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 the authority of your site/page/lens. So the higher the better. Well the news in this post...

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 your lens as tags. To help more people find your lens. Like this: Open a new window right...

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 in, and other things like how to use it for best exposure. So here...

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 good value to it already, and every link from Lensroll.com...

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.  Underscores_are_thought_to_be_not_as_effective....

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 lots of people type in. An example day might be this: 150 people who search...