Squidoo Hopping 8/7/14

Welcome to Thursday.
I look forward each week to doing this post and seeing what is shared in the linky.

How are you liking the new design on the squidoo pages? I was worried about some of my things going away, but the ones I looked at seem to look great.
I had thought that maybe my stuff wouldn't disappear as the lens I used to get my codes was called html for squidoo.
I can say this....Ive ended up liking the change. It means that all of our lenses look the same. No more competition with the lenses that were so fancy looking when I didn't know how to also make mine look like that.

I've been back to my daily updating this past week and even built a new lens. So far my lenses are staying out of WIP status.
Does anyone recall how many lenses we are required to build in a year to maintain Giant Squid status? I'm thinking 4. I have more than that this year, just want to make sure I don't mess it up next year.

I'm going to continue to share on the here 2 lenses that are just below the 85,000 ranking.
By my count I still have 67 out of 147 lenses to give an update to before starting over. A few I've been working on more as they had several photos for me to add or the like.
I'm having fun and that is part of what it's all about!

I look forward to what you choose to share this week.

An InLinkz Link-up

Squidoo Hopping 7/31/14

Here it is, the last day of July. Let's get squidooing!!

Ok, mostly that is probably for myself. I've visited lots of lenses this past week, but haven't done any updating to my own. Surprisingly they are all still out of WIP status.
I have my binder out and ready to get some updating once I am done with this post.

It looks like I had one small sale this past week. Of course payday for it will be in September at least. That's ok, every bit helps me get to that $25 payment threshold.

Last week while updating I ran into a lens that I had trouble getting to 100%. It was down for low quality content. I went through it adding words in the amazon module for the books that we have, or have checked out from the library. I put more words under the pictures. I even put words with the youtube videos.
This lens has a lot of allposters. I removed one of those and it finally went to 100%. I actually thought it still had too many so I took out a couple more as well.

How is your squidoo going?
I look forward to visiting your blogs and lenses this week!

An InLinkz Link-up

Squidoo Hopping 6/26/14

I sure can't report this week that I've not done much with squidoo!
I've been updating all over the place working towards getting lenses out of WIP status.

One lens I gave a whole overhaul and another one I am working daily on a complete overhaul. The second one was a train wreck. It was one of my earliest lenses and it was total copy and paste and way too much of it too. I did find that the website that I did site for getting the information from isn't even a website anymore. That lens is climbing the ranks with each update and I can't wait to get it done and see what it does.

I didn't do any updates yesterday due to my daughter having surgery. I didn't take my handy dandy 3 ring binder with my pages of lenses and such in it with me.
I did take my laptop, but that was only to work on while she was in surgery. We thought it was an in and out surgery. It ended up being more complicated and now includes a 2 or 3 day stay at least. I do have my notebook packed for today----and need to get this typed up and get up there with her.

I am sitting at 44 WIP's as of today. I started with 50, got a few out, only to find 55 the next day. Lots of updating has me at the 44. Let's hope this is worth it!

I'm going to share the 2 lenses today that are at the bottom of my ranks just above the WIP's.....which I'm sure both of those can use updating too.
One of them is music and I know I at least has the itunes module in it.

I'm looking forward to seeing what you share this week.

An InLinkz Link-up

Squidoo Hopping 3/6/14

 

We no longer have internet at home, so I am having to work from the library when I can.
I am going to try to keep up with the things that are most important to me....my blog, bubblews, squidoo. swagbucks, my email, and a couple of paid to clicks that i do.

I'm actually writing this and scheduling it to post as I'm not sure what time I can make it here to the library to post it.

You won't believe it, but I actually updated a lens today.  I had intended to update 2...picking 2 of the 7 that I hadn't gotten to yet on deciding the 20 amazon to keep.
I did the Dora the Explorer lens.
The amazon was the easy part as I was only 2 over the 20.  One of those links wasn't good anymore.
The hard part was....omg....I had copy and pasted major information about the characters of the show from wikipedia.  I cited that's where I got the info from and all...but talk about duplicate content!!
I went through and took out most of it, but also changed wording, paraphrases, changed sentences around etc.   I did keep the link where I found the info.
Whew!  It published at 100% with no problems....hopefully it stays that way.

I also made it to work on to approving and returning some of the comments in my dashboard as well.
I'm going to truly try to work in squidoo daily, even if it's just returning a couple of comments.

This is day 3 of having to work from the public library when I am able.  So far I'm seeing that this may just be good for me.  I've had to be more organized and more thorough in getting done what needs to be done in a day.
Plus, when I am home in the evenings I am working on sewing and reading more.
Wish me luck!

I hope to see lots of link ups this week!!  Thanks to those who always take the time to check in.  I will be adding my links to the link up some time during the day.

An InLinkz Link-up

Squidoo Hopping 2/6/14

Seems I have a full blown case of the the flu.  I should be looking up lenses about the flu, I might find some hints to help me feel better.   Actually my doctor has called me in a prescription for one of the z-paks.

Aside from being sick, I did actually build a new lens this week.  Lenslet I guess they are called.  It's on Green Eggs and Ham.  I will put it in the linky.  There is another book I want to do...Runaway Bunny, that Ruthi aka abitosunshine has as one of her suggested books to review.   I haven't had a chance to look on my children's book shelf to see if I still have the book.

How has your week been with squidoo?
I hope to see lots of links added this week.  Keep me busy!

Squidoo Hopping 12/26/13

I hope that everyone had a very Merry Christmas!   Here's also to a Happy New Year.

I read a post on bubblews yesterday and the person was pretty much making fun of those of us who make goals for the new year.  She wanted to know why we can't work on goals all year, or why can't we start now?
I commented that it just seems appropriate-new year, new you, but that I do try to work on my goals all year, and make new ones throughout the year.  And, that I have already started on the goals that I have written down.

Do you have any goals with squidoo that you would like to share?
Mine is the same as always-----to be more active.   I'm sure willing to give it a couple of months and see how things go anyway.  By a couple of months I mean a couple of months of payments, and I won't see for my efforts in January until March and for February in April.

I am going to share in the linky this week a couple of lenses that are down at the bottom on my lensranking.  

Happy Hopping!

 

Squidoo Hopping 6/27/13--Check Inside!

Good Thursday lensmasters!

There are a few things I want to talk about this week.
I'm still having trouble "getting into" squidoo.   I've been in and out, returned a few comments, looked at other lenses-----didn't update even one of my own.  I keep saying life will slow down and I can concentrate more on my online ventures......it's not happened yet.

So far none of my lenses are flagged, or locked.   I did read a post on bubblews though saying that bubblews has been black listed by squidoo.   You know what I have to say to that??  BOO!!
When I thought gather was going to be gone, I planned on taking what I had from gather linked in my lenses, post those things over to bubblews then switch out the links.   
I did save a bunch of stuff to word and in my pictures, but had only gotten on thing written on bubblews.  I had switched out that link on the one lens in one list.
I now know that once I go to update that lens again, it won't publish unless I take that one link out.  ggrrrrr    why do things have to be so difficult?

I also want to tell you about Ruth's new facebook group for lensmasters as well.   You can find the group here: Squidink Gone Postal   
Here is what the group is about:
SQUIDINK gone POSTAL is on a positive mission! Our vision is to see Squidoo lensmasters go postal!

We want to see SQUIDINK postcard lenses, postcards through Squidoo Postcard publications, your own personally designed postcards, and SQUIDINK postcard exchange via snailmail.

If you love Squidoo and Postcards, come join the SQUIDINK fun!

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You DO have to be an active member of the Squidoo community to join this group.

Do NOT exchange mailing address through the group. Please do so privately for security purposes.

Please do NOT add members to the group. Many, myself included do not care to be automatically added to groups. DO invite all your Squidoo friends to check out the group and join!

DO share Squidoo lenses that have to do with the topic of postcards.

DO share your own postcard creations, such as those you create in Zazzle and CafePress. However, please limit these shares to 1 per day.

Please do NOT just drop links and run. We want you to share your links but more importantly we want you to enlighten us as to why you are sharing the link.

Ruth is working hard to put this group together.  It's going to be fun and productive!
Here is even the lens she built about the group.   (I will also add the lens to the linky as well)
Squidink Gone Postal  

My big news this week is my newest grandbaby  :)  No, I can't help but share a picture here too!
Meet Killian Von  born 6/26/13 at 6:24 am.  Weighing 7 lb 5 oz and 19 1/2 inches long.

Now for the linky!

 

 

Squidoo Hopping--Plugging Along

Admittedly, I've not been in squidoo much this past week.  I did just a few minor updates to a few lenses.  I checked for comments.  Mostly, I was checking in to see if any of my lenses have been locked or marked.  So far none have, but that may only be because they haven't gotten to the giants yet?

I have loads of lenses that as I see them need major overhauls.   (I'm not keeping up with any of my online projects except bubblews these days)

I'm going to leave it to your choice which 1 or 2 lenses you would like to share in the linky this week.
Also please share any blog posts you have written about squidoo.

Comment if you have had experience with this second filter!   Thanks! 

Squidoo Hopping--Linking Zazzle

Good Thursday to all!  Today I want to talk about linking zazzle into our lenses.
If you were following my blog posts a few months ago, you would have seen where I asked how others were highlighting one of their zazzle products at a time.  Zazzle doesn't allow you to right click and save images.
I wanted to make a lens highlighting the postage I had created.  The answers that I got was to print screen, then edit that down to just the stamp.  That is what I did, then linked the photo to my product.

Thanks to Virginia's updating challenge, I learned that there is a link button under the product picture.  When you click that you set up the code and put that into the html box in the text module or guestbook module etc.  Is this new??  I'm thinking it has to be pretty new, or other webmasters would have told me to do this when I was asking way back when.

I have completely re-done my zazzle postage lens (which I will link up in the linky) as well as I am having a blast searching zazzle for products related to each lens and adding that to the guestbook.

I would have had no idea at all that doing so automatically puts in our associate code, so if someone sees that design and loves it----and clicks over from the image that we receive a referral fee---even if it's not our own product.

Quoting from Virginia's lens "Zazzle products - Don't put them in the Zazzle module, as that doesn't pay directly to the lensmaster. If you are a Zazzle affiliate, you can paste in their link and html into text modules. This is how I illustrate quite a few of my lenses. It benefits the Zazzle artist when something sells, and I get a referral fee (on Zazzle)."   If you haven't already, please check out Virginia's lens Easy Updates for Squidoo Lenses.   I now have a whole list of things I can do to update lenses!  Thanks so much to Virginia for putting this lens together. 

In other news from me----The 3 lenses that I did the update challenge with are all up in tier 3!  I've not done any more updating to them, but will.  I still have several things from her suggestions that can be done.
I've been updating lenses here and there.  As I update each one, I am getting that page into my alphabetized notebook.
I started building a new lens last night.  It got to be 1:30 in the morning and I still had several things to put in.  I did go ahead and publish it even though I know I shouldn't have unfinished.  I do hope to finish it today, although this is a busy day away from home for me (including my daughter being interviewed for the newspaper with the youth that went to England.)    Hey! speaking of England and zazzle, I have been working some on making some of her photos from England into products.  I have several more photos to get put into zazzle and then to make them into several different products.  But, using one of the codes here in my lens, I'm sharing one of the products I made:
 

Double Decker Bus Puzzle by marsha32
See other jigsaw puzzles

I could spend all day in nothing but squidoo with all the building and updating that I want to do! I do hope to see many of you link up this week :) Thanks so much for following along.

Squidoo Hopping! 3/8/12

I have no title for today  :(   The best of intentions I am guilty of once again this week.
I seen Ruth's Latest 10 Lenses lens and got as far as making note of my latest 10 lenses built.  
I did this with the intention of building a This Day in History and then building the one about the recent 10.   This is a great idea, and when I get it built, I will be crediting the original person who thought of the idea.

This week, instead of posting my links within this post, I am going to just randomly add 2 lenses to the linky below.  I hope to see lots of others do the same  :)

 

Squidoo Hopping 9/1/11--Linky

Wow! August is gone and here we are to September 1.

Again I crammed in most of my squidoo in to yesterday. Every day I'm in squidoo, just not updating or building my own lenses like I should be.
I'm appreciating the 2 squidoo groups that I belong to in facebook.

I got busy last night with my goal of finding a charity for each lens and tithing from squidoo through helping others. I found my best way to see what the charities were while I was in there was to put it in to the donations module and go read the description from there.
I'm disappointed that there are no charities that deal with crafts---like making crafts to send to the needy. I wanted one of those for my craft type lenses. Also, I seen no charity that dealt with music. I was hoping to find one of those for my music lenses.

Anyway, I updated my Marsha's Crafts lens adding KIVA as the charity. I also did some updating. It needs more updating though because I hope to rid myself of the Gifts Galore and More website since I can't update it myself and I don't focus on many of the crafts that are listed there anymore.

I updated Earn Money Online aka Earn With Marsha to add KIVA as the charity as well. KIVA gives loans and grants to entrepreneurs. I did some updating of the lens otherwise as well.

Lastly I updated Our Unschooling Journal adding Room to Read as the charity. This was fun again to look back almost 3 years ago and see what Jasmine looked like and what she was doing.

I've asked before, but this is still bothering me. Does anyone know how to delete items from the etsy module after they are sold? They are just staying there forever. I'm thinking my best bet is to just delete the module and re-add a new one and start over!

That's all for me this week. I look forward to hopping along with you.