This blog is developed by Ron Passfield, PhD, affiliate marketing coach, who is helping affiliate marketers and small businesses develop their affiliate business through social media marketing. This blog offers free resources for affiliate marketing, small business marketing and social media marketing - articles, e-books, reviews of affiliate programs and evaluation of affiliate marketing strategies. Learn about social media, blogging and building your blog traffic.
In a recent invited post for the SquidLog blog, I highlighted the need to be conscious of the way that Google indexes Squidoo lens.
Some of the key messages were:
it is not enough to concentrate on your primary keyword alone
too much emphasis on the primary keyword can result in loss of rank
using keywords irrelevant to the lens focus can result in penalties
The secret is to think broad and stay relevant. Great teachers can express the same concept in multiple ways. Good SEO involves writing with the primary keyword in mind while linking it to related terms and phrases.
[In one sense, it's like applying the principles of "anchor text", but on a broader level.]
********************************************** Ron Passfield is a Top 100 Squidoo Lensmaster and Giant Squid. He provides free resources for Squidoo affiliate marketing on his Squidoo authority site: http://www.squidoo.com/squidoomarketingstrategies
RedGage, the new social bookmarking and social networking site has monthly contests to encourage users to contribute positively to the development of the site.
The details of the August RedGage contest are shown here:
August Contest
For the month of August, the RedGage Contest has two parts: a raffle and a competition.
The Raffle
RedGage users can collect points for receiving views, rating content, commenting on content, inviting peopleto join Redgage or mentioning RedGage on other sites (mentions have to be separately advised to Redgage in the form provided).
These points are raffle tickets that are collected until midnight each day. There will be daily ($25), weekly ($50) and monthly ($200) winners that are chosen at random. (Note: minimum points to be able to enter = 10 points, a very low activity point).
The Competition
New this month is the competition that ranks users according to their activity. There is a scoreboard that shows the ranking of the Top 20 users in the following categories:
receiving views
rating content
commenting on content
inviting people to join Redgage
mentioning RedGage on other sites
The scoreboard helps users to determine their progress in each category and determine what is required of them to win the cash prizes.
The user who is ranked number one (in each category)will be the competition winner of the day.
Just like the raffle, daily activity will clear at the end of the day to even the playing field for the next day's competition. However, users will still be tracked for the weekly and monthly competition.
You will be able to win (in each category) only once per week!
The following cash prizes are awarded to the competition winners.
Category
Daily Winner
Weekly Winner
Monthly Winner
Views Received
$4
$8
$30
Rating
$6
$12
$40
Comments
$8
$16
$60
Mentions
$12
$24
$80
Invites
$20
$40
$140
For more information about RedGage and the August Contest, CLICK HERE.
********************************************** Ron Passfield is a Top 100 Squidoo Lensmaster and Giant Squid. He provides free resources for Squidoo affiliate marketing on his Squidoo authority site: http://www.squidoo.com/squidoomarketingstrategies
Well this email was a surpirse: "You have been chosen to be one of the sixteen Featured Users on the RedGage Homepage. Click the following link to view the homepage: http://www.redgage.com/"
So if you do click the home page you will see me (ronpass) featured - just click the username and that takes you to my profile page and my Collections.
So what did I do to deserve this featured status?
I don't know what specifically won the day, but here are some of the things I have done:
loaded a number of quality photos (that got featured)
uploaded links to my blogs posts, Squidoo lenses and articles
created RedGage blog posts to feature some of my poetry
developed 5 Collections to categorize my content
provided quality comments on others' content
developed and uploaded substantial resources to help Redgage users
made comprehensive submissions to RedGage admin re site improvements
The effect:
Well being a featured Redgage user has bought extra traffic to my blog and Squidoo lenses and increased my ratings for the August competition and prizes - here's hoping!
********************************************** Ron Passfield is a Top 100 Squidoo Lensmaster and Giant Squid. He provides free resources for Squidoo affiliate marketing on his Squidoo authority site: http://www.squidoo.com/squidoomarketingstrategies
Squidoo provides the opportunity to promote your favorite charity.
You can build a lens promoting the charity, encourage charity members to create their own Squidoo lenses about the organization or work with the charity over time to help them to become recognized by Squidoo.
If you take this latter course the charity will be able to receive donations via Paypal from Squidoo members and Squidoo itself.
Recently I was inspired by the charitable work of Sarah Garnett who established the Footpath Library in Sydney. Her growing organization provides books (mainly new) to the homeless and the disadvantaged in hostels.
The organization now supplies over 1,000 books per week to people in the streets and to libraries in hostels.
********************************************** Ron Passfield is a Top 100 Squidoo Lensmaster and Giant Squid. He provides free resources for Squidoo affiliate marketing on his Squidoo authority site: http://www.squidoo.com/squidoomarketingstrategies
Redgage is not just a social bookmarking site for uploading photos, links and videos. It is very much a social networking site. The richness of the online content is more than matched by the richness and diversity of the network.
RedGage facilitates the building of your social network through the add a friend button, the ability to store content in Collections and the capacity to develop a comprehensive profile.
Top Web 2.0 experts, like Mari Smith and Percy Belcher, stress the importance of transparency on social networks. Your RedGage profile page enables you to share a lot of your self - your work, education, history, interests, passions and the things you like. Additionally, you can add web links to your blogs, Squidoo lenses and other sites.
Your Collections, in turn, provide insight into your passions, preferences, hobbies and online goals.
By sharing something of yourself through your profile and Collections, you enable others to identify common areas of interest and connect with you.
RedGage can thus help you brand yourself - to show something of who you are, what you believe in.
As Mari Smith argues, authenticity and transparency enable others to relate to your humanness and to build trust and rapport.
Adding genuine and transparent comments to others' content helps to build on that rapport and trust and establish a lasting connection.
Social networks such as RedGage are not just information exchange centres - they are very much centers of human connection. By sharing something of yourself, you invite the other person to reciprocate and so a genuine relationship can develop.
As you explore the RedGage site, you will find heaps of Giant Squids and a host of excellent writers from sites such as eHow.com, Gather.com, Scribd.com and Associated Content. You will encounter photographers ranging from the amateur who just loves taking photos to the professional engaged in glamor photography.
RedGage enables the creation and sharing of all forms of creative expression including art, photography or writing.
So why not share and connect on RedGage and enrich your life? Create a revealing profile, build your Collections, add friends and make quality comments on Redgage content. You will be amazed at how many people from diverse parts of the world share your interests.
********************************************** Ron Passfield is a Top 100 Squidoo Lensmaster and Giant Squid. He provides free resources for Squidoo affiliate marketing on his Squidoo authority site: http://www.squidoo.com/squidoomarketingstrategies
Well I joined RedGage about a month ago and I am now enjoying the fruits of my efforts.
I've made $83 to date just from uploading some of my online content (a miniscule fraction - about .1%).
There are three ways to earn on RedGage as I explain in this video:
I like the fact that you get paid for your backlinks that you create on RedGage - much better than having to pay for them (...and some of mine have ended up on page 1 of Google results!).
I've created a Squidoo lens that provides hints, tips, tutorials and videos on how to earn money on Redgage: http://www.squidoo.com/redgage-money
RedGage enables you to upload videos, photos, links, blog posts and documents. Here's a Squidoo lens I've created to help people access RedGage'ssuperb tutorials: http://www.squidoo.com/redgagetutorials
I particularly like the ability to create links to mySquidoo lenses and then to store these individual posts in RedGage Collections so that visitors can access my lens ring on a particular topic. Here's an example relating to Tennis: Inner Game of Tennis
Of course, the other free benefits I get are sales of my Squidoo Marketing e-book, new subscribers to my ezine and potential affiliate sales.
Well, RedGage is a fun, FREE way to promote your Squidoo lenses and blog posts as well as your photos and videos.
You can join up through this link (takes you to a Popup registration form): Join Redgage HERE
********************************************** Ron Passfield is a Top 100 Squidoo Lensmaster and Giant Squid. He provides free resources for Squidoo affiliate marketing on his Squidoo authority site: http://www.squidoo.com/squidoomarketingstrategies
Ron has been involved in Internet marketing and small business marketing since 2005. He is recognized as an expert in Web 2.0 traffic strategies being a Giant Squid100, Top 100 Squidoo Lensmaster and creator of the SquidooRoo social media training program. Ron is a Co-Founder of Wizzley, a Writer's community.
Ron's blog for his offline business is Human Resource Consultancy.
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