Let’s step back and review some basics for making Squidoo lenses. A big question I get is how to make live links (or hyperlinks, or clickable links, to anchor text links, or HTML links, or words that click to a page, etc etc etc). No matter how you ask it - I’m about to answer it!
I made a new Squidoo lens today, and I think it’s great! Learn Squidoo with PotPieGirl is a lens full of Squidoo tips, advice, and help that I have collected from this very blog. That new lens is like the ultimate Squidoo Help Center! more…
We’ve been talking about how to get Google to index your Squidoo lens. If you’ve been following along, you already know that I created two new Squidoo lenses and I was testing getting Google to find these two new lenses only by me blogging about them on this blog. The ONLY thing I actually did TO the new lenses was to ‘ping’ them from within the dashboard on SquidUtils.com. However, I did not ping them until AFTER the first blog post here was in the Google index.
After the response I had on my last post about how to get Google to index your Squidoo lens, it appears I need to keep going with this discussion. Since rambling is my specialty, let’s ramble some more about Google and getting that lens into the Google index…. and how to totally screw it up. more…
This post about getting Google to index your new Squidoo lens could easily have an alternate title of “How to Get Your Dog to Do Tricks on Command”, or “How to Get Your Three Year Old To Do That Cute Thing She Does For Your Guests”. Dogs, Kids, and Google… I can’t count on any of them to do what I want… WHEN I want. more…
We’ve been having a great Google conversation over at the SquidU forum. We’ve been talking about getting a lens indexed in Google - or, getting it RE-indexed by Google - the importance of back links to your lens - and about Squidoo tags. One poster made the comment that “…tags are just not that important anymore…”.
I’m spring cleaning my Squidoo account and selling some great lenses! I do this from time to time, I don’t care to keep lenses that I lose interest in keeping fresh - I’d rather sell them to those who will take good care of these pages on Squidoo. Also, I’ve been hard at work on a new report and also TRYING to change out all my eBay links. While going thru my Squidoo lenses as I checked for eBay links changes, I put some on a Spring Cleaning list. There IS a such thing as TOO much to do! My heavy work load can be your good fortune! more…
Squidoo has a very cool surprise for its lensmasters today… Have you seen? A Twitter Follow module you can add to your Squidoo pages! If you’re a Twitter user, you will love the new Twitter module you can now add to your Squidoo lenses! With all the buzz over Twitter lately, this is a fantastic addition to Squidoo. more…
What a crazy week it’s been for me. Between FINALLY finishing my Professional Internet Marketer certification, getting my company website somewhere closer to ready, working on projects for my clients, being Mom the Taxi Driver, doing laundry, and handling life in general, I feel like I’ve been running in circles! Ok, I lied… laundry didn’t come into play…it is still waiting for my attention =)
With the recent news of the eBay affiliate program leaving Commission Junction in order to run their own in-house affiliate program, many eBay affiliates are waiting (not so) patiently to find out what will happen to their current affiliate links out there on the web. We’re talking a LOT of links being that eBay claims to have 100,000 affiliates!
