Setting Up a Backlinking Network

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If you do it right, each new lens, article, blog post, hub, or anything else you write can become a backlink to two or more other articles.  Over time, this will continue to build up the network of backlinks you have for any given article or Squidoo lens. With the latest Google shuffle, some of [...]

Compensating for Income Loss Due to Changes on Google

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Most of us are aware that the Google algorithm changes were focused on “content farms.”  Although Squidoo was not affected too much by this latest Google change, it still makes us all aware of keeping our income eggs all in one basket.   If you haven’t done so in the past, I recommend building about two [...]

Keyword Freshness

Keywords for Titles

A couple of months ago, I was checking the stats of my lenses during my normal morning routine. An alarming trend seemed to jump out at me that I had missed before. One of my high traffic lenses was dropping in rank and views. I needed to investigate. Sure enough, my graphs showed a marked [...]

Backlinks: How, Where, and Why Bother

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First of all, I just thought that I would give you a heads up that you will be hearing quite a lot from me about backlinks in the next few months.  The reason for this is that in the last Google update, I have really seen that backlinks have been part of the support network [...]

Google Panda Update Rollout Worldwide

Google Panda Update

If you are not yet aware, Google rolled out the second phase of its Panda update this week, with similar results across the globe that happened on Google.com in February.  They also made some tweaks to the U.S. version. What this update continues to show us is that Google is looking for ways to stamp [...]