An awful lot of my Squidoo lenses get queries from students.
How to Make a Pyramid Kite gets kids trying to build pyramids for a school project.
Ancient Greece Odyssey, my travel diary, gets kids needing maps of Greece or information about Greek history and art.
My California Sea Hare page gets medical students trying to track down [...]
Posts from ‘December, 2009’
Students: Untapped Web Traffic Source
My Other Squidoo-Related Blog
Let’s face it; I’m a journeyman when it comes to web traffic and SEO. I know the basics. I know how to do keyword research and how to use keywords. But I don’t focus enough on linkbuilding. I can get 100+ visitors per week to a lens, but not thousands. Some people can.
So my tips [...]
How to Beat the Squidoo Blues
MysticTurtle is one of our great lensmasters. Recently she was feeling a little discouraged about her limited Squidoo successes, comparing herself to other lensmasters. We all do this! There are always people out there more successful than we are!
She wrote a funny yet very practical lens about Getting Over the SquidHump which is not just [...]
How Your Squidoo Bio Builds Backlinks
Ooo! Everyone’s always wondering where to get backlinks. One thing people often forget about is that inter-linking counts. That is, links from the same domain as your page count as a backlink! That’s why Squidoo cross-links lenses in so many ways.
There is a powerful backlink source hidden right in plain sight: your Squidoo lensmaster bio.
My Purple Stars and Other Squidoo Awards
Wow! Where are these purple stars coming from! This is a HUGE huge huge thank you to everyone who has nominated my lenses for purple stars, Lens of the Day, and other Squidoo awards.
I also feel like bragging, although I am actually a little surprised at one of the purple stars I just found in [...]