tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-173428952009-11-27T11:42:42.148-08:00This blog is developed by Ron Passfield, PhD, affiliate marketing coach, who is helping affiliate marketers develop their affiliate business. This blog offers free affiliate marketing resources, affiliate marketing articles, reviews of affiliate programs and evaluation of affiliate marketing strategies. Learn about blogging and building your blog traffic.Ron Passfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06227464273458065412noreply@blogger.comBlogger237125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17342895.post-56727095134646197912009-11-07T13:40:00.000-08:002009-11-08T23:50:25.473-08:00

Here I am following the framework I developed for Squidoo lens design: 7 Top Strategies for Lens Creation. 1. Purpose of the Squidoo Lens The main purpose of my Tropical Rainforest Squidoo lens was to share something of my experience of walking in the Mt Glorious rainforest in Brisbane early one misty Sunday morning.  My subsidiary purpose was to promote rainforest

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I was recently asked by Mari Smith, Facebook and social media expert, to present a webinar on Squidoo for her Social Media Certification Course. My webinar covered the philosophy of Squidoo, the steps for effective lens design, how to promote a small business, integrating Squidoo with other social media and how to build your personal brand on Squidoo through congruity and transparency. Here is

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In a previous post, I identified the 7 Top Strategies for Lens Creation, so I will use these steps as a framework for discussing this new lens. 1. Purpose of the Squidoo Lens Alan Jansson is an expert in Japanese Acupuncture who is dedicated to his profession and keen to train others in the subtleties and potency of his art.  The lens is designed to promote his teachings and workshops

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I've created 3 Squidoo lenses lately that address the issue of creating an authority site. The first of these looks at "why create an authority site"?: http://www.squidoo.com/authoritysite The arguments for an authority site are numerous and I can vouch for the positive impacts of having an authority site. The second explores the reasons why you should create your authority site on

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I have been with Hostgator.com since 2006 and currently have five web sites hosted with them.  Besides hosting your website you can easily add a WordPress Blog. What appeals to me about Hostgator as a web hosting service is: online chat facility to address any technical problems quality training materials including videos  speedy response to requests competent, expert staff capacity to

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In a previous post, I identified the 7 Top Strategies for Lens Creation, so I will use these steps as a framework for discussing this new lens. 1. Purpose of the Squidoo Lens In this lens I wanted to focus on the health and wellness of Baby Boomers, challenge a damaging myth about BabyBoomers and technology and promote an affiliate program for anti-aging fitness. 2. Concept of the Squidoo

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 I have created two new audio tutorials about RedGage. 1. RedGage Explained Discusses the RedGage site as a social bookmarking andsocial networkingsite and explains the four ways to earnmoney on Redgage.What is RedGage?  2. How to Promote on RedGageShows how to use the cross-posting facility on RedGage tobuild multiple backlinks for your blogs, websites and Squidoo lenses.Promote Your Squidoo

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Here are four ways to promote your Squidoo lens on the socialbookmarking site, RedGage.1. Upload the URL of the Squidoo lensUse the "upload link" option to record the URL of your Squidoo lens.You add title, description and keywords.2. Upload the URL of a module of your Squidoo lensAgain use the "upload link" option but select an appropriate moduleand add a relevant title and description and

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Well I was the guest speaker on BlogTalkRadio forthe Giant Squid Open Mike Show onMonday 18 August.This was great fun and a fantastic way to connect topeople and hear their voices. Besides, it is a greatforum for learning about Squidoo and Web 2.0 marketing.This venture by Joan Adams and Kate Loving Shenkis very much in line with Seth Godin's philosophy ofcollaborative marketing epitomized by

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This post discusses the lens design for my 87th lens,Montville Queensland.In a previous post, I identified the 7 Top Strategies forLens Creation, so I will use these steps as a frameworkfor discussing this new lens.1. Purpose of the Squidoo LensThis lens was designed to share the beauty and romanceof Montville with others. I wanted to highlight thepanoramic views, romantic accommodation,

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My 86th Squidoo lens introducesa range of videos I havedeveloped about the newRedGage social bookmarkingand social networkingsite.What differentiates RedGage is thatit pays you for your content.My Squidoo lens about RedGage video tutorialscovers a number of key areas:why use RedGage?3 ways to make money on RedGagesocial networking on RedGagehow to add friendsYou can view the video tutorials about

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My Squidoo Lens about the wonderfulFootpath Library initiative recently wona Purple Star Award.The Purple Star award is given only for outstanding lensescreated by Giant Squids. So you have to first become aGiant Squid to be eligible.Details of the Purple Star Program on Squidoo canbe found here:http://www.squidoo.com/purplestarHow to win a Purple Star? Here's the advice from theProgram

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In a recent invited post for the SquidLog blog, I highlightedthe need to be conscious of the way that Google indexesSquidoo lens.Some of the key messages were:it is not enough to concentrate on your primary keyword alonetoo much emphasis on the primary keyword can result in loss of rankusing keywords irrelevant to the lens focus can result in penaltiesThe secret is to think broad and stay

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RedGage, the new social bookmarking and social networkingsite has monthly contests to encourage users to contributepositively to the development of the site.The details of the August RedGage contest are shown here:August ContestFor the month of August, the RedGage Contest has two parts:a raffle and a competition.The RaffleRedGage users can collect points for receiving views,rating content,

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Well this email was a surpirse:"You have been chosen to be one of the sixteenFeatured Users on the RedGage Homepage.Click the following link to view the homepage:http://www.redgage.com/"So if you do click the home page you will see me (ronpass)featured - just click the username and that takes youto my profile page and my Collections.So what did I do to deserve this featured status?I don't know

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Squidoo: The Challenge to Make a DifferencePosted using ShareThis

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Squidoo provides the opportunity to promote your favorite charity.You can build a lens promoting the charity, encourage charitymembers to create their own Squidoo lenses about theorganization or work with the charity over time tohelp them to become recognized by Squidoo.If you take this latter course the charity will be able to receivedonations via Paypal from Squidoo members and Squidoo

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Redgage is not just a social bookmarking site foruploading photos, links and videos. It is very mucha social networking site. The richness of the onlinecontent is more than matched by the richness anddiversity of the network.RedGage facilitates the building of your social networkthrough the add a friend button, the ability to store contentin Collections and the capacity to develop a

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Well I joined RedGage about a month ago and I am nowenjoying the fruits of my efforts.I've made $83 to date just from uploading some of myonline content (a miniscule fraction - about .1%).There are three ways to earn on RedGage as I explainin this video:I like the fact that you get paid for your backlinksthat you create on RedGage - much better than havingto pay for them (...and some of mine have

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No, not really, there are no Monsters at Squidoo.Squidoo is currently experimenting with differentforms of advertising to increase revenues for charityand Squidoo Lensmasters. Obviously, the currenteconomic recession is biting into revenues everywhere.Squidoo, as usual, is being proactive about the currentstate of the economy.So you may have noticed green in-line hyperlinkson your Squidoo lenses

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Squidoo has made some major Policy Changes!!You have until mid-July to get your lenses inorder or they may be locked or deleted.Key areas of change:#1 No Spam#2 No X-Rated or Porn#3 No junk topics#4 A new limit on "overly promotional lenses"#5 Plagiarism takedownYou may think you know what these mean, but checkthis out closely. "Junk Topics" may include any lens on"weight loss" for example.Let's

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One way to get good traffic to your Squidoo lensesis to create backlinks on social bookmarking andsocial networking sites such as Twitter, Facebook,MySpace, and HubPages.I was recently introduced to a new, unique site,RedGage, by PotPieGirl, the creator of theSquidoo weekly marketing plan.RedGage claims to be "the first-of-its-kind web sitethat pays people for their online content and

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Twitter Grader is an interesting free toolthat gives your Twitter activity a grading basedon criteria such as number of followers and tweets.Twiter Grader explains their purpose below:"What Twitter Grader is trying to measure is thepower, reach and authority of a twitter account.In other words, when you tweet, what kind ofan impact does it have?"The exact details of how the algorith is calculated

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I started with the Twitter Traffic Machine on 26 April2009 - about 6 weeks ago.At the time I was following about 29 people and hadaround 250 followers. I had made a few hundredtweets/posts.Now (6 June 2009), my Twitter stats show:Following: 2846Followers: 2596Updates: 1,170I was reticent at first to purchase the Twitter TrafficMachine for three reasons:1. I wanted to maintain control over the

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Image as illustrated on http:/googlewonderwheel.comGoogle has increasingly committed to providingdiversification in both search results and search tools.The Wonder Wheel is a great example of this.In May this year Google released the Wonder Wheelwhich shows search terms that are related to yourprimary search and does so in the form of a wheel.This visual image highlights the way Google views

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