Archive for August, 2008
Sometimes squidoo is very surprising. The explore related pages bit seems a bit off in this screenshot of my lens on the ultimate spiritual and religious questions:
The first lens referred to there is my lens about squidoo modules. Don’t get me wrong: I think that’s a great lens, but why is it referenced there? The [...]
I finally did it. I started my own self hosted blog. Check out All Considering.
I’ve already posted about
Loving your neighbours
Dreaming your life - or living it?
My spiritual path: pondering (or jnana yoga)
Can a person live on a vegan diet?
And on: being personal - or impersonal
I plan to write about ‘The Secret’, black magic and more.
I [...]
English is my second language. Dutch being my mother tongue. Because I read a lot, technical texts are easy for me. But when it comes to discussing the weather, or fruit, or birds or medicine - I’m often lost. But squidoo comes to the rescue (a bit) - and I made a lens on that: [...]
I’ve been waiting for a clear response by the search engines to having less automatically posted internal squidoo links (aka: links in the ‘explore related lenses‘ section). Can’t say I see a pattern. It’s been only 11 days - so perhaps I’m too quick to report on stats, but here goes.
My lens on spiritual [...]
Either the perfect lens on reading food labels hasn’t been made yet (hint), or it’s just too complicated a subject to fit into one lens. I’m not sure which it is. anyhow, here are two lenses that do actually help, some.
The first is In your food: food additives. It discusses food additives that are [...]
As you’ve all heard I’m thinking of starting my own blog. This means that I am also researching what promotion methods I should expand on. One of these, possibly, is twitter. I’m not sure I’m up for the distraction, but I have heard that it works for others. So I’ve signed up: spirituality - aka [...]
I woke up this morning all sick and tired of squidoo. A lot of it seems to be a popularity contest, and I’ve always hated those. So I was all prepared to write a sarcastic blogpost about it and say good bye to you all. But see the power of squidoo: I actually created a [...]
I plan to go to India again in a few years, and thought I’d try and lighten my summer up by familiarizing myself with their music. I’ve studied India (its history, culture, religion and philosophy) a lot over the past few years - but their music is still pretty much virgin territory for me.
So [...]
There is every indication that google ranks sites based on all kinds of things: one of them being whether it ‘trusts’ a site.
Google trust is composed of several aspects (some of these are speculation):
age of the site
trusted links to that site
type of domain (.com , .org, .info, .tk)
amount of links to that site
signs of [...]
Most of my points yesterday were about the kinds of links that stay put: they are the most valuable for long term SEO (Search Engine Optimisation). Short term fresh links matter too.
I’ve been thinking about this, because squidoo is a place where a lot of the links are dynamic: they stay up only as [...]