by Katinka Hesselink on June 8, 2011
The lens doesn’t rank, but the squidu thread does. Let’s see how the blogpost does, shall we? It’s an often asked question: why did my lens / blog / hub suddenly lose traffic? I wrote a lens to answer that question: Why did I suddenly lose google traffic? The short answer? Probably nothing to do [...]
by Katinka Hesselink on 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 [...]
by Katinka Hesselink on July 26, 2010
A long time lensmaster asked: how do you value a squidoo lens? It turns out that TheFluffanutta has made a lens valuing tool that at least has the right factors in there. Here is what it says about my top lens: http://www.squidoo.com/spirituality-quotes Estimated value of ‘spirituality-quotes’ Current Lensrank: #104 Average Lensrank: #85 Worth $160.62 over [...]
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 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:
by Katinka Hesselink on October 22, 2009
As I was preparing the launch of my new blog, which I’ve started because I needed a home for my ebook, I came across this post, written Oct. 2008. How happy I was to have 3000 visitors in that week In contrast, this week I had over 15000 visitors to my squidoo lenses. That’s five [...]
by Katinka Hesselink on November 8, 2008
Generally speaking there are two ways to do squidoo well: Finding key words that are popular, but haven’t been covered by other websites and lenses yet Making excellent lenses on a subject you are really into – even though there may already be a lot of information out there on the topic The first is [...]