I finally got around to updating my Advanced CSS lens, where I used to post crazy “lab experiments” in CSS. Now I’ve reorganized it and made it more dignified (slightly), and added all the tricks I tend to use most on my lenses: rounded corners, background-images for paragraphs, captions under aligned images, drop caps, dramatic [...]
Posts from ‘June, 2010’
How many Squidoo pages are indexed by Google, Yahoo, et alia?
Addendum — just because I’m curious — how many Squidoo pages have the different search engines got indexed? Google: about 1,340,000 from squidoo.com (This was in JANUARY. In June, it is about 398,000! Mayday! Mayday!) Yahoo: Pages (9,671,276) Bing: 446,000 results Altavista: found 9,660,000 results Lycos: 1,107,211 results Ask: 222,500 (? — I’m not sure [...]
Updating Squidoo Lenses: Staying Fresh
After 60 (?) days, a lens loses lensrank because it’s not fresh. Also, Google rewards frequently updated content. These are two separate things, but they go together. What are your techniques for keeping lenses fresh? Here’s some of mine. Quick Fix — do one of the following While watching TV, I’ll sort my dashboard by [...]
Squidoo Graphics: Colors, Themes, Black Box Tips
I’ve been thinking. Try as I might, I’m a journeyman when it comes to Squidoo SEO: I have the basic techniques down, I know what I’m doing, but I’ve got the online equivalent of an undergraduate college degree rather than a PhD. Whereas I’ve been doing computer graphics and layout since 1980, HTML since 1993, [...]