http://squidooityourself.com Fri, 17 Aug 2007 02:09:12 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I've admittedly been less interested in Squidoo recently. Life gets in the way sometimes. As press, news, rumors and on-set videos began flying around for the new Indiana Jones 4 flick - I knew Squidoo was a perfect means by which to organize and aggregate all the data I was ... http://squidooityourself.com/2007/08/indiana-jones-and-the-squidoo-lens-of-doom/ All the Squidoo-related talk today is revolving around the fact that the network recently lost Google PageRank on it's main domain. Many speculate that this was largely due to the efforts of one man. Jason Calacanis of Mahalo has been waging a personal war against Squidoo for several months now, ... http://squidooityourself.com/2007/07/squidoo-a-hive-of-seo-scum-and-villany/ One of the reasons this site has fallen into a bit of disrepair is that - honestly - I lost a bit of interest. One of the reasons for this is the troubling lack of statistics Squidoo had to offer during it's first year and a half of existence. Last ... http://squidooityourself.com/2007/07/awesome-squidoo-statistics-update/ What exactly is online brand reputation management (BRM)? Basically, negative or malicious press in SERPS (search engine results pages) can be combated by creating positive content or and knowing where to post or submit it. If the positive content is deemed by the search engines to appear on more integral ... http://squidooityourself.com/2007/04/squidoo-for-online-reputation-management/ The Squidoo Flickr module was once one of my very favorites, and among the first I'd utilize upon registering a new lens. All one had to do was enter in a keyword or phrase, select the number of photos to be syndicated from the photo annals and presto! You had ... http://squidooityourself.com/2006/11/unfortunate-changes-to-the-flickr-lens-module/ The SIY team has assembled the best contents from blog posts, emails and plain old conversations and wrapped them up for you in a free ebook. You can download it here or from the the SquidBlog. Megan, Editor in Chief at Squidoo tells us it will also be featured on ... http://squidooityourself.com/2006/08/download-our-guide-to-it-yourself/ Flash video has spawned a wealth of popular new user-generated content sites, with YouTube and Google Video being at the forefront. Squidoo launched the new YouTube modules about three weeks ago, and they have to be the most exciting new plugin I have seen to date. They can't make you ... http://squidooityourself.com/2006/06/you-tube-modules-are-the-greatest-addition-yet/ Lenses can get real big - real fast. People tend to consider web pages that scroll down forwever as being sub-par. It's been ingrained into negative perception right along with frames and anchor tags. So if you find the size of your Squidoo lens spiraling out of control, you may ... http://squidooityourself.com/2006/05/dont-be-ashamed-of-multiple-lenses-on-related-topics/ I apologize to my 2 readers for the lack of post frequency this month. I won't make lame excuses. I will say that SIY is beginning to get significant search engine traffic, so it's time I got off my kiester and did some good old Squidoo-related writing. I have several lenses ... http://squidooityourself.com/2006/05/my-favorite-lens-and-why-it-rules-the-universe/ Squidoo lenses that I built back in October already have 5/10 Google Page Ranks, which is the minimum that the acceptance algorithms of many text link brokers will accept into their network. Several lenses are getting considerable traffic every day, and it's only a matter of time until SEO pros ... http://squidooityourself.com/2006/04/coming-real-soon-paid-links-in-squidoo-lenses/