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Getting outranked by another lens?

Here’s a little trick for you.
If you can’t figure out why you can’t get any search traffic from google on your lens go to the SquidUtils lens Search (powered by Google) and put in the keyword you are trying to rank for. The search only searches lenses (or groups) on squidoo instead of the entire [...]

Adding Charts and Graphs to Squidoo Lenses

I’ve found a great way to use graphs and charts to illustrate your point on your lenses. The best part is that the graphs and charts will automatically update when you update the data in the spreadsheet for the chart or graph.
I stumbled across this while I was playing with google docs a few weeks [...]

Is Google a Death Knol for Squidoo?

As many of you have probably heard, yesterday Google announced the launch of it’s knol community. (Coverage from Mashable) Often accused as being a ‘Wikipedia‘ killer, Knol is designed to be a ‘moderated place for experts to share their knowledge’… hrmmmm… That sounds remarkably like a certain other site I use (not to name names [...]

Google Serps Part II – Squidoo Tag Theory

In the first part of this series, I talked about what different kind of links there were and some basic ideas on using these link types to get indexed and ranked by google quickly.
Along those lines, you can also use tags on your squidoo lens to create some very awesome backlinks. I’ve recently done an [...]

How to Get your Squidoo Lens in Google SERPs Part 1 – Links

I’ve seen a lot of questions lately on getting your lens indexed in Google and keeping there. I’m no stranger to having my lenses dropped out of Google search results after a few days, or never getting indexed at all. From what I can tell there are several major factors that play a role in [...]

5 Common Misconceptions about Squidoo

I’m constantly amazed at the people I find on forums that are still stuck in last summer and convinced that Squidoo is worthless as a tool for promotion or for making money. Their loss, my gain I suppose..
However, there are some common lensbuilding and squidoo techniques that many people use that are just plain wrong. [...]

Setting up Modules Correctly in Squidoo

Quick tip from the captain today.
EVERY time you fill out a module, make sure and fill out the second heading line with another keyword-rich sentence. This is important for 2 reasons:
1) the subtitles are in what are called ‘header tags’. H1 tags are the REALLY BIG titles you see at the top of the lens.� [...]