Online marketing with spiritual integrity
Two months ago, when lensroll disappeared, I had the following exchange with Megan Casey about Squidoo SEO Policy: Katinka Hesselink Disabling lensroll means a big change in the SEO structure of squidoo: that is, people will have to feature lenses they want to promote or use a link list, instead of being able to just [...]
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This is a post that AJ wrote on Squidu. I thought it well worth sharing with you all. So many times I see answers to questions about how to get traffic that tell people to go and comment on other people’s lenses. Yes, DO participate in the community. Yes, go visit and comment but at [...]
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Since loading time affects (to a very small extent) how Google ranks pages and sites, it is in all of our best interests to have fast lenses. One way of speeding up lenses is to not set modules like the twitter-search module to look for new content every hour. Set it to every day. That [...]
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Well, with me and other prominent squids having deserted Squidu, I guess it’s time to reevaluate on how to keep informed about the best way to make use of the platform. For me, for instance, about half my online income comes from Squidoo (that includes my own affiliate links). I have to stay informed about [...]
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NOTE: in the coming month, squidoo will be changing their nofollow policy. I’ve been thinking about Squidoo and SEO lately. Well, what else is new, right? Turns out I’m not the only one. One of the issues is that there are quite a few useful modules where squidoo nofollows links, though you’d expect the links [...]
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I was asked, as part of my new squidoo SEO Mentor role, to make a lens about the statistics of my squidoo lenses. I am, despite my training as a math teacher, not really very faithful in keeping track of stats. I have in the past, but it taught me very little. Traffic is only [...]
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There’s a new rel-nofollow policy out. Where it used to be that pagerank got distributed around all the followed links on a page, now it gets distributed around all the links on the page and what’s on rel-nofollow links just ‘evaporates’ as Matt Cuts puts it in the interview I linked to above. Matt Cuts [...]
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Some people never sit still. My grandmother for instance, although she’s now in a wheelchair, is constantly moving about. Half out of the wheelchair, standing up to get something, sitting down again, rolling the chair here, rolling it there. That’s actually very healthy of course: she should keep moving about, as long as she doesn’t [...]
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I’ve had several online conversations lately with people which have clarified my own position about online marketing. I have long had the policy that I am only putting energy into blogs, social networks, bookmarking services etc. if they have followed links. That is, other than twitter. I prefer blogs that are self hosted, but that’s [...]
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