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Ebay Affiliate Feed Generator Live and Updated

Ok, folks after working my piratey butt off for the past few days I was able to finish updating my RSS feed generators for eBay. Here’s a few things I learned the hard way.
1. eBay’s reporting is still slow.
2. when eBay (or my generator or whatever) asks for your ‘Campaign ID’ , that is the [...]

Ebay Partner Network Goes Live

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 [...]

Are you Using Jumptags to tag your lenses?

I’ve been using Jumptags a lot lately to bookmark my lenses as I complete them. They have a very nifty Firefox or IE extension that allows you to right click on any web page you are on and bookmark it.
It pulls all the info from the page and you just have to click submit.
Note: Make [...]

Primary Tag Domination

In my Lens Publishing Checklist as well as in previous posts, I have repeatedly emphasized the importance of the Primary Tag in Squidoo.
Every one of your tags will include your lens on the related tag page. The Primary tag also is included on tag pages but only if it is also a normal tag. (I [...]

Yahoo Launches New Bookmarking Site to Compete with Self

As many of you probably know, Yahoo! is the owner of the del.icio.us bookmarking service which is hugely popular across the internet.
As I was trying to submit a site to Yahoo’s Site Manager yesterday, I was instead redirected to a new Yahoo Bookmarking site at beta.bookmarks.yahoo.com.
Interested as always in a new bookmarking site, I thought [...]

Squidoo Tool: Free Ebay RSS Feed Generator

I’ve gotten a lot of questions the past 3 days about the RSS feed generator for Ebay Affiliates that I created. In order to help answer them, I’ve created a trial version of the Ebay Affiliate Tool so you can try it out and see how awesome it is. Here are the limitations of the [...]

Looking for a way to Buy and Sell Squidoo Lenses?

I’m happy to announce the official top-down remodeling of Sell My Lens. I originally designed this site over 8 months ago, but it was wayyyy to early, Squidoo wasn’t ready. But now, there’s been a lot of renewed interest in buying and selling lenses, and I’ve spent all weekend and a good chunk of last [...]

The Lens Publishing Checklist – Free Squidoo E-book

Arrrggghh…. Because I’m the Captain and I like keeping my matey’s up to date, I’ve created a special treat for ye this week.
I’m proud to present the first Captain Squid E-Book : The Lens Publishing Checklist !
What is it?
The Lens Publishing Checklist is a 12 Step ( with a bonus 13th step for some lenses) [...]

Squid Utils Facelift – Improved Squidoo Lens Promotion

The Fluffanutta has recently done a total facelift on Squid Utils. We first talked about using Squid Utils and Zimbio to quickly promote all of your lenses as RSS feeds. Now, some new features have been added, allowing you to manage your lenses even more effectively.
Combining multiple tools in one place is something the Captain [...]

The Captain’s Roving Band of Lens Promotion

There are tons of social bookmarking and networking sites out there. However, if you don’t have any friends on these sites, you aren’t very likely to be heard.
So, in the interest of spreading the word about all the great lenses everyone is making, we have created the Captain’s Roving Band.
We have created core groups on [...]