$54.87 = (3 x $11.33) + (5 x $1.78) + (42 x $0.08) + $8.62[royalties]
In terms of lensranks, I went from [2, 5, 33] to [3, 5, 42]. Again, even more lenses have made it into pay tiers. The biggest thing was that I managed to bump a third lens into the top tier!
Woooooweeeeee.
That’s all I can say. Woooooooweeeeee!!!
Just wondering what all you lensmasters out there think about groups. I used to be pretty good about surfing the list of groups and adding my lenses to what I felt was appropriate. Sometimes I get in, sometimes I get rejected. Anyhow, I have to admit that while I used to surf the list of groups, I never really surfed the lenses IN the groups. So I guess I never gave traffic to any other lenses in the group. Therefore, it seems unreasonable for me to expect traffic to MY lenses from groups. Because of that, (and some laziness) I stopped surfing the groups and didn’t really add my new lenses to any groups in the past few months.
Has being in a group helped anyone? Do you find it good to be a part of a group?
I suppose you could join groups for SEO reasons. I’m not sure that it counts as a real backlink (or rather, a really useful backlink) because the link is still from the Squidoo domain. On the other hand, I think some group pages have decently high PageRank so then it would definitely help to get some Google juice from them. But then, do you have to be linked from the front page / headquarters page of the group?
Just wondering. Anyone have some thoughts?
I just went through and added my lenses to tons of groups. I feel like a spammer. 
Before I introduce my new lens, I just want to say that I’ve reached a milestone! I just got my first lens to get over 1000 hits in the rolling 7 day window! It’s quite amazing, really. I signed up for another site in order to submit my lens as a game walkthrough. Who knew that there are soooo many people looking for a walkthrough for Fish Tycoon. Goodness. Within hours of submitting the link, I got several tens of people. Now that it’s been a couple of days, I’ve gotten some 600+ referrals from that page. Just goes to say, backlinks can help! Now my lens is climbing the LensRank. I hope it climbs Google PageRank, too.
So… one of my newest lenses (I’m a little behind on lens introductions) is on Golf Gift Baskets. I suppose there’s not much more I can say about it to clarify the topic. It’s a bunch of golf-themed gift baskets for your favorite golfer. However, I’d like to mention a couple of things that came to mind while making this lens.
Heeeey, this month is even better than last month.
$49.33 = (2 x $11.40) + (5 x $1.78) + (33 x $0.08) + $14.99[royalties]
In terms of lensranks, I went from [2, 4, 22] to [2, 5, 33]. Definitely great that I got a ton more lenses in pay tiers.
Inspired by a clip on TV, here is my lens dedicated to Chewing Gum Artists! Have you even heard of making art with chewing gum or bubble gum? It’s pretty amazing. Once you see a few and think about it, it totally makes sense. I mean, gum comes in all sorts of colors, why not chew different flavors together (except that it might taste terrible) to mix them into different colors! Plus, chewing helps get rid of all the sugar in the gum to make the gum have a better texture and maybe prevents bugs, too. However, usually, the gum gets covered in varnish. Let me know what you think!
The other day, I just had an urge to make a single lens that covers ALL the Nikon D-series cameras. These are Nikon’s digital single-lens reflex cameras. There’s been a whole ton of them over the years, and these babies are not cheap. Oftentimes with electronics, the new gadget shows up and the older model is no longer being sold. But, you don’t need all the new bells and whistles! So what do you do? Well, head on over to eBay.
Perhaps it’s a little too early to introduce this lens. I want to add some links to reviews about each of these cameras. Right now, you can see how they’re doing on eBay and for some of the ones that are being sold on Amazon, you can compare the eBay price with the Amazon retail price. I’m thinking I’ll just slowly keep adding stuff. Also, I’m actively lensrolling other Nikon camera lenses, so if you’ve got a good one that I’ve missed, let me know! Instead of making one lens for each model, I’m going to turn this into a monstrous lens!
And everyone going for Giant this time around, good luck!!
Mo’ video games! Well, computer games, anyway. I’ve created another lens that puts together my favorite type of casual games. There are lots of Tycoon-themed games where the object is you manage a business and become a zillionaire. Sometimes, you have to open franchises, negotiate supply prices, figure out the selling price of your product… And well, since it’s just a simulation, if you mess up, you can just restart it. Even though a bunch of the games are pretty much played the same way, what can I say? I’m addicted to them!
Oh! I almost forgot the link to my Tycoon-Themed Downloadable Games!
Wowee, I can hardly believe it! I got craaaaaazy eBay royalty payments!
$48.41 = (2 x $11.76) + (4 x $1.90) + (22 x $0.08) + $15.53[royalties]
In terms of LensRank, I’ve gone from [1, 3, 19] to [2, 4, 22].
I think it’s been 6 months since I joined Squidoo. Oh wait, I just checked, and it’s been 7!
I heard about Squidoo from a New York Times article and the whole premise just intrigued me. Of course, making money online is cool, too, but I hadn’t really tried to do that before. The Squidoo platform just seemed so straightforward and easy on the eyes. Why not make just a single webpage on some small topic I enjoy? I mean, I would never build a whole site around one of these things….
I decided at the beginning that I would give Squidoo 6 solid months of effort before deciding whether to quit or not. If it didn’t make me any money, if I didn’t like the layout, if it couldn’t do things I wanted to do, if the people were mean, if if if. There were lots of things that could go wrong. But you know what? I’m still here. Actually, I like Squidoo a lot! It’s so easy to use and people are nice and people write comments and I get traffic! I love getting attention! So, although I’m not quitting my job to do online stuff full time yet, I’m going to stick around on Squidoo and continue building these pages one at a time. It’s so refreshing. 