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I’m archiving my best Squidu posts here, for future reference. Adapting slightly in view of comments made there. A recent TED video made me realize just how far we’ve come from the days when search engine results were the same for everybody. There is not much we can do about it, unfortunately, but it’s still [...]

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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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SEO: low hanging fruit or going for your passion

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 [...]

Why lenses should not be too long

by Katinka Hesselink on July 17, 2008

I’ve been mentoring a lensmaster recently. I felt one of her lenses could perhaps be broken up. She wanted to know the advantages. I could not give a good answer. I thought about it and here are a few reasons lenses could be shorter (if they’re long enough obviously). Breaking up lenses into more focused [...]