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Two months ago, when lensroll disappeared, I had the following exchange with Megan Casey about Squidoo SEO Policy: Katinka Hesselink Disabling lensroll means a big change in the SEO structure of squidoo: that is, people will have to feature lenses they want to promote or use a link list, instead of being able to just [...]

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Do you recommend article marketing for SEO? vs Matt Cuts

by Katinka Hesselink on July 18, 2011

First watch this video by Matt Cutts from Google: Do you recommend article marketing as an SEO strategy? Since I’ve been advising people to do article marketing for ages now, I think I should explain. Matt Cutts says you should NOT do article marketing. I say you should. The difference is due to a difference [...]

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Hubpages redesign: you get your own subdomain

by Katinka Hesselink on July 15, 2011

HUGE – hubpages will be moving all of it’s authors to their own subdomain, to counter the inpact of Panda:  Source You can move all your stuff over to your own subdomain today, manually, or wait till they do it automatically. I advise moving over ASAP. The steps are simple: Log into hubpages Go to [...]

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Show your face on WordPress blogs: sign on for Gravatar

by Katinka Hesselink on July 1, 2011

Most of the people who comment on here have done this, but a few haven’t, so I thought I’d remind people: If you want your avatar to show up on wordpress blogs, nine times out of ten what you need is a gravatar account. It connnects your email address (hidden from viewers) with an avatar [...]

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How to make money online after being banned from adsense

by Katinka Hesselink on June 29, 2011

I had a panicky email from a fellow squid this weekend who was worried about whether she’d get to stay in the Giant Squid program, after having been accused of problem making on the new squidu forums. It really is unfortunate when people who worry are perceived as rocking the boat. When what they’re doing [...]

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Chefkeem at Wizzley shared some great tips for making it online on their forums today. One post he shared was the Noble Samurai videos on web conversion. Web conversion is basically the art of turning traffic into buyers. This post is about how to turn traffic into buyers on affiliate sites. Noble Samurai has published [...]

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The best table plugin for WordPress

by Katinka Hesselink on June 24, 2011

Last year I had the biggest webdesign job in my career (also the last one, as I quit designing websites for new clients just after). I wanted to make the CMS as user friendly as possible and went with WordPress. Two reasons: ease of use – with Joomla as the alternative WordPress was the clear [...]

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Is hubpages dying? I don’t think so!

by Katinka Hesselink on June 23, 2011

On the Wizzley forums people were panicking about Hubpages, thinking the site is dying. Well, since I have a number of articles on hubpages I went and took a look. Doesn’t look like  site that’s dying to me. There are a LOT of recently active threads in the forums, more than I’ve ever seen at [...]

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Wizzley vs Squidoo vs Hubpages

by Katinka Hesselink on June 21, 2011

It’s always good online to diversify. Especially if you interlink your stuff, it will strengthen your online profile to be active on several publishing platforms at once. Though I’d also advise any of you to start your own niche blog, once you’ve found that niche. The new kid on the block is Wizzley. Of course [...]

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Don’t rely on Squidoo Lensmasters for Traffic

by Katinka Hesselink on June 17, 2011

This is a post that AJ wrote on Squidu. I thought it well worth sharing with you all. So many times I see answers to questions about how to get traffic that tell people to go and comment on other people’s lenses. Yes, DO participate in the community. Yes, go visit and comment but at [...]

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