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Entries for August, 2008

What do GE and Lensbuilding Have in common?

GE or General Electric is one of the largest conglomerates in the world from building nuclear power plants to lightbulbs and owning NBC their companies stretch across the world.
What can actions a giant like GE takes teach a tiny lensmaster like you? Well… probably a lot but here’s what I thought of today.
If you aren’t [...]

Is Squidoo Selling Out Lensmasters?

Edit: I was extra grumpy when I woke up this morning and made the two cardinal mistakes in blogging – don’t type angry and do your research. I failed miserably at both. Apparently these ads are served by Google and are still CPC, negating my entire argument. Additionally, getting angry doesn’t really solve a lot [...]

Squidtop Gets A Giant Facelift

Squidtop, the blogging platform built on Wordpress specifically for Squidoo users and their friends, received a major facelift this past weekend.
The entire interface was upgraded on the backend to use the wordpress 2.x style engine over the previous 1.x engine.
The front end has changed drastically with some major overhauls and feature updates that should make [...]

Announcing the Lenses of the Week

Okay all, I received four submissions from people that wanted to advertise their lenses for free for a week. I was a little surprised that the interest was that low for a free competition, but hey, we are just getting started.
Contest Changes : After some thought, I’m not going to offer the spots in the [...]

Captain Squid’s Squidoo Lenses of the Week

For those of you that haven’t noticed it yet, Squidoo released their new ‘lensmaster profile’ pages yesterday and they look pretty sweet!.
If you check out mine, you’ll notice that you can add some websites about you on the left (including up to 3 of your personal sites), your favorited  lenses are shown that you have [...]

Make a bajillion dollars online the Easy way

Sound familiar?
Make huge piles of money with no work and no effort, anyone can do it regardless of who you are?
Sorry, not this time.
Why can’t everyone just be rich? That would fix everything, right?
Squidoo is an awesome tool and is used by tons of people to raise money for charity, make a little money, tell [...]

SEO and Ranking Flux for Squidoo Lenses

I’ve been meaning to write a post about this for a while and I noticed that Spirituality wrote an awesome post on her blog yesterday about all the Dynamic Links in Squidoo and how it affects Search Rankings.
I want to expand a little bit more on a few of the ideas that Spirituality threw out [...]

Impossible Lensrank

Weird #1 lens today…….. (I didn’t photoshop this except to crop it and it’s not one of my lenses.) You can find the lens here. Not sure how long this will stay up.

New Evergreen Squidoo Module – Feed My Search

As I was lensbuilding this weekend I noticed a new evergreen Module has been released into the wild for Squidoo lensmasters. (What is an evergreen module?)
The Feed My Search module uses FeedMySearch.com to pull relevant news, blog posts, and search engine results into lenses. It works similar to the google blog search module which is [...]

Squidoo Earnings Break 3,000 a Month

Well, there must be something about getting married that helps to kick it up a notch because for whatever reason, July was my best month ever from Squidoo by far!
I didn’t quite reach the $4,000 level this month but I was well over $3,000 which is a first for me.
Note: I count the paypal payment [...]