http://linda.squidtop.com Mon, 29 Dec 2008 04:02:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en You're invited to use and join the Squidoo News Room - a room I set up at FriendFeed. If you're not familiar with FriendFeed yet, take heart, it is very easy to join and be part of. FriendFeed provides a place for all your RSS feeds from a variety of ... http://linda.squidtop.com/2008/12/20/the-squidoo-news-room-youre-invited/ Did you know you can offer a subscription option for your lens visitors to receive your SquidCasts in email? Recently I wrote a lens to explain this: Offer Email Subscriptions to Your SquidCasts. In my lens I give step-by-step directions for setting up these emails using a SquidCast feed from SquidUtils, ... http://linda.squidtop.com/2008/12/19/offer-email-subscriptions-to-your-squidcasts/ Today I've been having fun adding my lenses to my MySpace. I just discovered that our MySpace links in the "Bookmark and Share" section of each lens now put Squidoo links directly onto the front page of our MySpace - and you get a choice of what section to put ... http://linda.squidtop.com/2008/11/28/the-myspace-bookmark-and-share-button/ Lately I've been wondering how to get my lenses to rank higher. Sound familiar? I'll bet 90% of you are also wondering the same thing! I was focused on this question enough that I took time to go through the entire top 100 list and analyze it. I didn't look ... http://linda.squidtop.com/2008/11/23/lensrank-what-works-and-what-doesnt/ Recently someone left a link on my lens, How to Promote Your Squidoo Lens. The link was to a new blog that claimed to be the best source of information on how to use Squidoo. I had to move the link to a different area of my lens and while ... http://linda.squidtop.com/2008/11/20/is-seo-important/ I'm wondering if I'm the only one with a secret lens - one that is for my eyes only - one that will never be published. My secret lens is called, simply, "Lens Ideas," and that tells you exactly what I use it for. I'm still developing myself as a lensmaster, ... http://linda.squidtop.com/2008/10/08/my-secret-lens/ Goals with deadlines are very motivating, but once the day has passed, there's a huge mental sigh of exhaustion, relief, and relaxation. Shoulders relax, and the mind realizes it can finally go on vacation. That's what happened to me after I hit the 'publish' button for my fiftieth lens, Messenger ... http://linda.squidtop.com/2008/10/05/breathing-easy-again/ 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. ... http://linda.squidtop.com/2008/07/31/the-muse-online-writers-conference-and-my-workshop-there/ 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 ... http://linda.squidtop.com/2008/07/24/what-feelings-do-you-have-when-you-publish-a-new-lens/ 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 ... http://linda.squidtop.com/2008/07/23/blogging-and-squidoo-each-feeds-the-other/