Squidoo Hopping--Happy Thanksgiving!

Welcome to the Thanksgiving edition of squidoo hopping. I hope this post finds you are preparing for a great day with family and friends.
We are about to put the turkey on and the green bean casserole in the crockpot.

I did do some squidoo work this past week:
I built a new day in history lens. This Day in History August 13. This one in honor of my granddaughter, Ariel's birthday. I am getting closer to having enough to build my placeholder lens to list them in order by month.

I updated the following lenses:
Learn About Greece
Online Parties
Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center

I'm spending a lot more time in the 2 squidoo groups that I belong to on facebook. Spending more time meaning trying to list my own lenses and look at the ones that others are listing.

I'm going to hurry along, but I would like to invite you all to the Christmas celebration with the online craft mall. I am promoting my crafts on Monday and Friday.



And a cute Thanksgiving graphic too.


Myspace Graphics, Thanksgiving Graphics at WishAFriend.com

Squidoo Hopping--What Are Outlinks?

Good Thursday to all----my first question--what are outlinks?  How do you see what outlinks are on a lens?
I have one of my lenses marked for:

Spam content see less

We're no puritans, but there are certain words and word patterns that often indicate a type of lens content or topic that we can't support on Squidoo. Our system has found a few of these topic or word patterns on this lens. Read a brief set of guidelines about SquidDon't topics: http://www.squidoo.com/squiddont.

P.S. It's possible your lens is in good standing, yet one of your readers has posted spam content in a Guestbook or Duel module. Try reviewing the comments published on this lens. If you find spam there, chances are good that's why your lens is flagged.

Exceeds the outbound link limit see less

There is a limit to the number of links to the same domain that you can have on any single lens. We consider more than 9 links to the same domain to be overly promotional. Read more about the outbound link limit at http://www.squidoo.com/outboundlinklimit.

 

http://www.squidoo.com/earnwithmarsha is the lens in question.   There are loads of other lenses just like my own of people pushing for referrals in websites they do online to earn money.  I don't think, or hope it isn't, the reason--the spam part listed.

I posted in the forum and was told there is an outlink 10 times...it goes to Cafepress and looks like a sign up page.  So, how do I get rid of it?  I don't even know how you look to see what outlinks there are there.  I really want to keep this lens up as I have gotten a couple of referrals through it. (when I am reading, Cafepress is on the whitelist anyway of allowed outlinks?)

Otherwise, I did keep my promise to myself to build a new lens and to update at least 2 this past week.

I built  Learning About Greece.  This will be an ongoing lens as I will update after we finish each book.  It should do well in the ranks for bit anyway. (well for me is under 200,000)

I updated both Online Craft Mall and Online Parties to include the banner for the upcoming Christmas celebration.  I'm ashamed it's taken me so long to get it in there though---early bird sign up is almost upon us!  I have my 2 spots, but haven't chosen them yet.

Spoooky Celebration Has Come to an End--Shop Hop 10/8/11

The Spoooky Celebration online parties with the Online Craft Mall has come to an end.
I ended up being drawn for a prize twice.  Once for a button ad on the website, and then where I got to choose my prize.  I chose 2 vendor spots for the next show.

Yep, that's right, we are planning on getting back on schedule with parties.  The next one up is the Christmas Celebration and will be help Nov. 28, Nov. 30, and Dec. 2.  I will be posting more on that soon.

I know there are tons of you out there that sell online.   I hope you will consider becoming a vendor.  If not a vendor, come in to the parties as a guest.

Guests were in poor supply  :(  If  you any idea of how to get guests to come to the parties, please tell me.  I posted about it here on my blog several times.  I wrote about it in my daily posts at both gather and sidetick.  I also posted specifically about the parties on gather and sidetick.   I posted it to facebook.  I even offered up a giveaway here on my blog offering a prize of me paying for a vendor spot.  I only had 2 entries, and neither of them even sell online.

Since I've been out of the "online party scene" for 2+ years now I'm not even sure if the parties are near as popular as they once were.  They are, however, loads of fun. Chat is always good, deals are good....and there are prizes too!

I was disappointed Friday afternoon when it was my time to present my "businesses" and there were no guests for me to present to. However, I did get 2 orders during the shows.  One I knew I was getting and I asked her to please come in to the party and put in her order.  Doing so put her in the prize drawing...and hey!  she won a nice little prize too.

So.....I didn't get anything new made to post this week.  I've been working on all these dish scrubbie orders.  I've also worked out a deal with a gal that makes soap to sell her washcloths.
I didn't even get any of my other items moved to my zibbet store.  I will still be working on orders this next week.  I also have sewing club.  I do hope to get my sewing machine out after Tuesday and get some things made.  I need, however, to start working on Christmas gifts for my own family.

Ok...enough of me rattling on this week.   I am linking up with Ruthi at abitosunshine:
 

Squidoo Blog Hopping 9/22/11--Linky

Good morning and welcome to this week's squidoo blog hop! This blog post marks my 1000th post since I started this blog!!

I love squidoo and have so many lenses that I need to take the time to get built.

A lot  of this past week has been working to promote the Spoooky Celebration that I will be participating in coming up soon.   Since it's an online party, I went in last night and updated my Online Parties lens.  This lens lets you know more about what an online party is and I've added an announcement box to put in info on any online parties that I am taking part in.

A couple of weeks ago I built another book review lens--  Finances Without Fear.  I think I forgot to mention it.  Boy do I have tons of other book review lenses that I can build!

In looking at my comments this morning, I found out that my My Toothbrush Rug lens is highlighted in Bonnie's 50 Crafts I Want to Try lens.  How cool is that?  Now I'm going to have to spend the rest of this day checking out the other lenses she has highlighted and get inspired to keep on working.

Time to get busy so I hope to see many of you link up this week!

Resolutions Journal Week 6--March 6--March 12

After keeping track on gather for 5 weeks on my resolutions, I've decided to continue to keep track of what I am accomplishing each week here in my blog. (I did win a box of 100 calorie snacks for doing the resolutions journal entries on gather)

As a reminder, here are my "resolutions" for the year:
1. Using the exercise equipment we have on a regular basis.

2. Reading whenever I get a chance so that I can do more book reviews and in turn turn those book reviews into squidoo lenses.

3. Getting back to my online business. As a whole I call it Gifts Galore and More, but includes everything that I do online to earn money.
I will be updating or building a new squidoo lens each day, working on getting crafts made and listed for sale, getting more books listed for sale, etc.

4. Getting my blog back going again.

Week 6: March 6-March 12 accomplishments:

Updated homeschoolbuy auctions

Updated Crash, online parties, and REO Speedwagon squidoo lenses

Cut t-shirts to crochet with and made another t-shirt hand bag. I made a second bag for an order from a lady at church.

Worked on plastic canvas baby blocks and cross magnets, but didn't finish any.

Finished reading Hollywood Crows and got my book review written on gather.

Listed the newest t-shirt handbag in my blujay store.

As you can see, I'm not doing well with the exercising. I'm finding myself so into doing my crafts that I'm not wanting to take even a few minutes out each day on the equipment. I do want to change that as I know it will help my stamina...as well as the way I look.

Thursday February 19

Good Morning! Yesterday seemed super cold because the wind was blowing so hard. So far this morning it's cold out but just a breeze...makes a big difference on how cold I feel.
I ended up not only taking the girls to Awanas yesterday evening but taking my daughter and granddaughters to the health dept to get signed up for WIC..that was an unexpected 2 hours away from home. The only place I should have to go today is to take my mom to the doctor.
I still have most of my housework to do yet this morning, which includes sorting and putting away 4 loads of laundry!

I need to get busy and get more posting done on gather other than my usual 2 posts that I do each day. I have several photos on my camera to share.
It boils down to me trying to do way too many thing both online and offline!

Yesterday I updated my online parties squidoo lens. Online Parties

How about an early start to the weekend? There is no school here tomorrow for an inservice day for the teachers. wahoo!! that means I can sleep in a bit in the morning!

Have a great day!
Marsha