My First 2 Years on Squidoo
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Sweet Pirate Booty! I’ve been so busy the past few weeks that I just realized that i’ve celebrated my second anniversary on Squidoo during the past few weeks!
Some Fun Facts about my time on Squidoo:
I began using Squidoo right around when there was 100,000 lenses.. Now I think there’s close to a million.
I’ve got somewhere in the neighborhood of 800 lenses. While I’ve slown down my output a bit since moving to Singapore (so much to do and so little time!) I’m hoping to maintain my rate of better than a lens a day for the foreseeable future. It’s too profitable and fun not too!
I’ve had multiple lenses earn over $1,000 in a single month.
I’ve had a nice handful of lenses earn over $100 in a single month.
I’ve got hundreds of lenses that have only ever earned pennies. (and that’s okay! Success with no failure is pretty boring..)
I was an original Giant Squid and Giant Squid 100 member.
I started Squidtop - a Blog network for lensmasters that is building up a nice community. I’ve got plans to make this even more awesome in the near future, if you want to help, let me know!
The Isle of Squid lens directory has grown to include thousands of hand reviewed lenses representing some of the best that Squidoo has to offer. This is another project that I’m hoping to expand in coming months and if you want to help, let me know!
I’ve met some amazing people from not only across the US but across the entire world. Some of you folks are truly amazing!
Posted 1,000+ times in Squid U…
and so much more I can’t think of right now…
Here’s to another 2 years and beyond of Making Money and Having Fun!!!
New Max layout Coming…..
Time for another squidoo layout..
I Sure hope this one was less controversial than the last one. The last time they changed the layout, a lot of lensmasters got really fired up about it… for about a week.
Change is good. It helps you keep perspective on things.
What i’m most excited about is finding out what the OTHER new feature HQ refers to in that post is… could be something very cool!
A Guide to Squidoo Lens Labels
I see remarkably little written across the various blogs, forums and other sites that populate the Squidoo community about lens labels. I can only assume that not very many people use them in their accounts or they are not used very effectively.
This is truly a shame as I find that lens labels are perhaps one of the most useful aspects of the dashboard. They easily allow you to slice and dice your lenses into smaller groups and let you track cool things like the traffic that a particular subset of lenses is receiving.
So, for those of you that don’t really use lens labelling, here’s 5 reasons to start:
- Sort by affiliate program - Create a separate label for Commission Junction, Pepperjam, etc. and place lenses that use each program under that label.
- Lens Cloud labels (see ‘What is a Lens Cloud?’)- Every ‘cloud’ I make has it’s own label. Sometimes, i even have labels for sub-clouds etc. This cuts wayyy down on fishing around for the right lens.
- To-Do - When I’m sitting down for a session of lens editing I always begin by assigning all the lenses I want to work on to a ‘pending’ type label. As I complete what I hoped to do for each lens, I remove it from that label.
- Lenses can have multiple labels!
- Tracking Lensrank - During some months, I’ll label every lens I have in the top tier with one label and every lens in tier 2 with a second label. Then, I’ll check it every week to see which lenses are rising or falling. This is great for helping me pick out trends that are occuring within my lenses.