Squidoo Blog by Captain Squid - Tips and Tricks for Lensmasters
Archive for March, 2009

Declaring Email Bankruptcy

I’ve decided that I’m going to declare bankruptcy on my inbox sometime this week.
What’s a bankrupt inbox?
Well, since I am now 12 hours off from most of the continental US there is virtually no chance for me to catch up on emails as speedily as I used to. Waking up every morning with over 100 [...]

Outbound Link Value on Lenses

I’ve heard several questions the past week about ‘when’ or ‘how’ to add external links (links to other sites) to lenses.
I try to follow a few basic rules of thumb that work quite well for me.
1) add ‘rel=nofollow’ to affiliate links - Especially if they link to some crazy domain or something. Besides, you aren’t [...]

Doing the Server Dance

As all of our various projects and adventures have grown, we have yet again outgrown our servers.
This week, we are in the process of upgrading to a full dedicated server setup as well as consolidating several hosting accounts into one in order to better manage our growth.
While this is quite exciting and a sign that [...]