Squidoo is a platform created by Seth Godin that enables creation of pages expressing the personal point of view.
The single page, called a 'Lens' contains of standard modules that allow to create a site within a minute ( providing you have a content ). There are text modules, Flickr photos, and modules that allow to sell items from Ebay or Amazon.
The lens could be advertisement of your website, but also can make profit by itself.
What is more interesting the pages squidoo tend to rank high in SERPs.
The featured lens Krakow Travel is a good example of huge potential
of Squidoo.
The great way of marketing and self-promotion is connected with designing web templates.
Very popular are free templates for Wordpress or Blogger.
They are relatively easy to create and usually in the footer designer places the link to his own webpage,
so besides the advertisement theme designer gets the free link, that counts in SERPs.
The more popular template, more links it brings to the creator.
Some unscrupulous people try to sell the footer link, and now you have three or four links to unknown places,
that is vere easy to be punished for by Google.
This time exotic travel to ... China.
Dalian is a popular tourist city in Chinese province Liaoning.
Jinshi Golf Court, Turtle-Shell Rock, firecrackers and fireworks, sand beach, green parks,seafood,
fashion contests are just a few names of tourist attractions.
Welcome to Dalian !
[this marvelous photo of Chinese temple entrance has been made by Elizabeth Thomsen ]
There are some movements in Blackhatworld competition, now appeared some blog posts, so now it is a good time to get a closer look to the list of free hosts for blogs.
Everybody knows Blogger or Wordpress, and what are the other options ?
The most popular besides two are:
http://www.livejournal.com/
http://www.myspace.com/
http://360.yahoo.com/
http://spaces.msn.com/
I would like to add also
http://www.bravenet.com/webtools/journal/
and
http://www.typepad.com/pricing/
the last one is unfortunately paid service that starts from $4.95 per month
but one of the best in its class.
The huge list of gree services you can find
here
it is about one years old, but still valid.
Thinking back about our competition, there are two new blogs high in the ranks
from
http://grazr.com
http://vox.com
there is also a role of backlinks, but looks like these two sities get enough authority to rank fast.
We will se how long the posts remain positions, so far -
our brick in the BlackHatWorld wall.
The new contest created by Blackhatworld forum bring my attention to the top players in the SERPs for keyword 'Blackhatworld rocks '.
Not surprisingly , only after the few days in the top are social sites, well established domains.
There are a lot of forum posts, and digg, but at the very top are:
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hubpages.com
squidoo.com
xomba.com
freewebs.com
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These are the Websites where you can create one of few social pages for free, and use them for marketing your products.
You can put your own ads on the pages, also the links to your places, and information of your products.
The pages have to be useful to the site community, also they have inner ranking systems to prevent from spammy pages.
Taking the squidoo for example - the page created there is called a 'lens' , now the created recently lens ranks very high for new
keyphrase by itself, it can also bring some future traffic to the places it promotes.
BTW. I've found the interesting post explaining increasing web traffic with squidoo lens that points out the importance of proper tag using.
The squidoo lens is now ranked very high, I wonder if with the time will slowly sink down, like the blog posts, that usually have some 'expiration period'.
During the marketing campaign the stress is put on high ranking in Search Engines for carefully chosen keywords related to the product to sell. The highest position on SERP pages, more people visiting the site pages.
The key strategy is to choose popular terms used by many people when type question into the SE box.
The phrase can consist of only one or two words 'travel' ' cheap travel', or be a combination of narrowed keywords called long-tail queries.
The long tail is for example 'cheap travel to Poland in September' and includes more specific terms for search engines.
Jeffrey Smith in his post for seo design solutions says "...Arguably individuals, who use 'long tail search queries' are typically looking for more than just information. they are closer to the end of purchasing cycle as a result of them seeking more relevant results..."
They are more willing to get the product - subject of their search - better customers willing to act.
However according to his opinion the 'long-tail' strategy works best for large sites with many indexed pages. Sites with 20 or so static pages are to choose narrow separate high ranking keywords.
This time something different.
We add some Spanish flavor to our reviews.
This is a new site and a blog about history of Poland.
The name is e-guia, and the blog is written by the Polish guide with more that 15 years of experience.
The URL to the site E-guia
I've found some tips at problogger by by Darren Rowse and one advice about is worth mentioning
it goes like that: ..." The key is to find those places where your potential traffic is already gathering and then to think about how you can become a part of those sites/communities in a way that draws traffic to your blog."...
The sites are forums,social sites like Digg, and bigger blogs with posts about similar subjects.
Important is to not spam those sites, but make the posts useful for the others.
More advices at problogger
One of basics of the promotion is the attractive layout.
Now n-b pages are testing new template, credits to InfoCreek.
One problem is that the pictures of blog's template are hosted on outside site,
and if it faces any problems, you will not see the attractive graphics on the n-b site.
The Alpes.Great slopes, where snow is guaranteed on winter, where hospitality of mountain villages is unbeatable. Among the 'Alpian' countries like Switzerland and Austria , Italy competes with snow, weather and prices.
Try famous Cortina D'Ampezzo, or Val di Sole - where every day in a year is a sunny day.
Go to Dolomites mountains, or check the slopes of last winter olympic games Torino 2006 in Sestriere.
Check the free-ski rates and the weather conditions before you go.
Snow, snow, snow !
Long time no see.
This time another website : the shop that sells merchandise connected with famous
brand Harley Davidson. Oh, you can also buy the bikes there.
Check this harleystuff.info Wow!
Poland is a country where before the second world war were living 3 and a half million of Jews.
Many of them died during the war many of remained emigrated after.
Kazimierz is a district in Krakow, where almost all habitants were Jews.
Abandoned after the war, only nowadays gets the glory from the past, and now the district become very fashionable place, not only among the tourists but also among young people from Poland.
Please watch carefully the new site about Kazimierz. Soon there will be more articles, now read the blog.
Our Idol - Demi More joined L'Oreal to promote new line of Helena Rubinstein cosmetics.
Yet, not many of people know , that the founder of Rubinstein empire, Helena was born in Poland.
More about this stunning news you can read in a new blog Magic Kazimierz .
Take a look at it, there are the other interesting infos.
Having some experience with blogspot I have decided to test the new blog on wordpress.
It is bout my new hobby. Check this out, please.
SEO Networks World
This is a subdomain on wordpress, there is an option to use your own, but you have to pay some monthly fee. So far subdomain is enough. Watch out the new domain soon.
We are happy to anounce the change of the name of the blog
the new name is Krakow Travel Guide
as it is located on blogspot , we are waiting for the change of the title in SE results.
And I wonder what is the next move.
what shall I do now.
It is frustrating.The idea of multilanguages is not working anymore.
And now my anger.
Calming down and think.
Another site you have to watch carefully in next weeks is about Krakow.
It is in Italian, but the layout in English.
We will be watching the site. Hope soon it will be indexed by Google.
(BTW it looks like the bog G doesn't like RSS from pcktstrm.)
Apparently keym4k3r become the admin of a new tourist site about Krakow in Poland and is quite busy at the moment.
The blog has to go to the second place for some time.
The new site is almost finished so you can have a look there.
It will be interesting to see if the site is going 'into the sand'
in a few days time as it happens with the new sites quite often.
Logging out. Cheers.
Think about how secure the place could be more than 300 ft down underground.
How many useless HD's and other technical waste you can dump to the mines.
Indeed during the second world war Nazis opened an underground factory there.
On the photo you can see one of many salt crystal chandeliers from the Salt Mine Wieliczka in Poland.
The mist covers dissapearing the home page from 6te domain.
I am going to bring it back , but probably with no results.
The link here is like a straight injection to a vain.
Strange enough this blog is indexed for 'rumburak' while the other is not.
The process of creating the name is in the turning point.
Some tools are forbidden , some out of reach but show goes on.
If the site appear in the results for 'rumburak' that means it is clean and I
would be able to sleep well and clean the blog.
Another post to test the things.
Personally I think that G exaggerates some things
and so this work should be unnecessary.
So far I am forced to do this things to see, and to understand.
Will be opened soon on domain rumburak.biz
Then most of the articles will be transfered there.
check soon the new place.