Integrity in Writing and Changes in Expectations

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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 [...]

Squidoo Content and Traffic Woes

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In the last two days, Squidoo HQ posted two articles regarding spamming and changes on Squidoo which you should read, Are you selling or spamming?, and Spun content and the need to be human.  Without getting into how these posts were presented, I suggest that you read through them and some of the comments, then [...]

A Squidoo 30 Lens Quest

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How many of you have this quest in your quest in box right now? Quest: Sammy the Salmon The time has come for Sammy the Salmon to move onward, switch gears and try something new but he’s having a little trouble. You can help him by completing this “Giant Squid Only” Epic Quest by October [...]

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 [...]