I did a lens about Banksy. Grafitti artist.

Banksy is someone I admire, not just for his talented artwork, but for the messages he portrays in them. He is controversial and has a way of getting that message across. Quite often Banksy has featured in the news for some stunt he has pulled which involves a piece of his artwork.   A while ago, a group of us started a little project, trying to get people more aware of Banksy and his work, so this lense includes some of that work.  Banksy: Graffiti Legend.

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

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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.....

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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.