Archive for July, 2008

My first lens:  http://www.squidoo.com/collegevisitsurvival  has left its formerly great rank and is rapidly slipping backward. Just in time for me to announce my newest lens: http://www.squidoo.com/dormroomdecorating.
Any help, input, additional ideas for promoting this would be great since it will be current only for the next month as kids get ready to leave for college.
Time to [...]

So I unmaxed my lens…..

Saturday, July 26th, 2008

I was just visiting SquidU and found a topic about changing the look of your lens. I found out how to UnMax a lens so I have done it. If anyone would be so kind as to take a look and let me know if they like the look, it would be most appreciated!
http://www.squidoo.com/collegevisitsurvival

Well, I just signed up at a site called Qassia as a way to get some backlinks…I hope. It was recommended on another lens. I linke that it is a free and easy way to get some more traffic to my lenses. They ask you to add a small bit of “intel” to get Qdollars [...]

I am still moving up in the world!

Friday, July 25th, 2008

Today’s stats: #164 in parenting and 3924 overall. I added more tag words yesterday and joined a few groups. I still haven’t figured out how to add or what exactly link backs are. I have information overload. I want to figure it out right now! Next on my to do list is figuring out how [...]

Still improving…

Thursday, July 24th, 2008

My first lens http://www.squidoo.com/collegevisitsurvival is now ranked #288 in Family and #7586 overall. I am thrilled and still trying to figure out the whole marketing aspect of Squidooing. I also have started a 3rd lens about dorm room decorating. It seems I need to start more than one lens at a time.
Does anyone out there [...]

Moving on up

Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008

Well I am excited to say that as of right now, my lens has moved up to #429 in Parenting and Kids and my overall lens rank is now #13157! I know there is alot that  I can do to promote http://www.squidoo.com/collegevisitsurvival as my first lens, but I also want to finish my second lens [...]

Drum roll please…….I have published my first lens!  http://www.squidoo.com/collegevisitsurvival .
I have a URL ending that I didn’t want.. As I was writing this lens, I first was going to write, You Want Me to Visist How Many Colleges? As I was writing, I realized I was actually writing the prequel which is the actual college [...]

Taking the deep sea plunge

Sunday, July 20th, 2008

Hello world. I am taking the big Squidoo deep sea plunge. I signed up this week and am trying to get my first lens out as we speak. I am hoping that making lenses will work well with my tendency for procrastination. Since I love learning and have been described as the virtual reference library, [...]