Archive for June, 2008

Woo! My little Olympics group has made it to the top 100 group list!

Saturday, June 21st, 2008

Hey, I’m new to Squidoo and I still get excited about stuff like that! :D

It’s at the top of the list in the Sports category, and number 64 in the Top 100 Groups list! I was just having a look at the list to see what sort of groups make it to the top of the pile, to see if I should consider the Top 100 Groups as a goal for it, and lo and behold, there it was! I’m guessing it’s thanks to the work of the experienced lensmasters hard at work making great Olympic lenses and submitting a new one or two every day!

In other news, I had to boot my first off-topic lens submitted to the group. That wasn’t fun, but it was for a non-Olympic sport and they didn’t even mention the Olympics… But I still went and checked it out, rated it and left them a comment, so hopefully they’ll understand. It was a good lens, just not on the group topic!
Oh, I have so much more to ramble on about, but that will have to do for now! Busy busy busy!

Edit: Here’s a link to the group. :)

One month tomorrow!

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008

Wow. I just checked my email account, and saw that I registered with Squidoo on the 19th of June! I can’t believe it’s only been one month! I feel like I’ve been obsessed with the place for a lot longer than that!

And how am I doing so far?

Well I’m not really sure, but it feels like I’m doing ok! So by completely unbiased self-assessment I’ll say I’m doing great! :D

Today I’ve got six lenses in the top 10,000. Which I think is cool. My top lens is Planning a trip to an Australian Zoo or Wildlife Sanctuary? which is today ranked at 1,280 overall. My goal is for it to crack the top 1,000 some time in the next week!

I’ve just noticed that it’s ranked at 80 in Animals and Nature! Woohoo! :D

I’m going to visit Taronga Zoo this week, so I’ll be adding some fresh, up to date information about my trip which should hopefully be the sort of useful information that will bring people to the lens :)

The other cool thing I’ve got going on at the moment is my Beijing Olympics 2008 Group! When I started it I wasn’t really sure that people would join… but now I’m getting a couple of lenses coming in every day! It’s growing, slowly but surely, which is good because I can keep up to date checking out the lenses and featuring them in an organised fashion on the HQ lens!

Ok, enough rambling for one morning :)

Ok, here we go. My first blog post about Squidoo!

Saturday, June 14th, 2008

I’m so glad SquidTop exists! I think I really need to blog to get all of my Squidoo related thoughts out of my head.

I don’t want my boyfriend to get sick of hearing me prattle on about it! I tell him about how my traffic and rankings are both gradually increasing, but he doesn’t quite ‘get it’ yet. One day I’ll invite him to join and make his first lens… but I can’t do it yet, because at the moment we’re sharing one computer between the two of us. He’ll be trying to pinch my precious Squidoo time! :P

I can’t believe how addictive Squidoo is. I discovered the site about a month ago now, in a rather round about sort of way… I read the StumbleUpon reviews for Associated Content, and one of them said that Squidoo was better. So I searched for Squidoo, and read everything I could about what it is and how it works.

I decided that it looked and sounded good so I dived in head first!

My first lens was ‘Planning a trip to an Australian Zoo or Wildlife Sanctuary‘, which is still my best performing lens. Today it has reached number 107 in Animals and Nature, and 1,853 overall. I’m pretty happy with that considering this is all very new to me. I’m still experimenting and ‘learning by doing’ :)

I’ll be updating it in a big way in about a week, so hopefully it will continue to grow. I’ll be visiting Taronga Zoo, so a detailed review will be added to the lens. I’m pretty excited about the zoo visit. I haven’t been to Taronga for over 15 years!

I think my main problem at the moment is that I keep starting new lenses instead of focussing on getting traffic to the ones I’ve got! I just keep having more and more ideas. I need to call a time-out or something!

Although today was a bit of a milestone… I reached 100 visits within a 7 day period for the first time. Although judging by what other people have posted on SquidU, I’ve got a lot of improving to do in that department!!

Ok, back to do a bit of lens polishing!