http://greekgeek.mythphile.com Adventures in Blogging and Article Writing (since 1993) Tue, 26 Apr 2016 15:56:40 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2013/07/a-squidoo-timeline-looking-back-at-past-year/ http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2013/07/a-squidoo-timeline-looking-back-at-past-year/#comments Thu, 04 Jul 2013 06:55:36 +0000 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/?p=2559 This is my attempt to round up a year’s worth of changes on Squidoo, with particular focus on which Squidoo changes and which Google algorithm updates may have caused traffic gains or losses. As usual, I’m using Hubpages as a reference, because it’s a comparable site, although its traffic trajectory has been quite different. (Hubpages […]]]> http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2013/07/a-squidoo-timeline-looking-back-at-past-year/feed/ 7 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2013/06/the-great-squidoo-vs-panda-death-match-are-we-having-fun-yet/ http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2013/06/the-great-squidoo-vs-panda-death-match-are-we-having-fun-yet/#comments Sun, 16 Jun 2013 18:51:24 +0000 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/?p=2526   So, we all knew that Squidoo had to do some major damage control to rescue itself, since Google’s downranked it for… well, we’re all making educated guesses, but Google’s webmaster guidelines provide us with a list of likely culprits (links are to the specific part of Google guidelines detailing each big no-no): Spam, thin, and […]]]> http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2013/06/the-great-squidoo-vs-panda-death-match-are-we-having-fun-yet/feed/ 26 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2013/02/the-mobile-web-on-squidoo-and-hubpages/ http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2013/02/the-mobile-web-on-squidoo-and-hubpages/#comments Wed, 06 Feb 2013 18:42:09 +0000 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/?p=2389 Yep, it’s another geeky stats post trying to figure out “what’s going on with our traffic?”  using two similar article-publishing sites to contrast and compare trends. Squidoo launched its “responsive” layout on Friday, December 7, 2012, hoping to cash in on the skyrocketing use of mobile devices to browse the web. Many of us had emailed […]]]> http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2013/02/the-mobile-web-on-squidoo-and-hubpages/feed/ 0 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2012/11/ouch-squidoo-traffic-went-kablooie-on-nov-17/ http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2012/11/ouch-squidoo-traffic-went-kablooie-on-nov-17/#comments Mon, 26 Nov 2012 00:22:41 +0000 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/?p=2272 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2012/11/ouch-squidoo-traffic-went-kablooie-on-nov-17/feed/ 6 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2012/10/google-panda-20-squidoo-hubpage/ http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2012/10/google-panda-20-squidoo-hubpage/#comments Thu, 04 Oct 2012 15:55:00 +0000 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/?p=2237 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2012/10/google-panda-20-squidoo-hubpage/feed/ 6 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2012/09/hubpages-vs-squidoo-traffic-sept-2012/ http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2012/09/hubpages-vs-squidoo-traffic-sept-2012/#comments Fri, 21 Sep 2012 02:32:44 +0000 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/?p=2145 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2012/09/hubpages-vs-squidoo-traffic-sept-2012/feed/ 2 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2012/08/hubpages-vs-squidoo-traffic-august-2012/ http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2012/08/hubpages-vs-squidoo-traffic-august-2012/#comments Thu, 23 Aug 2012 02:23:33 +0000 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/?p=2111 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2012/08/hubpages-vs-squidoo-traffic-august-2012/feed/ 8 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2012/08/what-happened-to-squidu/ http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2012/08/what-happened-to-squidu/#comments Sun, 12 Aug 2012 05:09:02 +0000 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/?p=2089 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2012/08/what-happened-to-squidu/feed/ 3 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2012/06/squidoos-flickr-module-is-retiring-how-to-recover/ http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2012/06/squidoos-flickr-module-is-retiring-how-to-recover/#comments Sat, 16 Jun 2012 02:58:36 +0000 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/?p=2061 Many of us have used the Flickr module to add thumbnail galleries pointing to Creative Commons images on Flickr. Unfortunately, as you’ve probably noticed, some of these images have been disappearing. Squidoo HQ has been trying to work with Flickr for a couple weeks to track down why Flickr is serving up some images and […]]]> http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2012/06/squidoos-flickr-module-is-retiring-how-to-recover/feed/ 2 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2012/01/panda-update-3-2/ http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2012/01/panda-update-3-2/#comments Thu, 26 Jan 2012 18:55:17 +0000 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/?p=1841 Has your traffic profile changed recently? The culprit may be Panda 3.2, confirmed on Jan 18, 2012. See that link on SearchEngineLand for more info. To review what this Panda thing is about: Google’s search algorithm ranks pages’ relevance to a given search query based on over 200 factors. For example, are the words in the search […]]]> http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2012/01/panda-update-3-2/feed/ 6