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 [...]
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Which Backlinks Count for SEO?
This is a huge question. Different tools find different backlinks. For example, checking my Free Web Graphics — How to Get Them (Legally!) lens on SquidUtils’ Backlink Checker, I get this: This URL has 1000+ links from 6 domains. angelfire.com 1 annbrundigestudio.com 20 digg.com 1 mythphile.com 25 squidu.com 952 squidutils.com 1 (Once again demonstrating the [...]
Add Tasty Bait to Search Engine Results!
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
Internal Links — Overlooked, Powerful SEO Tip
A lot of people use linkbuilding as a major part of their search engine optimization strategy. They concentrate on getting links from other websites to point to their pages. Did you know that internal links– links on the same website pointing to other pages on that website– can boost a page in search engine results? [...]
Which Social Media Sites Benefit SEO?
When a newbie asks how to build web traffic, one of the first pieces of advice they’ll hear is to submit their URL to StumbleUpon, Digg, Del.ici.ous, and other social media sites. I got the same advice. I bought into it. But does social media/social networking really benefit SEO (search engine optimization)? Hey, let me [...]
Making Search Engine Results Look Sexy, Part II
In SEO Blunders: Very Un-sexy Search Results, I showed off my first Stupid SEO Trick! I’d decided not to worry too much about optimizing this blog, since I don’t want to shell out the money for a second webhost and domain name (a URL is the best spot for keyword optimization after page title). However, [...]
“My Lensrank or Traffic Is Dropping– Help!”
Hey, it happens to all of us. You wake up, check the dashboard, and– eek! Traffic on lens X is going down, and lens Y is now in a lower lensrank tier than it was yesterday. I want to throw a question out to my readers: what steps do YOU take, reflexively, to combat lensrank [...]