Interesting News,
Gil announced that Squidoo has removed the no-follow links located in certain modules (About Me, My Lenses, Text with Big Picture).
MORE interesting,
RSS has had No-Follow ADDED to it. Before the changes there was absolutely no reason for RSS to have no-follow applied to RSS modules, as the entire module was rendered in a way [...]
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 [...]
Fun Squidoo Stats from October 2009
– The top earner made more than $1300 for the month.
– Hundreds of people earned $100 or more.
– More than a thousand people earned more than $10.
– Lensmasters donated more than $5000 to the Squidoo Charity Fund.
– More than 90 people had 100 or more lenses all ranked in the [...]
The first lens or two (depending on when you are reading this) of our journey towards $2,000 a month is published and live. As per the rules, they can be found on the ‘Captain Squid‘ account that is freshly started and has no previous ties or history.
Check them out, ask questions about lens structure, composition, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Sweet Pirate Booty! I’ve been so busy the past few weeks that I just realized that i’ve celebrated my second anniversary on Squidoo during the past few weeks!
Some Fun Facts about my time on Squidoo:
I began using Squidoo right around when there was 100,000 lenses.. Now I think there’s close to a million.
I’ve got somewhere [...]
Time for another squidoo layout..
I Sure hope this one was less controversial than the last one. The last time they changed the layout, a lot of lensmasters got really fired up about it… for about a week.
Change is good. It helps you keep perspective on things.
What i’m most excited about is finding out what the [...]
Fluffanutta was awarded with a lens of the day award for his totally outstanding lens on how to use CSS in Squidoo.
For those of you that haven’t seen much of fluffanutta’s work, he has several tools that are absolutely essential for managing lenses and getting the most out of squidoo.
I use all of these tools, [...]
‘Groups’ on Squidoo have kind of always been the misbegotten stepchild of the Squidoo platform. They are difficult to manage, incredibly time consuming, and many are poorly executed.
Conversely, there are a few undisputed group ‘masters’ out there like Margaret and Janus that have made some groups that have a true community to them and really [...]
