Squidoo Blog by Captain Squid - Tips and Tricks for Lensmasters
Archive for October, 2008

New Squidoo Widget Directory - WidgetSquid.com

Arr… This Be The Captain! Thanks for Stopping by to check out my piratey bag of Squidoo Tricks! If you are new here, you might want to get free updates and squidoo tricks delivered straight to you via RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!The Captain has been hard at work following the announcement about the animoto [...]

The economics of Lensrank

Now that we’ve established that rating swaps for lensrank are not worth your time, let’s talk about why doing (almost) anything for earnings from lensrank aren’t really worth it either.
Let’s take a hypothetical situation. You are a new squidoo lensmaster. You want to turn squidoo into a major income stream of yours, earning $2,000 a [...]

Why Squidoo Ratings Swaps don’t work

Even though it is clearly outlined in the Squidoo TOS as a no-no, I still run across Squidoo ‘rating swap’ threads on many marketing forums. If you run across one of these, I’d advise turning in another direction for several reasons, some of which may surprise you.

Your ratings aren’t fooling anyone but yourself- every once [...]