Religion and Spirituality lenses (and more)

Weblog from Katinka Hesselink on any lenses she may decide to make :)

Archive for August, 2008

» Links that matter… SEO ponderings

Links are powerful for search engine optimization (especially google).

They’re the reason why lensographies are important.
They’re the reason why I do think having only one profile is preferable to having several

But links aren’t created equal. Some links are more powerful than others.
Powerful links are:

Links that have been around for a while. The longer the better. (Every [...]

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» Spiritual lensmasters – I need your help, and you just might get an interview :)

I’m starting a blog on my own site about religion, spirituality, personal development etc. It’s going to be a blog in which I focus on spiritual growth and where I want to interview people from all kinds of spiritual traditions about THEIR path. Their inspiration. Their struggles.
But for now I’m stumped on deciding what to [...]

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» Keeping up to date with your niche – with google blog search (the module)

I love putting Google blog search modules on my lenses. It really helps your lens stay current.
What it also does however, and I don’t think this is stressed enough, is to help YOU keep up to date with what’s up in the blogosphere. In other words: if I want to promote a lens, the [...]

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» SEO for squidoo – some unscientific experiments

My google traffic overall has dropped – though some lenses are doing better than before.
The squidu forums gave three suggestions:

Turn OFF Explore related pages in your introduction module.
Cut back on tags
Get (quality) links

The last one is a no-brainer. But getting quality links to every lens that has suddenly lost google traffic is going to [...]

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» Squidoo lens review – new blog – interviewed me :)

Mimi, aka growwear, started a blog specifically about lens reviews. In it she not only featured one of my lenses recently – she also interviewed me. So without further ado: Here’s her interview with me, about squidoo and my best lenses.

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» Saturday Market in Leiden, The Netherlands

I’ve done 3 squidcasts today, so I think I’ll just have this blogpost posted tomorrow (on sunday that is) – instead of bothering my squidoo fans with ANOTHER squidcast…
Anyhow, on my lens about my hometown Leiden, I’ve added pictures I made today of our local saturday market. As you can see it’s a busy affair, [...]

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» CSS tricks – On the Giant Community Showcase :)

Hey – my Lens on CSS coding tricks to spice up your lens got awarded the Giant Community Showcase. I’m so honoured

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