Comments on: Over 2500 visitors to my squidoo lenses in the last week & other news

By: Treasures By Brenda

Treasures By Brenda — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 18:50:26 +0000

That’s fantastic…I am off to check out number 100!

Brenda

By: cleanerlife

cleanerlife — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 22:35:04 +0000

Gratz on number 100!

By: katinka - spirituality

katinka - spirituality — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 09:36:22 +0000

Brenda: we think alike. I just made a lens about blogging for newbys here, my 100th
http://www.squidoo.com/blogging-for-newbies

By: katinka - spirituality

katinka - spirituality — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 09:35:49 +0000

Mimi: looking in google for links to my spiritual quotes lens, your blog came up in the top 5 – which probably means google takes it seriously.

By: MiMi

MiMi — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 20:12:36 +0000

Congratulations on the growth. You certainly deserve it, Katinka.

Glad to see my blog is starting to help! My Teach Children Character lens was on Google for awhile, now it’s back to no Google.

By: Treasures By Brenda

Treasures By Brenda — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 14:54:48 +0000

I just read Squidtop’s ‘About’ page. It was helpful, in a very simple way. A lot of people may have missed it and I would recommend it for someone new to blogging or someone struggling with how to proceed…

Good luck on number 100! We’ll be watching.

Brenda

By: Brenda Little

Brenda Little — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 14:46:49 +0000

Yes, Katinka, I hope you will do another lens about blogging. I had a look and couldn’t find a good one that discusses blogs in a basic sense. I made notes as I listened to your videos yesterday and that was helpful but it would be nice to have the basics summed up nicely in a lens!

Brenda

By: katinka - spirituality

katinka - spirituality — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 14:31:03 +0000

I do think a themed blog is preferable. So your bullying blog should stay up – and probably where it is – but perhaps on something like ‘bullying.wordpress.com’. Get it noticed more by commenting on other lenses about parenting or teaching (and fill in that link when you comment. you’re at least partly there to get noticed). Get links to it from websites about the subject, or blogging directories.
In other words: a blog needs as much promotion as a lens does.

When you can, link to your blog about bullying with the word ‘bullying’ in there. Just like you would your lens (I hope). See how I did that in my blogroll here. It’s called ‘me elsewhere’. You can probably spot the keywords I’m targeting right there in the links.

Giving you people advice might just give me enough material to start a lens on this as well

By: aj2008

aj2008 — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 11:03:24 +0000

Wow! That’s a huge number of visitors. I am just happy that I broke the 500 barrier this week. Mind you I have a long way to go before I get to 99 lenses.

I have bookmarked your Blogging tutorial lens to go back to. I have started looking at the videos. I am having to try to make a decision about where to put my main blogging efforts. I have a wordpress blog, where I have posted a diary I kept that is linked to my Bullying at Primary school lens and the diary gets a lot of visits from the lens. But as far as the blog itself is concerned, it is very neglected because I have been posting here and on the SquidU forum, in addition to making lenses. There’s only so many hours in the day!

Maybe I should add the diary as a Page to my Squidtop blog – it would make sense because then more people may look at the blog. I’m thinking aloud again!

I am tempted to turn my Squidtop blog into a full blown AJ Blog that is not just about Squidoo. I have been posting about other stuff on here as well and I think the most interesting blogs on here are those that don’t just say “Check out my lens on how to make a million $$$$$$$$$, in just 24 hours” . Oh decisions, decisions……

Good luck with Lens number 100 and have a great Squiday.