Comments for Making my name in the Squidoo Chain

Comment on I have a lens in the top 100 in news! by poddys

poddys — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 17:56:24 +0000

Congratulations

Comment on I have a lens in the top 100 in news! by spirituality

spirituality — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 12:47:41 +0000

Go find forums devoted to college life. Go on myspace and find the seniors in college.

Be active there. In other words: find your audience instead of expecting your audience to find you.

Comment on I have a lens in the top 100 in news! by biggirlblue

biggirlblue — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 08:05:56 +0000

Congratulations. I went and voted on it.

ARe you creating backlinks for the other one?

Comment on My 5th lens is published by Annette

Annette — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 14:30:01 +0000

Thanks for the clarification to all! Now it makes sense to me. I feel like I am doing well just to get a blog post out. Next I will figure out the the next step.

Comment on My 5th lens is published by poddys

poddys — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 12:45:10 +0000

You can also create more pages, if you wanted to you could clone your lenses into pages, but of course you would need to use the relevant HTML code etc.

I created several extra pages on my blog here that promote different types of lenses. I’m thinking of creating more.

You are both right – the posts are your blog, and typically in a Wordpress site the home page is your blog. Very often it’s more like a diary, but it can be created in other ways as well, especially if you create posts in different categories.

Comment on My 5th lens is published by aj2008

aj2008 — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 11:48:09 +0000

Hi
I agree with Mulberry. My Pages are also static Info about me. Although, they can be added to from time to time. For example on my Wordpress blog (http:www.aj2008.wordpress.com)I have a list of my Squidoo lenses and another on Biographical info about me.

Hope this helps

Comment on My 5th lens is published by mulberry

mulberry — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 07:32:23 +0000

I don’t know if I can explain this clearly. A post is an entry to your blog. (like what you just wrote here)I guess I think of all your blog posts as the main page.

You can add other pages to your blog, that include information aside from your routine posts. Those additional pages are more static usually. For instance, you may have a page about yourself; kind of like a bio. Any additional pages you make show up as links or tabs on your blog post page so that people can click on them and view them.

Clear as mud right?

Comment on My 30 minute lens experiment- what I have learned so far by annetteghallowell

annetteghallowell — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 15:25:43 +0000

I never made the lens with the intent or hope that it would be popular, rather as a true experiment for myself.I was feeling frustrated that I was doing something wrong by NOT being able to make a lens as quickly as the “advertising” made it appear it should. I published it for others to see that it isn’t as easy or as fast to make a lens as claimed. I think Newbies need to see what a 30 minute lens looks like in comparison to a lens that took days. Since I published it, I have added to the lens everyday and I am collecting advice/reactions from others based on the experiment.
I am far new at Squidoo to have any ulterior motives. The question about informative vs.money making lenses is simple curiosity. I have not even stepped into the money making idea as I am still wading in the shallow end!

I would much prefer people going to my first two lenses. Of course they are near and dear to my heart since I am still in the process of shopping for the dorm!

And thanks to all of you for your input. I really do appreciate it!

Comment on My 30 minute lens experiment- what I have learned so far by spirituality

spirituality — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 10:01:59 +0000

The type of popularity you’ve achieved with this lens is VERY short lived. It’s an interesting experiment – so people came to take a look. Doesn’t mean they’d come back to that lens, or bookmark it, or recommend it to anyone – nor is there any way a search engine would (or should) turn this lens up for searches.

So enjoy your five minutes of fame

As for lenses: I make both. Making a squidoo help lens is an almost surefire way of making a popular lens. I do that a lot. Then I make lenses I think are interesting – which are often less interesting to others, though there are exceptions which turn out to get a following even if I hadn’t expected it.

Comment on My 30 minute lens experiment- what I have learned so far by Annette

Annette — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 05:05:30 +0000

There is definitely a learning curve here! I am working toward getting a couple of websites up as well as a couple of shops for some artistic ventures. I know instinctively that I can make it all work together if I can get through all the vocabulary! Word Tracker, Adsense…. I really thought I was Internet Savvy until I decided to try my hand at Squidoo!

Does anyone know what percentage of lenses are geared specifically to money making vs. informative lenses?