Archive for May, 2009

I had a GREAT Google Knol account. Then someone who doesn’t like the idea of me selling information that’s free apparently went around and one-starred all of my lenses and reported all of my Google Knols as spam, which they weren’t.

The account was shut down and it takes forEVER for a review. The funny thing is, I have many other Knol accounts and they’re thriving. I won’t even begin to say where those are because whoever it is who has this “beef” with me would just go ruin those accounts, too. So they got my Tiffany Dow one - the rest I’ll just use with my pen name They also haven’t shut down any of the Knols our customers from Build My Knol have had created, either - because we build them in their own accounts!

This series is going to help you learn how to use and dominate Google Knol. Just don’t go acquiring any haters along the way lol Here is part 1 of the series:

Man have I been waiting a long time for this! My mouth was watering the first moment I heard Google was going to pull a Squidoo out of its hat and launch a similar site.

Google Knol was a closed Beta mission at first, but now it’s open to the public. But like all good things, there’s a bit of a learning curve. Now you can certainly go it alone, but it makes it so much easier when someone else (me) does the grunt work for you and teaches you in a step-by-step manner how to get set up with a new tool.

First, let’s talk about social marketing – it’s the wave of here and now (who knows what our future holds)? If you’re not using web 2.0 sites like Squidoo, Hub Pages, Twitter, etc., you’re already behind the times.

But stop right now if you plan to spam.

It’s not going to work on Google Knol. Plus, it ruins the site for the rest of us! Social marketing is all about value. If you can’t provide any, don’t get on the site. This isn’t your personal playground for link-building.

This is a give and take – you give good, free information and you take the links and traffic Google bestows on you.

This site is going to be BIG. It will most likely eventually dominate Wikipedia and Squidoo and Hub Pages with one fail swoop. And whose pages do you think good old Google will give higher preference to in the search engine algorithm?

Hmmm…lemme guess…

Knols!

Yeah, yeah, they can say they’re going to play fair till the cows come home, but let’s get real – I’m sure Google will boost their own Knol pages more than the competition over time – they’re just biding their time so they don’t get accused of SEO nepotism.

So it’s time to learn how to do it. Read all the way through this series over the coming days, setting up your own Knol as you go so that you don’t forget and wing it later. And as always, I’m here for you if you need me!

Hi everyone! Thought I would update you since I was on a journey to raise my son’s tuition by flipping lenses. We were blessed to have him get a great scholarship award from his school. They award above average grades, great citizenship, and school participation. I am so blessed to have a child who exceeds all of those requirements.

So we’re really close to raising the rest of our part (about $500 off). I’m still flipping lenses regularly. What was cool is that those that didn’t sell to my lens alert list, DID sell (almost all) on a Warrior Special Offer in the Warrior Forum for a $50 per lens garage deal I ran. I cleared out a bunch of lenses I don’t maintain - I sold 21 lenses at $50 a pop. That’s $1,050 for those who don’t want to do the math!

Flipping lenses on Squidoo has made me so much money over the years it’s incredible. I sure do owe Seth and his gang a lot of gratitude.
Tiff