Archive for June, 2008

Been on a branching binge

Thursday, June 26th, 2008

Lately, I’ve taken one of the Captain’s constant themes to heart and have been creating lenses that are branches off of others. So I now have the entire iCarly cast - I started with the star, Miranda Cosgrove, some time ago - and am considering a lens about the show because the one out there [...]

Page one of Google after a day?
Wow. My brand new lens on the LittleMissMatched socks company is already on page one of google for the search term. Was looking for some additional info to add and there I was. Amazing. Fabulous. Marvelous. Weird.
I haven’t even really started to promote this much as yet. Did a [...]

Umm. Is there a problem?

Wednesday, June 18th, 2008

I appear to have angered the SquidTop somehow. I’ve tried to leave comments in four different places in the last hour with no luck. Am I alone? Does it just hate me? Has everyone banned me from leaving comments? (Actually, was trying to leave responses on my own tops, so that can’t be it.) Help?

OK, I did it. Started two new cycling jersey lenses and got them both published. One for colleges and another for beer. (Hey, they’re novelty designs.) Hooray! I think that might put me to 100 lenses now.
college cycling jerseys
beer cycling jerseys

Sigh. Google hates me again.

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008

Well, after all my excitement about being back in the Google index for my cycling jerseys lens, I’ve dropped out again. Boo!! I get really good traffic with this guy when it’s in the index, like 30 hits a day. And these people will buy stuff, which is also good. Not happy about this at [...]

Wow. I’ve hit a wall. I’ve been doing keyword research on my WIP lenses and have decided not to proceed with some of them. Done the same thing with most of my current lenses and am making hard choices about where to put my time.
So now, I’m kind of frozen as to what to do [...]

Still looking for more great stuff to add to my Texas group. There are a lot of holes if anyone has some interest in writing about Texas history, music and towns other than Dallas and Austin. I’d like to get as much good stuff into the group as possible before I start a real promotion [...]

Book Bindings: Review of The Mysterious Benedict Society. Against all keyword research, will be doing a SquidLit on this one. I enjoyed it and just enjoy doing lenses on kids books. They like to come to them, but they can’t/don’t buy stuff. Oh well.

Book Bindings: Review of Women Who Make the World Worse

Hooray!! Google has picked my novelty cycling jerseys lens back up. Good timing as it seems to have dropped the other one now. Just can’t win. This was making money within like a day of my creating it. Hoping that continues. People who get on there click out at least.