April 2008
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I need ideas on how to host a Hub challenge. We can’t see LensRank, but we can see Hub rank.
I’m thinking maybe a challenge where the participants choose from Hub Pages’ Idea Bank here. This is what they determine Internet users are searching for and would make good Hubs.
So you could go there, choose an idea (you can click to get more) and then have that one Hub as your entry. Winner could get a Hub built by me with 100% unique content, images, tags, etc.
But any other ideas to go into it?
I’ll map it out with your help and then host it.
tiff 
Written by tiffadmin on April 24th, 2008 with no comments.
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Since I started using Hub Pages, I’ve come to realize that in this community, it’s not just ‘netiquette rules that say you should have an even mix of personal and self promotional pages. The Hub staff have a trick up their sleeve!
If every one of your Hub Pages links to your domain (even if it adheres to the rule of no more than 2 links to a single domain), they’ll initiate a nofollow tag in your page, so that all that link love you were hoping to get across the board is disabled!
This is reason enough to add an even balance of Hub Pages that are just good, valuable content (with no outgoing links). But aside form that, it’s just the right thing to do socially, and this is a social network.
Not only will the community itself see you as a spammy type if all your Hubs link out to promote your domain, but your own visitors who go looking around your Hub account will view you that way, too. People like to be given a bone once in awhile.
It’s the same when you have a list of subscribers. You can’t sell, sell, sell 100% of the time. You have to give, give, give! This goes for everything you do online. Your Squidoo lenses, your forum posts (do you always ask for help but never give)? Make sure you’re doing your part to make the World Wide Web an information resource and not just one big marketing campaign.
Tiff 
Written by tiffadmin on April 24th, 2008 with 1 comment.
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I love how Squidoo staff work to make the site better, but sometimes I don’t like a certain feature. That’s happening right now. Go to any of your lenses if you haven’t been in awhile and look right below your introduction module (not in edit mode, mind you).
You might see a box that says Explore more with links…to other people’s lenses!
Yikes! Right after the introduction? Nuh-uh. Not on my lens.
Luckily, you can turn this feature off.
Log into the edit mode of your lens and on the introduction module go into edit and click the third tab that says Discovery Tools. Turn this off.
They did it to help cross-promote traffic between lenses, but I don’t like that it’s right under my intro and sending people out of my lens before they’ve even gone past my introduction!
Then save, republish, and repeat on all of your lenses where you don’t want link leakage.
Tiff
Written by tiffadmin on April 23rd, 2008 with no comments.
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Our last Squidoo contest was a Monkeybrain one. Kyle Richey won it and as promised, we (myself and Lewis Smile) built Kyle a lens on Squidoo as a reward!
Wanna see it?
It’s amazing if I do say so myself. Now I do the writing and initial lens set-up, but Lewis sure does make it WOW you:
http://www.squidoo.com/How-To-Make-Wine-At-Home
I love logging into a lens after Lewis puts the finishing touches on it (including all the behind-the-scenes magic he does to help it perform well) and just being in awe of how it looks…content aside. The images pop, the format just works well, and I get jealous that it’s not my lens!
Enjoy your reward, Kyle! And everyone go show Kyle some star love for his hard work in winning the Monkeybrain contest.
Tiff
Written by tiffadmin on April 20th, 2008 with no comments.
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Wow. I am used to getting indexed about 24 hours or a few days later, but my latest Hub that I created around the keyword phrase lasik fort worth got indexed in hours (I created it today), and I already got Google traffic!
How in the world does it find it so fast?
I’m very excited about this.
tiff
Written by tiffadmin on April 20th, 2008 with no comments.
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Those of you Twittering and Squidooing will want to know about this from Megan at Squidoo HQ:
“As a fun Friday diversion, we just launched a lightweight new module: Twitter Follow.
Here’s how it works:
1. Add the module to your lens.
2. Enter the Twitter username of someone whose twits you appreciate and like to follow. (Probably makes sense for you to chose someone who twits about your topic… or yourself, for your bio lenses… and so on).
3. Set how many of their latest twits you want to show on your lens.
4. Hit save.
5. Publish your lens (we can’t suck in their feed until the lens is Published).
6. Voila!”
So for marketing purposes, I’d add my own Twitter to my lenses - just more selling opportunities!
The cool thing is, you can folow 5, 10, 15, or 20 twitters in there and there’s automatically a link that says, “Follow Tiffany Dow” so I can beef up my followers.
See it in action here: http://www.squidoo.com/TiffanyDow I added it as the second module as an example. Only bad thing is my hyperlinks aren’t live. But I guess it’s okay, as long as they become followers and can see the URL to type in.
tiff
Written by tiffadmin on April 19th, 2008 with 2 comments.
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Controversy and Psychology in the Web 2.0 Atmosphere 
