Religion and Spirituality lenses (and more)

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

Archive for February, 2009

» Two lenses in the squidoo top 100 :)

Hi all,
I’m honored to report that for a few days now I’ve had not one but TWO lenses in the squidoo top 100.
I’m sure most of you are familiar with my Spiritual Quotes and Wisdom Sayings lens. It’s been in the top 100 on and off for some time, and seems to have found a [...]

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» A story of a successful lens

The is the story of a lens that gets most traffic. Today it gets, as you can see, about a hundred visitors a day. That’s enough for a permanent spot in the squidoo top 2000, and with people voting on it regularly it’s enough for a regular spot in the top 100 as well. It [...]

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» Introducing… Katinka’s Squidoo Answer Deck

Hi all,
I thought I’d take AJ up on her suggestion that all my squidoo help lenses should be gathered in one place. I don’t need squidoo HQ for that, after all. I just made my own (umpteenth) lensography:
Katinka’s Squidoo Answer Deck
Take a look to see if you have seen them all. There are a [...]

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» My 150th squidoo lens :)

Hi all, I crossed another line today: I now have 150 published squidoo lenses. The latest addition to the pack is about forum promotion.

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» Squidoo help lenses as linkbait

Linkbait? Linkbait is material that is put online not to make money, but to get links. Then when the links are there, the page in question will just link to whatever commercial content the owner wants to have rank better.

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» A wrong SEO assumption

What ranks well MUST have a better link profile than what doesn’t? Right? Wrong! I came across this misconception on some squidoo blog or other.
One of the ways to find relevant pages to get links from is to just google that phrase in google and ask links off everybody who ranks in the top [...]

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» REAL squidoo blogs on squidtop

This post is two things: a hat tip to other squidoers on squidtop who are doing a real job blogging (as opposed to spamming or just link dropping) & also just appreciating the community.
[Oh, and it's turning into a reminder for everyone who hasn't to please personalize your squidtop blog. Get yourself a title, [...]

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» Squidoo groups – I’m a sucker for titles…

The squidoo HQ blog is NOT by squidoo HQ. Which was a relief for me when I found out, because I didn’t agree with all it said. But I’m still subscribed to the RSS feed – as I am to all squidoo blogs I can find.
But this weekend I totally suckered in. I saw [...]

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» Spiritual Gift Ideas

I’ve been making a lot of spiritual product lenses lately (say the last month or two).
Here’s the list so far:

Spiritual gift ideas for him
Goddess Art Posters
Mandala Posters
Spiritual Oracle Cards
Spiritual cards
Spiritual Calendars
Witches, Wicca and Pagan calendars
Pagan Calendars
Christian Calendars
Motivational Calendars
Astrological calendars and year guides

Buddhism Calendars
Mandala Calendars

Spiritual Quotes Calendars

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