100k Job Blogging From Home

If you follow me on twitter, you probably knew that I created my first Squidoo lens a couple of days ago. The reason behind that move will be exposed here in this post. If you are using Squidoo, please share your experience here.

Squidoo is a network of user-generated lenses—single pages that highlight one person’s point of view, recommendations, or expertise. Lenses can be about anything, such as ideas, people or places, hobbies and sports, pets or products, philosophy, and politics. Lenses aren’t primarily intended to hold content; more emphasis is placed on recommending and advice then pointing to content on the web.

Squidoo’s content is highly ranked in Google and other search engines as it is treated as one of the authority sites. Squidoo recently changed their nofollow link rules. Once your lens is established, you get dofollow links from there. This gives Squidoo lenses more ranking power in the search engines. That’s why I’m taking advantage of it.

You can even make money from your Squidoo lens, as they share the ad revenue with the users (or lensmasters in their own term). It’s like getting paid to promote you own blog. So why not.

The following is a video demo on Squidoo:

This post credits to my twitter buddy Anthony Bulchalka and his little eBook “10 Web 2.0 Tips”. Download from his web site, you will find some very useful information there.

With the use of a SEO-All-In-One plugin or something similar, you’ll most likely never be getting involved with SEO. You don’t really need to know every definiation and term but it is still good to be well versed in SEO if you want to run a succesful blog or web site.

3-way link exchange - a link exchange agreement when there are no two sites pointing to each other

algorithm - the mathematical formula in a search engine used to rank sites

anchor text - the text that is clickable. Also known as hyperlink

backlinks - incoming links to a website

black hat seo - unethical techniques used to gain high search engine rankings that do not fall within the terms of service of search engines. Some examples are hiding written text (black letters on black background), link farming and cloaking

BLs - backlinks

cache - a storage area within a search engine’s database for copies of web pages

cgi-bin - a storage folder that contains Common Gateway Interface - Binary scripts. There is normally one cgi-bin per website.

cloaking - a black hat system of delivering custom content to an engine spider but hiding the code or content from visitors

dofollow - standard incoming links that do not have the nofollow attribute(see also “nofollow”)

doorway page - a webpage designed to draw in internet traffic and then redirect this traffic to another website. Also known as bridge, entry, gateway, jump and zebra pages [a probable engine penalty]

Firefox - a web browser developed by Mozilla that is free to download and provides an alternative to Microsoft’s Windows Internet Explorer

frames - website design using multiple, independent sections to create a single webpage. Each frame is built as a separate HTML file, but with one “master” file to identify each selection. [unfriendly to engine crawlers]

Google Analytics - a free service offered by Google that generates detailed stats about website visitors. A benefit of using this service is to check the Page Views your site gets, to determine pay-per-click and other paid ads quality. Other benefits include tracking: Keyword popularity specific to a search engine, all other referring websites and visitors’ physical location

HTML - HyperText Markup Language. Designed for the creation of webpages with clickable text and other information to be displayed in a web browser

IBL - in bound (incoming) link

image alt tag - the alternative text that the browser displays when the website visitor does not want to or cannot see an image on a website. Placed in the image tag like this: <img src=”s.gif” alt=”SEO”>

inside pages - the non-home pages of a website, also known as internal pages

IP address - a unique identifier that has four numbers separated by dots, like this: 57.247.271.73. All computers across the internet are assigned one. They are used like street addresses.

Link farm - a group of links on a variety of pages solely for the purpose of increasing link popularity for search engines. Link farms are normally created by programs, rather than by human beings. [an engine penalty]

Matt Cutts - worker at Google, specializing in SEO issues. Known for enforcing the Google Webmaster Guidelines and cutting down on link spam. The best place to see his literature is at his SEO Blog.

META tags - write-up placed within the HTML <head> </head> tags of a webpage, providing information that is not visible to browsers

nofollow - an HTML attribute used to instruct search engines that a hyperlink should not influence the link target’s engine ranking. Used to cut down on irrelevant content to improve the quality of search engine results

one-way link - a link that has been obtained without a link exchange. A non-reciprocal link

organic SEO - techniques used for unpaid high ranking results on search engines

PR - Google PageRank: a numerical value that represents the popularity of a website. Found on the Google Toolbar

SE - search engine

SEM - search engine marketing

SEO - search engine optimization

SEOs - search engine optimizers

SERP - search engine results page. The page that users see after clicking Search at an engine

URL - Uniform Resource Locator. A world wide web address

web 2.0 - the second generation of internet-based services that let people collaborate and share information online in ways previously unavailable. For example: social networking sites, wikis, communication tools and folksonomies

web hosting service - a company that provides web server space to individuals and organizations, used to store all of a website’s files. That server hosts the website.

white hat seo - techniques for high rank that fall within the terms of service of search engines

XML - Extensible Markup Language