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Squidoo - more than just a one-eyed orange octopus.
Squidoo is kind of like a website that allows users to publish articles on anything and then make money off of those aforemention articles. In fact, Squidoo, is a website that allows users to publish articles on anything and then make money off of them. The pages you make on Squidoo can link back to your website, promote a product, or be about your favorite type of Ben and Jerry’s icecream. We’ll be focusing on the first two cases because, as good as icecream is, nothing beats blatant site advertising!
HOW TO SQUIDOO (IT RHYMES!)
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Sign up, preferably under my inconspicious referral link.
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Pick a topic for a lens (Squidoo’s fancy way of saying article).
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Begin creating a lens. This involves a lot of clicking on buttons and refreshing pages. Oh, and writing.
Now, there are two ways you can go: creating a good lens or a bad lens.
Good Lens: Lots of quality content and informative links. A benefit to society as a whole. Takes forever to create 
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Bad Lens: Blatant site promotion, lots of affiliate links, lots of useless money-making opportunities. The scourge of the internet.
Think about it - do you want visitors to your lens or backlinks to your website? The obvious choice, of course, is visitors due to the fact that they can still find your website and will still make you money backlinks because everyone loves backlinks!
OH, ONE MORE THING
Squidoo doesn’t just get you traffic - it gets you money. Add eBay, Amazon, and other ads to your lense and earn! You’ll probably only make five bucks, but that’s enough to buy half of a Starbucks coffee. Join now - the opportunities are limitless (kinda)!
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Yes, you read that title right. You should copy content to get the highest results from StumbleUpon. Sure, original stuff is great, but who really wants to put in the time and effort to create something popular? 99.596% of “Making Money Online” blogs are based on the premise of regurgitating content and they show no sign of stopping.
OKAY, BUT HOW DOES COPYING GET ME TRAFFIC?
Well, it’s not really copying per se. It’s more of taking things and putting your own spin on them. Take the following image, for example:
Badly-drawn stick figures are amongst the most popular things on StumbleUpon.
As you can see, simply changing around a few things and adding some features creates a wholly new piece of content that eager StumbleUpon users can explore.
THE STEP-BY-STEP PROCESS TO COPYING CREATING POPULAR STUMBLEUPON CONTENT
- StumbleUpon various sites until you come upon one that you feel is popular.
- Check how many “Thumbs Up!” this item has in the review page. If it has over 20, it is suitable for your uses.
- Copy/paste the content into either Photoshop (images) or Wordpress (articles).
- Make a few changes. Try to add humor. Remember - StumbleUpon users love cats, funny videos, humorous quotes, new technology, and wit.
- Put it on your site!
- Wait for the traffic to pour in.
So remember - if it worked the first time, it’ll probably work again.
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Why is the “a” purple? We may never know.
Looking for more random code to put on your website? Quantcast offers just that - site analytics. You can get the same thing from Google, a much more reliable company, but that doesn’t have nearly as many graphs as Quantcast.
WHAT EXACTLY DOES QUANTCAST DO?
Quantcast can tell you who your visitors are, where they come from, their average age, income, and more - all through the use of code you can put on your site and “panel estimates,” which I assume is the fancy word for “wild guessing.” But hey, come on, they have GRAPHS. Lots of graphs. Just take a look at these statistics from some random website:
Who doesn’t love graphs? Especially multi-colored ones. Graphs make everything better.
Seriously, it just doesn’t get any better than this. Quantcast can be used to give advertisers a true look into your site.
Or you can keep lying to them. Whatever works for you.
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These businessmen’s hands weren’t cut off because of cropping - they were cut off because of networking.
There are lots of people online, many of them with their own websites and blogs. Before you try to contact them, think about these things:
DON’T NETWORK WITH OTHER BLOGGERS
The Internet is a horrible place with many horrible people. That is, at least, what all school counselors tell you - and how can these people (who once told me that if I mess up sending an e-mail, it will drift into outer space) be wrong? Here are some quick points as to why networking with other bloggers is a bad choice:
- What if they don’t like your blog? Or your haircut? They might make fun of you!
- You could get a bad review from them. Despite the free backlink and publicity, your pride will be injured.
- Because all bloggers are obviously anti-social nerds aged 47 who eat cheese puffs and play World of Warcraft in their parents basements, poor interaction skills will lead to disaster.
BUT AREN’T THERE ANY POSITIVE BENEFITS?
Because Blog Badly tries to offer only the most impartial opinion pieces, we feel obliged to let you know the good that can come out of networking:
- You can make friends.
- You can get backlinks and more publicity.
- You can get help from others.
- It overall makes it more fun.
But seriously, what if they POINT AND LAUGH? What are you going to do then? Huh? This clearly outweighs the benefits. Remember, if you don’t know that people hate your content then they don’t. You should have learned this as a four year old - the world dissapears when you close your eyes, cover your ears, and make funny noises.
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To publicize your glorious blog statistics, you’d normally have to go to about six different websites and embed their widgets onto your blog. Now, with Popuri, you can display your blogs popularity on Google, Alexa, Yahoo, and Technorati in a convenient web 2.0 format! Here’s an example below
WHY SHOULD I CARE?
Perhaps you want people to know how popular your blog is. Perhaps you like shiny objects and logos. Perhaps you like meaningless widgets. PopUri fulfills all of those conditions. Have a try yourself.
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This will be part of a recurring series. Look out for the next tip whenever I feel like it!
Tired of all those people telling you the same old things about marketing your blog? Feel like commenting on other blogs and using social media just isn’t enough? You may be suffering from a condition called noninovativconformitationivitis. It’s the 93rd bigger killer of blogs, actually. Anywho…
Try new and improved UIFBMT! And no, it’s not a sandwich at your local sub store; it’s unique, innovative, and effective blog marketing techniques.
All you’ll need for our first tip is the following:
Are you thinking what I’m thinking? Remember all of those fun fights you had with staplers? All fun and games until a staple gets lodged into someones spinal cord!
- Take the piece of paper and scrawl your blog URL onto it (it is a known fact that bloggers scrawl. Prolonged use of keyboard has eliminated all need for handheld writing instruments. If you cannot write whatsoever, then print out your blog URL. Blog Badly accommodates!)
- Bring your stapler and blog URL to a heavily populated area where there are large crowds. Walk around inconspiciously (wearing a black trenchcoat, of course. To conceal the stapler and URL).
- Pick someone from the crowd who you want as a visitor. This is a very challenging and selective process, so I suggest you use the “my mother told me who was the very best one and you are not it” method of elimination instead of the plain “catch a tiger by the toe.”
- Staple your blog URL to their back.
- Run.
Congratulations! You’ve got a visitor and a FREE lawsuit against you! What a bonus!
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