New goals for 2012

2011 was a good year on Squidoo, especially for learning. Although I didn't earn a huge amount, I did learn a lot.
I now have 57 Squidoo lenses, 19 trophies and I am on level 47.
I spend at least an hour on Squidoo everyday, usually more, and I am constantly trying to improve the lenses I already have and read and research on how to improve my lenses.
In 2011 I managed to make my first 3 Amazon sales, which I was very happy about, as it gave me motivation to carry on.
I also have on average around 8 lenses in the top 85,000, 2 of which drift in and out between Tier 2 and Tier 3 lenses.

My goals now are:

• To update the lenses I already have and make them worthy enough to be receiving a decent amount of daily traffic.

• To make more Amazon sales.
• To become a Giant Squid. ( really want that lens template)

Google+(plus). The New Exciting Rival to Facebook

I was reading up on today's news earlier, and read something about Facebook partnering up with Skype and adding a video calling feature, when there was something in the article that mentioned Googles new rival to Facebook, known as Google+. So I looked into it and it's still in a trial stage, but it looks pretty damn good.                                           So I decided to do a lense about it to try and help get the word out, not that Google are going to need much help with this, but anyway here it is.  Google+(plus). The New Exciting Rival to Facebook

A day of creating backlinks to my Squidoo lenses.

Today my aim is to create back-links to all my lenses and add all those places I submit to on here to give others ideas of where they can also submit to. Building backlinks helps greatly, not only with your lense rank, but also with Google ranking.

• Redgage
• She Told Me
• Lensroll
• Squid Directory
• Clipmarks
• Jumptags
• My Link Vault 
• Digg (Not only submitting a link to Digg, but also adding links to your profile under settings)
• SquidU  - Join the Squidoo forum and create a link in your signature to one of your lense and this will create a backlink for you. The more you participate, the better.
• InfoPirate

My very first lense on Squidoo....

So this is a lense I published a while ago and so far it has earned me a grand total of $0.28. Woohoo! Not much I know, but it's a start.  Friv Online Games. It currently has a pretty good ranking, under 10,000 and gets a fair amount of organic traffic everyday.  

One thing I have learned is that it is good to try and update each lense everyday if possible. I read somewhere that this helps keep your lense rank from falling too much. So therefore this is one of the things I will try to do on a daily basis.