I’ve received a great response so far on my little Squidoo Quest and am noticing some repeated questions on keyword/topic research so I feel that we should dedicate a few posts here to talking about it.
Here’s my general philosophy on researching new squidoo lens topics (or new niches in general)
Don’t focus on just ‘one’ keyword [...]
Glen’s Blog over at Lensroll has a great new post on what some of the top lensmasters do before publishing a lens, including yours truly.
It’s definitely worth a read. I thought it was interesting that there was a definite split between some who viewed the question as mechanical, i.e. what steps do you take in [...]
Learn. Work. Scale. Repeat.
Small words, big meaning. People get caught up a lot in ‘Squidoo is going to make me rich’ or ‘my blogs are going to make me rich’ or ‘my favorite GPT site / survey / ebook is going to make me rich’.
So far I’ve only found one thing that really set me [...]
The Captain has been hard at work following the announcement about the animoto module last week. After scouring the web for various piratey Squidoo tools that we can all use to make more money and draw more traffic to our lenses I’m proud to announce the launch of a site dedicated to Squidoo Widgets – [...]
Even though it is clearly outlined in the Squidoo TOS as a no-no, I still run across Squidoo ‘rating swap’ threads on many marketing forums. If you run across one of these, I’d advise turning in another direction for several reasons, some of which may surprise you.
Your ratings aren’t fooling anyone but yourself- every once [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
I was editing my Profile on my Pepperjam Account today and I noticed something that I think is very cool.
So many of you folks have signed up with Pepperjam and used your Awesome Lensmaster Profiles as your websites that Pepperjam Actually added Squidoo as a Promotional Method in their System!
I think that this level of [...]
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, [...]
On to Day two of the Ebay Squidoo Challenge and I’m starting to pick up a little steam.
For my second lens in the contest I chose to do a product based lens, specifically Rubik’s Cubes and Variants.
Good tips from this lens:
Less can be more – Notice how I use fewer than the standard 3 listings [...]
