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 [...]
Posts from ‘December, 2009’
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]