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Squidoo And How It Can Help Your Marketing

Finally! After sitting on this damn project for close on two years I have finally published my first, and definitely not my last Squidoo Lens!  I hope that you would take the time to follow that link and rate and fav it for me. If you have a lens and would like me to reciprocate just leave a comment with a link to your lens.

I was highly motivated to complete this lens because I wanted to utilize the marketing potential of Squidoo.? I did a post on WassupBlog called  Necessity The Mother Of Invention And How It Relates To Blogs where I talked about how you find ways of doing something when there is a need to get something done. Those who know me know that I don’t do all that much to market this blog other than to comment on other blogs. That doesn’t mean that I don’t know how to market it, just that I’ve never had the need or desire to do it.

So, what’s changed? It’s all because of the post Quick Update On People Search Money Opportunity, an update on the original How The People Search Craze Could Put Money In Your Pocket post that describes a way of monetizing the a particular facet of the web. The need for knowledge, in particular knowing where a particular person can be found. Apparently 30% of all searches on Google and Yahoo are people search related and that’s a huge market.

I decided to try and get a portion of that market, but to do that I need to expand my marketing skills. I need people to find my site before anyone else’s and I decided that Squidoo was going to be a small part of that plan. The problem was which of the many available landing pages do I direct the traffic to, seeing as they’re all good and each one would possible target a different market.

My solution was to design my own squeeze page landing page, one that would incorporate most of the better links. Thanks to FlexSqueeze and it’s squeeze page facility I now have my own specially designed landing page. Although I will be using this page on the majority of my blogs I will only be using the one on this site as the targeted page.

I’m not sure how many of you have heard of or use Squidoo, but honestly if you haven’t got your own lens yet you could be missing out. If you check out my Squidoo Lens you will notice that I have links linking to several of my posts. If you construct it in such a way it would be a great way to market your blog. Not only will it give your posts extra link juice,  there’s also the extra traffic that it will bring.

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Being An Ass Has Got Certain Consequences

Originally this post appeared on WassupBlog and because it got such a good reception I thought that my BlogSire readers might also enjoy it.

Whether you treat your blog as a business or as a way to express your thoughts the most important aspect of your blog is your reader. The way to keep your readers returning is to make sure that your blog is continually updated with new material, whether it be thought provoking or merely for entertainments sake.

A blog’s success can be determined by the comments that people leave and replying to them in such a fashion that shows you are interested in what they say is another important aspect of blogging. It is important that you treat all commentators with the same respect that you would treat a visitor to your home. This can sometimes be a little difficult especially when you have those obnoxious commentators,  but treating them civilly will only improve the way others think of you.

Actually this is no different than the way you should act when you are in the real world and there can be serious consequences when you forget this, especially if you are in the position of some power. I want to share a story with you that I feel should punctuate the importance of treating others the way you would like to be treated. It all began when;

A Missouri Sheriff stopped at a ranch in rural MO to talk with an old farmer. Rather abruptly he tells the farmer, ‘I need to inspect your ranch for illegally grown drugs.’

The old farmer says, ‘Okay, as long as you don’t go into that field over there.’

The Sheriif verbally explodes saying,  ‘Mister, I have the authority of the Sheriffs Department with me.’ Reaching into his rear pant pocket and removing his badge. The officer proudly displays it to the farmer.  ‘See this badge? This badge means I am allowed to go wherever I wish..on any land. No questions asked or answers given. Have I made myself clear? Do you understand?’

The old farmer nods politely and goes about his chores.

Later, the old farmer hears loud screams and spies the Sheriff running for his life and close behind is the farmer’s bull.With every step the bull is gaining ground on the officer. The Sheriff is clearly terrified.

The old farmer immediately throws down his tools, runs to the fence and yells at the top of his lungs….. ‘Your badge! Show him your badge Smartass!’

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Taking Care Of Your WordPress Security

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The thing about having several blogs is that have a greater outreach. There may be a little overlap as some people may subscribe to several of my blogs but overal this is not the case. Having that in mind I want to share a post I did on my WassupBlog called Securing Your WordPress Blog Against Hackers. I am reproducing this post as I feel it is something all WordPress owners should be aware of.

A blogger’s worst fear is to have their WordPress blog hacked. This has happened to many bloggers and they will tell you of the painstaking steps involved in getting their blog back from the virtual dead, if that was at all possible. Some of the less technically inclined will give it up for lost and start again.

Today I came across a really good post titled How to Stop Your WordPress Blog Getting Hacked that outlines several steps of making your blog less ‘hackable’. I’ve already taken the steps of making my blog less noticeable to hackers by removing the footprints that would lead them to this blog. Very simple steps that I could easily go into more detail on how it can be done but I think you would be a lot better informed if you went directly to David’s post and read all about how you can secure your blog from hackers.

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