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Entries for March, 2008

Are you Using Jumptags to tag your lenses?

I’ve been using Jumptags a lot lately to bookmark my lenses as I complete them. They have a very nifty Firefox or IE extension that allows you to right click on any web page you are on and bookmark it.
It pulls all the info from the page and you just have to click submit.
Note: Make [...]

Primary Tag Domination

In my Lens Publishing Checklist as well as in previous posts, I have repeatedly emphasized the importance of the Primary Tag in Squidoo.
Every one of your tags will include your lens on the related tag page. The Primary tag also is included on tag pages but only if it is also a normal tag. (I [...]

Captain Squid Guest Posts with PotPieGirl

I wrote a guest post for PotPieGirl yesterday exploring some new tricks I’ve learned about getting passive backlinks with YouTube modules.
I haven’t published that trick anywhere else, so it’s worth checking out. PotPieGirl runs a great marketing and SEO blog and talks a lot about actual implementation of theories you hear so much about.
Thanks for [...]

Visual Chat

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Ebay and CJ Divorce – Will Squidoo Need Child Support?

The big news today was that eBay is leaving Commission Junction and opening up their own independent affiliate network. It has been covered pretty heavily in the blogosphere so I thought I’d try to enlighten everyone a bit as to how it will affect your Squidoo lenses, since there are TONS of lenses out there [...]

Sell My Lens is a top 100 Website

…in the Vatican .
Here’s a screenshot for you:

Sell My Lens is definitely still a big part of my Squidoo strategy. I think it’s a great resource and it is slowly building momentum. I’m going to add a ton of lenses for sale on there in the next few days so if you are looking [...]

March Squidoo Earnings – Closing in on 4 digits

Wow, it’s payday time again already!
February was a really good month for me, especially the last two weeks. Starting off with Mardi Gras and Valentines Day, my sales were very flat for the first 15 days or so of the month. After that, they really started to take off.
Here’s the recap:
Squidoo Payout ($$ Earned in [...]

Track your Life with Socialthing LifeStream

Socialthing! just went into Private Beta this morning.
Socialthing is a site which will take your Digg, Twitter, Facebook, Pownce, Del.icio.us, YouTube, Flickr, Last.fm, LiveJournal and Vimeo profiles and combine the activity on your profile and your friends profiles into a ‘lifestream’.
The Lifestreaming concept is still very new and a lot of companies are trying to [...]

Captain Squid Squidoo Interview with Gadget Guy and the Guru

I was interviewed today about Squidoo today by the Gadget Guy and the Small Business Guru. I thought it went really well, we talked about some Squidoo basics and how you can use it as a part of your marketing strategy.
The full interview is about 30 minutes long and can be found here.
This was my [...]

New Squidoo Search by Lensmaster Function

I was just searching around on Squidoo and just for kicks I punched in my Lensmaster name (Loyalis) into the search bar and it returned all of my lenses (plus a few more I’m mentioned in!).
I can also sort by lensrank….
Why this is cool
Can’t remember what the lens name was or was it tagged really [...]