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

Archive for September, 2008

» More pointers on submitting to squidoo groups

I’ve been cleaning out the groups my lenses are in for a few days now. This is a lot of work, because I have 90+ lenses and I used to submit to just about any squidoo group that was relevant to my topic. I’m nowhere near done either.
I’ve become a bit more … let’s [...]

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» More spicing up your lens… (advanced CSS tips)

I’ve been asked several times to explain how to combine the different code snippets on my Squidoo CSS – my favorite code to spice up a lens lens.
So, today I made that lens. It’s called ‘Advanced css for squidoo – spice up your lens MORE‘. like it’s predecessor it gives some coding examples you [...]

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» getting near 100 lenses :)

To my surprise I might actually make it to a hundred lenses before the deadline of sept. 30th. Weird – I’ve only just become a giant, and now I might make it into the elite corps of people who have a hundred quality squidoo lenses.
Lenses I’ve made recently:
I’ve made a lens explaining the proces [...]

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» The effect of a link…

I’d like to illustrate the power of links, and the power of google, a bit today.

I got a few links recently – on one lens this one link from an outside blog had the effect of:
More about Search Engine Optimization for Squidoo

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» Squidoo groups – some SEO pointers

Squidoo groups have been getting a bad rep recently. For one thing: we heard the group owners complain how hard they are to manage, and how much spam lenses they get to deal with.
For another: as lensowners we see many groups that are nothing but a promotion method for the group owner. Nothing in [...]

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» Top traffic lenses

Since my latest posts aren’t going to show up on the front page of squidtop anyhow (they’re about Squidoo Tag & Search Pages not indexed by google – implications and Rel no follow in squidoo btw) – I might as well do a post bragging about my top traffic lenses
So here goes (more [...]

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» Tag & Search Pages not indexed by google – implications

We found out recently that tag pages and search pages in squidoo don’t get indexed by google. So far most squidoo blogs have focused on what that means for specific squidoo pages, the kind we humans make…
The one giant in the room we missed so far is – I think – that this is REALLY [...]

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» Rel no follow in squidoo

All lensmasters should know a bit about SEO (Search Engine Optimization). Recent news however has made the task of deciding how to implement SEO on squidoo a bit more complicated. So for this post I decided to get back to basics: what links within squidoo actually count towards your link popularity? In other words: which [...]

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» On top in the Answer Deck!

I just noticed that my lens on the Introduction Module is suddenly getting heaps of traffic from the Squidoo Answer Deck. Turns out – they’re featuring it on top – with a nice picture and everything. Yeah – I’m psyched.
Now if all those visitors would actually VOTE… I guess newby’s don’t know it’s good [...]

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» Over 2000 visitors in the last week!

My stats are going crazy as my lens devoted to Wisdom Quotes is getting some major stumbleupon traffic
Here’s what my stats say:
“Wow. You have 89 lenses, visited 2,246 times in the last 7 days. (Of those, 88 lenses are featured, and 1 are still works-in-progress.)

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