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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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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 [...]

So I applied for a SquidClub….

While browsing around Squidoo and trying to catch up on some of what’s been going on I noticed the new project by HQ for SquidClubs. Initially I had a few ideas for what might make a cool SquidClub but didn’t push forward with the idea.
However, after encouragement from a few of my Squidoo buds I’ve [...]

T-A-G-S Spells Lens Indexing

I know i seem to cover this idea ad nauseum but I wanted to emphasize (again) the importance of tagging your lenses properly.
Why do we tag lenses?
Tag pages are one of the backbones of Squidoo’s site infrastructure. Not only do many features within Squidoo use the relationships from tag pages (Discovery Tool) but tag pages [...]

Captain’s Tweets for 2010-01-17

#xkcd made me smile this morning – I love clever unit play http://ow.ly/VtBs #
How @graywolf Creates and Manage A Wordpress Website: http://ow.ly/WJHY – How to run a blog like a business. Well Done. #

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Captain’s Tweets for 2010-01-10

@badmsm Happy Birthday Bette! in reply to badmsm #
trying out #hootsuite as a social media account manager. Pretty impressed so far http://ow.ly/Ut1D #

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Captain’s Tweets for 2010-01-03

RT @tweetmeme The Complete National Geographic Collection on a Hard Drive http://bit.ly/6LDYuw – Merry Christmas to me? #

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Captain’s Tweets for 2009-12-20

http://3xp6t.th8.us 10 annoying SEO topics – So true! #

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Captain’s Tweets for 2009-11-29

RT @squid_engineer: you can now label and link the photos in your text, polaroid, and other modules. Hooray for SEO and accessibility. -WOOT #

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