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Dealing with Spamdoo: Guestbooks
2007-07-10 16:18:00
Recently some internetmarketingguruwannabees have promoted signing guestbooks with your links as a very nice way to promote your lens. This guru was evidently totally unaware of the hideous problem such activities have caused the blogging community and the enormous uproar all over the web over such practices. When asked, one of the 'gurus' said: "well, I didn't tell anyone to spam!"Yes, our guestbooks have been getting heavily spammed. Frequently I check my guestbooks for spam, and have been getting so much, from irrelevant comments to huge pictures left to suck up space.We already have a lot to do to properly maintain our lenses, and this new task was another time consuming waste.Gil has added some functions to the guestbook modules to help us, and I hope you will use them! This will eventually reduce the spamming we see, until these people find another way.You will now see a 'ban' function, which means you can ban any lensmaster that leaves a spamdoo in your gues...

Iframes are OUT 7/12/07 D Day
2007-07-09 16:46:00
Many of our merchants in all the Mall on Squidoo groups use iframes to bring their affiliate program offerings to visitors.All that will be over with on Thursday this week.Squidoo has been continually flooded with spamdoo lenses, and even a hideous number of spamdoo groups, and since our Google rankings and traffic are suffering, as well as our reputation all over the internet, something must be done.This is one more thing we have to thank the spamdooers for. God bless them, each and every one.For the Mall on Squidoo groups:This slows down my own work renovating the Mall on Squidoo groups because of the many iframes that I use, and I really don't want my lenses to lose their visitors because of the dead space that will show up once iframes are stripped by headquarters. So I have to work on my own lenses.You will need to prepare for this too, and work on your own pages. I won't be able to feature any lenses that have the iframes stripped from them that haven't been adjusted. I...

Featured Lenses/ Works in Progress
2007-07-07 19:15:00
Wow the changes since I last blogged! They also will make a HUGE difference in how I see and promote YOUR lenses in the Mall on Squidoo GROUPS.There is almost too much to write about for weeks on end.The first change that is good to talk about is the Featured Lenses /Works in Progress lenses. On your new dashboard you will see little green checks or a grey - sign. This will tell you if your lens is a Featured Lens or a Work In Progress lens.We had seen the adsense revenues for even the top lenses dropping month by month, due to the increasing number of undeveloped lenses also sharing in adsense revenues.Headquarters has rectified this and has established a tight tier system for lenses which awards the adsense pool based on quality, traffic and other factors. Unpublished or undeveloped lenses will no longer share in the adsense pool and dilute it for the performing lenses.Now the top tier of lenses received $3.80 in adsense revenues alone, making such a page worth approximately $9...
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Hair Raisingly Busy!
2007-06-23 15:49:00
Last posting was that stats 2.0 is done! There is a LOT of information to go over and I have been doing so. I want to begin to discuss some of that information and a LOT of other things, like the eBay conference, what we know about lensranking, welcoming new people and discussing some interesting and wonderful things our lensmasters are doing to reach out to people and sell to them once they are at their lenses.Brush ups on tips and techniques and how they are being used at the merchant lenses is a great topic, and the developments in the mall group itself.I plan to begin posting with more regularity again next week! See you then!
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Celebrate!!!! Squidoo Stats 2.0 Launched!
2007-06-14 20:13:00
What lensmasters isn't ABSOLUTELY DELIGHTED with the launching of the new 2.0 stats!Eye candy to the committed lensmaster!Great features, great information, great function.Corey Brown and Gil did an outstanding job. Its no wonder that Seth Godin, in his book 'The Dip' acknowledged them as 'THE BEST', along with Megan Casey.Thank you from the bottom of our hearts, Gil and Corey. Your work is absolutely remarkable!
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#6 Lensrank: Janet21
2007-06-02 16:55:00
Janet21 has a great lens on the top 100, #6 today! Her 50 Kids Birthday Party Themes: Cake & Cupcake Ideas and Supplies is a very hot seasonal topic! This is a lens that she can continue to work with, and even alter the title and contents to observe which is the most successful and productive for her in any season. She has an incredible collection, with all the great names to use as keywords, if you are interested in kids stuff. She has Spongebob Squarepants, Winnie the Pooh, Batman, Barbie, and a huge list of other popular and fun cakes and supplies. She seems to be very successful at drawing oodles of traffic this way.She also has two lenses in the top Most Profitable line up.We know that Janet is starting to earn some income on Squidoo! How about you?

Another Squidoo Success Story!
2007-06-01 02:25:00
Director Tom writes to me:Greeting from Tom :-)Here's some quick news to keep you up-to-date on my latest happenings. Feel free to forward this email to those who might benefit from it...thanks!1. I will be re-joining Moving Pictures in Middletown, CT, starting June 4.This is an exciting opportunity to help shape the future direction of corporate television. The recent emergence of social media and web video outlets will propel personal stories captured from employees in corporate videos to even greater audiences. Corporate stories captured on DVD will now be just the beginning of sharing that story.2. "Director Tom" website: "Bringing Brands to Life"In an effort to help others "bring brands to life" through min-documentaries and to acknowledge the power of employees as "heroes" and "storytellers" in corporate videos, I launched DirectorTom; Branding with Remarkable Corporate Videos nine months ago.That first month had only four readers! Thankfully, with a lot of help from folk...
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Pocahontas, Her Majesty the Queen & Squidoo
2007-05-29 00:39:00
Dear Margaret, I wanted to drop you a line to tell you about this amazing cameo order and my recent trip to Virginia. My original enquiry cameo via my Squidoo lens on gemstone portrat cameos. So Squidoo really works - Go Figure !This has been such a busy two months. I was contacted in late March and asked if I could make a copy of a cameo brooch first given to Pocahontas 400 years ago by the King while she lived in England.I was flown over in early April to examine the original which is at the Jamestown museum in Virginia. I stayed in Virginia for a few days and made time to visit some previous customers who live near Washington D.C.I then returned to Wales and made the cameo brooch. This was carved out of natural layered agate and set in a Palladium frame set with natural American seed pearls. I flew over to deliver the cameo to the museum in early may. It was given to the Virginian Indian nations who performed a ceremonial blessing and then presented it to the Queen on May 3rd in...
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