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Reciprocal linking devils…

January 10, 2010

One of the spooks new online publishers get thrown at them a lot is the reciprocal linking scheme devil. Let’s start with what google says about it: Your site’s ranking in Google search results is partly based on analysis of those sites that link to you. The quantity, quality, and relevance of links count towards [...]

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Advantages and disadvantages of having several squidoo accounts

January 4, 2010

I’ve recently set up a second squidoo account and in this post I’ll share the advantages and disadvantages. But why would you want a second squidoo account in the first place? I found that managing 300 lenses in one account became an administrative problem. Even using labels on the dashboard, it was just getting hard [...]

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How to get your page / lens / blog indexed in google

December 31, 2009

If there is one question that is often asked in the squidu forums, it’s this one: How can I get my lens indexed in google? Or, why hasn’t google indexed my lens yet? I always tell people the same thing: get links to your lens. Start blogging. At the same time I know that with [...]

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Clean up after the holidays: page speed and more

December 28, 2009

Christmas is gone and online marketing is getting back to normal. Time to start thinking about some maintenance issues. This is the time to: Check your stats Look at page speed Check your tags Delete outdated info and offers Let’s look at each of those in more detail.

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Some more traffic statistics on successful squidoo lenses

November 21, 2009

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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Tweaking the title tag for SEO

November 5, 2009

There is conflicting advice out there about the title of a page. On the one hand it’s clear that titles (and title tags) are essential to SEO: they should contain the keywords and keyword phrases users are typing into the search engines. On the other hand, some people have reported pages losing rankings immediately after [...]

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Spiritually sound Internet Marketing – FREE e-book

October 28, 2009

In this e-book I will share my knowledge and experience about online publishing, marketing and making money. There are roughly four aspects to this craft: putting content online, optimizing your content for search engines, promoting your content and making money off of it. I will help you figure out what kind of content you will [...]

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When should you get an google adsense account?

October 27, 2009

AKA: how to avoid getting banned by google adsense. Short answer: you should get an adsense account when the online properties you are going to be using it on have at least 100 visitors a day among them. I know this blogpost will likely not be read by those it needs to reach: newby online [...]

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Online marketing and SEO with spiritual integrity

October 26, 2009

Marketing gets a bad rap these days. So does SEO. Marketing gets a bad reputation because it tries to sell what’s not worth buying, not to mention lying to us. SEO gets pulled down by the many people who use techniques meant to deceave the search engines about sites and pages. In both cases it’s [...]

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Search Engine Marketing Basics – 5 SEO Techniques

October 23, 2009

There is a lot of misguided information about Search Engine optimization out there. Lately I have found myself summarizing the bare essentials several times. So here they are. It boils down to five steps:

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