Christmas Lens On Front Page Of Squidoo

It's been almost 2 weeks since I last posted here. So let's see what things have happened with my Squidoo account since.

Some of my lenses have been featured on the front page, including my Halloween lens on Grandma Halloween Costumes and my new one for a Christmas quest called Book Holders for Reading. Actually the book holders lens also got last week a purple star and it's been featured on the front page for the last couple of days already. I'm tickled pink!

I've started making a few Christmas lenses since the 2-3 I already have are making me some random sales. The two lenses I made so far are:

Presents for New Mums
Secret Santa Gift Ideas for Women

My goal is to make 10 Christmas lenses in November, so let's see if I can meet this challenge.

Squidoo Lens Featured On The Front Page

This week a second lens of mine has been featured on the front page. I entered in the second Woot competition and while I didn't win, my lens about 'How to get rid of fruit flies fast' has won a purple star and it's now randomly featured on the main page of Squidoo.

This is a topic that I actually know something about since due to the extra heat in our parts of the world, there are lots of fruit flies in many kitchens, including ours. I've been using various ways to get rid of them, some working better than others, so here I listed a couple that I'm familiar with.

I currently have 209 lenses, and on another note, I've reached 8% commission at Amazon, mostly through my lenses, and this for the second time now. The first time it was last month while I was away on holiday visiting my parents. The months is not yet fully over, and I'm already in the 8% bracket. Next I'll be working towards getting that elusive 8.25%. That's over 1571 products sold, so it's quite a bit until I get there. First, let's make sure I stay in the 8% bracket in the first place.

Lens Not Indexed in 4 Months

Ok I have a weird situation here - I have a lens that hasn't been indexed in Google since last October - that's just about 4 months and that's weird, considering that most of my lenses get indexed within hours or days (usually 2-3 days max). I noticed this by chance, since it's very down in tiers and it doesn't get any visitors, and the keyword is not all that difficult afterall.

So I checked in Google and sure enough, it's still not indexed.

I got a few useful tips from fellow lensmasters on the Squidutils forum and I've been implementing them, hoping that Google will finally take notice of it. If not, sometimes next week it goes on to the chopping block and will re-create it on another fresh lens.

The lens is about self help books for women, and the original title was Best self-help books for women, but I got the advice to even change the title for a bit, hoping that things will shake up. Let's see.

Also changed the lens a bit, added a link to a module of the lens within the intro part, changed the image and pinged it. It would be awesome to finally get indexed, I wouldn't want to scrap it and spend my time rebuilding it from scratch.

Lens Selected For Valentine's Day Recipes Monsterboard

This one is new to me too: one of my lenses I submitted for a quest on Valentine's Day got featured on the 80 Valentine's Day Recipes monsterboard. In the image below is the one pointed to by the orange arrow. It's a lens on Valentine Cake Balls (which are yum-yum!)

80 Valentine's Day Recipes

None of my lenses were previously featured on any monsterboard or on the homepage (one of my 'wet dreams' which hopefully will also happen), so this was an interesting event for me.

150 Lenses Done So Far

I took a 4 day break from last Thursday until Sunday to play an online game I've discovered recently, called Entropia Universe. It's awesome and quite addictive. As I know myself when it comes to games, I spent these days to play fully and get it out of my system (else I'd be dreaming about the game instead of working every day). Now I'm back on track with my 150th lens today on palm tree wall decals.

I can't believe how far I've come since I've started more seriously with Squidoo back in September last year. I truly enjoy writing for Squidoo because it allows me to write on any topic that I fancy for the moment. Also the great modules allow me to easier express my creativity. Squidoo is definitely not an article writing site!

Now let's see when I'll have ready my 200th lens. I know some lensmasters with 700+ lenses. I guess I still have a looong way to go till there...

I have 100 Squidoo Lenses

Just added my 100th lens called Kindle DX Covers And Cases. I almost didn't realize I'm already there. Wow how the time passes...Just a few months ago I was struggling with a couple of awful looking lenses, trying to make them better and to create new ones, hopefully better ones this time.

Now let's see when I'll get to the shiny 200.

My Tier 1 Lenses are still pushing strong

I keep checking every day to see how my T1 lenses are holding up, and so far they're doing ok. I'm still extremely puzzled about the lens I made on November 4 about the free printable alphabet stencils that it got so far up to Tier 1 - within the same month.

Just for fun and to have it for posterity, here is a screenshot of the stats for this lens so far. See how fast it went up from 270,576 all the way to less than 1000 practically within 2 weeks. Hope it stays in tier 1 so I can enjoy the passive income from it (tier 1 lenses get around $47 or so per month.