Search Engine Optimisation
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 [...]
Free SEO Lens Content: Words From YouTube!
Tiffany Dow, Social Media Smarty and my business partner at BuildMyLens.com, has posted a great tip on her blog.
How to get free [and easy] content for your lens from YouTube:
“Many marketers are being taught that video is a required element of their online success (and I agree). So if you go to YouTube you’ll [...]
Could you run an Offline Squidoo Business?
Here’s an interesting idea. Do a google search right now for driving lessons + your city
For example, for me it’s Driving Lessons Cardiff.
Stick yours into Google and see what comes up. Knowing what you know about how Squidoo lenses rank in google, do you think you could rank in the top 5?
Try something else. Maybe Personal [...]
Backlinks – Your Google Ranking JetPack
What will get your higher up in the search results? Backlinks.
A backlink is when another webpage or blog or lens links to your lens. They ‘link back’ to you, as if they are voting for you by linking to you. They trust you, and are willing to link to you.
A backlink is also known as [...]
Being Telepathically Topical
The Giant Squid blog points us to a very interesting lens. It was lens of the day a few days ago too.
www.squidoo.com/sarah-palin
I don’t agree with what Sarah Palin says (her big speech was written by Bush’s speech writer!), but I’m not writing this to talk about politics.
I’m writing this because the lens was telepathically [...]
HubPages – Better than Squidoo?
Hello dear reader. You look lovely today.
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. But with enough differences to be able to tell they are not trying to be or [...]
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 [...]
Google Suggesting Your Tag Phrases
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, [...]
Finding My Own Lens On Google
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 [...]
Google and Squidoo… sitting in a tree… K-I-S-S-I-N-G!
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 [...]
Hello, my name is Lewis :)
I never knew I could make money from squidoo. However, It has earned me a few bucks that I am ...
Hey there thanks for the info. I was looking all over the place for a squidoo group and could not ...
Its sad in one respect - that the backlinks to lenses and groups was great for ranking.
On the flip side ...
Hope I am not too late to join in this discussion which was in October. I have only recently ...
Pingoat is having issues again. It's now pingoat.net 
Wow, Lewis. This is good. Glad you made this post. Part of the reason why I leaned toward one over ...