Squidoo Lens, A Great Way To Inform And Market

This is just a quick post about my first Squidoo page. Although I actually started a lens almost two years ago, it wasn’t until I actually had the need to bring it to the final stage of publishing that I finally completed it. I’ve explained the reason for doing that in my Necessity The Mother Of Invention And How It Relates To Blogs where it explains how people find a way to do things when there is a specific need for getting it done. In my case the need was to help promote and market a new venture I was getting into.

I would dare to say that most of you may be familiar with Squidoo, but for those of you who aren't all that familiar with it I would highly recommend that you check it out. If you take my lens, that's what they call them, as an example you will see how I've used it to promote several of the posts on my blogs. This gives those posts extra link juice, as Squidoo is highly respected by the major search engines, as well as the good possibility of sending targeted traffic to those posts. We all know how important targeted traffic can be.

So, if you haven't seen my lens yet why not go on over and have a look, if for no other reason than to see how handsome I am :D

Zemanta's Mozilla AddOns A Blogger's Best FriendIs

Image via WikipediaI have used Zemanta on my Wordpress blogs for awhile now and I reckon that it is one of the most useful blogging tools ever because it makes the life of a blogger so much easier. It does this my finding post related images and links that you can add to your post with a simple click. Truth be told I wasn't too worried about how it would work on other platforms because they didn't interest me as I had my Wordpress plugin.

How remiss of me not to think of those poor bloggers who wanted to use other blogging platforms such as the following;

# Blogger
# TypePad
# Wordpress.com
# LiveJournal
# Movable Type

Lucky for them that Zemanta hadn't forgotten them and had incorporated a fantastic Mozilla Firefox AddOn I was fortunate enough to come across this thanks to a comment on my Zemanta Is Truly A Useful Blogging Tool and thanks to Jure, who left the comment, I am now able to use it on this blog as well.

So, if you have an English blog and haven't installed this Mozilla AddOn I seriously suggest you pull your finger out and get a move on.