Yesterday Squidoo launched their newest clever creation. It’s called TwitterStorm and is a clever merge between a lens and Twitter. You make a question lens, kind of like Yahoo Answers meets Squidoo, and people can write and vote answers via Twitter. When they participate by answering your question a link to your lens appears on their Twitter profile page to all their Twitter followers. And if...

********************* This blog post is part 1 in theGoogle Jetpack: Backlinksseries of posts.********************* This is the easiest source of backlinks for your lenses. Your other lenses! If you get 1 person looking at 1 of your lenses, you have just had 1 chance of a sale. If you manage to get that person to look at another one of your (related) lenses then you have just doubled your chances...

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 an Inbound link, or an Incoming link. When Google determines how high in the results to put your lens they...

If you love Squidoo, then you’ll probably love these sites too! Tiffany, my partner at BuildMyLens.com, wrote an article yesterday that gave a nice little roundup of a few sites built on the same idea as Squidoo. Give them a go if you haven’t, comment on your experience if you have! ************ HubPages – This website gives users a chance to show what they know for free. You can...

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 topical. It was made BEFORE Sarah Palin got the...

The time has come! Your Squidoo account is getting more integrated with other social networking sites! Now, on your profile is a space to enter your Twitter.com username and password. And you save it in Squidoo just like you save your name and bio. Then, the next time you publish a lens you will see a little link in the green flashing box that pops up (the one that tells you that your lens has been...