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)

An awesome lense and a very cool tool for Squidoo users.

Everyday I try to read some other Squidoo lenses for tips and tricks, I usually learn something new everyday, which is cool. Anyway, I wanted to share this great lense today as it is from someone who is fairly new to Squidoo, but has been persistent and the rewards are starting to show. Fast Money Making with Squidoo.                                                                                                                               Another great tool I wanted to share today is this: SquidUtils.  There are many features on this site that are great for those that use Squidoo and make lenses. One of the best tools on this site is the lense health checker. It digs deep into your lense and shows you how well your lense is doing. It's lense ranks over the last seven days. Tips on how to make the lense rank better and so much more. It is definitely worth checking out if you use Squidoo

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

I made my first GIFT Squidoo lense for my friend San

Image via CrunchBase

When I was searching around the Squidoo site over the weekend, I noticed that it was not only possible to buy and sell lenses, but also make gift lenses for your friends.                                                                                                                                                                             So I decided to make one for my friend San, who I am on this Squidoo journey with. We help each other out and if one of us learns something new, or has a great idea, we share it and work together on it. So I made the lense for San and added lots of links to all her online writing ventures and sent her the email. She accepted it and made a few adjustments, which I was fine with. The idea was that I put the initial work into it to make it look good, with the borders ect, and let her then add anything she desired to make it even better.                                                                                      Here is the Squidoo gift lense I made for my Friend San.  AskSan Anything

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.

My Squidoo journey begins.....

Image via CrunchBase

I've actually been a member of Squidoo for over two years now, but never realised what potential this great site held. So over the last week or two I've been creating lenses and reading up on what others are doing and how the whole site works.                                                                                    I did have one lense on there already, but without Amazon or eBay products on sale.... silly me didn't realise that was another money making opportunity too! Anyway, that lense has earned me a grand total of $0.28 so far and I didn't even do anything with it promotion wise.                                                                                                                                                                                                              So here my Squidoo journey begins and I have 11 lenses up and running now, with my best lens currently at a rank of 6265 which is titled My online earnings.   This is going to be my diary on how I am progressing on Squidoo and along the way I will share my earnings and any useful tips with you.