Posts Tagged ‘wine’

Temecula Wines, Wineries, and Wine Country

The Insider Scoop has a well written article that covers the history of the Temecula wine region and provides tips for visiting the area.
The Insider Scoop » Blog Archive » The Wine Region Next Door - It may still be summer, but the harvest is well under way in the Temecula Valley (about 60 miles [...]

Why Not Duplicate Content on Squidoo and Hubpages?

Several lenses gave instructions not to duplicate content on Squidoo and HubPages but they never said why. I read the Squidoo and HubPages terms several times and couldn’t find any prohibitions. Tonight, I found a really good reason.

An interview with the HubPages Marketing Manager Jason Menayan noted seven things they did to gain market share [...]

Top 10 Temecula Wines

I went to the web to ask about people’s favorite Temecula wines on Yahoo! Answers and Wine Library TV Forum. The answers were not particularly helpful. I was a bit bummed for a while and then realized that it was the perfect opportunity to create compelling content. After all, that’s why sites like Squidoo, HubPages, [...]

August 2008 Rankings

With the goal of being transparent, I’ll report rankings. Free ranking report courtesy of Mike’s Marketing Tools using the search term best wineries in temecula (no quotes). I chose this since more people will use this term than best temecula wineries.
Best Temecula Wineries on Squidoo

Visits this month: 8
Squidoo Rank: 23,639
Google Ranking: No (Means not in [...]

Hold the Margaritas

OK, this experiment has gotten a little out of control. I’m really happy about the Squidoo lens on the Best Temecula Wineries. Rather than going down the margarita recipe route, I’m going to spend more time promoting this lens. I want other people to vote since I’m curious about their favorite Temecula Wineries.
I copied the [...]

Best Temecula Wineries 2.0

I do some of my best thinking while sleeping and I realized that the first version of the Best Temecula Wineries didn’t have a final tally. I set up a scoring system and calculated the winners. It was exciting to me since I didn’t know how it would turn out. Drum roll please. Ta da!
The [...]

Interactive Web Pages on Squidoo

I created my first lens on a topic different than margaritas to learn the ropes. I had just been to Temecula Wine Country the week before and could now say that I’ve been to all the wineries. I created a Squidoo lens on the Best Temecula Wineries.
Squidoo has a wide variety of modules which caused [...]