Posts Tagged ‘Squidoo Addiction’

I think I’ve got Squidoo on the brain…

Sunday, August 24th, 2008

Yes indeed, I’ve clearly been thinking about Squidoo a bit too much lately, and I think SquidTop may be the safest place to admit to it!

The proof came to me when I was riding one of my horses this afternoon…

The horse was a bit distracted by things that were happening outside the arena, so to ask him to pay a bit more attention I said:

“Can you please focus on what’s happening inside the lens?”

Yep… ‘lens’ probably wasn’t really what I meant to say there! ‘Arena’ might have been a slightly more appropriate word! :P

Oh dear… I think it may be too late for me! I’ve got a chronic case of Squidoo-itis!

P.S. In case you’re wondering, talking to horses is perfectly normal, and there’s nothing crazy about that at all ;)

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!