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Paula Atwell is an artist, writer, and owner of Lake Erie Artists Gallery at Shaker Square in Cleveland, Ohio. You can find her on Squidoo as lakeerieartists.

The New Keyword Density Dance

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 [...]

What Makes a Backlink Bad?

To backlink or not to backlink

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)

College kids

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

Aynsley Tea Cup

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

Hitting the New Standards 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 [...]