Two years ago this month, Squidoo looked like this:
Courtesy of WayBackMachine
If you click through, you can browse around the squidoo of early ‘06 a bit. Sometimes it’s good to look back on where things were in order to see how far you have come. More lenses have been built in the last 2 weeks than [...]
I switched The Captain over to Do-Follow late last week and I thought I’d announce it officially today.
What’s ‘Do Follow’?
That means that the URL you leave with your name when you leave a comment will get a little bit of link juice when google comes by and follows that link. Most blogs build on WordPress [...]
Squidoo can be really frustrating at times. Perhaps you have tons of great content and you still aren’t getting more than a trickle of traffic. Perhaps you’ve tried submitting your lens everywhere under the sun with less than spectacular results. Maybe you just can’t make that first sale off of your eBay or Amazon modules.
I [...]
If you are building a new lens with any kind of Amazon, CafePress, or other products that Squidoo allows you to add descriptions to, add a short description.
Many people often forget that if the picture is a giant stuffed elephant and the title says ‘plush toy’ or something similar, Google thinks that is a picture [...]
I’m constantly amazed at the people I find on forums that are still stuck in last summer and convinced that Squidoo is worthless as a tool for promotion or for making money. Their loss, my gain I suppose..
However, there are some common lensbuilding and squidoo techniques that many people use that are just plain wrong. [...]
If you open up your Squidoo Dashboard and click on ‘Stats‘ a screen that looks like the following should pop up. Notice anything different?
There’s a new Lens Royalties Tab!
Click on it and you get a huge list of your earnings for your lenses for a particular month including groups. There’s also an export button
For all [...]
This weekend’s update to Sell My Lens includes RSS feeds for all the lenses currently for sale. Right now, only the title of the lens for sale is included in the feed, but I hope to add descriptions to it in the very near future.
Just add the RSS feed to your favorite lenses, or your [...]
Just wanted to give everyone a heads up and a reminder: If you haven’t remodeled your Primary Tags, Do It!
Fluffanutta has written an exceptional article on Primary Tagging as a forum post. I’m going to repost it here after offering a few of my thoughts on Primary Tagging.
1) If your lens is about polka dotted [...]
Tagging has been pretty extensively covered by Lewis and his Tagging Tricks Lens and the Publishing Video in my Squidoo Training Center.
But here’s a little trick you may not know. When you start to try and tag a lens you can really get on a roll, pressing the ‘Tab’ key to cycle to the next [...]
I’m happy to announce the official top-down remodeling of Sell My Lens. I originally designed this site over 8 months ago, but it was wayyyy to early, Squidoo wasn’t ready. But now, there’s been a lot of renewed interest in buying and selling lenses, and I’ve spent all weekend and a good chunk of last [...]
