Online marketing with spiritual integrity
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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Loads of people relied on lensroll as a quick and easy way to give their own lenses links from their own lenses. In fact – some people absolutely abused the feature. With lensroll gone very soon (some time today), it’s time to replace those links. Not, as HQ suggests by using the related lenses feature. [...]
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I’m writing this ahead of time, so by the time you all read this, it’s probably no longer accurate – especially given that I’ve become more active here over the past weeks. Anyhow – as I write this (June 6th 2011) this blog has 113 subscribers according to Google’s Feedburner stats. That’s great – especially [...]
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Since loading time affects (to a very small extent) how Google ranks pages and sites, it is in all of our best interests to have fast lenses. One way of speeding up lenses is to not set modules like the twitter-search module to look for new content every hour. Set it to every day. That [...]
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Communicating through email with a few lensmasters recently I notice one common pattern: they do NOT mention their squidoo profile, or blog, or any of that in their email signature. I don’t know about you, but to me that’s confusing. Who is it I’m talking to here? The obvious solution is this: decide what your [...]
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I was amazed to read in the last post on the ‘official squidoo blog’ that a lensmaster thought the only disadvantage to not using CSS at all (for a Rocketmom challenge) was not being able to center images. http://blogs.squidoo.com/squidblog/2011 … -optional/ Why was I amazed? It’s not true. There are a few modules that do [...]
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I was debating with myself about this one: is this about that the Amazon module needs a fix, or that we should realize that the content in it doesn’t get seen by Google. I decided the latter. So here’s the deal, the ordinary amazon module, the one that gives you a chance to list 5 [...]
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The lens doesn’t rank, but the squidu thread does. Let’s see how the blogpost does, shall we? It’s an often asked question: why did my lens / blog / hub suddenly lose traffic? I wrote a lens to answer that question: Why did I suddenly lose google traffic? The short answer? Probably nothing to do [...]
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I’m archiving my best Squidu posts here, for future reference. Adapting slightly in view of comments made there. A recent TED video made me realize just how far we’ve come from the days when search engine results were the same for everybody. There is not much we can do about it, unfortunately, but it’s still [...]
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Well, with me and other prominent squids having deserted Squidu, I guess it’s time to reevaluate on how to keep informed about the best way to make use of the platform. For me, for instance, about half my online income comes from Squidoo (that includes my own affiliate links). I have to stay informed about [...]
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