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	<title>Squidbits - Greekgeek's Squidoo Blog</title>
	
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	<description>Adventures in Squidoo, SEO, CSS and Web Design</description>
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		<title>Squidoo NoFollows Links to Strangle Spam</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Mar 2013 00:37:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greekgeek</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[How Squidoo Works]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Once again, spammers pooping in Squidoo's sandbox have caused inconvenience for the rest of us. Squidoo has now followed Wikipedia's example and nofollowed all outbound links. My opinion: it stings, but on the whole it's a reasonable move. There are some drawbacks to nofollowing all outbound links. But those drawbacks are outweighed by the benefit: this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Squidoo After Google Panda 25: How's It Looking?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2013 16:30:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greekgeek</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[How Squidoo Works]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The data is still coming in from Panda 25, launched March 15. We really need to wait a longer time to have a representative sample size, but here's the early returns from Quantcast: From now on there will not be discreet dates on which Panda is updated; Panda is now "Panda Everflux," continually reevaluating sites [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thin Content on Squidoo Is NOT a New Problem; Something Else Is</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/squidbits-blog/~3/6d5THVugSEA/</link>
		<comments>http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2013/02/squidoo-thin-content/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2013 20:17:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greekgeek</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Never Do This]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/?p=2431</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For years, veteran Squidoo lensmasters have been tearing their hair that some thin-content, "pile of links" lenses get promoted, showcased on the front page of Squidoo, and earn payouts, while more content-rich lenses like this sink in lensrank until they fall into WIP mode, get noindexed, and thus become invisible to search engines, cutting off their traffic. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Add Photos to Tweets to Get More Clicks!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2013 18:05:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greekgeek</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Squidoo Tips]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social-media]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/?p=2417</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When I browse Twitter, I see PICTURES with some Tweets, which help draw the eye to them: &#160; Hubpages, Squidoo and other websites usually have Tweet buttons, but one thing they DON'T usually do is incorporate a photo or graphic into the Tweet. If you're Tweeting your own stuff, be sure to add a graphic! [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A New All-CSS Amazon / Zazzle Button</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2013 05:38:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greekgeek</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Experiments and Challenges]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[affiliate-marketing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[conversions]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/?p=2395</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I hadn't posted this until now, because I'm still getting the kinks out. But I thought I'd share some CSS wizardry. Problem: My old Amazon "Buy" Buttons look a little fuzzy at modern screen resolutions, and they don't resize well. Also, that's just for Amazon. Sometimes I want a Zazzle button! I believe in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Mobile Web on Squidoo and Hubpages</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2013 18:42:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greekgeek</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mobile]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/?p=2389</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Yep, it's another geeky stats post trying to figure out "what's going on with our traffic?"  using two similar article-publishing sites to contrast and compare trends. Squidoo launched its "responsive" layout on Friday, December 7, 2012, hoping to cash in on the skyrocketing use of mobile devices to browse the web. Many of us had emailed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Updating Squidoo Lenses: My 2013 Checklist</title>
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		<comments>http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2013/01/updating-squidoo-lenses-my-2013-checklist/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jan 2013 21:37:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greekgeek</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Updating Lenses]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[my-squidoo-stuff]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[testing and experiments]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tutorial]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/?p=2373</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Whew, 2012 was quite a roller coaster of a year for me on Squidoo and beyond. The good: I achieved a 68% increase in online earnings, and I began an earnest push to diversify beyond Squidoo, and succeeded at least a little (see bottom of my payouts chart). The bad: Pinterest members began copying and uploading [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cheat Sheet for Dealing With Squidoo's New Flexible Layout</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/squidbits-blog/~3/PFiPi5yF32Q/</link>
		<comments>http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2012/12/css-cheat-sheet-for-dealing-with-squidoos-new-flexible-layout/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Dec 2012 18:25:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greekgeek</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[How Squidoo Works]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[code geeking]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[My CSS Cheat Sheet for Converting Fixed-Width into Flexible Layouts Originally posted here. (Now tweaked and revised.) The first thing you should do is ask yourself, "Is this CSS absolutely necessary, or can I drop it?" See the postscript below for tips about how and when to use CSS. Usually, the best solution is, "Drop [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Recovering From a Squidoo Surprise</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/squidbits-blog/~3/isQtR4PyLw4/</link>
		<comments>http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2012/12/recovering-from-a-squidoo-surprise/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Dec 2012 21:30:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greekgeek</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[How Squidoo Works]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[official squidoo stuff]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Squidoo just updated its layout, and now we're scrambling to check and fix all the lenses disrupted by these changes. How can we salvage damaged lenses? How can we find the top earning lenses on our dashboard quickly, so we can work on them first?]]></description>
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		<title>Keyword Research and Competition: Something Else to Consider</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/squidbits-blog/~3/UmGVRqmR0ss/</link>
		<comments>http://greekgeek.mythphile.com/2012/11/keyword-research-and-competition-something-else-to-consider/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Nov 2012 21:21:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greekgeek</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Basic SEO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[keywords]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[You probably know to check competition when doing keyword research. But "competition" is more than a number. Here's some additional factors to consider.]]></description>
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