I just checked to see what the Page Rank of one of my top Squidoo pages has a Google Page Rank of 4, which is pretty darn good thank you very much. Getting a high page rank from Google is not too easy, although many pages in Squidoo's top tier have the same (maybe higher) ranking, I just wanted to crow a little about it. I do have many pages that are ranked 2 or 3, but having attained a level 4 means Google feels the page is of some authority.
The page jumps in and out of the page one in the search engines, occasionally taking the top spot in the serps for periods of time. I have several other high ranking pages that put in appearances on Google's first page of results, but it's nice seeing them given such authority by the serps. That sort of placement in search engine results usually means a fair bit of traffic heads my way, which is one of the main goals of trying to do well at Squidoo. More traffic means a better chance at more sales, more comments, a higher ranking in the Squidoo rankings and basically a bit more money in my PayPal account.
How are you Squidoo pages doing as far as Google Page Rank? I'm sure there's a bunch of people who do as well and better. Leave a comment, maybe a suggestion or two for others trying to improve on their results.
Vintage Fisher Price Little People Are Collectible
Most of my nephews and nieces had a collection of these Little People, usually found (with your feet) when you walked across the living room, or hidden under the couch. Now Fisher Price is making these same little people figures although now they are much more detailed and have movable arms. They go with all the latest Fisher Price sets like the Little People Petting Zoo or the Fairy Treehouse or the Animal Sounds Farm set.
All these Fisher Price Little People
playsets are thoroughly modern and need batteries for various lights and sounds they make. Back when these toys were first introduced, they were fairly simple and the figures themselves were made of wood. The newer models are all plastic, but very cute and very popular with the kids. The webpage is called Little People Figures From Fisher Price and shows some of the older and newer Fisher Price figures. Worth a look if you love old toys or a collector of vintage toys.
Pretty Little Liars About To Come To Small Screen
My latest webpage at Squidoo is all about the book series Pretty Little Liars which ABC will begin airing as a new television series in June 2010. The series is based on the bestselling books by author Sara Shepard.
The story is about four young girls who each have their own secrets that they would like to keep hidden, but someone has been texting and leaving cryptic messages to each of them signed "A", threatening to expose all their sordid indiscretions. The girls think that this mysterious person my be a friend of their's who disappeared a few years back following a slumber party. The books themselves are described as very addictive and the 8th book of the series will be published this June.
As far as the television series, the cast is made up of Lucy Hale (Privilege, The Bionic Woman), Troian Bellisario (Intersect), Ashley Benson (Eastwick, Day of Our Lives), and newcomer Shay Mitchell.
The story is about four young girls who each have their own secrets that they would like to keep hidden, but someone has been texting and leaving cryptic messages to each of them signed "A", threatening to expose all their sordid indiscretions. The girls think that this mysterious person my be a friend of their's who disappeared a few years back following a slumber party. The books themselves are described as very addictive and the 8th book of the series will be published this June.
As far as the television series, the cast is made up of Lucy Hale (Privilege, The Bionic Woman), Troian Bellisario (Intersect), Ashley Benson (Eastwick, Day of Our Lives), and newcomer Shay Mitchell.
Valentines Day ~ How Are Your Sales?
With Valentines Day approaching so quickly, looking at my dashboard shows a visible lack of webpages with a heart theme. I have been building pages more with an eye for later in the year and haven't bothered trying to put anything together for the upcoming holiday, but it is not too late to do so. Valentines Day
is one of those holidays I always allow to sneak up on me and once again this year is no exception. There will be little if any sales for this guy as far as Cupid is concerned. I feel sort of like the Ebenezer Scrooge of Valentines Day sometimes. Perhaps I will be visited by the three ghosts of Valentines Day past, present and future and will get off my butt and get some webpages produced in time for the holiday - "I haven't missed it!" I'll exclaim.
What I should be doing is putting some preliminary ideas together and getting some pages completed. They don't have to be gems, just solid ideas that generate traffic and sales. The whole point of making webpages is that you BUILD your traffic over time. You won't be successful by trying to strike fast and get a "big score" with internet marketing, unless you pay for traffic and even then I for one avoid that type of marketing. Maybe down the line I can contemplate all the factors involved, but I have too much on my plate as it is.
Build something, anything, that is visably pleasing and content-rich, and re-write it again and again until it is exactly what your visitors are looking for. Do this again and again with different topics and success will find you as will the people on the Internet. You can write garbage on your initial draft - as long as you see that what you've written is inadequate and you FIX it. Writing something you can improve on is 100 times better than just thinking about writing something.
Sorry about getting preachy, but I have been getting excited about the prospects available with Squidoo and other venues and I am starting to see some success - no I'm not about to quit my job or anything like that, but I can picture that opportunity a little clearer. You should be thinking along those lines too - not telling your boss to get stuffed and walking out (but that can be a fun dream too) - but try to visualize working for yourself at home or with your own company. Each day you work on it a little more and eventually you are there.
Now if I can just get started on those Valentines pages and stop blogging! I'll tell you what - I will create and publish a Valentine's-themed webpage and list it here tomorrow. A self-imposed deadline with you as a witness. But what to make the webpage about? Valentines cards? Chocolate being the way to one's heart? Maybe something about Cupid and his role in Valentines Day (I think that one's been done). Also, there's Groundhogs Day coming up on the 2nd of February - maybe something about Punxsutawney Phil. Hmmm... Groundhog Day
the movie had Bill Murray and he was in Scrooged. That brings me back to the ghosts of Valentines Day. Maybe I'll try to put together something about Ebenezer Scrooge on Valentines Day. I'll be back tomorrow with more info.
is one of those holidays I always allow to sneak up on me and once again this year is no exception. There will be little if any sales for this guy as far as Cupid is concerned. I feel sort of like the Ebenezer Scrooge of Valentines Day sometimes. Perhaps I will be visited by the three ghosts of Valentines Day past, present and future and will get off my butt and get some webpages produced in time for the holiday - "I haven't missed it!" I'll exclaim.What I should be doing is putting some preliminary ideas together and getting some pages completed. They don't have to be gems, just solid ideas that generate traffic and sales. The whole point of making webpages is that you BUILD your traffic over time. You won't be successful by trying to strike fast and get a "big score" with internet marketing, unless you pay for traffic and even then I for one avoid that type of marketing. Maybe down the line I can contemplate all the factors involved, but I have too much on my plate as it is.
What I'm doing is thinking Valentines Day 2011, 2012, 2013, etc - I'm in this for the long haul.
Build something, anything, that is visably pleasing and content-rich, and re-write it again and again until it is exactly what your visitors are looking for. Do this again and again with different topics and success will find you as will the people on the Internet. You can write garbage on your initial draft - as long as you see that what you've written is inadequate and you FIX it. Writing something you can improve on is 100 times better than just thinking about writing something.
Sorry about getting preachy, but I have been getting excited about the prospects available with Squidoo and other venues and I am starting to see some success - no I'm not about to quit my job or anything like that, but I can picture that opportunity a little clearer. You should be thinking along those lines too - not telling your boss to get stuffed and walking out (but that can be a fun dream too) - but try to visualize working for yourself at home or with your own company. Each day you work on it a little more and eventually you are there.
Now if I can just get started on those Valentines pages and stop blogging! I'll tell you what - I will create and publish a Valentine's-themed webpage and list it here tomorrow. A self-imposed deadline with you as a witness. But what to make the webpage about? Valentines cards? Chocolate being the way to one's heart? Maybe something about Cupid and his role in Valentines Day (I think that one's been done). Also, there's Groundhogs Day coming up on the 2nd of February - maybe something about Punxsutawney Phil. Hmmm... Groundhog Day
the movie had Bill Murray and he was in Scrooged. That brings me back to the ghosts of Valentines Day. Maybe I'll try to put together something about Ebenezer Scrooge on Valentines Day. I'll be back tomorrow with more info.
Is It Adsense Or Is It Me? Okay, It's Me
I was just looking at his website and contemplating some changes that I plan to make and Adsense caught my eye. Usually I avoid mentioning it, but it definitely has taken on a squid theme. I yap about Squidoo and what I'm doing over there and various lenses and webpages I've been working on and use the sq--d word a fair bit and the ads started pitching "plush squids" and other marine topics. Methinks I need to do a few dozen posts about various topics and not mention THAT word quite as much. Perhaps I should try posting more about How To Make Money On The Internet or discussing buying a house with "no money down" just to get things back on an even keel. Oops, there's another nautical term.
CSS and HTML on Squidoo
An interesting question was raised over at the Squidoo forum about what the lensmasters think about using CSS and HTML on our Squidoo webpages. As expected, most who commented said that basically "less is more" although most did admit to using some tags and attributes when making and updating their various pages.
For myself, that's pretty much how I view it: some markup can be very helpful for the entire esthetic. Like most people I don't enjoy going to a webpage and either being clobbered by a lot of flash and sound or landing in a weird timewarped page that feels like it hasn't been updated since prior to 1995. There's a lot of both examples all over the Internet. Personally, I do have some webpages that I can no longer access because of long lost passwords and no way of contacting the hosting company. I cringe when I see that they STILL come up when I decide to take a peek.
As far as actually using CSS
and HTML on Squidoo, it of course can be done and I've used the style attribute and several HTML tags, but I think I'm a bit of a minimalist when it comes to that part of webpage creation. Back in the old days like most newbies to making pages and websites I was a little drunk with the ability to move things around and liked to experiment with layouts and crunching words and images together until I thought they looked just right. There was little or no thought on my part that all those scrolling, flashing, popping words and images were actually gaudy or distracting. But that's one of the stages that most people go through when they start making pages. An apprenticeship of sorts.
Now, I shudder at my feeble attempts at that time to seem clever by trying to do tricks with code. But 5-10 years from now I'll probably look back at what I am doing now and shudder some more. Just as long as my visitors don't shudder and flee as soon as they land on my pages. Now if only my content didn't make them flee, I'd be laughing.
For myself, that's pretty much how I view it: some markup can be very helpful for the entire esthetic. Like most people I don't enjoy going to a webpage and either being clobbered by a lot of flash and sound or landing in a weird timewarped page that feels like it hasn't been updated since prior to 1995. There's a lot of both examples all over the Internet. Personally, I do have some webpages that I can no longer access because of long lost passwords and no way of contacting the hosting company. I cringe when I see that they STILL come up when I decide to take a peek.
As far as actually using CSS
and HTML on Squidoo, it of course can be done and I've used the style attribute and several HTML tags, but I think I'm a bit of a minimalist when it comes to that part of webpage creation. Back in the old days like most newbies to making pages and websites I was a little drunk with the ability to move things around and liked to experiment with layouts and crunching words and images together until I thought they looked just right. There was little or no thought on my part that all those scrolling, flashing, popping words and images were actually gaudy or distracting. But that's one of the stages that most people go through when they start making pages. An apprenticeship of sorts. Now, I shudder at my feeble attempts at that time to seem clever by trying to do tricks with code. But 5-10 years from now I'll probably look back at what I am doing now and shudder some more. Just as long as my visitors don't shudder and flee as soon as they land on my pages. Now if only my content didn't make them flee, I'd be laughing.
Nodnik Bobbleheads: Funko's Latest Line Of Collectibles
I looked at the Nodkin line that's produced by Funko and they're actually kinda cool. Mostly they have a bunch of superheroes - Spiderman, Ironman, and some others like Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble. All good. They have pretty much the same dimensions as the picture, although they can come in two forms, the "buff", superhero body-type and one that's a little rounder in the mid-section.
One thing I liked about these bobbleheads is that you have the option of purchasing blank forms and customize them as you like. I've included some pictures of what some folks have done with their painting skills. Take a look at the page at Nodnik Bobbleheads are cool and collectible! and let me know what you think. I like the page and I will be adding to it as I go because according to Funko, they'll be adding even more designs in the near future.
