If you’ve put Guestbook modules on your lenses, and you have 10+ published, you’ll be very familiar with the kind of comments I’m talking about here. If a guestbook comment doesn’t say anything interesting, and add to the conversation, DON’T FEEL BAD ABOUT DELETING IT. Don’t think just because someone left you a comment you have to publish it for all the world to...

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 and ringing the doorbell. It’s a way for your lens to go out and get attention, shouting “I’m...

Good news ladies and gentlemen Squidoo Tags are back in the game! They are now indexable by search engines once again! I have been meaning to write this post for about two weeks, so here we go! Very simple: A while ago Squidoo HQ made some changes that made squidoo tags pretty useless. The tags pages were ranking very high in Google, which was good. Squidoo then made a change to block search engines...

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 find thousands (millions?) of videos for your niche on there by experts. Those video...

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 I hate these kinds of ads and have opted out of them. Whenever I visit a website that uses these ads I am VERY...

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 Twitter account: 1. Schedule Tweets: With SocialOomph you can set up as many...