by Spiritual Marketing on November 21, 2009
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 [...]
by Spiritual Marketing on June 9, 2009
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 [...]
by Spiritual Marketing on May 14, 2009
Evelyn Saenz, one of my all time favorite lensmasters – because she makes just excellent lenses – is not really into SEO. I think she’s only just catching on (sorry Evelyn). Which makes her question relevant for a lot of people of course (what would a blogger do without newby questions?)
She’s just discovered the one [...]
by Spiritual Marketing on April 30, 2009
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 [...]
by Spiritual Marketing on March 5, 2009
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 [...]
by Spiritual Marketing on February 5, 2009
What ranks well MUST have a better link profile than what doesn’t? Right? Wrong! I came across this misconception on some squidoo blog or other.
One of the ways to find relevant pages to get links from is to just Google that phrase in Google and ask links off everybody who ranks in the top 100. [...]
by Spiritual Marketing on January 13, 2009
An SEO review is not complete without a look at links.
Yesterday I tackled on-page SEO factors: what AJ can do on her lens to make it most likely the search engines know what it’s about, and which serps (seach engine result pages) it should show up in.
However, in a competitive field like weight loss on-page [...]
by Spiritual Marketing on January 12, 2009
AJ2008 made this lens in a self professed SEO experiment, and from my later conversation with her (through twitter and e-mail) she asked such good questions that I just had to ask her if I could do this review of her lens about weight loss. She graciously said yes (though I’m sure she’s wondering what [...]
by Spiritual Marketing 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 what I’d like [...]
by Spiritual Marketing on November 6, 2008
I just had to say this. Trying to dispel a myth here.
It is NO use to submit your squidoo lens (or blog or website) in google. It is a waste of time.
I don’t know about yahoo and MSN, perhaps submitting your lens (or website or blog) there gets it traffic, but in google I’m pretty [...]