The #2 source of backlinks for your lenses are Squidoo Groups. Squidoo groups have really begun to prove themselves in Google. In almost all cases they outrank lenses, get a higher PageRank, and get more backlinks naturally than lenses. That’s right. Groups are outranking lenses in Google. This means is would be incredibly wise for you to add Squidoo groups to your list of Google Ranking Weapons. For...

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...

A whole new Lens Workshop went live today, so if you log in to any of your lenses you’ll see the new 2.0 version ready to wow you. It’s shiny, bubbly-looking, and clean. The best thing for you to do is check it out! Go now and edit a lens. It’ll be a nice surprise. A couple of people have asked me what I think of it, so I thought I would post a proper review instead of just a couple...

I’ve written about the importance of blogging before, and like in any good friendship I feel like I can talk about the same topics again and again. So here it is. Blog About Your Topic and Your Lenses! If you are making Lenses on Squidoo to earn yourself any kind of money, you need a blog too. If only to blog about every new lens you make. I have put together a few lenses lately to push you to...