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Entries for April, 2010

Captain Draws first Blood in Amazon Contest

The Amazon Fitness Lensbuilding Competition between Grayth (troy) and myself has begun as of Sunday and I’ve scored the first Sales with $1.24 currently pending on my dashboard from the 8 lenses I have entered in the competition.
For a blow by blow of traffic stats etc for the lenses in the competiton, official judge and [...]

Captain’s Tweets for 2010-04-18

Reading: “36 SEO Myths That Won’t Die But Need To”( http://twitthis.com/xqhsls ) #

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Why Clickouts Rock your Payday

In the spirit of the payday inspired post here’s a little teaser image of my earnings in my main squidoo account since inception:
Now, every month payday invariably brings about discussion of Lensrank, that magical formula that helps determine how much your lens makes in a month.
Today, lets focus on one aspect of lensrank that is [...]

A Friendly Lensbuilding Competition

This weekend I was hanging out in the Squidoo Chat room with Troy and we came up with a little competition that I think you guys (and gals) might enjoy following along with.
From Last friday (the 9th) till this coming Friday (the 16th) Troy and I will each build ten lenses.
The lenses will follow the [...]

What Every Local Squidoo Lens Should Have

There are three different modules that I try and use in ALL of my local based lenses, and I’ve had great success with them.
1. Google Maps Module – No guarantee that it helps your google maps ranking in search results but I’ve seen promising things. Also, make sure and put the address of your location [...]