5 Quick Ways to Make a Better Lens

Creating a lens is  as much an art as it is a science. Yeah, you can do all the keyword research you want, and you can follow all the SEO “rules” but there are some things that will help your conversion that have to come from a place other than the numbers and rules… they have to come from you.

Here’s some tips to get your lenses to convert better.

1. Pick something you care [...] Continue Reading…

New Squidoo Module: Recipe Module

For all of you recipe lovers out there.. you’re going to be jazzed! Squidoo now has a new module. It’s specifically designed to use with recipes. Let’s take a look.

You can find the module under “all modules” and then under R ~ it’s the recipe module.

Once you’ve added it, open to edit.

You’ll need to give the module a title ~ I went with the recipe name. You can also provide a description here as [...] Continue Reading…

Reader Squidoo Lens Review

In a recent post I offered up some keywords I had found. They were keywords that didn’t exactly fit the mold for the Squidoo Christmas Cash template, but would still work quite well for lenses, you’d just need to use a little imagination. If you chose to create a unique lens (not using the exact SCC template) I would put your lens through Traffic Bug for you. There were some of you who took [...] Continue Reading…

5 Easy Steps to Get Your Lens Indexed

Once you publish your lens the next step in the process is to get Google to know it’s there. This is called getting your lens “indexed”. Google is basically a huge index of all the sites out there in the world wide web. Every second tons more sites go live and the little Google bots go out there to find them. This can take some time ~ these bots have a lot to look [...] Continue Reading…

Sometimes You Gotta Change Things UP

The biggest problem with being an internet marketing teacher and giving such step by step information, like I do, is your readers take you so literally.

I know everyone wants a road map. I know I wanted a road map when I was just getting started. I wanted someone to say “here do this and you’ll be successful and making money”. I RRRR wanted a list. So I could just follow the list and [...] Continue Reading…

3 Most Asked Squidoo Questions

I get emails about Squidoo pretty frequently. Most of the emails have some version of the same three questions. Here’s the questions from an email I received yesterday. I’ve taken out the hi, how are you’s, and just left the questions.
1. How long lens will be indexed and get ranking on page 1 google? 3-6 months?

2. Sorry this is quite to the point, but do you think we are able to get decent income [...] Continue Reading…

What to Do When You Can’t Use Amazon

This morning a KISS Club member told me about some of the payment issues she’s having with Amazon since she lives in Canada. She decided she no longer wanted to use Amazon as her primary affiliate network and wondered what else was available. I answered her question and we’re working together to figure out her best options, but I wanted to talk today about the alternatives to Amazon.

There are many other options, and they [...] Continue Reading…

Choose Your Weapon…

I talk about keyword research a lot around here. I know I do. It’s because it is the most important thing. It’s the foundation of your lens! When I talk about keyword research I offer different options, different tools, different ways to go about learning the things you need to know to choose a good keyword.

I do this because I want to provide information that will fit everyone ~ what they have available to [...] Continue Reading…