New Design and New Goal

This blog has a brand new design and I must say that I am really satisfied with this new look. The template is inspired by Daily Blog Tips, a very cool blog about blogging and making money online. If you don't know about Daily Blog Tips I really recommend you that you check it out! :)

This new design gives this blog a fresh look, it's easier to read and the advertisements really work well on templates with white background and sidebars on both sides of the blog. Revenue is one of the biggest reason for changing the design. This blog receives high traffic every day and income is rising day by day. So I guess this will increase the revenue of this blog a little bit more :)

I am still working on some minor changes in the layout and I will ad some very cool features and plugins in the short feature that all Squidoo lensmasters and marketers would most certainly love to use. Stay tuned for new updates and tools for Squidoo.

The main reason for this change is my goal to put this blog to a whole new level. I know that frequency of the posts on this blog doesn't quite go along with the title and my main goal is to change this. I am quite good at Squidoo now and I can say that I'm making good money there. So I have plenty of tips and advices to share with you. Therefore I decided to actually post a tip or article every day so this blog will actually be DAILY Squidoo tips. I hope this will increase both traffic and revenue even more.

I hope you like the new look. Stay tuned for some cool Squidoo tips in the future. Every day, I promise :)

Happy Halloween is a new Squidoo Magazine

Squidoo has a new magazine and few lensmasters received a message yesterday that some of our lenses were moved to this cool new magazine. Happy Halloween magazine is all about Halloween, it's a blog-like page and it's a very cool move made by Squidoo in time of preparation for this holiday. Affiliate marketing earnings sykrock during Halloween and Christmas and therefore this move is really nice decision and it will surely benefit for many lensmasters and bring more money in their accouts.

Go to Happy Halloween magazine and see it for yourself. The page has a really nice design, is well structured, easy to browse and it already have a lot of relevant and cool content. So I guess this will benefit for our rankings too.

Below are some highlihts of this magazine. Things that I personally love and miss on this new Squidoo feature. Hope they'll add these things in the future :)

Things I like on Happy Halloween magazine

• Design
• Advertising placement
• Facebook connection

Things I miss on Happy Halloween magazine

• Lensrank information on the lens

My Squidoo lenses on Happy Halloween magazine

• Donnie Darko Halloween Costume
• Sexy Cop Costumes

Backlinking strategy for Squidoo lenses

We all know how important SEO and backlinks are for your Squidoo rankings and your Squidoo earnings. There are numerous articles and tips about backlinks and search engine optimization that will help your lens to be seen on the first page of Google and if you want to achieve this goals you can find all the answers by browsing through the Answer Deck on Squidoo and search for SEO related lenses. If you want to make some money creating backlinks for your lenses please check out my lens Make Money with Backlinks.

Below is a simple but very powerful image that shows a link wheel for the best backlinking strategy that will boost the ranking of your lens on Squidoo and surely get your lens found in all major search engines. Click the image to view it in full size and than save it on your computer. Print it if you want. Put it on the wall near your computer. This is the ultimate strategy for creating a good SEPO strategy and using free sites for creating high quality backlinks and boost your lens rankings and earnings.

The main page in the image represent your chosen Squidoo lens in our example. The image shows the best blogging platforms, article submission  sites, bookamrking sites and some other SEO tools that you need to link from in order to start a great SEO strategy for your Squidoo lenses. Put some work into this strategy and I can assure you that your lensrank will boost very soon!

How to Check out Page Rank of your Lenses

Webmasters and bloggers know that page rank is an important part of SEO and it also benefits for advertising reasons. In this post I want to show you an awesome tool to quickly check out page rank of any website, blog or Squidoo lens.

If you're making Squidoo lenses to support your blogs and other projects than it's quite cool if you have lenses with high page rank and links from these lenses to your other online projects. Google simpatize with these pages and you will improve positions of your pages in search results.

A lot of advertising network also rank their publishers based on page rank of their submitted sites. Some of them even reject your submissions if your website don't have a required page rank for qualification. This comes handy if you try to monetize your Squidoo lenses with some other affiliate and advertising networks.

So how to check out page rank of your lenses? Simple! Check out free Page Rank Tool. You can go to the page and check it there or use the embedded tool below. Just enter the link of your Squidoo lenses and click "Check PR" button. That's it, you're done!

Check Page Rank of your Web site pages instantly:

This page rank checking tool is powered by Page Rank Checker service

Google +1 button is now live on all featured lenses

Great news for wall Squidoo lensmasters who are not in the Giant Squid club yet! Squidoo recently added almighty Google +1 button to all featured lenses so this cool little button is now live on your lenses marked green! That's surely a great news and a great new feature!

Read the official announcement here.

So, what so you have to say about this new update? Do you think this new feature will bring more traffic to your lenses? Will you +1 your favorite lenses? I really want to see what you have to say about this cool new update...

Big redesign of Squidoo Lenses

Squidoo made some big changes this week and they redesigned the look of the lenses, added some new feautures and removed some previous features. You can read the official announcement of these changes in their blog post.

The majority of changes don't really affect anything, some new features are really great but some cool things has been removed. Below you can see what new and what's not there anymore.

New feaures on Squidoo Lenses:

• Tweet button and Facebook Share button are added to lenses
• 3 brand new (and really nice) templates

R.I.P. features on Squidoo:

• Fan clubs are gone
• You can no longer add lenses to your favorites
• Some html attributes are no longer allowed in custom bio on your lenses
• Lensrolling is no more

Will these changes really affect SEO, traffic and overall rankings? Maybe. We can't say this yet. I really like new sharing buttons and overall look of lenses. I'll sure miss fan clubs and favirte lenses. But one things is for sure - we need some time to accpet new changes, Squidoo is still an awesome site!

And now I want to hear from you! What do you think about new design and features on Squidoo lenses? Do you like them? Do you miss something? Would you recommend something to Squidoo? Share you comments!