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Pinging Your Lenses
WHAT IS A PING?
Any time you update certain webpages or publish a new blog post or lens, you can send a Ping for it.
A Ping is a little signal your new updated page sends to various search engines and directories. A ping is the online equivalent of your new lens running up to Google’s doorstep [...]
The New Text Link Ads VS Your Own Intro Link Ads
Cashing In On The Lessons Learned
The Bad:
Have you seen the new Text Ads that appear automatically on all your lenses?
If you haven’t go now and take a look at one of your lenses. There will be 3 links on your lenses in green, and hovering over them will pop up an ad box. Personally [...]
Automatic Twitter Posting: Automate Your Twitter Account
Squidoo and Twitter have quite a nice little relationship going.
You can feature your latest Tweets in your lens, you can build a Twttrlist list lens, or a Twttrstrm lens, and of course just promote your latest lenses on Twitter!
So I thought I would put together a nice and easy list of….
Some ways to automate your [...]
The Best Squidoo Advice Ever
Want to be a successful lensmaster?
Be unique.
Want to earn money on Squidoo?
Be honest.
Want to rank well in Google?
Genuinely help your readers.
Want to be a Giant Squid?
Don’t give up.
Want to be in the Top 100 Lists?
Learn from the best.
Want a lens that earns $hundreds per month?
Make a LOT of lenses.
Want your lenses [...]
The $7,500 lens
Do you treat your lensmaking as a hobby or a business?
I would guess that more than 99.9% of lensmasters treat their lensmaking time as a hobby. It pays rather nicely if you hit upon a great niche idea and write up some great content, but most of the time people are making lenses it’s probably [...]
Earning more money with a list…
Are you building a mailing list from your lenses?
When someone lands on your lens, how many chances of a sale do you get?
Mostly the answer will be… one.
If you get the person to look at a couple of your lenses then your chance of a sale doubles and triples.
But what if your lens visitors said [...]
Rule Number 1: Get Blogging!
I’ve written about the importance of blogging before, and like in any good friendship I feel like I can talk about the same topics again and again.
So here it is.
Blog About Your Topic and Your Lenses!
If you are making Lenses on Squidoo to earn yourself any kind of money, you need a blog too. If [...]
AT LAST! Opt In Forms On Your Lenses!
If I had a dollar every time an internet marketer asked me if they can put an opt in form on their lens… I would have, well, a lot of dollars.
It is probably the most requested Squidoo feature from internet marketers. They want to use their lenses to build mailing lists.
Ever since Squidoo blocked the [...]
HOW (and WHY) to start a blog for your lenses!
Hello hello hello..! Fun post today. Blog your socks off.
“Blogging and lenses go together like Winnie The Pooh and Tigger Too…
So do YOU have a blog for your lenses?”
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FIRSTLY, WHY WOULD YOU WANT A BLOG?
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Blogs are fun. Blogs are free. Blogs are fabulous. And blogs are FINDABLE!
It is extremely difficult now to do a search [...]
Setting up an Automatic Twitter Feed Profile for your lens (for micro-blogging super-promotion!)
Hey,
Have you been to Twitter.com lately?
There really is a ton happening over there. And Google is paying lots of attention too.
So with that in mind, here is an easy way for you to take advantage of the traffic Twitter is getting, and maybe send some of those people to your lens or blog. And once [...]
Hello, my name is Lewis :)
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