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Question: Are you a member of HubPages?
You will surely by now have heard of HubPages.
Surely.
If not, get on over to JoinHubPages.com and sign up! HubPages is a site very much like Squidoo. [...]
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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 [...]
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You can always rely on Google to make fantastic things we can’t resist.
This time they have made a thing called Google Suggest.
You start typing a search term into the google search box and it shows you other phrases commonly searched for and how many search results there are for that term.
It’s very cool. It’s free, [...]
Filed under: Google Rankings, Tagging Tricks | 4 Comments »
I just had quite a bizarre experience.
I was searching Google to try and see if there was a blog that existed where the owner just wrote posts about things they wish existed in real life. Kind of like my post here last week wishing the guestbook limit was increased, but for things in every day [...]
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For those of you still worried about a ‘Squidoo Slap’, here is something interesting to think about.
With Google, when you search for a person’s name followed by the word age or birthday you will get a little result (from an authority site) at the top that tells you the date of birth.
And here is what [...]
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Lensmaster thefluffanutta has just found out that Google has now indexed 1370 Ever.com lenses!
This is good news for everyone who was worried why their ever.com lens wasn’t showing up in Google yet. And also good news for everyone who has an ever lens.
The first lens in the search results is for the keyword phrase cheapest [...]
Filed under: Backlinks, Google Rankings | 1 Comment »
Google has FINALY updated their pagerank numbers, which means you can also see what the pagerank is for your lenses.
What is pagerank? The number (from 0 to 10) that Google assigns to a webpage. Pagerank 10 is best. For a list of some Pagerank 10 websites, click here. Pagerank is basically how Google ranks [...]
Filed under: Backlinks, Google Rankings, News | 6 Comments »
It’s good to know where your visitors are coming from, and with the stats upgrade Squidoo HQ gave us it is possible to see exactly what a person typed into google before they arrived at your lens.
And there is also a rather cool use for those stats!
You can automatically add those words and phrases to [...]
Filed under: Google Rankings, Increase Visitors, Tagging Tricks | 6 Comments »
I’ve had a few questions sent to me after the last post about Lensroll.com about some basic things about navigating the site, so I thought I’d post a few things I noticed about Lensroll.com during beta testing.
There are the basic things, like ‘Submit a New Story’ is how you add a lens once you’re logged [...]
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Lensmaster Glen has launched Lensroll.com
Go there now, create your account, and promote your lenses for free.
It is a site like Digg, but dedicated to your Squidoo lenses.
It looks fantastic, it works brilliantly, and it is growing nicely.
So why should you use it?
Because it has a pagerank of 3 already. Which means google has assigned a [...]
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You know when you create a lens you get to choose what URL you want? (what’s a URL? Basically, the address of a page).
You get to choose whatever goes where these X’s are: www.squidoo.com/XXXXXXX
It is largely agreed upon that having hyphens separating words is a good thing, as far as your google ranking is concerned.
Hyphens-as-opposed-to-underscores. [...]
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A Long Tail keyword is something that, instead of being a keyword like ‘myspace’, is a keyword like ‘is myspace free to use in china’.
In short, Long Tail means that the majority of your lens visitors likely come from people typing in things that very few people type in compared to the search terms that [...]
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