What Is A Squidcast?
According to the definition of Squidoo a squidcast is a squirted message, sent from a lens.
From the dashboard every lensmaster can send such a squidcast, related to a specific lens, which will be shown within the favorites of anyone in the lensmaster's fanclub and anyone who favorited this specific lens.
So usually a squidcast is used to brag about own lenses, recently published or updated. But stop, there is more, much more! Read on.
From the dashboard every lensmaster can send such a squidcast, related to a specific lens, which will be shown within the favorites of anyone in the lensmaster's fanclub and anyone who favorited this specific lens.
So usually a squidcast is used to brag about own lenses, recently published or updated. But stop, there is more, much more! Read on.
Example Of A Basic Squidcast
If you have a look into your Favorites tab you will probably see some squidcasts which you already received from your favorite lenses and/or lensmasters. Most probably most of them will look like this:
Added a new lens about salmon recipes!
Posted 10/19/2008 on Ways To Cook Salmon by pmolinero
Today I finished a new squidoo lens, Ways To Cook Salmon, sharing my favorite salmon recipe, a gratin with potatoes and two kinds of salmon.
But also you will find a lot of other recipes using fresh salmon, smoked salmon.
While this is already a nice way to send notice to your fans about a new lens, the scope of your message is limited to the people who joined your fanclub.
Added a new lens about salmon recipes!
Posted 10/19/2008 on Ways To Cook Salmon by pmolinero
Today I finished a new squidoo lens, Ways To Cook Salmon, sharing my favorite salmon recipe, a gratin with potatoes and two kinds of salmon.
But also you will find a lot of other recipes using fresh salmon, smoked salmon.
While this is already a nice way to send notice to your fans about a new lens, the scope of your message is limited to the people who joined your fanclub.
Example Of A Desired Squidcast
After a few changes the squidcast to send looks this way:
Added a new lens about salmon recipes!
Posted 10/19/2008 on Ways To Cook Salmon by pmolinero
Today I finished a new squidoo lens, Ways To Cook Salmon, sharing my favorite salmon recipe, a gratin with potatoes and two kinds of salmon.
But also you will find a lot of other recipes using fresh salmon, smoked salmon.
What is the difference, you might ask, except of additional links to different modules within the same lens?
Quickly answered, the difference is in the amount of backlinks to your squidoo lens you will get to your new lens already now, right after you hit the 'Send' button.
Added a new lens about salmon recipes!
Posted 10/19/2008 on Ways To Cook Salmon by pmolinero
Today I finished a new squidoo lens, Ways To Cook Salmon, sharing my favorite salmon recipe, a gratin with potatoes and two kinds of salmon.
But also you will find a lot of other recipes using fresh salmon, smoked salmon.
What is the difference, you might ask, except of additional links to different modules within the same lens?
Quickly answered, the difference is in the amount of backlinks to your squidoo lens you will get to your new lens already now, right after you hit the 'Send' button.
Turn Your Whisper Into A Shout
If you are not sure where to start, a good list of syndication services you will find at How To Get Deep Links with RSS Feeds. If you want more information about RSS, read Understanding RSS, by Seth Godin.
Linking For Backlinks
Unfortunately this is just true to some extent. There are some syndication services linking in a way like http://RSS-Service-URL/clickout.php?LinkURL, which makes the link worthless regarding search engine rankings. But just a few of these syndication services are changing the links within the feed body as well. From all others you will get a backlink with your desired keywords as anchor text.
Note:
After sending the squidcast you get a screen confirming the recently sent squidcast. Although the HTML tags in this confirmation don't get interpreted, the links in the broadcasted squidcast will work properly.
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- Sadheeskumar Sadheeskumar Jun 22, 2009 @ 3:34 am
- I never have given importance to squidcasts. I think it's time to concentrate on that. thanks for this useful information's. I am giving five stars to this lens because I found this very useful ti me.Thanks.
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by pmolinero
When not being busy with main job I enjoy gardening and giving several Gardening Tips and Landscaping Tips on my blog.
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