Nov 07 2008
New Blog
I’ve just started another blog, only this time it’s more of a how-to blog. As you may have noticed I have a couple of Squidoo lenses, which are basically information lenses about Cosy Candles and about making soy candles.
They are there for purely Internet Marketing purposes, trouble is that up until recently Google loved Squidoo. They were good quality sites with relevent content for search engines. What has happened, as is always the case with something this good, is that it gets abused. As word spread, so did the amount of spammers who built lenses to bombard the Internet with crappy content and fill everybody’s inbox with junk mail. What does Google do? Drop it like a hot potato. Consequently everybody who was using Squidoo to drive traffic to their genuine sites have been hit very badly as no lenses appear on Google.
So to compensate that I’m just going to run a duplicate blog site on Blogger, who are owned by Google, just as another means of generating traffic to my main site. I won’t shut down the lenses as Yahoo, MSN, and other search engines are indexing them. Unfortunately, 98% of all searches in the UK are made through Google. So, I do need to target those Google users.
If anybody is interested it’s at www.makingsoycandles.blogspot.com. I’ve also put a link on the right hand column. Fingers crossed it’ll give my main site some added weight in the next couple of months. I’ve also placed some Google ads on it too, we’ll see what happens.
