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 [...]

Remodeling Old Lenses

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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 [...]

Writing Informational Lenses That Answer People’s Questions

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For once, I thought that I would write about articles that are not designed to sell, but to answer people’s questions.  Of course, if you know me at all, you will know that I would still try to find a way to make money from them.  But I will save that part for the end [...]

Buying A Lens Tip 3

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For the last couple of weeks we have been discussing some tips on Buying A Lens from another lensmaster at Squidoo. As I have stated before, I like the ability to be able to purchase a lens or even a group of lenses that someone is willing to sell. I do believe that there are [...]