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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘seo’
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.
It’s [...]
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 plus [...]
SEO Experiment – Make One Hit Worth Two
Yep, back in the saddle. Dissertation is keeping me busy! However, I’ve hit a few modest SEO tips in the course of updating and making some new lenses.
First up: CLONE YOUR VISITOR.
This is an idea I’m trying, not yet proven, but it makes sense to me.
Situation: A series of lenses, a sequence of lenses that [...]
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 be social [...]
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 [...]
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 boost [...]
Basic SEO – How I Do Search Engine Optimization
Okay, what do I really do for SEO “best practice,” when I’m worrying about SEO and not just slapping stuff up on the web?
After a year or so of exploring search engine optimization practices, here’s the procedure I use for search engine optimization.
SEO Blunders: Very Un-sexy Search Results
Remember how I talked about “making your search results look sexy” in my lens on Squidoo and SEO?
I noted that the two-line blurb that shows up in Google search results is your big chance to “sell” your page to the searching public:
A juicy, “I want to read more!” excerpt is what you want people [...]