I’m happy to announce the official top-down remodeling of Sell My Lens. I originally designed this site over 8 months ago, but it was wayyyy to early, Squidoo wasn’t ready. But now, there’s been a lot of renewed interest in buying and selling lenses, and I’ve spent all weekend and a good chunk of last [...]
Arrrggghh…. Because I’m the Captain and I like keeping my matey’s up to date, I’ve created a special treat for ye this week.
I’m proud to present the first Captain Squid E-Book : The Lens Publishing Checklist !
What is it?
The Lens Publishing Checklist is a 12 Step ( with a bonus 13th step for some lenses) [...]
The Fluffanutta has recently done a total facelift on Squid Utils. We first talked about using Squid Utils and Zimbio to quickly promote all of your lenses as RSS feeds. Now, some new features have been added, allowing you to manage your lenses even more effectively.
Combining multiple tools in one place is something the Captain [...]
There are tons of social bookmarking and networking sites out there. However, if you don’t have any friends on these sites, you aren’t very likely to be heard.
So, in the interest of spreading the word about all the great lenses everyone is making, we have created the Captain’s Roving Band.
We have created core groups on [...]
Doug Eby pointed this one out to me the other day, it’s definitely a must have for going back and optimizing your keywords.
After you begin to see search traffic from your lens, the keywords used to find it will be displayed on your Traffic tab of your Stats area. This is all well and good, [...]
With the recent re-emphasis on traffic in determining Lensrank, as well as the simple fact that quality links will bring you more traffic from the search engines as well as the places that you are linked to, I’m proud to present a Captain Squid original – The Isle of Squid.
The Isle is a Squidoo-only link [...]
One of the most challenging aspects of having lots of lenses (or a few for that matter) is finding a quick and easy way to promote them.
Luckily, The Captain is here to come to the rescue. Below are 3 sites that can automate your lens promotion and build some serious backlinks along the way.
Note: In [...]
Now Introducing Squidoo Chat by Captain Squid! A chat room has been installed on the Captain for those of you that can’t get enough from the forums or from other sources.
The Captain (Loyalis) is usually hanging around as well as a few of the other lensmasters. Stop by and chat, ask questions, or share tips [...]
If you’ve been hanging around a little while, you know that the Captain likes to do things that get the most bang for his buck. Along that line, here are 5 sites you should visit with your Squid Utils RSS Feed in hand.
These services let you submit RSS feeds to searchable engines. (Similar to [...]
As some of you may have noticed, there is now a new ‘Squidoo Lens Tools‘ section of Captain Squid. Over time, I will be building this up with some personal scripts that I have written as well as some of the great tools I find online.
The first addition to this new section of the Captain [...]
