Jan 13th, 2010
by Greekgeek.
There have been a few recent modules added to the Squidoo module browser. They’re listed under “new” at the bottom, but haven’t been filed under any category, so the only way to find them is to click “Browse all modules” and then search for them by name. They are:
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Jan 9th, 2010
by Greekgeek.
My Photos of Apollo Moon Landing Sites From Space lens has existed for a month, and looks to be a long-term second-tier lens with 50 visitors a week and a fair number of clicks. Those two factors will help this lens maintain its lensrank.
Here’s the steps I took to make this effective lens.
1) Find a [...]
Dec 2nd, 2009
by Greekgeek.
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 [...]
Nov 27th, 2009
by Greekgeek.
SquidQuiz is a fun, quick kind of Squidoo lens. Create a trivia quiz on a topic you love, add a Featured Lenses module to your other quizzes, and you only need one more content module to get the lens featured. For those of us who tend to make long, involved lenses on topics, this is [...]
Nov 24th, 2009
by Greekgeek.
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 it [...]
Nov 16th, 2009
by Greekgeek.
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 plus [...]
Apr 23rd, 2009
by Greekgeek.
A lot of Squidoo members post in SquidU when they reach various milestones. I’m too shy do that, although I’m not too shy to plug a lens when it answers a question somebody’s asked!
However, for a week or so now, I’ve hit a new threshold that I want to toot my horn about:
18-20 lenses in [...]