Comments on: Rescuing Page Break Lenses: All Hands on Deck

By: katinka hesselink

katinka hesselink — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 07:14:08 +0000

And yes, PKMCR, their business is built on the work of others – and they seem to be losing sight of that.

By: katinka hesselink

katinka hesselink — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 07:12:58 +0000

As you can see – I’m finally subscribed to your blog and it’s well worth it: if I’d read this, I’d have been warned about squidcasts disappearing (I guess I missed that comment by fluf in the forums).

My first rescues resulted in new lenses, now (with more changes in squidoo finally having me reach my tipping point) I’m simply making webpages elsewhere and linking to them from the original lens. I’m also leaving some of my lenses as is – let the visitors figure it out. (my squidhelp lenses mainly)

By: MiMi

MiMi — Sat, 21 May 2011 01:11:44 +0000

No doubt about it, there is a disconnect. This post resulting from the page-break issue underscores the grief thrust upon unsuspecting lensmasters.

Since we are so diverse in our use of Squidoo, a committee of lensmaster volunteers added to the decision-making process–who have wide-ranging, in-the-field skills and experience, positive attitudes, and the ability to think logistically, especially in relationship to the impact upon so many differing, fellow lensmasters, would be most helpful to us all.

Long live Squidoo! And SquidCasts, too!

By: thefluffanutta

thefluffanutta — Fri, 20 May 2011 19:30:40 +0000

You can’t get referrers (or search keywords) with GA on Squidoo, because the tracking image doesn’t pass that info along. Only the full Javascript tracker can do that. You’ll have to stick to Squidoo’s traffic stats for that info.

By: Greekgeek

Greekgeek — Fri, 20 May 2011 18:55:10 +0000

Thanks, Fluff. I’d forgotten that tool… lemme link to it. (That’s basically using Yahoo’s Site Explorer, folks… it doesn’t get all backlinks, just the ones Yahoo is willing to tell us about).

I wish Google Analytics with Squidoo showed the sources of traffic to each individual page. I must have set it up wrong, because for me, it’s showing ALL traffic as “direct,” so I’m not getting keyword or referral link data.

By: pkmcr

pkmcr — Fri, 20 May 2011 18:31:45 +0000

Very good post GG which sums up much of my own feelings on this remarkably badly managed set of changes.

How they manage their business is obviously their concern. However, when your business is built on the work of others you need to engage with them and involve them early in your planning

By: thefluffanutta

thefluffanutta — Fri, 20 May 2011 18:17:17 +0000

Great post, GreekGeek!

By the way, you can now see 90 days worth of traffic and referrers in the stats. Another way to find links to pages is with the Backlink tool on SquidUtils. It won’t find all of them, but it might help…