by Katinka Hesselink on July 18, 2011
First watch this video by Matt Cutts from Google: Do you recommend article marketing as an SEO strategy? Since I’ve been advising people to do article marketing for ages now, I think I should explain. Matt Cutts says you should NOT do article marketing. I say you should. The difference is due to a difference [...]
by Katinka Hesselink on June 16, 2011
Loads of people relied on lensroll as a quick and easy way to give their own lenses links from their own lenses. In fact – some people absolutely abused the feature. With lensroll gone very soon (some time today), it’s time to replace those links. Not, as HQ suggests by using the related lenses feature. [...]
by Katinka Hesselink on June 15, 2011
I’m writing this ahead of time, so by the time you all read this, it’s probably no longer accurate – especially given that I’ve become more active here over the past weeks. Anyhow – as I write this (June 6th 2011) this blog has 113 subscribers according to Google’s Feedburner stats. That’s great – especially [...]
by Katinka Hesselink on 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 [...]
by Katinka Hesselink on December 7, 2010
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 [...]
by Katinka Hesselink on October 26, 2010
My brother said something wise the other day. He’s in training to become an actor, and said: one of the great things about being an artist is that you have to continually prove your urgency. He was right of course – but the principle is wider than that. As online publishers we too have to [...]
by Katinka Hesselink on February 19, 2010
This blog was originally made on WordPress, using the Thematic Theme. Thematic comes with 13 widget ready areas (most of which you’ll never use), is coded well for SEO and flexibility of design etc. All that is why I started using it about two years ago, and yet I’m leaving it behind… Thematic is a [...]
by Katinka Hesselink on 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 [...]
by Katinka Hesselink on 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 [...]
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 [...]