When you get down to basics, lensroll.com is a popularity contest. The most popular are featured on the front page (as well as me skimming through the submissions list every morning and opening up interesting lenses and bumping to published status if I enjoy the read). To do something different, we’re trialling a new way for you to prove just how popular you are, by allowing anonymous voting. One vote per IP address. So after you’ve submitted your lens to Lensroll.com, send your unique lensroll.com URL to your family, friends and work colleagues and ask them to open the page, and click on Vote. They don’t even have to sign up at the site.

Because lets be honest, most of your fan base isn’t going to be made up of Lensroll registrants, or even Squidoo Lensmasters, but people you know. And it’s about time they got a chance to give you a big thumbs up!

So stop by www.lensroll.com and submit your best lens, and lets see it voted up to the front page.

This post via the Lensroll Social Blog where you can get the latest news and information on writing good content.

Popularity Contest

Similar Lensroll news:

1. Changes to Lensroll’s Front Page Voting Requirements
2. What is and how to use Lensroll
3. Lens Of The Day?
4. Squality Control
5. Observing The Knol: Search Results

Creating Page Titles

Use tools like Google Adwords to determine your strongest keywords for the page. Under the “how would you like to generate keywords” box, choose the “website content” option, enter the page URL, and a list of keywords relevant to the page will be displayed. Work with those keywords when creating a title. Google’s Search-Based Keyword Tool is another excellent tool for this purpose.

Your title should convey your message to visitors and searchers, but it also has to stand out. If you have created a page for weight loss, simply using weight loss as the title isn’t good enough. You should use titles like “Lose Weight Naturally in 15 Days” or “Weight Loss without Crash Diets” – sounds good?

Once you’ve written the title, look for ways to make it better. Is it boring? Does it look like every other title on the page? Never be satisfied!

How Long Should the Page Title be?

Keep titles around 60 characters. If a title is too long Google swaps out the extra words for ellipses (…) aka “blah blah blah.”

To recap, here are a few tips when it comes to writing titles:

• Keep the title around 60-65 characters. Not too long or too short.
• Keep it relevant and specific to the page content.
• Make each title unique.
• Stay away from generic, uninformative titles like Homepage (boring) or Page 1 of eBook (snoozer).
• Don’t keyword stuff the title.
• Don’t overuse CAPS.

source - Can Title Tags (Page Titles) Boost Rank?
resource – Adwords Keyword Tool

This post via the Lensroll Social Blog where you can get the latest news and information on writing good content.

Creating Effective Page Titles

Similar Lensroll news:

1. Recommended Link Titles
2. Recommended META Description Tags
3. Using Twitter – Part I – An Introduction
4. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Lensmasters
5. Observing The Knol: Search Results

“What happened to my Lensroll bookmarks? I’m sure I submitted my work to  the Lensroll directory but they are gone. I don’t understand.”

If you do, this might lend you a hint as to where they may have gone.

Reasons a bookmark may be missing from Lensroll:

• Title was in all CAPS
• 4 or more lenses were submitted consecutively
• Unwanted content
• Titles stuffed with keywords

The last one is a real pet peeve of ours. Here’s an example of what we’re talking about;  Blue Widget | Pretty Blue Widget | Best Blue Widget.

This tactic for writing titles was taught by several seo’s a few years back but now-a-days has more of a negative impact on your listing. It’s consider a spamming tactic.

The web is a dynamic place and has evolved well beyond stuffing titles with keywords. Chances are if your title is excessively stuffed with keywords it will be bull-dozed into nonexistence.

If you need examples of what we consider good title writing you need look no further than the directory. There are plenty of great titles to learn from.

Learn how to write good titles that catch the readers attention and makes them want to click rather than trying to force a search engine into knowing what your content is about. Rest assured the se’s will figure it out.

Another reason bookmarks might be MIA is the content they consist of. We accept a lot of different subject matter but there are things that just don’t belong.

Unwanted content:

• Ringtones
• Weight-loss
• Porn
• Teeth whiting
• Acne
• Get ex back
• Anything that smells of a MLM rip-off
• Low quality content
• Duplicate content (ie: copy and paste from a clickbank sales page)

If any of these topics are found it will be deleted. If we miss it, the community has the power to vote it down and eventually off the site.

We are more than happy to offer Lensroll up as a place to show off your work but we don’t just allow the junk to pile up around the doors. We take great care to keep the place clean (human monitored) so that we can keep the site in good position in the serp’s and deliver the best quality traffic and backlinks for lensmaster’s and their work that we possibly can.

Hope this helps explain where some bookmarks are, why they go there and how to prevent them getting there.

This post via the Lensroll Social Blog where you can get the latest news and information on writing good content.

Case Of Missing Lensroll Bookmarks

Similar Lensroll news:

1. Creating Effective Page Titles
2. Recommended Link Titles
3. Changes to Lensroll’s Front Page Voting Requirements
4. Recommended META Description Tags
5. Lensroll Profile Woes

Upon a recent visit to SquidU members forum I happened upon a thread titled - Your profile on…..in the thread SoyCandleLover-Maker commented that they were unable to view their profile on the Lensroll directory.

It appears that we have had a small hick-up in our username system since our last upgrade that has gone undetected to us. If your user name had a dash in it your profile page returned a 404.

Well, after a mod rewrite we are happy to say that we’ve fixed this problem. Profiles that have dashes in the username are now completely viewable.

Personal info, Submitted, Published, Upcoming Lenses, Commented, Voted and Saved – all working.

This post via the Lensroll Social Blog where you can get the latest news and information on writing good content.

Lensroll Profile Woes

Similar Lensroll news:

1. Build a Brand Part II
2. Popularity Contest
3. Indian Lensmasters about to get a big (unpleasant) surprise
4. Using Twitter Part III – Twitter Tactics
5. Fit Write In

But what if in a world of people not asking for hand outs, just doing their thing and creating meaningful, worthwhile and perhaps even entertaining content they could get tips from grateful pedestrians.

We see it with people busking. The ones that reap the rewards aren’t in your face, they’re extremely talented.

For it to work online there would need to be a system that was quicker than paypal and as much fun as a social networking vote (a la Digg).

Someone has created such an application. It’s called Flattr.

Will it work? I don’t know. Watch the video and don’t make draw any conclusions. Think about it for the next 24 hours, and then try and convince yourself it’s a bad idea.

This post via the Lensroll Social Blog where you can get the latest news and information on writing good content.

Flattr for Squidoo?

Similar Lensroll news:

1. Twitter: Oh So Expert Social Network
2. Indian Lensmasters about to get a big (unpleasant) surprise
3. How To Double Your Conversion Rate
4. The Death of the Pareto Principle
5. Squoogle: Article Directory

Unless it is resolved here’s what an Indian Lensmaster is likely to get when Squidoo payment is made soon:

“Your payment of xxx has been sent back to the sender of the payment. We reversed this payment because we have stopped allowing personal payments to be sent to or from India.

If this was a payment for a purchase of goods or services, and not a personal payment, then you may contact the buyer and have him or her resend the payment as follows: (a) click the Send Money tab, (b) select “Goods,” and (c) provide a shipping address.

If this payment was a personal payment such as a gift, then we have requested that the sender find another payment method until we restore personal payments to and from India. We are trying to resolve this issue as quickly as possible and we’re sorry for any inconvenience.”

Apparently it might only be a temporary problem because the Bank of India haven’t furnished specific documents that Paypal have asked for.

Hopefully it will be sorted out soon.

See more details here: Paypal India Outage – No Payments to or from India

This post via the Lensroll Social Blog where you can get the latest news and information on writing good content.

Indian Lensmasters about to get a big (unpleasant) surprise

Similar Lensroll news:

1. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Lensmasters
2. Flattr for Squidoo?

My top 10 squidoo tips

as you’ve probably noticed, i’m in love with squidoo. i think it’s such a great way to earn extra cash and to get traffic, too. so here are a few tips to make sure your lenses are the best they can be, in order to increase both traffic …

Squidoo Tips and Thoughts

skip to main | skip to sidebar. Squidoo Tips and Thoughts … SquidBuilders.com. http://www.squidbuilders.com. Squidoo Lens building service! Get a keyword rich Squidoo lens built for your business! …

Squidoo Bio Backlinks Boost SEO

SquidU’s Lensmaster Lounge: Help for New Squids; Squidoo SEO: Help Search Engines Send Traffic to You; Squidoo Tips: Building Web Traffic; Convert Your Prius to a Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle (PHEV); Make a Fancy Table of Contents …

3 Easy Squidoo Tips

Regardless of whether it is to-ma-to or tom-a-to, I thought I’d give you 3 quick and easy tips to get your Squidoo lenses on the roll. Keyword links rule the interweb – If you don’t know what a keyword link is, here is the simple …

Ten Tips for Building Your Business Squidoo Lens

Using a popular Web 2.0 site, Squidoo, I cover some basic tips when creating a Squidoo lens to drive traffic and help your search engine rankings.

5 SEO Tips From Squidoo Lensmasters

You can create your own free websites, earn money for you and for charities, and connect with other Squidoo users, called lensmasters on the Squidu forum. For today’s post I was lucky enough to get five SEO tips from three of Squidoo’s …

Do you know of other blogs that post great tips?

Speak out…

This post via the Lensroll Social Blog where you can get the latest news and information on writing good content.

Squidoo Lens Tips From The Sphere

Similar Lensroll news:

1. Celebrating Useless Keyword Victories
2. The Squidoo Greetbox
3. Through Versus To
4. Squidoo Lensmaster Interview with Oniyagi
5. Interview with TheFluffaNutta

It’s one of my pet peeves, seeing default titles (eg: New Guestbook, New…) in a published lens.

Now I speak about myself when I say this, not just pointing the finger at every else.

Ostracize and exorcise the default module title!

Customize your titles. Personalize it.

Now mistakes are one thing, but lack of experience is another.

I think it’s one of the quickest ways a Squid Newbie can go from looking like a novice to presenting themselves as a professional.

It’s not hard to look good at Squidoo. The slick page layout and design is already there. All we have to do is input the content. It’s easy to get into a habit of renaming the default module titles.

This post via the Lensroll Social Blog where you can get the latest news and information on writing good content.

Unsightly Default Titles

Similar Lensroll news:

1. The Bare Essentials
2. Creating Effective Page Titles
3. Tagfoot and Squidoo: a match made in Heaven
4. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Lensmasters
5. Squidoo Interview with Lensmaster KilnGoddess

This post via the Lensroll Social Blog where you can get the latest news and information on writing good content.

What is Adsense?

Similar Lensroll news:

1. Visitor Courtesy
2. Parenting the new battlefield for magazines
3. Twitter: Oh So Expert Social Network
4. Lens Of The Day Rewards
5. Google Knol Follow?

I couldn’t believe what I read. If I understood it correctly, it gave me a sick feeling in my stomach.

So I forwarded the link to my wife, without any commentary on my part, to see her reaction.

Her first response was “I don’t know what you want me to say about this, but I think it’s idiotic”.

Maybe she was thinking that I was thinking that I wanted her to think that it was a fantastic idea. But we don’t sugar coat anything for each other. We call it as we see it.

Now I’m not going to use this blog post to discuss the finer points of what has been described by some as brandjacking. You can read articles and reader comments about that on TechCrunch, Blogstorm and Outspoken Media.

You may or may not agree with either Seth, blogger responses or reader feedback. Maybe you’re confused. Or you’ve decided to sit on the fence. But what I want to talk about is this:

“The first 100 brands that sign up will benefit from a share of the $500,000 in house ads Squidoo will run across the site promoting the service and the first partnering brands.”

What does this mean? What are they planning on doing? And how does this effect Lensmasters?

Allow me to make a few assumptions:

1) Squidoo Inc figures that x amount of ads over x amount of time or x amount of impressions throughout squidoo.com is worth half a million dollars.

2) To promote the brandsinpublic Squidoo will use ad space on lenses, our lenses, to promote this new service.

3) Glam ads suck, no doubt about it. But we get a cut of those profits. It has been said that they don’t perform as well as Squidoo would like, which isn’t surprising because they’re so inappropriate (and at times offensive).

Now allow me to ask a few questions:

1) Do the Glam ads get tossed and replaced by this half a million dollar ad campaign?

2) Does half the revenue from the projected $400 a month from each Brands In Public lens go into the Lensmaster Co-op and get paid to lensmasters?

3) Or is this honeypot solely for Squidoo HQ’s enjoyment?

If the answers to those questions yes, no and yes, how does that make us feel?

I certainly hope that’s not the case.

This post via the Lensroll Social Blog where you can get the latest news and information on writing good content.

Brandjacking, Shark Jumping and Squidploitation?

Similar Lensroll news:

1. Squid Sauce Source Part I
2. The Squidoo Greetbox
3. Actor Kutcher followed by one million twits
4. Four play…
5. Visitor Courtesy