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Monetizing a charity page?

Friday, July 25th, 2008

I’m sitting in the midst of a conundrum. Seriously. What to do, what to do.
I did a page about collecting pop tabs for the Ronald McDonald House. I had no idea there was such a need for this information out there, but I’ve quickly gone over 120 visits per week and the number just steadily [...]

Lovely. Browsing through lensroll.com and found a Kung Fu Panda lens. Since I have one (that’s been bouncing up and down into the #1 spot in Movies for a while), I went to see what this one was all about. And two of the pieces of art on the page were taken from my lens. [...]

Getting closer to the next goal

Sunday, July 13th, 2008

One of them at least. I had set two goals for my lenses for the Labor Day weekend - have 125 published lenses and be making $200 a month in affiliate sales. I’m up to 116 published now, with nine sitting in WIP. At least three of those are under assessment for deletion, so I’m [...]

Twiddle, twiddle, twiddle. I’m working on niche articles and stuff, but I’d really like to see my lenses this morning. Sigh.

Traffic - something just clicked and wow!

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

I have had more than 5,100 visits in the past week to my lenses. This has been a pretty steady number for a while, although I remember when I broke 3,000. The week after that was when Kung Fu Panda was released and everything went totally crazy for me. Within a short time, I had [...]

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 [...]