Katinka's Squidoo Answer Deck

My last squidoo ambition realized... 

SEO/Marketing Mentor

This is the official squidoo SEO mentor help lens. You can come here with your questions about attracting traffic to your lens, though I hope this lens will help solve many of them out of the box. SEO = Search Engine Optimization In practice SEO can...

Citizen Squid Squidoo Angel - Spirituality

I was a squidangel from April till Oktober 2009. Now (starting Nov. 17th 2009) I'm a Citizen Squid: I'm the SEO mentor. This means that I regained my blessing powers. Which is great: I love finding and rewarding hidden treasures. This lens i...

Making your lenses LOOK good 

How to make a banner for your website or myspace

I make my own banners because I just don't want any text at the bottom that detracts from my message. Making a banner on your own computer really isn't that hard, if you know your way around an image editing program. What you need to make...

Using the styles of the Squidoo themes

Squidoo HQ is working on a way to use classes to help us pull the style of the theme into our text/write modules so we can really experiment with them. That is - not having to use complicated CSS, still being able to use the colors and fonts in ways...

Squidoo CSS - my favorite code to spice up a lens

I've gathered my favorite Squidoo-code for later reference. I'm tired of trying to find that specific lens I used a css effect on and then having to go to edit-mode, copy paste, and then go back to the lens I was working on. This lens will he...

Advanced css for squidoo - spice up your lens MORE

My lens about css for squidoo often gets the question: how do I combine the code? This lens is an answer to that question.

Modules explained 

Google Blog Search Module

I love to make a lens better by using google blogsearch. The content changes - which makes your lens more interesting. As an added bonus you get an easy way to check out what other people are saying about a topic you are interested in. Which means...

Cute modules to spice up your lens

Cute modules that will help your lens stand out. Go beyond the text-module and the link-list module and use some color. These modules are built into squidoo and really make your lens look good. Some are hard to find, so I added descriptions on where...

The Introduction Module in Squidoo

The introduction module in squidoo has an inbuilt table of content. Do use it! And do upload a picture as an intro image - not having one will stop people from featuring your lens on theirs. And no - just using HTML to put a picture in there does NO...

Search engine traffic 

Optimizing tags for squidoo

Tags are a great way for websites like squidoo to organize their content. They are used on tag pages and in the 'related lenses' feature at the right hand side of each lens. Doing tags reasonably well is easy, doing it perfectly is quite hard...

SEO traffic stats: ranking report for squidoo lenses

Someone asked me to make a lens about my traffic statistics, because they're so very impressive. I've been made the SEO mentor on squidoo, and these stats may have something to do with that. Though I don't think there were many other cand...

How to do Keyword Research for squidoo

It is an under statement to say that keywords are important for getting your squidoo lenses (or any webpage really) found in google or another search engine. If you are going to be making a lens to make money, you had better find out two things: wh...

SEO for squidoo - getting found in google: search engine optimization

SEO - search engine optimization - has many different facets. This lens goes over the main ones - especially how they effect making successful lenses on squidoo. An elaborate version of this lens, with details about blogging, twitter and more, can...

Promoting your lenses by blogging 

Success at Blogging tips

This lens is a collection of tips I've found myself giving people who blog in an attempt to do squidoo promotion.

The wordpress plugins I use - SEO, cache, statistics

This is in response to a blogpost on the wordpress blog where people are saying that wordpress is a thankless community. Well, I thought instead of complaining I'd do a lens on the plugins I do use. Thanking the plugin authors with links to their plu...

Vox - blogging made simple and (more) social

I recently found Vox through a web search. It turned up for a search term it had not business turning up for. This is always a good sign in SEO (search engine optimization). It means they are doing a few things right - otherwise they wouldn't have tu...

Introduction to blogging videos

This lens is a video tutorial on how to blog. That is: the best youtube videos about how to setup a blog, manage a blog and market it in the blogosphere.

Promoting your lenses OUTSIDE of squidoo 

Stumbleupon explained for lensmasters

Stumbleupon is great fun, and a tool for self-promotion, but for lensmasters there are also a few drawbacks. There are limits to the amount of self-promotion you can do.

Human Forum Promotion

This lens is a list of tips for promoting your online work on forums. Whether it's a ning devoted to your topic or an old school e-mailgroup, the principles are the same.

Promoting your lens INSIDE squidoo 

Squidcasting - how to squidcast on squidoo

Squidcasting is THE way to let people within squidoo know your new lens exists. You can use it in all kinds of ways - but how do you do it without annoying people?

Archives: the old style squidoo groups 

DO NOT try and join these.

Spirituality Squidoo Groups

Just a lensography of all my groups on squidoo. And no: they aren't all about religion and spirituality. There's humor and insomnia as well. And just a bit more about my native land: the Netherlands (aka Holland). Lenses in my groups have a greater...

This group was awarded the Great Group Award

This lens was started because I just got tired of all the groups out there that just aren't great. So this is dedicated to groups that ARE great. These groups are ALL great - but within the collection I would advise anybody to join especially t...

On the importance of being social within squidoo 

If you want to become popular on squidoo...

In some ways squidoo is like a popularity contest. I've done pretty well here with as I write more than 760 fans. So I feel qualified to write this lens about the subject.

Making money on squidoo 

AllPosters.Com the cutest affiliate program

I do love this affiliate program. AllPosters.com gives you an easy (well doable) way to put great pictures on your lenses that fit your theme. And if people click on them and buy the posters (or other products), you stand to gain affiliate income. H...

Squidoo money makers

This lens is meant to investigate what ways people have made money on squidoo. Which affiliate programs have made us $$$ and which profitable modules work...

Understanding squidoo 

Inspiring Dashboard messages in squidoo

This is likely to be one of those squidoo lenses that gets loads of votes, and a few visitors at first, and then lingers somewhere at the bottom of my list of lenses. But I thought I'd make it anyhow. In tribute to the fun atmosphere at squidoo...

Lensrank explained (really)

Well, squidoo lensrank has, by common consensus (at least) the following factors: Lens freshness. sales made through money making modules like amazon and ebay. visitor numbers. star ratings. favorites. whether you've been blessed by an angel. whethe...

Debating squidoo 

Low votes in squidoo should be banned!

I think people should lighten up about the star ratings. Even a low star rating will boost your lensrank (a bit). So any rating is better than NO rating. Disagree? Tell me! [That said: it does anger me when a good lens that hasn't been voted on yet...

Would you rather have a squidangel blessing or a quality link?

Would you rather have a squidangel blessing or a quality link? I'd rather have a quality link. A quality link makes it more likely that my lens (and from that my website) gets found in google. That will ultimately do my lens more good than a sq...

Giving yourself a lensrank boost by editing... 

Editing suggestions for your lenses - to give your lens a lensrank boost

Lenses get payed out based on average lensrank of each lens over the whole month. Since lensrank is based, at least partly, on how often lenses get edited - this lens is here to give you some ideas about what to do when you go over your least edited...

Thanking those who helped me, and the community 

Thank you lensmaster

I started the thank you lensmaster - squidoo reviews blog to honor all those lensmasters that have helped me. This lens is dedicated to that blog and to all those lensmasters who have helped me, yet who haven't been interviewed (yet). BTW: som...

Where you can find me: elsewhere online 

Katinka Hesselink Online

Going crazy trying to keep up with myself online. So this is where you can find me online and where I keep track of my many online profiles. There is a good chance you will find me elsewhere online as well. I'm not very good at keeping this list up t...

Check out my OTHER lensographies 

Spirituality's Lensography of lensographies

What can I say to introduce myself. I'm an online addict who has two spiritual blogs, one spiritual website and so on. I'm interested in Religion, Spirituality, Webdesign, Search Engines (aka Google), Science fiction, Fantasy literature, the environm...