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I know there are some lensmasters out there that love their pets, make lenses about their pets, have piles of lenses about taking care of their pets, etc.
I think I found a great site today for you guys : Youpet.com
I heard about it from a neighbor, went over and checked it out and it looks like a great place for all you pet lovers (and link lovers 
) to spread the word about your pet lenses.
It looks like it’s got a pretty good pile of features with blogs, pictures, a rating system (treats) and other cool stuff.
Unfortunately, I haven’t made a lens about my dog yet (it’s on the list!) so I haven’t had a chance to fully get into it yet.
Those of you that have, check Youpet.com out and let me know what you think!
Ok, the new Squidcasts are pretty awesome. Let’s talk about why for a minute.
- You can now communicate directly to your visitors with little thoughts and tidbits. This is awesome.
- You can announce new events or updates across the squidoo universe (well, YOUR squidoo universe)
This is good. Really good.
But how do you promote your squidcasts to others ? Each Lens’ RSS Feed will show the casts you send out for that lens.
This effectively means that you can get the RSS aggregators (Zimbio, Technorati, etc.) to treat your lens as a blog.
Wait a minute.. submitting ALL of my lenses to these sites AND writing casts for each lens? That will take forever and probably piss off all your fans with all those casts.
Wouldn’t it be nice to submit ALL of your squidcasts as ONE RSS feed? Yes, it would.
But wait, there isn’t a way to promote that RSS feed because it doesn’t exist…
That’s what the Captain’s for!
I have written a yahoo Pipe that allows you to create a feed for ALL your squidcasts. When you submit this feed to blog sites, your feed is updated every time you write ANY squidcast.
How to use it:
Go visit the Pipe here:
http://pipes.yahoo.com/captainsquid/fan_feed
Enter your lensmaster name. Your SquidCast Feed will be automatically generated.
right-click on the ‘more options’ link and click ‘copy link location’.
Now paste your new uberfeed into whatever RSS submittor you want! Need some Ideas? Check out my posts on Free RSS Submission Sites and Using Zimbio to automatically promote your site.
Ta Da!
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-The Captain
I’m a member of one of Bryan’s groups and got this sent to me by him.� Went and joined to check it out and was pleasantly surprised.
JoePopular is another take on the Social Networking craze, but it is a simple yet functional set up.� You place your most relevant sites (or lenses) in several categories right on your profile page.� So when people visit they see right away what your best links are.
You earn JoeDollars from referring people and your JoeDollars can be used to advertise your profile page.� A very interesting concept that has great potential.
Sign up and check it out…..
Doug’s JoePopular Page�
