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/2014/09/looking-back-at-squidoos-mistakes/ http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2014/09/looking-back-at-squidoos-mistakes/#comments Fri, 19 Sep 2014 19:43:56 +0000 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/?p=2756 Drat. I’ve been trying so hard to focus on the transition to Hubpages and getting on with it, rather than rehashing what’s done and past. However, I keep see more and more posts by people throwing all the blame on members and absolving SquidHQ of the policies that led it into a death spiral. Sorry, no. That’s […]]]> http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2014/09/looking-back-at-squidoos-mistakes/feed/ 0 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2014/09/squidoo-to-hubpages-transfer-traffic-increase/ http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2014/09/squidoo-to-hubpages-transfer-traffic-increase/#comments Mon, 15 Sep 2014 23:09:43 +0000 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/?p=2742 I just checked Google Analytics to see how my Squidoo lenses are faring after transfer. Here’s their daily traffic stats according to Google Analytics. (Scroll down for a visual chart of the boring data). To create this table, I combined all their Google Analytics daily traffic data. Squidoo or Hubpages, wherever they were, it was the same batch of articles.* […]]]> http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2014/09/squidoo-to-hubpages-transfer-traffic-increase/feed/ 1 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2014/08/r-i-p-squidoo-a-long-time-coming/ http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2014/08/r-i-p-squidoo-a-long-time-coming/#comments Mon, 25 Aug 2014 06:46:01 +0000 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/?p=2620 Squidoo shutting down shouldn’t be much of a surprise to those who have been watching it for the past year. The only surprise is that it’s giving away member content without explicit permission, despite its TOS which states, Squidoo does not claim ownership of the Content you place on your Lens. The Content will be owned by you or a third party from […]]]> http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2014/08/r-i-p-squidoo-a-long-time-coming/feed/ 23 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2013/03/squidoo-nofollows-links-to-strangle-spam/ http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2013/03/squidoo-nofollows-links-to-strangle-spam/#comments Sat, 30 Mar 2013 00:37:15 +0000 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/?p=2500 Once again, spammers pooping in Squidoo’s sandbox have caused inconvenience for the rest of us. Squidoo has now followed Wikipedia’s example and nofollowed all outbound links. My opinion: it stings, but on the whole it’s a reasonable move. There are some drawbacks to nofollowing all outbound links. But those drawbacks are outweighed by the benefit: this […]]]> http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2013/03/squidoo-nofollows-links-to-strangle-spam/feed/ 23 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2013/03/squidoo-traffic-panda-25/ http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2013/03/squidoo-traffic-panda-25/#comments Mon, 18 Mar 2013 16:30:03 +0000 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/?p=2469 The data is still coming in from Panda 25, launched March 15. We really need to wait a longer time to have a representative sample size, but here’s the early returns from Quantcast: From now on there will not be discreet dates on which Panda is updated; Panda is now “Panda Everflux,” continually reevaluating sites […]]]> http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2013/03/squidoo-traffic-panda-25/feed/ 14 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2013/02/add-photos-to-tweets-to-get-more-clicks/ http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2013/02/add-photos-to-tweets-to-get-more-clicks/#comments Wed, 13 Feb 2013 18:05:35 +0000 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/?p=2417 When I browse Twitter, I see PICTURES with some Tweets, which help draw the eye to them:   Hubpages, Squidoo and other websites usually have Tweet buttons, but one thing they DON’T usually do is incorporate a photo or graphic into the Tweet. If you’re Tweeting your own stuff, be sure to add a graphic! […]]]> http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2013/02/add-photos-to-tweets-to-get-more-clicks/feed/ 2 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2013/01/updating-squidoo-lenses-my-2013-checklist/ http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2013/01/updating-squidoo-lenses-my-2013-checklist/#comments Sat, 26 Jan 2013 21:37:19 +0000 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/?p=2373 Whew, 2012 was quite a roller coaster of a year for me on Squidoo and beyond. The good: I achieved a 68% increase in online earnings, and I began an earnest push to diversify beyond Squidoo, and succeeded at least a little (see bottom of my payouts chart). The bad: Pinterest members began copying and uploading […]]]> http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2013/01/updating-squidoo-lenses-my-2013-checklist/feed/ 2 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2012/12/css-cheat-sheet-for-dealing-with-squidoos-new-flexible-layout/ http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2012/12/css-cheat-sheet-for-dealing-with-squidoos-new-flexible-layout/#comments Mon, 10 Dec 2012 18:25:26 +0000 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/?p=2328 My CSS Cheat Sheet for Converting Fixed-Width into Flexible Layouts Originally posted here. (Now tweaked and revised.) The first thing you should do is ask yourself, “Is this CSS absolutely necessary, or can I drop it?” See the postscript below for tips about how and when to use CSS. Usually, the best solution is, “Drop […]]]> http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2012/12/css-cheat-sheet-for-dealing-with-squidoos-new-flexible-layout/feed/ 1 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2012/12/recovering-from-a-squidoo-surprise/ http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2012/12/recovering-from-a-squidoo-surprise/#comments Sat, 08 Dec 2012 21:30:38 +0000 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/?p=2294 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2012/12/recovering-from-a-squidoo-surprise/feed/ 20 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2012/10/how-to-post-a-recipe-lens-on-ipad/ http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2012/10/how-to-post-a-recipe-lens-on-ipad/#comments Sat, 06 Oct 2012 02:19:06 +0000 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/?p=2261 http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2012/10/how-to-post-a-recipe-lens-on-ipad/feed/ 2