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Entries for July, 2008

Building a Pepperjam Lens Part 2 – Add Products

Okay, in Part 1 of the series on PepperJam lenses we found our new affiliate program – Jimi Hendrix Clothing.
Today I went ahead and created a lens titled ‘How to Dress Like Jimi Hendrix’ . Honestly, it’s the first thing that popped into my mind that wasn’t something like ‘Buy Jimi Hendrix..blah..blah..blah’ .
When crafting titles, [...]

Ready to Make some Money with PepperJam?

As promised, I’m going to walk everyone through a sample lens built with a Pepperjam affiliate program. If you haven’t already, learn how you can sign up with Pepperjam and get 10 bucks free so you can follow along. Not totally sure what type of affiliate network PepperJam is? Read my full Pepperjam Review.
Now, I’m [...]

Squidoo Lensrank Meltdown – Hysteria Ensues

On Sunday Morning, squidoo lensranks (the ‘rank’ of a ‘lens’ is how well it is doing in comparison to other pages on squidoo’s site) changed a bit more than usual.
Now, in and of itself, this is not an unusual thing, as Lensrank usually shifts a bit more on Sundays due to some parts of the [...]

An Affiliate Network that Listens to Affiliates

I was editing my Profile on my Pepperjam Account today and I noticed something that I think is very cool.

So many of you folks have signed up with Pepperjam and used your Awesome Lensmaster Profiles as your websites that Pepperjam Actually added Squidoo as a Promotional Method in their System!
I think that this level of [...]

Is Google a Death Knol for Squidoo?

As many of you have probably heard, yesterday Google announced the launch of it’s knol community. (Coverage from Mashable) Often accused as being a ‘Wikipedia‘ killer, Knol is designed to be a ‘moderated place for experts to share their knowledge’… hrmmmm… That sounds remarkably like a certain other site I use (not to name names [...]

Climbing out of The Dip

A few months ago (right around 2 to be exact) I wrote a post on Captain Squid about ‘Dips’ that you run into on Squidoo. And then, a month later I wrote a bit about Setting Goals on Squidoo.
I think that this month, the light is showing at the end of the tunnel for several [...]

Squidtop passes the 200 Blog Mark

In the last few days, the 200th blog about squidoo was created over on Squidtop. That’s 200 blogs even after spam cleaning etc.
Zach from SquidUber has been an awesome person to work with as well. If you haven’t checked out his squidoo blog then you are missing out on some pretty good stuff.
Pretty cool how [...]

What is No-Follow and why do you need it

After my SEO Tips for Squidoo yesterday, I had a few comments asking some great questions. One was by ‘A Course in Miracles’ and it read as follows:
Hi Captain,
What exactly is “No-follow your affiliate links”? Can I do that with my Amazon links for instance? Thanks for your great posts. Really worth reading.
No-Follow Links:
Adding ‘no [...]

Why most Squidoo SEO advice is bunk

Sometimes I’ll see some advice on ’succeeding with Squidoo’ that just makes me shake my head in wonder… especially when it comes to basic SEO advice for lenses. Now, I’m not really an SEO but I’ve built a giant pile of lenses and I’m starting to get an idea of what works and what doesn’t.
So, [...]

June Squidoo Earnings Over $2,000 Again

The Captain should go on vacation every month! While I was gone, Squidoo and my affiliate programs just kept right on chugging, earning me just as much if not a little more than what I earned when I was here at the beginning of June.
As my earnings numbers get bigger, I’m going to necessarily have [...]