The URL of your lens is your identifier, how people and search engines alike know where your lens is located. On a scale of 10, the importance of your lens URL is probably in the 3-6 range.
Use one to three words separated by a hyphen. (hyphens are easier to remember and faster to type than [...]
I’ve been using Jumptags a lot lately to bookmark my lenses as I complete them. They have a very nifty Firefox or IE extension that allows you to right click on any web page you are on and bookmark it.
It pulls all the info from the page and you just have to click submit.
Note: Make [...]
As many of you probably know, Yahoo! is the owner of the del.icio.us bookmarking service which is hugely popular across the internet.
As I was trying to submit a site to Yahoo’s Site Manager yesterday, I was instead redirected to a new Yahoo Bookmarking site at beta.bookmarks.yahoo.com.
Interested as always in a new bookmarking site, I thought [...]
Ok, the new Squidcasts are pretty awesome. Let’s talk about why for a minute.
You can now communicate directly to your visitors with little thoughts and tidbits. This is awesome.
You can announce new events or updates across the squidoo universe (well, YOUR squidoo universe)
This is good. Really good.
But how do you promote your squidcasts to [...]
I’m a member of one of Bryan’s groups and got this sent to me by him.� Went and joined to check it out and was pleasantly surprised.
JoePopular is another take on the Social Networking craze, but it is a simple yet functional set up.� You place your most relevant sites (or lenses) in several categories [...]
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 [...]
