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 [...]
Whenever I want to check the backlinks, bookmarks, and indexed pages of a lens The Captain heads over to Xinu Returns.
Simply enter your lens URL into the box and click go. In a few seconds you can see what social bookmarks it has, if it is indexed in the major search engines, and a backlinks [...]
A new module has been added very quietly in the past few days to Squidoo amid all of the hubub with server gremlins and such.
The Module is for Movie Listings and here’s how it works:
The module can be found under the ‘New!’ Module tab when looking for modules.
The Module edit screen looks like this:
The results [...]
The Captain has been out sailing the past few days, but he has returned home to several new changes in the Squid Landscape that all of you aspiring Squid Pirates must be aware of.
Seth Announced the newest member of the Squidoo Family : SquidBids. Lewis Smile also mentioned it over at SquidooCool. Mashable also did [...]
One of the most common things you see on Squidoo that doesn’t work effectively are big giant boxes and paragraphs of text. These immediately cause people to unfocus their eyes and move on to the next page.
Other times you’ll notice how people will have ordered lists, numbered lists, block quotes, bold, italic, and more [...]
