Online marketing with spiritual integrity
On how to succeed on Squidoo, Hubpages, Wizzley and sites like them.
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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(very long post) As I wrote in my previous post: I think Squidoo HQ is making a mistake leaving the forums to be managed by lensmasters (aka volunteers) ONLY. What I want to talk about here is why I’m not optimistic about the future of Squidoo as a social site. First off, when they killed [...]
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In another community, very unrelated to Squidoo, I’m known as a bit of a controversial figure, a whistle blower if you will. I guess it’s time to voice my issues with the latest change. To me it feels like we’ve been abandoned. All the changes in the past two months seem to have one aim [...]
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A little less than a year ago I wrote a post about the advantages and disadvantages of having several squidoo accounts. This weekend Brenda asked: Katinka, how are you feeling about your second account now? I (we) would love to know…either here or perhaps in a new post. She has a point: a lot has [...]
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A long time lensmaster asked: how do you value a squidoo lens? It turns out that TheFluffanutta has made a lens valuing tool that at least has the right factors in there. Here is what it says about my top lens: http://www.squidoo.com/spirituality-quotes Estimated value of ‘spirituality-quotes’ Current Lensrank: #104 Average Lensrank: #85 Worth $160.62 over [...]
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NOTE: in the coming month, squidoo will be changing their nofollow policy. I’ve been thinking about Squidoo and SEO lately. Well, what else is new, right? Turns out I’m not the only one. One of the issues is that there are quite a few useful modules where squidoo nofollows links, though you’d expect the links [...]
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I was asked, as part of my new squidoo SEO Mentor role, to make a lens about the statistics of my squidoo lenses. I am, despite my training as a math teacher, not really very faithful in keeping track of stats. I have in the past, but it taught me very little. Traffic is only [...]
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