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  • cjsysreform 7:47 am on December 12, 2009 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: , Squidoo   

    People buy weird stuff off my bra lenses. 

    squidoolens-amazonorders

    I can’t decide which is funnier: the vibrator, or the Three Little Bears books. This sort of thing is the real reason I’m still on Squidoo.

     

  • cjsysreform 5:39 am on November 30, 2009 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: spammer, Squidoo   

    I’m no spammer… but I may have to say goodbye to Squidoo. 

    One of my lenses has caught the attention of the Squidoo spam filter. I suppose since I’ve criticized Squidoo, they could use this as an excuse to delete all of my lenses. (More …)

     

  • cjsysreform 9:37 am on November 8, 2009 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: groups, , jobs, project collaboration, Squidoo   

    New Group: Project Collaboration, Jobs 

    Group project collaboration - roles needed, jobs wanted.

    I’ve started a new group to share ideas for collaborative projects.

    Maybe all you’ve got is a tiny spark of a concept that you’d like to run by the group for further brainstorming and suggestions; that’s cool, smack it right up in the group forum.

    Or, let’s say you have a well-developed plan in place for a multi-author blog or website — all you need is a few more people to contribute. In that case you’d describe the project, list the slots you need to fill, and say something about the skills required for each slot.

    The third use of the group will be for you to post about your particular areas of expertise and what sorts of group projects you might be interested in working on. Links to examples of your work online, say in a blog or portfolio, are encouraged.

    I’d like to keep the Squidoo lens promotion to a minimum, unless you have a lens that clearly demonstrates your skills better than anything else you’ve published online.

    Come on over and tell us what’s been percolating in that brain of yours!

     

    • mysticmama 3:34 pm on November 8, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      What a fantastic idea!

    • cjsysreform 6:01 pm on November 9, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      Glad you like it. :)

    • Chef Keem 8:56 am on November 10, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      I don’t know if this is the right place for my tip, but it says ‘jobs’ in the title and the writers among you might appreciate it. (I could also see a group project in this somehow, but read on…)

      Sign up for free at http://www.helpareporter.com/

      You will get 3 emails per day with queries from journalists about all kinds of articles. Additionally, each email contains a personal plug of a new product or site, by the site owner, Peter Shankman. Sometimes you’ll find real gems among these.

    • cjsysreform 2:12 pm on November 15, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      Looks like an interesting site, Chef, thanks!

  • cjsysreform 7:35 pm on November 1, 2009 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: holidays, , , Squidoo   

    Don’t publish new content over the holidays! 

    Oh yeah, that’s right, I went there.

    If you’ve got existing content that sells stuff (directly or otherwise… yeah, this means everyone), here’s what makes more sense: use your time over the holidays to polish and promote this content so it doesn’t get swallowed up by all the mass hordes of seasonal ad copy in your niche.

    Was that too fast? I’d say more, but you’re all smart people and I hate to waste your time with a lot of unnecessary extra words. Any questions, comments, rotten tomatoes, hate mail, etc. are welcome.

     

    • Chef Keem 8:10 pm on November 1, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      Could you please say that again? Or should I simply re-read your post? And will a rotten aubergine do?

      Otherwise, I tend to agree with your strategy.

    • cjsysreform 8:31 pm on November 1, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      Dude, what the heck is an aubergine?

      The point of this post is mostly to get people to question the common doctrine of “the more lenses I have, the more money I’ll make.” Or does everyone know this already?

    • cjsysreform 8:35 pm on November 1, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      I feel like even the Giant Squids sometimes get caught up in numbers that don’t mean anything, i.e. lensrank and so forth… I know that my own focus got way too narrow when I was cranking out lenses like crazy in September.

    • mysticmama 10:06 pm on November 1, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      I both agree & disagree lol!
      Personally, I think that holiday specific lenses are pretty much a total waste of time. Why put that much energy into a lens that will only be relevant for a very short period of time?

      But… creating well thought out “gift idea” lenses, especially ones promoting our other online offerings…can be very prifitable during the pre-holiday shopping season.

      My advice to lensmasters would be to go ahead and make lenses with holiday sales in mind, but to make lenses that stay relevant even after the holidays are over… I have a series of Hemp product gift idea lenses that do well all year long, but are now really picking up with the holidays rushing toward us…

      But, I really see no point in making a lens that will only be visited once a year.

    • mysticmama 10:09 pm on November 1, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      Ps…lol…
      aubergine is what they call eggplants over in parts of Europe :)

    • Chef Keem 10:11 pm on November 1, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      Oh, I understood the meaning of your post right away. Just wanted to play into your “Was that too fast?” remark. :-)

      “Aubergine” is French AND German (go figure) for eggplant.

      Oh, and making splendidly optimized new lenses IS a good strategy for higher royalty payouts. The hot new stuff tends to rise pretty quickly and might get a few extra bucks (for a month or two) in the first or second tier. At least, that’s been my experience, a number of times. And if you’re lucky (or a Squid Genius), any new lens could develop into an evergreen cash (sea) cow.

      But – and that’s where I agree with you wholeheartedly – now is not the best time for this, if you have a bunch of holiday-pregnant dust bunnies in your ’sography.

      Bookmark ‘em, re-submit to RSS directories, cross-link ‘em, write about ‘em here on SquidLog (with links, ‘course), and update your themes, tags, YT vids, etc. So by the time the bots come crawling, they’ll see your big “updated” date PLUS a bit of new content, and then they’ll throw you at the feet of the December search mob.

    • cjsysreform 7:23 am on November 2, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      And new images too… tons. A freakin boatload. This is mostly a reminder to myself, but maybe it applies to others too; I dunno. ;)

    • Ramkitten 8:21 pm on November 2, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      I’ve never been inspired to make a holiday-specific lens, partly because there are SO many already on Squidoo, and I’m pretty sure I couldn’t come up with something that hasn’t already been done (and possibly done to death), but also because I’m not really a holiday person. Not that I don’t enjoy them–well, some of them, anyway–but I’m more of a season person. And that comes across in some of my lenses, I think.

    • drifter0658 1:50 am on November 3, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      If I wasn’t such an anti-romantic, bunny hatin’, commie sympathizin’, anti-union, child scarin, turkey freein atheist, I’d create a lenses that overlapped each other so I wouldn’t have to ride the rollercoaster.

      I’d do it about 6 months in advance to give them suckers a chance to grow in authority.

      Freakin’ French eggplants. Is that what they call their Army these days?

    • Susanna 3:08 am on November 3, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      I’ve always acted on the premise that, if every low-ranking web page I have online makes 50 cents a month, $6 a year, I’ll be sitting well enough. Let’s say I have 1000 pages eh?

      Then I can rejoice in the 50 odd that bring in $10 a month.

    • Stazjia 5:18 am on November 3, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      I would never make a Thanksgiving lens now and it’s pretty late for Christmas too. I think lenses on a specific event or occasion should be up at least two full months before the event and preferably earlier to give them a chance.

      I earn some money in commission from them for a couple of months a year and then they do almost nothing for the rest of the time so I would never concentrate on them.

    • cjsysreform 2:39 pm on November 7, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      “But… creating well thought out “gift idea” lenses, especially ones promoting our other online offerings…can be very profitable during the pre-holiday shopping season.” -mysticmama

      Excellent point. I’m going to put this in my next post and let people show off their stuff.

    • Anne Corci 5:42 pm on November 7, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      Drifter an anti-romantic? I’m not buyin’ it! ;)

      Other than that I agree it’s not a very good use of my time to whip up some sloppy selling lenses just for the holidays. On the other hand, it’s fun to dress up some established lenses to appeal to holiday shoppers.

      Just never change the main title of your lens, as I had to make that painful experience myself sometime ago. Google punished this folly by re-ranking my lens from PR5 to PR3.

    • cjsysreform 2:22 pm on November 17, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      Sheesh, I’ve never had any of my lenses get past 3 in page rank. Even the ones with lots of traffic are permanently stuck at 3.

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