Online marketing with spiritual integrity
On how to succeed on Squidoo, Hubpages, Wizzley and sites like them.
There’s a new rel-nofollow policy out. Where it used to be that pagerank got distributed around all the followed links on a page, now it gets distributed around all the links on the page and what’s on rel-nofollow links just ‘evaporates’ as Matt Cuts puts it in the interview I linked to above. Matt Cuts [...]
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This is the story of a lens that gets most traffic. Today it gets, as you can see, about a hundred visitors a day. That’s enough for a permanent spot in the squidoo top 2000, and with people voting on it regularly it’s enough for a regular spot in the top 100 as well. It [...]
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Linkbait? Linkbait is material that is put online not to make money, but to get links. Then when the links are there, the page in question will just link to whatever commercial content the owner wants to have rank better. Inkserotica and AJ got into a discussion about how little lensrank squidoo help lenses usually [...]
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An SEO review is not complete without a look at links. Yesterday I tackled on-page SEO factors: what AJ can do on her lens to make it most likely the search engines know what it’s about, and which serps (seach engine result pages) it should show up in. However, in a competitive field like weight [...]
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AJ2008 made this lens in a self professed SEO experiment, and from my later conversation with her (through twitter and e-mail) she asked such good questions that I just had to ask her if I could do this review of her lens about weight loss. She graciously said yes (though I’m sure she’s wondering what [...]
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In his post about the best squidoo lens directories, thefluffanutta gave a few hints about how lenses get shown in his own squidoo directory. He had done a post about how to pick the best primary tag a few months ago, but not until I read this latest post did it finally click for me… [...]
Brenda asked about lensrolling. I have to admit: I’m not one to do a lot of lensrolling myself. I used to lensroll my own lenses to all my other lenses, but I’ve stopped doing that as you could see on my newest lenses. Instead use the featured lenses module to link out to relevant lensographies [...]
I’d like to illustrate the power of links, and the power of google, a bit today. I got a few links recently – on one lens this one link from an outside blog had the effect of: One visitor from that blog – most likely the owner checking whether the link worked 10 visitors from [...]