On Polishing Rocks And Jewelry

As a jewelry artist, I keep gravitating around the subjects of jewelry and semiprecious gems. Today I took a second look at how to polish rocks and jewelry. The two are not the same, even though initially it might seem so.

Polishing silver is all about tarnished silver cleaning, which means cleaning the final pieces of jewelry (or other silver objects) from that dark urgly layer of deposit that occurs after a while due to the interaction with oxygen.

On the other hand, polishing stones is about taking rough stones (pebbles from the seaside, or rocks from the mountain, those kinds of rocks) and polishing them to a nice shine. Usually rockhounds are searching for beautiful rough rocks, polish them, even cab them (create cabochons out of them) and then sell them to jewelry designers - or keep them for themselves in case they make jewelry as well.

So here is the article I wrote on How to polish stones on Wizzley.

I've noticed that it takes me about the same amount of time to write one lens at Squidoo as it takes me to write 2-3 pages at Wizzley. It's so darn easy writing at Wizzley, and such fun. The tarnished silver cleaning article took on quite an interesting layout with all those moved up, down, left and right modules. I love the side-by-side modules, sadly Squidoo doesn't have this option. I think Hubpages does have it too, but I personally don't like to write there.

At Wizzley I have currently 14 pages and counting. And I've only started there a week ago...

3 More Wizzley Pages Done

I've spent yesterday and today adding 3 more pages to Wizzley. One more to go and if all goes well, my nofollow backlinks to Squidoo and my site will become dofollow.

So what have I been busy writing about?

The second article was a fun fact finding mission for me. It's about tipping hairdressers. How much to tip them, when it's good to tip and then some other useful tips related to keeping your hairdresser if you really like her (or him). This was a fun Wizzley article to write, I truly had fun with it.

Then this morning I wrote about adding the Wizzley widget to a Wordpress blog. (You can see the widget right here in the previous post about joining Wizzley). The problem with this widget is that it's an iframe code, and Wordpress got rid of all iframe related code for various security reasons. So besically if you add this code to your Wordpress blog, upon publishing, you end with no widget on your blog at all. Btw, As you can see, Blogger blogs have not been affected by this.

So anyway I spent my morning creating a step by step tutorial, taking pictures and putting it all together as a Wizzley post. Hope some people will find it useful. Btw, with this solution you can add pretty much any iframe code to Wordpress, you are not restricted by Wizzley.

And finally this afternoon I wrote another fun article about meaning of eye colors, basically debunking this issue. So many people are trying to find the meanings to their eye colors and are taking online quizzes and reading article after article, and all this is crap really. The article looks at all this and tackles what the truth about eye color really is.

When I look at Wizzley compared to Squidoo, I have a feeling that somehow Squidoo lenses are more commercial in nature, they are more salesy, while Wizzley is more for writing information article. In a way it makes sense, since Adsense takes such a prominent place at Wizzley (we have our own accounts there entered in the preferences, and the money goes directly to our own Adsense payment). For example while at Squidoo I might have a long list of favorite books on a particular subjects, like my Best self-help books for women, I wouldn't do this type of article at Wizzley. But I guess I'll see as I go along and learn more about the Wizzley platform and way of doing things.

Joined Wizzley

I've finally bit the bullet and joined Wizzley. I first heard of this site over at the Squidu forum, but because it's so new, I didn't want to bother with it. Big mistake! From what I saw, Wizzley is off to a great start! There are so far no spammers, and the quality of the articles is just great.

And you can earn with Wizzley, albeit in a different way than with Squidoo. With Squidoo you earn with its modules (Amazon, Ebay, etc) whereby you get I think 4% of the profits when somebody clicks through, and you can also add your own affiliate links (even to Amazon if you are an Amazon affiliate). This way you get to keep all the earnings. However Squidoo doesn't have Adsense (at least not directly to your own pub id).

With Wizzley you can earn from Adsense, Amazon and a few others as well. As a starter, you earn 50%. With 50 good articles you earn 55% percent and after 100 great articles, the commission goes up to 60% which is not all too bad.

I used to be at Suite101, a site that I really liked, but it got hit by Google earlier this year and my earnings pretty much plummeted along with everyone elses. As you only earn there from Adsense impressions, I lost pretty much all my revenue from there.

However Wizzley and Squidoo are different. The earning potential is much higher and I truly like to write that incorporate also other elements such as videos, images, Amazon modules, pols and quizzes. It's much more fun than some simple articles in a dry text format like Suite101 has.

So here is my first article at Wizzley on a topic that is very dear to me, meditation: How to do meditation at home.

Since I am meditating regularly from home, I like to teach others to pick up this helpful practice because it does help a lot with stress relief and it has some benefits that everyone can gain from (health and otherwise).

If you want to see what Wizzley is all about, click below to see some of the best articles (not only mine) at this great new promising site.