I know i seem to cover this idea ad nauseum but I wanted to emphasize (again) the importance of tagging your lenses properly.
Why do we tag lenses?
Tag pages are one of the backbones of Squidoo’s site infrastructure. Not only do many features within Squidoo use the relationships from tag pages (Discovery Tool) but tag pages [...]
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 [...]
Since our little piratey band has grown so much since January (like 800% !) I thought that it was appropriate to take a post and recap what you folks thought were the best posts of the past year as well as some of my personal favorites.
The Most Visited Blog Posts on Captain Squid in 2008
Can [...]
Oftentimes as you browse the web looking for tips or tricks to improve your websites, lenses, blogs, and other digital online ’stuff’ you run into perhaps two of the most cliche sayings on the internet in the web development space: ‘content is king’ and you need to have ‘unique content’.
Since neither of these phrases really [...]
I’ve been meaning to write a post about this for a while and I noticed that Spirituality wrote an awesome post on her blog yesterday about all the Dynamic Links in Squidoo and how it affects Search Rankings.
I want to expand a little bit more on a few of the ideas that Spirituality threw out [...]
After my SEO Tips for Squidoo yesterday, I had a few comments asking some great questions. One was by ‘A Course in Miracles’ and it read as follows:
Hi Captain,
What exactly is “No-follow your affiliate links� Can I do that with my Amazon links for instance? Thanks for your great posts. Really worth reading.
No-Follow Links:
Adding ‘no [...]
Sometimes I’ll see some advice on ’succeeding with Squidoo’ that just makes me shake my head in wonder… especially when it comes to basic SEO advice for lenses. Now, I’m not really an SEO but I’ve built a giant pile of lenses and I’m starting to get an idea of what works and what doesn’t.
So, [...]
This post is a continuation of my first two posts on tagging with Squidoo: Tags and Lenses, and Tag Pages. If you are a little lost, go read those two to catch up.
Until recently, tag pages consisted of the majority of link flow that could be influenced within squidoo. However, with the recent release of [...]
April ended up being a banner month for the Captain and his Roving Band of Squidoo Piracy. Earnings have continued to increase each month I have been a part of squidoo and reached a new record high in April. Some of these earnings came from websites that I have used squidoo exclusively to promote but [...]
If you missed it, make sure and read the first part of my series on Squidoo link flow from and to lenses.
Now that we’ve established where the links from lenses go to, lets discuss a little bit about how those Squidoo tag pages I crow about so much play into the whole system.
About Tags on [...]
