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The social web and Squidoo

June 3, 2011

(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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Mourning the old squidoo – time for me to post about my disappointments

June 1, 2011

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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Google and Facebook different for everybody

May 16, 2011

I’ve been posting about this on twitter, facebook on squidu, but for those of you who don’t follow me on either – or where I get filtered out for whatever reason… Here’s a TED video that illustrates just how different my Google results are from yours. Or in other words: how the internet is no [...]

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Thesis: the best WordPress theme for affiliate sites

March 31, 2011

WordPress is a great CMS to make a site with quickly and make it look good. However, like in many other CMSs, it’s not easy to get iframes or javascript included in posts and pages. Since many of the most used affiliate sites (amazon for instance) use either i-frames or javascript or both, the ability [...]

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Why Hubpages lost and Squidoo didn’t in the latest Google update

February 28, 2011

I’ve been working on a post comparing Squidoo and hubpages for months now. It kept getting postponed, because Squidoo kept changing on me. In fact, most of my notes on the differences are now moot, because Squidoo has simply bridged the gap. They’ve finally set up granular categories – sure, there’s still lots of fine [...]

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Does SEO Silo Structuring your sites work?

February 15, 2011

Dinesh (aka Jhangora) asked this question on one of my lenses: “I noticed that successful lensmasters like you and Tipi interlink their lenses a lot. I read online that this type of silo structure does not work. Does it work?” I had to look ‘silo structure’ up. It’s a term like link-wheel: meant to help [...]

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Factors to my online success, aka: what it takes to make it online

February 8, 2011

Darcy wrote on my latest blogpost that I attributed 50% of my success to Squidoo. I was like: no, I don’t. I attribute about 10% of my success to Squidoo. 90% of my success is me. I’m serious: if it wasn’t Squidoo, it would be something else. Sure, I make about 50% of my online income [...]

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Where my online income comes from, in percentages

February 7, 2011

I thought it was high time I shared with you all where I’m at income wise. The calculations are somewhat imprecise, because adding up dollars and euros is a tough business. All those changing exchange rates… However, I do think it’s useful to share how things have progressed since last time I did this. It’s now [...]

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Social bookmarking 2011: do you still use it? Does it work?

January 21, 2011

I was at a Dutch affiliate network conference yesterday, where one of the meetings was about social bookmarking. There are tools to help you know, make it easier, faster, without spamming the network. However, I wonder : do they work at all? So here’s three questions for you all: Do you do social bookmarking? If [...]

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How to find out if Google knows what your page is about…

January 9, 2011

ThrivingMom shares an excellent tip on keyword optimization on her blog. She writes: Time and time again I see posts on SquidU by lensmasters asking how to get traffic to their lens. They say they worked hard on a lens but aren’t seeing any organic (search engine) traffic at all. They want to know what [...]

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