Okay, I’m a little late with this one but the last week has been crazy with hurricanes and other assorted life events so that’s just the way it is :P.
First up on this weeks’ Lens of the Week Competition:
Rubiks Cubes as Art by Mosaic -
First off, I was super impressed by the topic choice of this lens, I am a total Rubiks cube nut and this is a truly unique topic for a lens. I’m contemplating trying my hand at some myself if I can find a cheap ‘cube’ supplier around here…
A few technical... Read Full Story
GE or General Electric is one of the largest conglomerates in the world from building nuclear power plants to lightbulbs and owning NBC their companies stretch across the world.
What can actions a giant like GE takes teach a tiny lensmaster like you? Well… probably a lot but here’s what I thought of today.
If you aren’t going to be #1 or #2 in your (micro)niche on squidoo, try a different (micro)niche.
The reasoning is simple, at most the large search engines will usually only show 2 listings... Read Full Story
I was looking at one of my lenses this morning and saw the following:
Lens 1:
Lens 2:
These are pre-populated ads for eBay and Shopzilla items in the sidebar of the Squidoo Lenses.
Why I’m a Pissed off Pirate:
There has been no indication from Squid HQ that they have set these ads up to be attributable directly to the lensmaster who owns the page.
The items and the content in the ads are in direct competition with a TON (over 300) lenses of mine that use the ebay module.
How can I click... Read Full Story
Squidtop, the blogging platform built on Wordpress specifically for Squidoo users and their friends, received a major facelift this past weekend.
The entire interface was upgraded on the backend to use the wordpress 2.x style engine over the previous 1.x engine.
The front end has changed drastically with some major overhauls and feature updates that should make users really happy.
You can now ‘Squidtop Surf‘ and be taken to a random Squidtop blog straight from the homepage.
A larger selection... Read Full Story
Okay all, I received four submissions from people that wanted to advertise their lenses for free for a week. I was a little surprised that the interest was that low for a free competition, but hey, we are just getting started.
Contest Changes : After some thought, I’m not going to offer the spots in the profile for rent after all. The only way to get on the profile will be to submit your lens to Lens of the Week and win.
Since there were only 4 contestents this week, and I happen to have 4... Read Full Story
For those of you that haven’t noticed it yet, Squidoo released their new ‘lensmaster profile’ pages yesterday and they look pretty sweet!.
If you check out mine, you’ll notice that you can add some websites about you on the left (including up to 3 of your personal sites), your favorited lenses are shown that you have marked as ’shared’, your fans, and your lens list in alphabetical order. The lens list can also be sorted by lensrank, which is a nice touch.
The lensmaster profiles on Squidoo... Read Full Story
Sound familiar?
Make huge piles of money with no work and no effort, anyone can do it regardless of who you are?
Sorry, not this time.
Why can’t everyone just be rich? That would fix everything, right?
Squidoo is an awesome tool and is used by tons of people to raise money for charity, make a little money, tell people about their passions, and find new friends. The time put in by volunteers to police the SquidU forum and new lenses boggles my mind. It is certainly the most powerful community... Read Full Story
Beyonce and her sister developed the Dereon product line to be the height of urban chic fashion. Their line of handbags are no different, bringing new levels of style and class to the handbag market. Read Full Story
I’ve been meaning to write a post about this for a while and I noticed that Spirituality wrote an awesome post on her blog yesterday about all the Dynamic Links in Squidoo and how it affects Search Rankings.
I want to expand a little bit more on a few of the ideas that Spirituality threw out there. Here’s a brief excerpt I want to talk about:
I’ve been thinking about this, because squidoo is a place where a lot of the links are dynamic: they stay up only as long as your lens has a high... Read Full Story
