The New Keyword Density Dance
With the downward turn in overall Squidoo traffic, and the soon-to-be-released Panda 2.0 algorithm from Google, it is clear that Squidoo powers that be are revamping the rules on the site to clean up the level of spam, junk, and rule breaking content on Squidoo in the world according to Google. Google is the prime player in search engine technology with the majority of searches run on Google. … Read more...
What Makes a Backlink Bad?
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away I joined a site named Squidoo. During the first year that I was a member, I was taught that creating as many backlinks as possible to my lenses was a good idea because it would make the lenses do better on Google search, thereby giving [...]
Product Reviews for Dummies (or Newbies)
I have been involved in a discussion on Yuku with some other lensmasters regarding sales lenses and product reviews, and I thought that I would write this post as a guide for people who are afraid to dip their toes into the product review water, so to speak, because they can’t figure out what to [...]
Remodeling Old Lenses
I wrote in the last post that I had been hit by the new standards filter on Squidoo, as I had expected. I am happy to announce that I have managed to get all of my lenses out of the doghouse, and the flags are gone. However, I do not believe that this is the [...]
Getting Hit By the New Filter on Squidoo
As I expected, I got hit by the new standards filter when it swept the Giant Squids accounts last week. In my account of over 800 lenses, I had 208 that were considered substandard according to the new filter. This was not surprising to me as I have quite a few sales focused lenses that [...]
Spammers Be Gone
Yesterday, SquidooHQ announced their most recent decision to “nofollow” outbound links on the site. This is a controversial decision because there are clearly lensmasters who use Squidoo to send “link juice” to their own sites through links from Squidoo. However, by making this move, the Squidoo team has boldly stated that they are ridding themselves [...]
Rapid Changes on Squidoo
In the past week, we have seen a whirlwind of policy changes on Squidoo, all put into place to clean up the site and get it back into the good graces of search engines, specifically Google. Squidoo lensmasters have seen a drop in the traffic to their lenses since November 2012, and the HQ team [...]
Integrity in Writing and Changes in Expectations
In the last couple of weeks there have been several changes and announcments on Squidoo, which you can read yourself in the HQ blog. On Tuesday, there was a conference call with Seth Godin, Gil Hildebrand, and Bonnie Diczhazy which was recorded so that anyone could listen. What came out of this to my mind [...]
