I'm Pastiche, a Squidoo lensmaster, Giant Squid and geeky digital marketing and design maven. I share Squidoo stats plus connect you with Squidoo tech and marketing tips gleaned from all over.
Lenses in top 2000 today - 40 Lenses in top 500 today - 20 Lenses in top 100 today - 3
Top 10 Lenses - lens rank
Coloring Books and Clip Art are my Squidoo niches, and they' re among my most popular lenses out the the 120 publishes lenses I've built since August 2007.
I've been a bit lax about posting my Squidoo stats. For those of you who visit this lens just for that reason, I apologize. Rest assured my lenses are doing well, in fact I've been swamped with Squidoo work and web site duties for the past 2 months, hence the neglect to posting the data on this blog.
I've also been busy with designing baby shower graphics, invitations and making favors plus planning and hosting a baby shower for my younger daughter who's expecting her first child in about two weeks. The shower is over and it was a rousing success.
I'm back in the studio cranking out Halloween printables and articles ... and gathering up my latest Squidoo stats. I'll have an update this week on my top lenses yada yada yada.
The nicest things happen when you go on vacation. You have fun, you rest and renew, and you get surprises.
Although I fret about my Squidoo work, my web sites and keeping up with my email and creative work, I do make myself take some R&R a couple times a year.This summer Doug and I had a dandy vacation "back home" (for me, anyway) in New England to celebrate our 7th anniversary. It was a perfect beach week and we managed to visit all 3 daughters and families during the trip.
Well, to make it a perfect week, during my hiatus Squidoo awarded my Clip Art Borders & Frame Graphics a Purple Star. I didn't submit this lens, but those who look around and make awards found it and deemed it worthy. I'm honored, thrilled and encouraged to make even more lenses this year.
Clip Art Borders is a big lens, and it's always been popular - and now it's got some special attention and traffic (it's at #15!) - THANKS, SQUIDOO!
One of the program rules for Adsense publishers is that you keep your earnings private. Yes, you aren't allowed to reveal how much you make with Adsense as a direct publisher.
Nevertheless, some overly-agressive marketing types will try to sell a book or course about how to make money with Google by showing you impressively tempting earnings stats.
Well, Chef Keem has a written post that shows you how they FAKE Adsense earnings numbers to get you to buy what they're selling. Don't believe them, and don't buy ...
Thanks, Chef!
And if you really want to know more about Google and what Google knows about you, check out Ron Passfield's eye-opening post, Google is Watching You. Google's been watching me since it was born ... I guess I'd like to see how it's got me profiled.
This summer I've been thinking about my next home - my retirement home - and it inspired me to create a new Squidoo lens about building an Eco-Friendly Tiny Home. It was a fun and fast lens for me because I've researched and lived the tiny home/sustainable building lifestyle for decades.
Some lenses are real work, and others just flow - that's the hum you get inside your head when you create a lens about what you know and love. Everyone's an expert when they write about their passions; so I'm a bit of an expert on living in small spaces and recycling archictectural salvage to build a green home.
There's plenty of buzz about tags and tag pages right now in the Squidoo community.
Tags are an integral part of any Squidoo lens. The primary tag is the most important, and choosing it takes some thought. Tag pages collect keywords assigned to a lens through the tags list and organize them by rank on a tag page. Each entry on a tag page is also linked back to its respective lens. This makes finding lenses on your topic easy within Squidoo. While beneficial for end users, tags are now also helping non-Squidooers to find lenses with their favorite search engine.
Early on, Squidoo tag pages were also indexed by Google. At some point the tag pages were removed from the spiders' index list, making tags mostly relevant within Squidoo but not adding any SEO advantages. Recently, tag pages became available to indexing spiders once again, thus making primary tags, tags and keywords on Squidoo lenses more important than ever.
I'm always tweaking my lenses and tags are the place I try to analyze regularly. If you're looking for concise information about Squidoo tags and keywords, or search engine optimization for Squidoo lenses, check the links on this blog. They'll lead you to expert advice and tutorials on the hows and whys of tags and keywords in a high quality lens.
I just added a new links plexo to my Squidoo Summer School lensography and noticed that the links plexo module now has an option to add a photo to spiff it up. Nice feature - I added one of my clip art graphics: a graduation cap, of course.
I'm caught up with my homework for Squidoo Giants Summer Session. I'm working on my how to lens this week. Got a couple more days to polish it up and turn it in before our next assignment comes out.
Earlier this year, I set a goal to build 100 quality lenses before my 2nd Squidoo anniversary (I've been a member of Squidoo since August 12 2007) and then apply for Giant Squid 100 membership.
Thanks to the push I got from Squidoo Rocket Moms and a few bursts of new topic inspiration, I finished more than 100 lenses before the June 30 Squidoo Giants 100 deadline so I sent in my application earlier than originally planned.
Well, I'm glad I gave my Squidoo work an extra push this spring, because I just learned that I've been accepted into the Squidoo Giants 100 Club. When I started with Squidoo I thought 50 lenses was a lot. Then I finished my first 50 before my first anniversary and achieved Giant Squid status. So I knew making another 50 in a year was achievable so long as I had ideas and time to create lenses from them. That's a lens a week, with 2 weeks off for vacation ...
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