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 [...]
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Squidoo Blog Recommendation: SquidUtils
Here is an unsolicited recommendation: Read the SquidUtils Blog! The Fluffanutta is a tech-savvy Squidoo member who has created add-ons for the Squidoo Workshop, maintains the SquidUtils site chock-full of free goodies for Squidoo lensmasters, and is responsible for some of the tools that eventually became incorporated into Squidoo itself. I use his Workshop Add-ons [...]
Images and Videos as Linkbait!
I often use Flickr and YouTube for hosting my lens images and video and as a way to drive traffic. I prefer hosting my best-looking photos on Flickr as opposed to Photobucket or even my own website, because I can add something in the description field like “This is an illustration for Ancient Greece Odyssey: [...]
Squidoo Lensrank Tip: Cite Sources
Guess what? My lenses aren’t all original. Of COURSE not! My “How to Get Your Lens Found” tutorial includes some tips I learned from PotPieGirl and Spirituality and Fluffanutta, and I used to cite Mr Lewissmile, before I decided I disagreed with some of his tricks and changed my recommendations. My CSS Codes Tutorial includes [...]
Two More Quick Squidoo SEO Tips
Here’s two easy steps I do as a quick “freshness boost” for a lens about to slip past the bottom of its tier. It’s no substitute for adding new, updated, exciting content, but it’s a quick fix. In traffic stats, I change the window to 30-day-traffic and add any keyword phrase to my Squidoo Tags [...]
“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 [...]
Two Quick Squidoo SEO Tips
I’m assuming most of you have read my Squidoo SEO tutorial, teaching you how to optimize your Squidoo page to help boost it to the front page of Google or other search engine searches. Now, here’s two quick tips to help tweak the your SEO of existing Squidoo pages — and give it a lensrank [...]
Benefits of Non-Commission-Earning Modules
Some Squidoo modules are built-in affiliate marketing, supplementing Squidoo ad payouts with sales commissions. For example, Amazon modules send us “royalties” if a visitor makes a purchase through them. We get a commission for any purchase the visitor makes after clicking on that link! (Tip: if you regularly make 7 or more Amazon sales a [...]