If you've been thinking that you need to get more organized in the new year, you're in luck when it comes to organizing your Squidoo lenses.
This SquidBlog post is a heads up on the new, three-level categorizing system coming soon to a Squidoo near you. I think everyone will be thrilled to know that we will soon be able to categorize, sub-categorize, and sub-subcategorize each of our lenses. (Well, not everyone. Sometimes change doesn't come easily to Squidoo lensmasters, but I digress.) Clearly, having a new, more specific way to assign topics to our lenses should be a good change.
Once the system is live, lenses will be re-ranked within the new topic areas. Seems to me this should allow more lenses to rank higher on more top 100 lists, but we shall see. Before the new topic ranking is published, Squidoo will allow a week or two for lensmasters to go through our lenses and find a proper topical home for each one using a bulk topic recategorizer tool.
I love the timing of this release in that it coincides with the natural inclination many of us seem to have this time of year to tidy up and organize our belongings, including our pages on Squidoo. Begin thinking of how you'd like to group your lenses and watch for further announcements of the new topics. This is one change I'm really looking forward to.
How about you? Does re-categorization of your lenses sound like a positive move? I'd love to read your thoughts in a comment below.
Wednesday, December 29, 2010
Saturday, December 25, 2010
Merry Christmas 2010
I talked a little about goals in a previous post and that subject has continued in the front of my mind. I'm developing a plan to help mentor new lensmasters in the coming year and I'll talk more about that here in a few days. If you're new on Squidoo or know someone who is, someone who might appreciate a little extra help getting started, be sure and check back soon to see how you or they can get involved. Better yet, subscribe to our updates using one of the links to the right.
In the meantime, have another slice of pumpkin pie then snuggle in front of the fireplace with your sweetie and enjoy one more holiday movie. Make the moment last a little bit longer before getting back to business.
I hope Santa brought you everything you asked for! See you soon back on Squidoo.
Thursday, December 16, 2010
Two Thousand Squidoo Goals for 2011
Someone earned $2000 this payout on Squidoo. Now, that's a noteworthy accomplishment. In her topic of the day on the SquidU forum, Kimberly asked how earning $2000 a month would change your life, and she asked what you're going to do to make it happen. That got me to thinking about goals for 2011.
I've already decided that I need to do more to give back to the Squidoo community. There's a rule of life, called the law of reciprocity, that the more you (unselfishly) give, the more you get in return. In terms of income, it's tempting for me to make lots of lenses to promote affiliate products, but there's really very little sharing in that. Logically, it seems that the more I use my own affiliate links, the more money I should make. And it's true that I've made a lot more this year than last with personal affiliate earnings. But I have to wonder what I'm missing as I more frequently bypass the modules that are designed for sharing revenue with Squidoo.
I've always told new lensmasters that Squidoo provides their fabulous platform to us for free and that it's my opinion that we should honor that by donating a portion of our lenses' earnings to charity, through Squidoo. I also believe that we should use at least an occasional revenue sharing module on each lens even when we use our own associate links (Amazon being the prime example). I was really happy when the right-margin module option was added to our lenses; that's such a quick and easy way to spotlight an Amazon item or two (or three) and, frankly, it's an easy way to honor the revenue sharing relationship. While I'm doing all these things, though, I still feel that there's something I'm missing.
Could I give more? Could you? We each have to answer that question for ourselves, but I know I'm going to be thinking hard about it that law of reciprocity and acting accordingly. Whether I'll get to the $2000 mark or not, time will tell. But I know I'm going to feel better about myself for trying.
How about you? Any thoughts about your 2011 goals that you'd like to share?
P.S. The law of reciprocity applies to more than money. Giving of your time and talents pays off in great rewards, too. Just something else to think about.
I've already decided that I need to do more to give back to the Squidoo community. There's a rule of life, called the law of reciprocity, that the more you (unselfishly) give, the more you get in return. In terms of income, it's tempting for me to make lots of lenses to promote affiliate products, but there's really very little sharing in that. Logically, it seems that the more I use my own affiliate links, the more money I should make. And it's true that I've made a lot more this year than last with personal affiliate earnings. But I have to wonder what I'm missing as I more frequently bypass the modules that are designed for sharing revenue with Squidoo.
I've always told new lensmasters that Squidoo provides their fabulous platform to us for free and that it's my opinion that we should honor that by donating a portion of our lenses' earnings to charity, through Squidoo. I also believe that we should use at least an occasional revenue sharing module on each lens even when we use our own associate links (Amazon being the prime example). I was really happy when the right-margin module option was added to our lenses; that's such a quick and easy way to spotlight an Amazon item or two (or three) and, frankly, it's an easy way to honor the revenue sharing relationship. While I'm doing all these things, though, I still feel that there's something I'm missing.
Could I give more? Could you? We each have to answer that question for ourselves, but I know I'm going to be thinking hard about it that law of reciprocity and acting accordingly. Whether I'll get to the $2000 mark or not, time will tell. But I know I'm going to feel better about myself for trying.
How about you? Any thoughts about your 2011 goals that you'd like to share?
P.S. The law of reciprocity applies to more than money. Giving of your time and talents pays off in great rewards, too. Just something else to think about.
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