Building links is the secret to getting your lens/blog to show up in the search engine ranking. However, there is a secret to building these links ~ a secret that makes them super effective or almost useless. Wanna know the secret? Anchor text Yep, anchor text. This is the key ingredient to making your links work for you. So let’s get to it. What is anchor...

You now have your lens done (hopefully) and it’s time to let the big G know it’s out there. Unfortunately this is not a “build it and they will come” kind of adventure. You have to leave a little trail of breadcrumbs for Google to follow to find your lens. This is also called getting your lens “indexed”. That simply means google...

Html is the code you need to create a link to a product. The html code you use for creating links from Amazon is the same as the cody you use to create any other link ~ whether it’s a link to a clickbank product or  a link from a blog to a lens. The same code is used. How to get code from Amazon: 1. You must be in the associate program in Amazon to be...

I’m hearing from a lot of you that you are not amazon affiliates at this point. I’d like to address a couple things about this. I wasn’t accepted to the Amazon Associates Program. If you have applied and were not accepted by Amazon into the associates program don’t worry. The reason I’m hearing the most is you don’t have a...

So we’ve reviewed the intro module, the first few modules, as well as reviews and a video. Now we’re going to finish up with the last few modules I usually use in my lenses. The last few modules I use are: the big arrow module for a big call to action at the end RSS module Guestbook module The Big Arrow Module: I use this for a big call to action near...

In the last squidoo lens tutorial we covered the first few modules after the intro.  This tutorial will cover the next few modules. So far we’ve covered: The Squidoo intro module 1st text module Visual Call to Action (most important thing module) Poll module So let’s get started with the next module. The second Text Module: The second text module of my...