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SEO and Ranking Flux for Squidoo Lenses

Arr… This Be The Captain! Thanks for Stopping by to check out my piratey bag of Squidoo Tricks! If you are new here, you might want to get free updates and squidoo tricks delivered straight to you via RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I’ve been meaning to write a post about this for a while and [...]

New Evergreen Squidoo Module - Feed My Search

As I was lensbuilding this weekend I noticed a new evergreen Module has been released into the wild for Squidoo lensmasters. (What is an evergreen module?)
The Feed My Search module uses FeedMySearch.com to pull relevant news, blog posts, and search engine results into lenses. It works similar to the google blog search module which is [...]

Squidoo Pet Peeves - Dumb Things Lensmasters Do

I look at a lot of lenses.
Tons.
I would say without a doubt the single thing that turns people off to lenses, hurts conversions, and causes visitors to hit the back button is how the page is written.
Common mistakes on lenses I run across all the time:

Non-specific module headers - If I’m looking through your lens [...]

8 Must Have Firefox Plugins for Squidoo Lensbuilding

Okay, there are 8 plugins that you absolutely can not live without if you want to create Squidoo lenses and manage them effectively. I find myself using all of these quite often for various tasks.
Squidoo Lens Editing
Greasemonkey - This lets you add little mini scripts to your browser (don’t worry you have to push one [...]

Ready to Make some Money with PepperJam?

As promised, I’m going to walk everyone through a sample lens built with a Pepperjam affiliate program. If you haven’t already, learn how you can sign up with Pepperjam and get 10 bucks free so you can follow along. Not totally sure what type of affiliate network PepperJam is? Read my full Pepperjam Review.
Now, I’m [...]