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» Recent squidoo and webdesign help articles

I have a feeling many of you haven’t switched over to my Marketing Spiritual Blog yet, to keep up with my squidoo help tips So I thought I’d do an update here. Note that I’ve set it up so it’s easy to subscribe by email on there.
So here are my most recent help [...]

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» Squidoo tips Dec 2009 & Jan 2010

I’d already wished you all a Happy New Year, but I’d forgotten to mention the blogposts I’ve recently written on my Marketing Spiritual blog. Since today I’ve added a third, I thought I’d share them with you here:

Clean up after the holidays: page speed and more
Christmas is gone and online marketing is getting back to [...]

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» New squidoo lenses november 2009

I’ve been very busy this month making lenses. I became Citizen Squid: SEO Mentor and that has caused me to make several lenses. I also love the new squidquiz template and have been making quizzes about all my major topics. The series is only just started I’m sure.
But let me start with the lens [...]

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» Meet the new squidoo SEO mentor & learn about tags

There’s a new addition to the squidoo mentor team, and it’s yours truly I set up the SEO/Marketing mentor lens, though I’ve stayed mostly on the SEO side for this one. Where my original SEO lens was more theory minded, this new lens is much more practical. As in: this is what you [...]

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» Launch new squidoo seo & marketing blog

As I was preparing the launch of my new blog, which I’ve started because I needed a home for my ebook, I came across this post, written Oct. 2008. How happy I was to have 3000 visitors in that week In contrast, this week I had over 15000 visitors to my squidoo lenses. [...]

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» Squidoo friends – Giving tribute to great lenses and lensmasters

I’m starting a squidoo blog here to give tribute to great lensmasters. You’ll find my best squidoo friends in the lensroll. The blogposts will be sort of a continuation of my Thank You Lensmaster blog. I think I’ve interviewed the main lensmasters, though if I find new great lensmasters, I’m sure to interview them… But [...]

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» My 250th lens is out :)

Most of my big number lenses have been just ordinary lenses. This time is no exception. I’d published my 250th lens before I knew it. It’s Spiritual and religious desk Calendars 2010. The 249th was also devoted to desk calendars.
In honor of having made it to 250, I am devoting this blogpost to my [...]

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» Competition for squidtop: crabbysbeach!

Drifter just started Crabbysbeach. Like squidtop it’s a platform where squidoo lensmasters can start blogs to promote their lenses. Unlike squidtop, crabbysbeach is, for now ad-free. It’s also better SEO optimized out of the box. If you look at the title tag for this blogpost for instance, you’ll first see the general title of this [...]

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» what I just did to get 5% more traffic to my squidoo lenses…

That’s right, I just got my squidoo lenses about 5% more traffic within a week.
Read more here: improving traffic with tags.
Now I hope that wasn’t too complicated… Here’s more (and easier) info on SEO for squidoo.

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» Finishing giant squid summer school :)

First assignment: caption contest:
I loved the caption plexo module. I used it in several of the other lenses in this summerschool. This one is perhaps not the best in the set: spiritual pictures.
Second assignment: favorite thing:
We were told to make a lens about the thing we would most miss if it got burned in a [...]

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