Religion and Spirituality lenses (and more)

I just started a lens about squidoo money makers. Because I’m not actually making all that much from the affiliate programs squidoo offers (though it’s more than it was), I thought I’d turn this into a poll. I’ve put up the programs I’m on myself (including whether I’ve made anything or not) – as well [...]

My Humor and Hilarity group has been growing steadily. For those who are members (Poddys, hint?): please don’t forget to put your lenses in the link plexo if I haven’t featured them yet.
I’m featuring funny lenses about Valentines day, so those of you who have a lens that fits that description: please join the [...]

Potpiegirl wrote recently that she feels all that talk about ‘following your passion’ won’t make you a living online. At least that’s how I understood this post about niches. She should know. I don’t agree with all her advice (her advice on tags is different from mine – though it’s a nuance thing), but on [...]

My squidoo income is still mainly lensrank. However, I’ve recently come to earn about 20% of my squidoo income off actual sales. Looking at those statistics, I come to two conclusions about what sells:

Go really NICHE. I’ve got some low traffic lenses that are very specific where the sales equal those of top traffic lenses [...]

As you may know each squidoo lens has an RSS feed. Studying the stats on one of my highest traffic lenses I found that someone hadn’t just linked to my lens on their blog (which I would have been honored enough by), but they had actually put up the RSS feed of that lens on [...]

The upside of becoming a top 100 giant squid (and talking about it in the forums) is getting a lot more lensmasters checking out your lenses. Those pesky lenses at the bottom of my lenslist without any ratings? All been rated. But there are a few lenses that get actual traffic (and therefor aren’t hiding [...]

An SEO review is not complete without a look at links.
Yesterday I tackled on-page SEO factors: what AJ can do on her lens to make it most likely the search engines know what it’s about, and which serps (seach engine result pages) it should show up in.
Today it’s: how to get links for a lens [...]

AJ2008 made this lens in a self professed SEO experiment, and from my later conversation with her (through twitter and e-mail) she asked such good questions that I just had to ask her if I could do this review of her lens about weight loss. She graciously said yes (though I’m sure she’s wondering what [...]

Link plexo’s are one of the ways squidoo gives lensmasters a chance to get an easy backlink to their lenses. Yet – I’ve found that many people just don’t submit their lenses to link plexo’s.
Three examples of great backlink potential:
I took over the humor and hilarity group recently. It didn’t have a link plexo [...]

Well – I guess I’m kind of obsessed… I woke up this morning realizing I had dreamed about beating someone up over tags. I think that means I’m being hard on myself over tags. It might also be a hint: beat people up over tags!
Yet – I’ve gone on record saying tags aren’t that important. [...]