Arr... This Be The Captain! Thanks for Stopping by to check out my piratey bag of Squidoo Tricks! If you are new here, you might want to get free updates and squidoo tricks delivered straight to you via RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!
No, this isn’t an April Fool’s Joke. Ebay has officially made the split from Commission Junction to become it’s own stand alone affiliate program.
For the month of April, all the links for both Commission Junction and eBay will be live. All the links you have switched over to the new ebay program will earn an extra 5%! At the end of the month, your CJ links all walk the plank.
I’m working on modifying my current Ebay RSS Feed Generator. I will have it fully updated to the new eBay RSS feeds hopefully tonight or tomorrow. Ebay has now included the ability to add SID codes to RSS feeds which is a huge step forward. Due to this development, I’m considering releasing my feed generator as just an easier and faster way to generate eBay Links.
Go apply for the new program at ebaypartnernetwork.com
If I release the feed generator for free would people use it?
-The Captain
This weekend’s update to Sell My Lens includes RSS feeds for all the lenses currently for sale. Right now, only the title of the lens for sale is included in the feed, but I hope to add descriptions to it in the very near future.
Just add the RSS feed to your favorite lenses, or your RSS Feed Reader and you can be instantly notified when new lenses are listed for sale. Pretty nifty, huh?
Don’t Know what Sell My Lens is? Check out the lens on Buying and Selling Squidoo Lenses.
-The Captain
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
