by Katinka Hesselink on June 13, 2011
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 [...]
by Katinka Hesselink on November 19, 2010
When you are trying to make a living online, one of the things we hear a lot of are LINKS. Links are hugely important to getting pages to rank in Google and Bing. However, they’re the hardest thing to get right. I see people worrying about links a lot in the forums and get questions [...]
by Katinka Hesselink on 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 [...]
by Katinka Hesselink on 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 [...]
by Katinka Hesselink on 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 [...]
by Katinka Hesselink on 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: