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Entries for August, 2009

Decoding Lensrank Decay

mac33 has an excellent post on lensrank decay on one of his lenses and the impact of traffic on his lensrank.
It is an excellent example of how a few ticks of traffic to your lens don’t necessarily mean you will instantly climb to the top of the lensrank ladder. If your visitors arent engaging with [...]

Captain’s Tweets for 2009-08-16

The Captain Says.. 10 Old School Rules for the New Age of Squidoo: Recently, after the demise .. http://bit.ly/I9D5S #
was learning about virtual desktops and ran across this – http://bit.ly/tcgU6 – not virtual but very awesome #
@earthgarage Best way to start w/ #squidoo is just to throw a lens up to see how it works. [...]

10 Old School Rules for the New Age of Squidoo

Recently, after the demise of the Discovery tool and with Squidoo Groups having faded into (mostly) obscure places in the far reaches of Squidoo, an old stand by for optimizing your lens has re-emerged into viability – tagging your lens.
Tag pages are once again indexable by the major search engines. Fluffanutta has an exceptional review [...]

Advice for Squidoo – Ebay Affiliates

Recently (May), Ebay released some policy changes for their affiliates, not allowing them to put links on domains they don’t ‘control’ instead of content.
This has caused some big time ripples as it is the latest in a string of moves by eBay that increasingly makes their affiliate program more and more hostile towards its own [...]