Yours Truly!

Make sure and go check out the list, there are some great blogs on there that are worth taking a look at. Pot Pie Girl has also left admissions open, so if you are an up and coming Squidoo blogger, you can get your name on the list and start climbing the ranks as well!

It’s an honor to be in the top slot and I’m only there because of all you guys, so thank you very much for that. I fully expect a few of you to be charging hard to overtake my spot and I welcome the challenge. More and better blogs about Squidoo only means more and better information being out there on how to make money for yourself or a great cause being available to everyone.

Thanks for putting that list together PotPie Girl!

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 users really happy.

You can now ‘Squidtop Surf‘ and be taken to a random Squidtop blog straight from the homepage.

A larger selection of themes are available for users and you can use more customization than with the previous design to really make your blog your own.

Several of the plugins that allow Squidtop to be super useful for getting Squidoo News and posts found by people and search engines alike were re-written to run a bit faster and cleaner.

A new anti-spam suite was also installed that should help the permanent wave of spam that flows everywhere.

If you haven’t checked Squidtop out yet or if you’ve been thinking about starting a blog but were looking for a dead simple way to do it, check it out.

What other improvements do you think Squidtop could make?

Zach from SquidUber has been an awesome person to work with as well. If you haven’t checked out his squidoo blog then you are missing out on some pretty good stuff.

Pretty cool how if you give people a platform to talk about things they love, it’s easy to find others who want to play .

Thank you all and have an excellent weekend.

-The Captain

For those of you who are curious, Squidtop is a place for Squidoo Lensmasters to Blog about their lenses (or whatever else they want!) without fear of being banned for having ‘too many links to one site’ as Wordpress and Blogger are wont to do.

The community is growing quite nicely and we’ll pass the 200 blog mark this week! The posts are indexed quite quickly by google and are another great way for you to promote your lenses and yourself.

If you haven’t already, make sure and stop by and read some of the great blogs over there. You can get lost for hours at a time! I know I do…

P.S. Thanks so much to all you lensmasters that help us keep Squidtop free of spam and a fun place for everyone to go! Your participation is greatly appreciated and amazingly awesome as usual.

I’m Proud to introduce SquidTop!

What is SquidTop?

Squidtop is a site that allows you to create your own blog to talk about your squidoo lenses, accomplishments, progress, or any other topic you desire. What’s unique about it is a custom interface that allows you to update your blog with short little posts like twitter/pownce updates like so:

There is also a fully featured back-end built on wordpress, allowing you to create in depth posts about whatever you would like!

Other Cool Features

Twitter Integration – Simply add your Twitter RSS feed to the ‘Options’ page in your admin area to display a list of your recent twitter posts.

Adsense Revenue Sharing - I designed a custom adsense revenue integration into the site. Your blogs receive 80% of the impressions while Squidtop receives the other 20% to cover hosting, maintentance, etc. To activate it, go to your options page and insert your google publisher ID and your ad_slot number so google can track it. That’s it! you’re all set up.

Recent News - The front page of Squidtop shows the most recent posts made on the site by any blogger. This means that when you post updates, you are visible front and center for all the Squidtop vistors to see!

How to Sign up for Squidtop

Just head over to www.Squidtop.com and click on the big blue sign-up button. The whole process takes less than 5 minutes before you can have your very own blog to talk about your lenses on!

What are you waiting for? Give it a try!

Let me know what you folks think and if there are any obvious improvements that you would like to see in the site.