Let’s Get Squid Topical … Again?
I haven’t used this blog for the last year but finally have come around and decided it is a great place to be. I will find new ways to use it – and have set up Chrome so it opens to this blog every Sunday. Blogging here once weekly will suit me fine.
2010 has been a year of re-creating myself as a blogger and online worker, and I’ve made progress at keeping many sites updated and learning new ways to make money online.
Squidoo has changed as well, and though I’m sure it is all good progress, sometimes I want to climb into a shell and pretend it isn’t happening. I’m not a huge monster fan (sorry!) but I like the points tab, and have enjoyed doing a few quests.
Most recently there’s the retro quest which I participated in by making San Francisco Sound Psychadelic Rock – Music of the Sixties and Early Seventies. A little trip down memory lane there, for me, featuring Janis Joplin, the Quicksilver Messenger Service, the Grateful Dead, and Jefferson Airplane. Other bands are listed but there’s a limit to how much I could fit on one lens!
Also there’s the Holiday Gift Guide challenge. So far I’ve done one lens for this: Top Ten Electronic Gadgets This Christmas – 2010. I found the research for that lens to be a lot of fun. Of course, I’d love to have some of those gadgets myself! Sure, why not?
Other than that I haven’t been doing much on Squidoo this month because I was busy doing the HubChallenge over there at HubPages. I had an account there but it took almost two years for me to make my first hub – and that happened on October 19 with Favorite Horse Movies – a hub I originally made to backlink to my similar Squidoo lens: Ten Fantastic Horse Movies. Then I realized HubPages gave no ‘do-follow’ links to anyone without a certain HubScore. So I joined the month-long HubChallenge to build myself up to 30+ hubs, and get that backlink friendly HubScore. Well, it worked just fine and I discovered that I love HubPages! So it was a great month… lots of work but lots of benefits too.
More next time…….
November 21st, 2010 at 5:42 pm
Keeping up with everything is tough. Glad you’re making headway at Hubpages, I put more time into that this past year as well. Like you, I’m not a Monster fan but I don’t do the Quests either. It’s all good, but it’s not for me! Not much into games and stuff but I understand it can motivate people
November 22nd, 2010 at 7:17 am
Found you via Twitter, just to let you know for marketing etc, (I think it is important we let each other know we are visable… what works…etc! look forward to your blog posts.
LisaAuch