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Entries for December, 2008

Tax Considerations for Online Income

As the year is drawing to a close, it’s important to remember that Dec. 31st is generally the last day you have to significantly impact your taxes for the year. One of the great things about making a few bucks online is that you have some options to reduce your tax bill through some smart [...]

The Best Squidoo Blog Posts of 2008

Since our little piratey band has grown so much since January (like 800% !) I thought that it was appropriate to take a post and recap what you folks thought were the best posts of the past year as well as some of my personal favorites.
The Most Visited Blog Posts on Captain Squid in 2008
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New Squidoo Workshop. Much Rejoicing throughout the land.

Squidoo HQ officially announced the launch of their new Workshop today. It’s pretty. It’s fast. It looks wayyy more like what you will end up with when you are done.
some juicy little tidbits
Giants Only: Templates can now be inserted directly into a lens. The possibilities for this are huge…
adding popular modules in just a click [...]

Who cares about Lensrank, anyway?

I’ve spent a lot of time in the past talking about how Lensrank, while a potentially nice boost, shouldn’t be a cornerstone of your money making plan.
A stepping stone? Yes, definitely. Who doesn’t love a few extra bucks coming in every month? In fact, it’s possible to make several hundred bucks a month this way.
Why [...]

Getting outranked by another lens?

Here’s a little trick for you.
If you can’t figure out why you can’t get any search traffic from google on your lens go to the SquidUtils lens Search (powered by Google) and put in the keyword you are trying to rank for. The search only searches lenses (or groups) on squidoo instead of the entire [...]

Zazzle Module – What you Really Need to Know

Okay, as I’m sure most Squidoo Lensmasters and Zazzle Artists know, a recent branding initiative was launched to bring the two services together. There have been a Ton of blog posts about how to build zazzle lenses, integrate your zazzle gallery, etc etc etc.
However, what really gets confusing is what happens when you start talking [...]

Today is a Work Day

For the first time in a month, I’m home with time to work on various squidoo activities. This is probably one of the last weekends to get content published before Christmas and get it indexed and ranking high enough to get some traffic.
If you are working this weekend as well, feel free to drop by [...]