Wow it is late my time, hence calling myself a night Hubber...probably not when I do my best work, but definitely when I get the most peace and quiet to get the work done. Where do I even begin?
Okay, so if you haven't pinned your hubs; do it! If you are an ex-Squid, used to be a member of Squidoo, and have pinned your articles, go through and fix all the links. It should automatically redirect you to HubPages, but I noticed some of mine weren't and eventually when Squidoo is completely gone there could be a problem redirecting. The other thing is that you can earn money by referring people who sign up on HubPages - you get 10% of what they earn from HubPages earnings (not from the writer). How do you do it? This is my referral link: http://hubpages.com/_3tb4psx2h1v0v/user/new/ - once you are signed up, go to My Account > Earnings > Referral Trackers. There you will find your referral code. Replace my code, shown in bold in the link above, with yours and you are set! Pin your referral link as well! When you are creating or updating your hubs you will wonder why it is so important to add a summary to your hubs even though it doesn't even show up after you publish. Well, when you pin a hub, as long as you pic the first picture after your summary; the summary will show with the pin. (You can follow me on Pinterest here: http://www.pinterest.com/rymom28s/ and if you leave me your link in a comment I will follow you.) Which brings me to my next subject...
I found some great stuff on the forums of HubPages. Spend some time there and click on profiles to follow those that you feel you learn from or whose writings interest you. I personally am also trying to find as many ex-Squids as I can. Following will not only increase your traffic, but hopefully well seasoned Hubbers can send you some pointers as well. Pin their articles as well to help each other out and save valuable info. Here is a great hub for those transition from Squid to Hubber: http://relache.hubpages.com/hub/hubpages-squidoo
(BEWARE: mass following can hurt your hub score and cause other issues, so only do a few follows at a time.)
LINKING SITES IS KEY! Link any and all sites that you are on to each other; Twitter, Pinterest, Google Plus blogs, if you have a Facebook page you feel comfortable linking...link it all, so you can get a lot of exposure. Also, make sure to use those sites to circulate your writing. There may be a more efficient way of doing this, but after pinning my hub, I post an article (usually my most recent writing) on twitter. Then, I share it on any pages that I can find on Facebook where the subject is relevant. Finally, I post it on my blog here. My newest hub is "Stuffed Animal Must-Haves"; how to keep stuffed animals looking great. Make sure to edit your profile, and add all of your pages to the links section of your HubPages profile. You can discover a lot by seeing who is pinning your articles or viewing them on Twitter, it will help you get a feel for what type of writing is working for you.
As for editing my articles: it has been a little crazy, but I think I finally have a system down. I mainly have been focusing on pages that I see are being viewed
frequently and subjects that are popular or relevant; such as
holiday articles, and go from there. First, I have been trying to go through and fix or update any links. Next, I have been updating my topics, so they are easier to find. Squidoo seemed to have limited topics, so I have been happy to find a lot more tops and subtopics on HubPages. Then, I change and delete some of the products I have featured. I also go through all the pictures and edit the picture source details, as that seems to have gotten all mixed up in the transfer. Finally, I try to go through and edit my content by making it clean and clear. HubPages is more about content than featuring products, which is great, but makes it difficult to change some of the articles because on Squidoo you earned more money if you were getting sales from your pages and thus tend to have more of your articles focused on that. I have deleted a couple of articles due to that.
I found out that you can't share the exact details of your earnings from HubPages, so I am guessing I will have some pocket change at the end of the month. lol I don't really do it for the money though, a little helps, but I really enjoy writing online. I hope that this has helped someone out there going through the same transition that I am. Please feel free to share your hubs or profile here and I'd also appreciate it if you encouraged others to follow.
Here is my next goal, figuring out how to add a sitemap to HubPages: http://noveltreasure.hubpages.com/hub/How-to-Add-a-Sitemap-to-Hubpages
Happy Writing!!! :)
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Monday, November 17, 2014
Thursday, December 20, 2012
Sales are the Key!
I have a lot of catching up to do! My family went on vacation at the end of October and it seems I've been trying to catch up with each holiday since. Well, I only made $2 in November from Sept. and I was really discouraged. I started to get more involved with church things, play groups with my little boy, working out, holiday stuff, etc. and put Squidoo on the back burner. Then, I got paid for this month and remembered the sales I had made in Oct.
I realized that you can make money from anything someone buys on Amazon or ebay, as long they started purchasing from a link that you had on your article. Thus, it is important to have interesting and great products that people want to at least check out because they may not buy that item, but they could buy others that also bring in money for you.
October 2012 royalties (paid out 12/11/2012)
- Total royalty-earning lenses on date: 7 lenses
- Total donated to charity: $0.00
| Lens Payments | Paid | Charity AdPool TLAds Sales | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| Halloween Holograms | $3.51 | $0.00 $0.52 $0.13 $2.86 | $3.51 |
| Spooky Zombie Theme Party Food | $2.32 | $0.00 $0.52 $0.13 $1.66 | $2.31 |
| How to Save on Major Appliances at Sears | $0.81 | $0.00 $0.52 $0.13 $0.15 | $0.80 |
| Instant Costumes with Hats and Ski Masks | $0.66 | $0.00 $0.52 $0.13 $0.00 | $0.65 |
| Horrifying Rats | $0.66 | $0.00 $0.52 $0.13 $0.00 | $0.65 |
| Scrumptious Italian Chicken Sandwich | $0.66 | $0.00 $0.52 $0.13 $0.00 | $0.65 |
| Skip-It Toy: Childhood Memories | $0.66 | $0.00 $0.52 $0.13 $0.00 | $0.65 |
| Subtotal | $9.25 | $0.00 $3.64 $0.91 $4.67 | $9.22 |
| Reserve Hopper & Other Account Payments | Total |
|---|---|
| Subtotal | $0.00 |
| Less PayPal Cash Adjustment | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Transaction fee | $-0.18 (This has gone up a lot, maybe because of sales?) |
Cash total paid via PayPal: $9.06
| (9.25-.18 ~ 9.07 still wrong) Total that should have been paid: $9.04 |
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| Not quite sure how they are doing their math, I'm guessing there are some additional decimals being evaluated into the equation? |
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This is why it is important to go through EVERY pay out! I did not go through last month's and I really should have. I don't think it is a big deal here, but what if the payment is really off? Anyway, as you can see, sales made up over half of what I made made for October!!!! This is the most I've made so far since starting with Squidoo! I wanted to get my butt going for December and had all these ideas for Christmas, but lost my gusto and so much came up that I just didn't pull it together. I am happy to say I made my second charity lens: Carved Christmas Gourds. I haven't written any other articles, but I did make some sales this month though! I am going to push forward for Valentine's and see where it leads me. It is a good idea to make lenses that are not Valentine's specific, but rather revolve around love or couples, so the lens won't be seasonal. Here are some other updates and activity from my profile: Have you checked out Squidoo's Cozy Magazine yet? http://cozy.squidoo.com/  
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Friday, August 03, 2012
Have I Got Some Tips for You!!!
Okay, I don't even know where to start.....first, I'll just say to manage your widgets! What are widgets? They are kind of like modules available for the right sidebar of your lens. You can find them to the right of your workshop tools when editing your lens. There are three available right now - RSS feed, Featured Lenses, and Amazon Spotlight Personal Review. The RSS feed is great! I now have my three latest blogs showing on each of my lenses. The featured lenses rotate 3 lenses, even though I think you can put as many as you want to. Right now, and I might change my mind down the road, but I like to only put three of my lenses that I think people will be interested in that are reading that lens. Hopefully that will domino effect, as they click on the next lens which will have other featured lenses. The Amazon spotlight can help you feature any product you want, as it works more like an ad; it can be some related to your lens or a product that you personally just love and want to promote. I can't believe I wasn't using these before! Find more about widgets and tips using them in these lenses: Sidebar Widgets and Spotlight An Amazon Product Using the Sidebar Widget.
More about RSS feed....so I could have sworn that I saw an option like this on blogger. I did a little searching and found this link: How to Add an RSS Feed on Blogger. Well, then I realized that I didn't know what the RSS feed URL would be in order to show my Squidoo articles, so I did a search on Squidoo - just typed in RSS. Which led me to this lens: RSS Feeds Submission Directory, (loving this lensmaster for writing this lens) clicked on one of the links and it sent me to Squidutils. A lot of people have actually mentioned this site and I don't know if it was because I was so new or what, but I was confused about it and just kind of went past it - BIG MISTAKE! Once I logged in I found my RSS Feed URL, followed the directions from the "how to" link and BOOM - I've got my Squidoo lens feed showing on my blog! How cool is that?!?!
Squidu: The Lensmaster's Lounge...this is a forum for Squidoo members that I first checked out when I discovered more about linkage and increasing your lens ranking. It has good and bad points, but I think an important thing to do is to restrain yourself from saying some things that might not make you look good. There have been some amazing members I have met on there that are super helpers and so supportive, a few that just want to bring everyone down, and some that think they need to be the "Squid police." It is my belief that this world would not be as interesting as it is without so many different characters, but I have really had to bite my tongue on some things. Anywho, someone was posting a question about needing help on their lens or something along those lines - I can't quite remember. Well, you have a signature that you can have show up at the bottom of your posts and this person had two different lensmaster profiles! I knew this was a ligit thing to do, but a light bulb finally switched on when I checked out both of his profiles. This lensmaster had different niches that he had and every lens or anything having to do with that profile was about that niche. For example, if you live vacuums you could have a profile named Vacuummaster and then write on nothing but vacuums. This is is how people are really making the big bucks on Squidoo. To be honest, from a personally point of view I am still on the fence on what or how I feel about doing this. One of the things I HATED about being in the business world was that everyone was a shark, take out the competition kind of mentality and I feel like this kind of is the same concept. Once you have written so many lenses on the subject and do it really well, then no one can really compete. Is it smart and make sense, for sure, is it a good thing to do the other writers, not sure how I feel about that. What do you think? Leave a comment for me.
UPDATE: This forum has been transferred to SquidooHQ at the following link: http://hq.squidoo.com/forums/forum/chatterbox/
UPDATE: This forum has been transferred to SquidooHQ at the following link: http://hq.squidoo.com/forums/forum/chatterbox/
Back to Squidutils...there are sooooo many useful tools on this site! Basically it is the all time lens manager. You can check your links, Amazon stuff, content...you name it! My next goal is to go through each of my lenses using this site and find out what is lacking and then fix it. Little tid bit I've already found out - make sure when you take the allowed pictures you can use for your lenses and save them that you put similar words in the document name that you have in your lens title or tags.
Are you liking, bookmarking, or taking notes?!? Well, these are mine and I wanted to share them because there some key tips in this blog entry, not only for those on Squidoo, but bloggers as well. Hope I helped someone out and if I did maybe you could send me a little credit? lol Keep writing and reading!!!
Once you join or if you are thinking about joining Squidoo, check out this lens (article): What's Your Story?
I joined to do exactly that, to "write about what I know and love".
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