to review what I actually do to make a successful Squidoo lens, since this has changed as I’ve learned more.
Note that this is the Lazy Lensmaster’s guide to making successful Squidoo lenses. I want to spend most of my time making content, not promoting and linkbuilding, so I craft self-sustaining, [...]
The “Antwerp Sound of Music” viral video and SEO
I just made a new lens on a popular funny YouTube video, the “Antwerp Train Station Sound of Music” prank.
If you haven’t seen the video, you need to– it’ll make you smile. VERY effective. So far it’s gotten nearly 13 million hits, and that’s not counting all the duplicate copies floating around on YouTube plus [...]
The Squidoo Modules List Is DONE!
It’s here! The Squidoo Modules List is finally (re)done!
In March ‘08, I made a lens showcasing all existing Squidoo modules. Many were busted, many were strange little widgets that most of us have never used, but they all fit on one (long) lens.
Squidoo has grown. Some widgets have been retired. Others have busted. Many more [...]
Profile of a Successful Squidoo Lensmaster
Have you taken a look at Pastiche’s Squidoo Stats Blog?
She doesn’t give earnings, just her lens tier breakdown. 40 lenses in the top 2000 out of 120. FORTY. That’s
one out of every three of her lenses earning top dollar. AND they’ll be earning lots of Amazon commisisons, on top of ad revenue!
I have been aware [...]
Squidoo Blog Recommendation: SquidUtils
Here is an unsolicited recommendation: Read the SquidUtils Blog!
The Fluffanutta is a tech-savvy Squidoo member who has created add-ons for the Squidoo Workshop, maintains the SquidUtils site chock-full of free goodies for Squidoo lensmasters, and is responsible for some of the tools that eventually became incorporated into Squidoo itself. I use his Workshop Add-ons tools [...]
Lensrank Factors: Pages Per Visit?
My theory about Lensrank is that most Dashboard stats are used to calculate Lensrank, although we have no idea how they’re weighted. Otherwise, why is Squidoo taking up huge gobs of server time and space to crunch those numbers for hundreds of thousands of lenses each day?
I have been away for a while, and just [...]