Funny Fishing T-shirts

Today I wrapped up my latest lens! I have built a lens for Funny Fishing T-shirts! This zazzle gallery is home to some of the funniest fishing t-shirts on the internet! If you want a good laugh during your next fishing trip, you should check out these funny fishing t-shirts! If you are needing to earn some money from affliate products or your own products on zazzle or cafepress, then check out Squidbuilders.com!

Cafepress Makes terrible decision

Most of my lens building customers have been Cafepress shop owners! With the email we all received today, I know all of you are feeling the same pain I feel. For those of you who aren't aware... Cafepress.com is making changes! Big changes, the type of changes that effects a lot of people. They are re branding. Changing algorithms and going with a flat price for products throughout their marketplace.
What does that mean for cafepress shop keepers? They will be giving us only 10% for any sales made through the marketplace. If you want to set your prices higher on your own shop, you can do that, but you compete against your own design in the cafepress marketplace!
The cafepress forums are on fire right now with some very upset shop owners. I am included! Thank God I have the freedom of Speech on my own blog here.
Zazzle is going to over take Cafepress with this move! You can bet on that! So how are your zazzle shops? Do you have them polished up? How about your squidoo lenses?
I tell you what, this deal sucks for us, but if you need a squidoo lens to promote your Zazzle gallery, then consider this my CAFEPRESS SUCKS sale.. Tell me you want a Zazzle lens because cafepress sucks, and I will give it to you for half off the regular package price! Sorry, I can't go any lower on my basic price though, those suckers are just to much work to do that cheap! So this deal is for a 50 or 100.00 lens! Contact me.... thomasc@squidbuilders.com

Squidoo Awards Bruce Lee a Purple Star!

There is huge news running around Squidoo today! Some Squidoo folks are seeing purple! Purple Stars that is! Squidoo has finally released the long anticipated purple stars! I was one of the very lucky few to be awarded a purple star! Squidoo awarded my lens of the day winner Bruce Lee lens! Go ahead and look! Check out that cool looking purple star! Click on the star to learn more about purple stars! This Bruce Lee lens was one of my very first lenses that I created. So of course, I have done some major editing to it! It is probably the most in depth Bruce Lee single page on the internet!
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If you happen to be a Bruce Lee fan, you might appreciate this...



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Purple Stars is a perk for the Giants club at Squidoo. If you are a Giant, you can submit your lenses to Squidoo to be considered for a Purple Star. Only 6 a week will be awarded.!

I wasn't the only Squidoo lensmaster to be awarded a purple star! Many of the big heavy hitters at Squidoo got a purple star! That is because the Top 100 club got first crack at the purple stars!

Here are the lenses that got a Purple Star!

Best Tres Leches Coconut Macaroons

Blankets for Soldiers and Veterans

Blended Matcha

Bruce Lee - The Little Dragon

Dolphin Swim in the Florida Keys

Falling In Love…..

Fantasy and Animal Sculpture by Noadi’s Art

Kindle Wireless Reading Device from Amazon

Make Your Own Fairy Wings

Mount St. Helens

My Ten Favorite National Parks

Planning a US Road Trip: The Southern Route

Save The Children Organization | International Charity Alliance | Compassion

Squidconomy - The Economics of Squidoo

Stuffed Cabbage

Tangerine - Spring’s Hottest Color

Top 10 Best Green Gift Ideas 2009

Would You Trade Your Daughter for a Cow?

Zazzle 101

(if I link to all these squidoo pages, blogger would shut me down! So go to squidoo.com and paste the title to the lens and you will find the lens!)

First page of google!

A long time ago I decided to share my version of Southern Hashbrown Casserole recipe with the rest of the world! My hashbrown lens has always produced decent traffic and has been a top tier lens since the first week I published it! The lens always had around 400-500 visits a week. Which I felt was very good!
I have edited this lens maybe 100 times since my first publish. Always making sure that there was some fresh text and keywords for google to chew on on it's next visit! After my most recent edit, something magic happened! The next day, the lens had an extra 50 or so visits, then the day after that it had an extra 100 visits, and it has just kept going from there! Today the traffic stands at 1,298 visits for the last 7 days!
When a squidoo lens jumps like that, you usually start wondering what happened and start to investigate! So I check the stats to see where the traffic is coming from, yep google is sending me some great traffic! The biggest search term used is hashbrown casserole! So I type that into google.com and sure enough, there sits my hashbrown casserole lens at number 4!
Well number 4 is great, but I can not stand to see those 3 sites ahead of me! So off I go to make some fresh edits to my hashbrown casserole lens!

Why wait for lensrank to update!

As I am sitting here today waiting for Squidoo to update the lensrank for the day, I got to thinking, why wait for Squidoo to run it's update, so I bolted on over and pick an out of date lens and got busy on it! I will now consider that a bonus update! I could have sat here and waited while doing nothing, but it only makes since to go ahead and get some more editing done! Adding more keywords or anything to pull in a little more traffic from google and get those visits or sales!

Why do I need a Squidoo lens?

I know you have either heard of Squidoo, visited a squidoo lens, or something! You wouldn't be reading my blog if you hadnt right! You are probably asking yourself, Do I need a Squidoo lens? The answer to that question is YES! If you have any type of product to sell, or if you run a website, or you just want to make some money to help pay the bills.
A Squidoo lens is a useful way to get direct links right back to your products, but not just a link, with Squidoo, you can have images of your products, plus add tons of useful modules to bring in extra content from around the internet related to your topic!
One recent client knows very well the power of Squidoo and having his products cataloged on Squidoo! CrazyDogTshirts.com has nearly his entire product catalog on Squidoo now! He has purchased several lenses for each of his categories in his store! Each of his lenses are narrowed down to a specific category like Movie T-shirts, St. Patricks Day T-shirts, and even Chuck Norris T-shirts!
So if you are asking yourself, do I need a Squidoo lens, think about CrazyDogTshirts.com! He has his whole inventory on Squidoo and getting some pretty darn good traffic and sales from it!
Come on by SquidBuilders.com and check out my packages! The basic price starts at only 25.00 and you can easily earn your 25.00 dollars back from Squidoo lensrank! So what do you have to lose? You know your webstore or your wallet could use the extra sales!

Keep it fresh!

Part of the trick to a successful squidoo lens is freshness! Search engines come visit your site often, and they want to find some new content each time they come! If you look at the date of my last post here on my blog, you will notice I haven't updated my blog for awhile! That's why I am here today, adding text, adding meat for the search engine to chew on! This text might not contain much keywords, or really not much to say, but google at least has something to chew on and when it leaves my blog, it will be a little more satisfied than if I gave it nothing to chew on!
So if you have a lens that hasn't been updated for awhile, give it something for google to chew on, anything! It would be a lot better if you concentrate on adding good content with rich keywords though!
So don't let those squidoo lenses go to long with adding at least a paragraph or more of good text!

If any of the readers here are interested in classic hotrods and muscle cars, come see my other blog!

My latest series of lenses have been about Playboy models and Playmates of the Year!
Get a taste of my Playmate series then check out my Girls Next Door series!