Archive for July, 2008

Are you a writer? I’m guessing that most Squidoo lensmasters are writers - after all, we have to write to create lenses, right?
Have you heard of the annual Muse Online Writers Conference?
The 2008 conference will be held from October 13 through 19. It is all online, and all FREE.
To participate you must register [...]

What are you feeling when you hit that ‘publish’ button and wait to see what your new lens looks like? Do you feel relieved to have it over and done with? Do you feel excitement? Trepidation? Exhaustion?
Producing a new lens is like having a new baby. At first you look on it as a strange [...]

Blogging and Squidoo - Each Feeds The Other

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008

I now have more than ten blogs on a variety of topics. I also have over 35 Squidoo lenses on similar topics. For example, I have a writing blog at Perspectives on Writing. To that blog I can link my literary arts lenses because the topics are similar.
I have blogs on other topics - for [...]

Thoughts on Low-Traffic Lenses

Monday, July 21st, 2008

Like most of you, I have some lenses that get no hits, or very few. I’m going to have to focus on doing things to make these lenses viable.
The most important thing I can do is to make sure these lenses are linked from as many places on the Internet as possible. I’ve got [...]

I’ve learned my lesson. I created a lens about Benjamin Franklin’s amazing books, but nobody visited. Let’s face it - Benjamin Franklin is yesterday’s news, and not everyone is into rehashing history.
The title I gave my lens, Books and Writings of Benjamin Franklin, sounded like we’d be spending an hour in a dusty old [...]

Here are five things I’ve learned about successful Squidoo lensmasters thus far:
Successful Squidoo Lensmasters Help Each Other - Squidoo lensmasters, the successful ones, are some of the most helpful and encouraging people I’ve ever been pleased to meet. They’re joyfully having a positive Squidoo experience and are aware that there’s plenty of room for others [...]