Senior Squids :: Older but no less bolder!

The theme we were using "broke" ... meaning that for reasons unknown to me the front page stopped showing the sidebars. I'm fairly sure it wasn't my fault because the subtheme I built that theme from had the same problem... so it was endemic.

Therefore, I've switched to another theme. I hope this works well for all of you.

Promotion is something I have severely neglected so now I'm trying to do something about it. It's hard playing catch up on all my lenses but I'd like to do more promoting before I create too many more lenses.

I know there are several Squidoo type directories, so far I've used only
Lensroll and
Squidom

I'm trying another one at the moment which I notice "hubbers" seem to use quite a lot. Snipsley

I've been suprised to find that many people don't associate owls with halloween. To me they are perfect partners since they can make such eerie sounds and only move around in the night. What do you think?

For the last few months spammers have tried to start membership accounts here at Senior Squids. I regularly go to the new members list and look at each applicant. The only ones that get approved are verifiable Squidoo lensmasters.

So... if you are a real lensmaster, please place your Squidoo bio link in the appropriate spot so I can check it out!

Everyone else gets deleted.

Thanks!

I just purchased a very cool e-book called 'Copywriting Scorecard for Bloggers', by Darren Rowse and Glenn Murray. Darren Rowse is one of the best known expert bloggers in the world - he lives in Australia and makes lots of money with his blogs!

Anyhow - learn from the best! I decided to get the book, not only for myself, but for my best friend, boyfriend, and partner, who is considering starting his first blog.

Then I found out, after buying the e-book, that there's an affilate program! This is exciting for me because I have a few on-topic lenses I can put these links on. He's got two e-books and is offering 40% to affiliates.

Way to go!... so I'm posting my affiliate links here in hopes that anyone wanting to buy these e-books will use them. (And many grateful thanks to you if you do.)

Click here to view more details about the Copywriting Scorecard for Bloggers

. . . Copywriting Scorecard for Bloggers

. . . 31 Days to Build a Better Blog

We just got back from a trip to South Carolina and of course that means that I had to write some new lenses. I have just finished one on a charming town where we stayed http://www.squidoo.com/beaufort-south-carolina

My next lens will be on the Hunting Island Lighthouse and I hope to publish it next week at
http://www.squidoo.com/hunting-island-lighthouse

Welcome Capriliz to the site!

I hope to get to know you better...

Capriliz's lensmaster page: http://www.squidoo.com/lensmasters/capriliz

Check out her cool lens on tie dye kits!

I love this site - as it turns out, being able to post the short announcements and have them show on the front page works fine.

During August I spent a lot of time acclimating myself to a more productive method of handing my online life - because I want to turn my online writing hobby into a means of self-support. My Squidoo royalties don't provide anything near a living wage yet, but this is a great start and since I haven't secured another job at this point I'm thinking online is where to look for income.

So, I've been re-making myself into a real blogger, content writer, lensmaster ... and am keeping track of my time spent and clinging to a very workable, fluid to-do list I set up using a spreadsheet format.

Anyhow, I've set up the Firefox "Morning Coffee" addon so that it opens Senior Squids EVERY MORNING ... so I will be by every day and will choose a lens to visit (today it was Sherry's lens on Hibiscus Tea)...

If anyone wants to join the Content Writers Forum - you'll find several of us lensmasters chatting away about Squidoo and other content writing sites, SEO, ideas like that. I've really enjoyed communicating with the people there! We do need more people, however. You are all very welcome!

I'm kind of pleased that this site went "over bandwidth" today... shows it is getting used! I doubled the bandwidth, so hopefully that won't happen again for a while!

Update on Pound Puppy To Diva

http://www.squidoo.com/pound-puppy-to-diva