Free Step by Step guide to Making Squidoo Lenses

I just found a new Squidoo step by step guide put together by ten experienced Giant Squid lensmasters:
 
aj2008         BevPaper     CleanerLife      Drifter0658       GrowWear   
inkserotica    Joan4           Michey            mukunda22       pkmcr

It is worth downloading and reading for sure.  It is a FREE guide.  What a Christmas present!!!  
Go to:  http://www.duxburymcr.com/ebooks/squidoostepbystep.pdf 

If you would like to read more about how this guide was created check out the lens that tells the story at:
http://www.squidoo.com/squidoo-step-by-step

Merry Christmas!

Teddi

I still have four of my lenses in the top 10,000 one is ranked 1,183!!!!

As of Novemember 18, 2009 3:30 EST.  I have a few of my lenses that are doing very well in the rankings over the past week- even without me promoting them since my wireless connection has not been working.... Please take a look at them or any of my other Squidoo lenses on my lensography.

1st  My top ranked lens about the Apocalypse
2nd  #6,086 Loan Cancellation for Teachers
3rd #7,715 Tips for Lensmasters
4th #9,932 Freebies for Teachers

P.S.
I also have a website featuring baby & kids freebies.
http://www.teddiscorner.com 
Thanks,

Teddi

One of my lenses received a Purple Star - My 1st One...

I opened my email today and I had a message from Squidoo notifying me that one of my lenses received a Purple Star. I am pretty excited, honored and very surprised.  If you go and check it out you may see that the lens is showing that it is NOT ranked yet.  That is because I just changed the Squidoo category/topic today from Animals & Nature to Health & Medicine.  I would love to hear your thoughts about this lens or any of my other lenses.

Here is the lens that received the Purple Star honor: 

http://www.squidoo.com/severe_weather_phobia

Purple stars are awarded weekly to our favorite lenses created by all-star Giant Squids. Read up on what I will get, besides a pretty purple star on my lens and a Lensrank turboboost at:
http://www.squidoo.com/purplestar

Teddi

I am looking for a way to back up my computer online

I am looking for ways to back up my computer & I did find this. Carbonite Online Backup FREE for 15 days.



Do you use it? If so please leave me your comments.

Thanks!
Teddi

I am having problems with my tweets/updates showing up on Twitter...you may too & not even know it.

This is the bug report I initially sent in to Twitter on June 28, 2009 3:47pm

Recently I noticed that my tweets are NOT showing up when someone is searching a topic. For example when I search my profile name "Teddi14" I should see all the tweets and replies but I only see replies NOT my original tweets. When I use Tweetdeck I search a number of topics and none of my tweets are showing up--even when I use the hash tags. I am a Squidoo lensmaster and when I search "Squidoo" none of my updates are showing up. I updated about 10 of my lenses today and when I searched "squidoo" none of my tweets/updates showed up.

Please let me know why this is happening. Did I do something to cause this?

Teddi Kella
http://twitter.com/Teddi14

My second message on my request ticket:

I went to known problems and found something similar but not exactly the same at: http://help.twitter.com/forums/31935/entries/29912 (my problems is no to each search-- well part of one...) This link instructs me to search for my user name & search for updates--so that is what I did.

MY RESULTS FROM MY SEARCHES:
1. My updates are NOT showing up at http://search.twitter.com either. (my user name is ONLY showing up when someone replies to my tweet).
2. I am NOT showing up in a people search at http://twitter.com/search/users

See my searches for yourself:
1. http://search.twitter.com/search?q=teddi14
2. http://twitter.com/search/users?q=teddi14&category=people&source=users

10:00pm June 30, 2009
Then I found another forum about this problem at:
http://help.twitter.com/forums/31935/entries/38518?page=1

How does this affect you? I know I have had almost zero new followers per day as a result since I noticed this was happening (a few weeks now). I imagine it is because NO ONE CAN SEE MY TWEETS EXCEPT CURRENT FOLLOWERS! For example, any updates I do for my lenses are not able to be seen on a trending topic or found during a search on a topic. I was able to scroll back and found that my updates where not there as far back as 12 days ago. I found many many people are having the same problem when I visited the link above.

~~ U R G E N T ~ COULD BE HAPPENING TO YOU TOO ~~

Q: Here is how to find out if it is happening to you too.

1. Search your user name at http://search.twitter.com
See if updates from you show up. Your user name should show up the first word on most of the tweets--my user name is ONLY showing up when someone replies to my tweet! If your user name is NOT showing up as the first word on each tweet then ONLY your followers can see this tweet...make sense?
2. Search your user name here http://twitter.com/search/users
See if you show up in people search.

A: If your user name does not show up here is what you need to do. Go to this site: http://help.twitter.com/forums/31935/entries/38518?page=1 and add a comment-you will find the link to add the comment at the bottom of the page.

I hope this is not happening to you but if it is at least Twitter will know about it. I hope they get this fixed soon. It is REALLY affecting my marketing strategies with Twitter & Squidoo.

Sad & Angry,
Teddi

Week #1 Lensmaking Challenge: Make a Caption Contest Lens!

Here is my lens "Daily must visit sites...What are yours?"

http://www.squidoo.com/three-sites

I hope you check it out.

Teddi

Squidaholic.com

Can I just say I love using Squidaholic! I know others can see my stats too but I just love it. It is a useful to for any lensmaster. If you have not tried this tool it is worth a visit.

Enjoy~
Teddi

New Squidoo Policy Updates

We knew the time would come for changes... Change is good!

Find out about the new policy updates on Squidoo by MeganCasey. Megan is a founding member and the Editor in Chief of Squidoo.

New themes on Squidoo

I am so excited about the new themes available on Squidoo. If you have not checked them out you are missing out. Go to the lens workshop and click on "themes". Be sure after you publish it to view the lens to make sure you want to keep the other things like the "black" box the same color.

Here is one squidoo lens about Extreme Weather that I added the highlight theme to. I think it looks good. I also added the purple theme to my lens about Prince. How fitting huh... What do you think?

Have fun!!

Teddi

Calling all Giant Squids

If you are a Giant Squid this lens is a must visit for you. New lens themes, contest and summer school with prizes too.

Read more about this awesome opportunity. Click here to get to the lens.

Sign up is by June 12th & late sign up is until June 19th. Sign up sooner vs. later.

How do you make money with Squidoo?

I could not have said it any better than Giant Squid lensmaster & Squid Angel, Christene. She did such a great description that I am just going to add the link to here lens here.

Click here to find out more about how to get paid on Squidoo

Thanks so much Christene for making this lens! Many lensmasters want to know how it works.

Enjoy!
Teddi

Join the Squidoo Chat Room

Fluffanutta has done it again. Here is his lens that takes you to the Squidoo Chat room. http://www.squidoo.com/chat-room

This is definitely a place I will visit often. How about you? Have you been there yet? Let me know your thoughts.

Chat with you later,

Teddi

My lens has had 341 visits in the last 7 days. 93 visits yesterday...

All this traffic just searching for
legitimate baby & kids freebies.


P.S. this is my lens that had a bug on Jan. 1, 2009 and the rank dropped over 100,000 in ranking and NEVER got corrected--even with me and another reporting the bug so ANY traffic, angel blessings, sharing will help me regain the ranking this lens deserves.... so please share my lens with others on your blog, lensroll, email, social bookmarking, twitter etc.

You can read what other lensmasters are saying about this at this SquidU forum post


Thanks I love Squidoo!!

Teddi

I made it... I am now a Giant Squid

I just opened my email and I found out I made Giant Squid. I am so excited. All my hard work paid off. I am so proud to be a Giant Squid. I am reading the Giant Squid Handbook now on pdf. I can not wait to use all the cool Giant Squid tools and get my badge on my profile!

If you are looking to become a Giant Squid a great place to start is reading this lens.

Just finished my 50th lens & applied to be a Giant Squid!!

I sure hope I make it. I have worked very hard to get my lenses up to snuff...


Here is my 50th lens: http://www.squidoo.com/severe_weather_phobia I am a bit upset tonight (Wednesday) because for some reason my newest lens is not loading and I can not edit it either. I did submit a bug report.

Please feel free to check out some of my other lenses though at: http://www.squidoo.com/lensmasters/Teddi14 or I would love it if you a fan too.

See you there & wish me luck!

Teddi