Archive for May, 2008
Saturday, May 31st, 2008
I recently started a blog on Captain Squid's new SquidTop site. Considering that I already have this Squidoo-related blog, that might seem a bit redundant. But there is a method to my madness! Even if you already have a blog or website of your own, I would still recommend getting ...
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Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
This tip actually comes from lensmaster enslavedbyfaeries. She discovered a way to get free, high quality images for your Squidoo lenses and get paid for them.
There's this website called AllPosters.com that has loads of different posters for sale. Posters of what? Just about anything you could think of--flowers, ...
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Tuesday, May 20th, 2008
If you glance at the SquidU forums much, you'll often find someone asking questions like whether building one lens a day is a reasonable goal, or how often you should update your lenses, or how concerned you should be about lensrank. Usually there are a lot of responses. What's interesting ...
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Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
There are lots of lenses on Squidoo, and the number is growing every day. It might seem like just about every topic you could think of has been covered by somebody. If you pay too much attention to your "competition," it might be a little intimidating. If others have created ...
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Friday, May 9th, 2008
Squidoo still has a bad reputation in some online circles. Thanks to the spammers who flooded into Squidoo and made a bunch of junk lenses a year ago, links to Squidoo pages are banned from places like Digg, Propeller and Wikipedia. Even promoting Squidoo lenses on your blog is risky, ...
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Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
So after writing about how important it is to update your lenses, I'm now going to say this: It's important, but it's not enough.
Since I've made a commitment to update a handful of lenses a day, I've been paying closer attention to lensrank. The kind of updates I've been doing ...
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Friday, May 2nd, 2008
Making a lens is lots of fun. One of the reasons I love Squidoo so much is that it gives me a way to dabble in all my interests and passions whenever I feel like it. Unlike a blog, I don't have to stay "on topic" every day. However, it's ...
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