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Showing posts with label Squidoo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Squidoo. Show all posts
Sunday, August 4, 2013
SirGo--A Squidoo Clone & My New Squidoo Alternative?
As Squidoo continues to undergo a number of changes and lock lensmasters' accounts, including my own, many lensmasters are looking for new Squidoo alternatives to transfer their old lenses to. While there are already many established sites like Wizzley and Hubpages that are great platforms to create pages, they don't have all of the same modules that Squidoo has. One module in particular that Squidoo has that Wizzley and Hubpages are missing is the "Black Box" module. It can be found in Zujava, but I'm currently in the Zujava Petting Zu and have been waiting for an editor to review my leaves for about a month.
I've lost patience with losing income from the dozens of lenses that I spent hours and hours working on. I have not received a response to my appeal and it is time to move on and publish my lenses elsewhere. Some of my lenses will go to Hubpages, Wizzley, and even new Blogger blogs, but a few are formatted in such a way that I want to be able to keep the same formatting and use a "Black Box" module. Enter SirGo.
SirGo has the "Black Box" module (although it is called the "Notice" module). I decided to use SirGo to republish my earnings lenses and started with my lens about my Yahoo! Voices earnings. SirGo is a bit slow to publish and is missing some key modules such as the link list module. I was a bit frustrated with SirGo as it freezes a lot and I found it did not work well with Chrome and it was better to use Firefox for publishing my SirGo page. You can see my first SirGo page here and compare it with the old Squidoo lens using the Wayback Machine here.
I'm not sure I am settled on SirGo as my new Squidoo alternative and I will probably test it out and see how some of my pages do on SirGo versus other writing platforms. You make money with SirGo with Google Adsense and Amazon Associates.
You an start making pages with SirGo by going here.
What is your Squidoo alternative?
Tuesday, July 16, 2013
Squidoo Account Locked!
Squidoo has been undergoing a lot of changes the past few months after a major page rank slap from Google and a serious decrease in earnings for the site and thereby very low payout per tier. As a result, Squidoo has installed a series of filters which have swept the site both giving warnings and then locking lenses (without warnings). Like many, I received both warnings and locked lenses. Some I edited and got republished without incident, while others I decided to either delete and give up entirely (severely under performing lenses with little content) or move to other platforms (my blogs, other paid to write sites, etc...).
While Squidoo was undergoing these changes, I didn't really edit any of my lenses or create new ones. I figured I'd ride out the wave and focus on the lenses that were hit by the filter and against Squidoo's new rules and edit/improve my other lenses after things settled down and when I had more time. (Things have been extra crazy at work with no less than 4 trials this summer and lots of craziness on my other cases--in case you cared. )
Today, I received notification from Squidoo that my entire account was locked. I'm not sure whether the e-mail was a boiler plate email that everyone gets (it looks like it) or whether it has details specific to me, but it says that my lenses were SPAM. While I do at times discuss certain products or more accurately other paid to write sites where I have found success, I don't think any of my lenses fall under an accurate definition of SPAM and they all comport to my knowledge and understanding of Squidoo's rules as they have published them. (It has become clear that certain new rules that cause the filters to lock lenses have not been published and the lenses that Squidoo refers readers to after locking their lenses or account are the same ones they've always had.) The one Squidoo violation that I am in some lenses guilty of is forgetting to add an image credit. Without a place to specifically add it when uploading a photo I often forget (and when I was requesting that a locked lens be reinstated, I specifically suggested that all image modules and the like have a place for an image credit).
The big question now is do I try to get my account reinstated or just save all of my lenses and republish them elsewhere? Before its fall, Squidoo was my highest earner--with the exceptions of some months where I was very active on Examiner and really raking it in. I think I will save all of my lenses (I only have 7 days to do so) and appeal and take it from there. If they don't reinstate my account, I'll republish elsewhere and then decide if I want to create a new Squidoo account and start from scratch or just focus on other platforms.
Have you had your Squidoo account locked? What was your experience?
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
My 2012 Earnings
I have been horrible about updating this blog and don't have a ton of time right now, but I want to at least give a quick update on my earnings for 2012. In 2012, I made nearly five times what I made in 2011.
My Squidoo earnings were over ten times my 2011 Squidoo earnings and actually twice my total earnings for 2012. However, the big sleeper was Examiner. I got a new Examiner title towards the end of the year and made $705 alone in December! The combination of Squidoo and Examiner ensure that in 2013, my earnings will far exceed my earnings for 2012, with my current goal for the end of 2013 being $10,000!
Wizzley was my big disappointment. If you'll recall, I was inspired by initial results at the end of 2011 and inspired to make more Wizzes in 2012. Well, I really dropped the ball on that. I made one or two new Wizzes, although I'm not sure I even completed them both to the point of being published. Anyway, as a result, my earnings from Wizzley was a whopping goose egg!
My 2012 Squidoo Earnings: $1,383.41
My 2011 Examiner Earnings: $801.50
My 2012 Infobarrel Earnings: $82.21
My 2012 Triond Earnings: $34.75
My 2011 Hubpages Earnings: $22.05
My 2012 Bukisa Earnings: $15.07
My 2012 Yahoo! Voices Earnings: $10.01
My 2011 Wizzley Earnings: $0
Total: $2,349
I have some goals for 2013, which I will share at a later date, but for now I wanted to at least provide this update which is about 2 months overdue!
My Squidoo earnings were over ten times my 2011 Squidoo earnings and actually twice my total earnings for 2012. However, the big sleeper was Examiner. I got a new Examiner title towards the end of the year and made $705 alone in December! The combination of Squidoo and Examiner ensure that in 2013, my earnings will far exceed my earnings for 2012, with my current goal for the end of 2013 being $10,000!
Wizzley was my big disappointment. If you'll recall, I was inspired by initial results at the end of 2011 and inspired to make more Wizzes in 2012. Well, I really dropped the ball on that. I made one or two new Wizzes, although I'm not sure I even completed them both to the point of being published. Anyway, as a result, my earnings from Wizzley was a whopping goose egg!
My 2012 Squidoo Earnings: $1,383.41
My 2011 Examiner Earnings: $801.50
My 2012 Infobarrel Earnings: $82.21
My 2012 Triond Earnings: $34.75
My 2011 Hubpages Earnings: $22.05
My 2012 Bukisa Earnings: $15.07
My 2012 Yahoo! Voices Earnings: $10.01
My 2011 Wizzley Earnings: $0
Total: $2,349
I have some goals for 2013, which I will share at a later date, but for now I wanted to at least provide this update which is about 2 months overdue!
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Friday, June 1, 2012
May, 2012 Earnings
After a long delay, I have a some free time, so I thought I'd give an update on my earnings from May, 2009. I took a major vacation from writing and have barely written in months. In December, I set myself some goals for what to earn by July 1 so my plan for June is to write, write, write in hopes of meeting the goals I meant to spend 7 months working on.
Squidoo Earnings: $79.84
Infobarrel Earnings: $2.01
Hubpages Earnings: $1.16
Triond Earnings:$0.93
Yahoo! Voices Earnings: $0.80
Bukisa Earnings: $1.03
Wizzley Earnings: $0
Total May, 2012 Earnings: $85.77
Squidoo Earnings: $79.84
Infobarrel Earnings: $2.01
Hubpages Earnings: $1.16
Triond Earnings:$0.93
Yahoo! Voices Earnings: $0.80
Bukisa Earnings: $1.03
Wizzley Earnings: $0
Total May, 2012 Earnings: $85.77
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Sunday, February 5, 2012
My January, 2012 Earnings
I recently updated my Squidoo lenses regarding my January 2012 earnings (listed below) and the two biggest things I learned from my January earnings? 1. The amount you earn from Tier 1 lenses from Squidoo is a huge and significant jumpr form Tier 2 and Tier 3, and 2. It makes a huge difference when you actually write extra articles to increase how often your ads are shown on impressions of your articles with Infobarrel.
As you will see from my Squidoo Earnings, I made over $50 from one lens alone because it was a Tier 1 lens, bumping my entire earnings for the month of January to $65.55. My goal is to find a way to keep promoting and creating lenses that will get enough traffic, likes, clickouts, and Amazon purchases to get as many Tier 1 lenses.
If you don't know, Infobarrel defaults that your ads are shown on 75% of the impressions of your articles. However, you can write articles of certain length to earn points (500+ = 1 point, 800+ = 2 points, 1,000+ + 5 points) to increase your percentage to 80% for 20 points or 85% for 30 points. For every article you write and submit to be featured (must be on a topic listed in monthly contest) you earn another 1% up to five for a potential total of 90% for the next month. I did not write any articles for Infobarrel in November of December; therefore, my ad rate was 75% and believe it or not, it makes a huge difference. My earnings tanked to $2.12 and $2.39 for December and January respectively. In January, I wrote enough articles and submitted enough potential features to meet the 90% rate and boy does it make a difference. On February 1st alone, I had 2 clicks on my Infobarrel articles worth $2.07--more than I made the entire month of January and then again, yesterday I had another click worth $2.22. In four days with the 90% of impressions showing my ads, I doubled what I earned in all of January, so clearly it makes a difference.
One note that is particularly interesting is that all of my February clicks for Infobarrel articles so far have been on my Fungal Ear Infection Treatment article, which is the first article I wrote for Infobarrel. Over the summer I had a particularly painful ear infection that turned out to be a fungal infection. You can read about the whole story in the article, but one thing I found myself doing while in excruciating pain was searching for different treatment and home remedies for fungal ear infections. Unfortunately, most Google searches turned up information about dog ear infections and other fungal infections such as yeast infections or Athlete's foot. Therefore, I took what information I learned from the limited articles about fungal ear infections and wrote my first Infobarrel article. It goes towards my previous advice to write what you don't know.
Here are my earnings for January, 2012:
Squidoo: $65.44
Infobarrel: $2.39
Hubpages: $3.18
Triond: $2.20
Bukisa: $1.70
I did not have any earnings from my 2 pages on Wizzley in January, 2012 and will not update my Yahoo! Voices earnings because I did not reach payout in January, 2012 and you cannot find your earnings by month until you reach payout. I also earned $0.38 from Examiner.
Total Earnings for January, 2012: $75.29
As you will see from my Squidoo Earnings, I made over $50 from one lens alone because it was a Tier 1 lens, bumping my entire earnings for the month of January to $65.55. My goal is to find a way to keep promoting and creating lenses that will get enough traffic, likes, clickouts, and Amazon purchases to get as many Tier 1 lenses.
If you don't know, Infobarrel defaults that your ads are shown on 75% of the impressions of your articles. However, you can write articles of certain length to earn points (500+ = 1 point, 800+ = 2 points, 1,000+ + 5 points) to increase your percentage to 80% for 20 points or 85% for 30 points. For every article you write and submit to be featured (must be on a topic listed in monthly contest) you earn another 1% up to five for a potential total of 90% for the next month. I did not write any articles for Infobarrel in November of December; therefore, my ad rate was 75% and believe it or not, it makes a huge difference. My earnings tanked to $2.12 and $2.39 for December and January respectively. In January, I wrote enough articles and submitted enough potential features to meet the 90% rate and boy does it make a difference. On February 1st alone, I had 2 clicks on my Infobarrel articles worth $2.07--more than I made the entire month of January and then again, yesterday I had another click worth $2.22. In four days with the 90% of impressions showing my ads, I doubled what I earned in all of January, so clearly it makes a difference.
One note that is particularly interesting is that all of my February clicks for Infobarrel articles so far have been on my Fungal Ear Infection Treatment article, which is the first article I wrote for Infobarrel. Over the summer I had a particularly painful ear infection that turned out to be a fungal infection. You can read about the whole story in the article, but one thing I found myself doing while in excruciating pain was searching for different treatment and home remedies for fungal ear infections. Unfortunately, most Google searches turned up information about dog ear infections and other fungal infections such as yeast infections or Athlete's foot. Therefore, I took what information I learned from the limited articles about fungal ear infections and wrote my first Infobarrel article. It goes towards my previous advice to write what you don't know.
Here are my earnings for January, 2012:
Squidoo: $65.44
Infobarrel: $2.39
Hubpages: $3.18
Triond: $2.20
Bukisa: $1.70
I did not have any earnings from my 2 pages on Wizzley in January, 2012 and will not update my Yahoo! Voices earnings because I did not reach payout in January, 2012 and you cannot find your earnings by month until you reach payout. I also earned $0.38 from Examiner.
Total Earnings for January, 2012: $75.29
Sunday, January 1, 2012
My 2011 Earnings from Writing Online & 2012 Writing Goals
Happy New Year! 2011 has come to a close and 2012 has started. I have updated all of my making money earnings and made a total of $585.48 this year by writing online. I made $554.32 from writing articles and $31.16 from affiliate sales. A more detailed break-down of my earnings per program is below.
My goal for 2012 is by the end of the year to be making $500 per month. A huge goal! I hope to become more diligent about promoting all of my articles and creating backlinks for them. I also plan to write, write, write. I hope to have at least 100 articles/pages for each site that I write for by the end of the year and will greatly increase the number of articles I write for Infobarrel. (I haven't written for Infobarrel in almost 2 months!) This year I received my first tier 1 lens for Squidoo: Daily Deal Sites Like Groupon. I plan to promote this lens so that it remains tier 1 all year and create at least 1 new lens that becomes tier 1. (Ideally, I would like to end 2012 with 5 tier 1 lenses). I also plan to create more pages at Wizzley, where although I have 2 very simple pages, I am pulling in strong Adsense earnings per page.
My 2011 Squidoo Earnings: $100.99
My 2011 Infobarrel Earnings: $20.38
My 2011 Bukisa Earnings: $11.81
My 2011 Triond Earnings: $2.14
My 2011 Associated Content Earnings: $94.62
My 2011 Hubpages Earnings: $2.61
My 2011 Wizzley Earnings: $1.76
My 2011 Examiner Earnings: $9.71
My 2011 eHow Earnings: $310.30
How did you do in 2011? What are your writing goals for 2012?
My goal for 2012 is by the end of the year to be making $500 per month. A huge goal! I hope to become more diligent about promoting all of my articles and creating backlinks for them. I also plan to write, write, write. I hope to have at least 100 articles/pages for each site that I write for by the end of the year and will greatly increase the number of articles I write for Infobarrel. (I haven't written for Infobarrel in almost 2 months!) This year I received my first tier 1 lens for Squidoo: Daily Deal Sites Like Groupon. I plan to promote this lens so that it remains tier 1 all year and create at least 1 new lens that becomes tier 1. (Ideally, I would like to end 2012 with 5 tier 1 lenses). I also plan to create more pages at Wizzley, where although I have 2 very simple pages, I am pulling in strong Adsense earnings per page.
My 2011 Squidoo Earnings: $100.99
My 2011 Infobarrel Earnings: $20.38
My 2011 Bukisa Earnings: $11.81
My 2011 Triond Earnings: $2.14
My 2011 Associated Content Earnings: $94.62
My 2011 Hubpages Earnings: $2.61
My 2011 Wizzley Earnings: $1.76
My 2011 Examiner Earnings: $9.71
My 2011 eHow Earnings: $310.30
How did you do in 2011? What are your writing goals for 2012?
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Thursday, December 22, 2011
The Power of Twitter
A great way to promote your articles and gain backlinks is by using Twitter. If you have a lot of Twitter followers that is an instant audience for your articles, but you can also get readers through the power of re-tweets. One example of "the power of Twitter" that I have experienced recently is by promoting my The Real Housewives of Orange County lens by tweeting a poll on that lens regarding readers favorite OC housewives. A couple of days ago, I tweeted that Tamra Barney & Gretchen Rossi were the most popular OC housewives according to the poll (I had already had a few responses) and was sure to use their Twitter names. Tamra retweeted my tweet and since then, there has been a constant stream of people voting in the poll and visiting the link. I have also gained more Twitter followers and other users have retweeted my tweet. Today, I have had over 200 readers of my The Real Housewives of Orange County lens and hopefully they are sticking around to check out my other lenses as well. This boost of traffic is great for increasing my lensrank on Squidoo (equaling higher payouts) and hopefully for resulting in more sales through the page. My The Real Housewives of Orange County lens has already had success in selling products through Amazon. So keep in mind when writing articles to be sure to tweet your article or a portion of the article (such as a poll or quiz) to your Twitter followers.
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Sunday, December 4, 2011
More Pages About My Paid 2 Write Earnings
If you're interested in learning more about how much money I am making writing articles online, check out my Squidoo pages about My Triond Earnings and My Bukisa Earnings. Triond and Bukisa are both lower earning paid to write sites that going forward I plan to use to build backlinks for the more stronger earning sites like Infobarrel and Squidoo. In fact, my short term goal for monthly earnings for Triond and Bukisa is only $1 per month because I am not concerned about making money with these sites as much as I am about using them to direct more traffic to my pages that have the potential to earn more money.
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Monday, November 21, 2011
Infobarrel Earnings
I have created another Squidoo lens regarding my get paid to write earnings, specifically my Infobarrel earnings. This lens only includes my Adsense and Chitika earnings from Infobarrel and not my Amazon Associates earnings from Infobattrl. I started writing articles for Infobarrel in July, 2011 and have gone through spurts of writing a lot and then writing nothing for a month or more. I currently have 60 articles published with Infobarrel.
Squidoo Earnings
I've been focused a bit on getting my Squidoo lenses up to snuff. I've been a bit lax in the past and many fell into the "work in progress" category. (All Squidoo lenses with a lensrank under 4,000 are marked as "works in progress" and not promoted on the Squidoo site. Also there were a lot of lenses that were falling out of paid tiers (only the lenses with a rank of 85,000 or higher are eligible for a share of the income from ads on Squidoo). Therefore, I updated my lenses, added content where needed, and published some lenses that needed to be published. I also transferred some of my poorly performing lenses to a different Squidoo account to be worked on later. I now have 71 featured lenses and 9 work in progress lenses. In addition, I decided to write an article about my Squidoo earnings and payouts. You can follow my journey of making money by writing articles and creating Squidoo lenses by checking out my Squidoo Earnings lens which will now be updated with each payout. I consistently make payout every month with Squidoo and while I have not put in enough time to consistently get a high income from Squidoo, it is a steady income.
Squidoo Article Breaks Tier 1!
I have previously written about how my Daily Deal Sites Like Groupon lens is my most popular lens on Squidoo. It has consistently remained in Tier 2 and occasionally flirted with Tier 1. This weekend, however, it not only flirted with Tier 1, it full on broke into Tier 1! (I'm sure in a large part helped by the fact that it received a Squidoo Angel Blessing on Friday.) On Saturday it hovered around 1,800 (Tier 1 lenses rank from 1-2000) but this morning it shot up to 633! My articles is in the Top 1000! I've never come anywhere close. I'm going to keep promoting my Daily Deal Sites lens in hopes I can get it into the Top 500 and eventually the Top 100. On of the major perks of being a Tier 1 lens is that when payout comes there is a huge jump in payout. Last month a Tier 2 lens received a payment of approximately $8 whereas a Tier 1 lens was approximately $45! Here's hoping my Daily Deal Sites lens stays in the Tier 1 for the rest of this month (enough to average as Tier 1) and all of next month! It will be much tougher when the value of the Angel Blessing (giving any lens a tempoarary lensrank boost wears off) but it also gives me the motivation to backlink and promote my lens (by writing more articles on other sites) in hopes of keeping it a Tier 1 lens.
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Saturday, July 23, 2011
Take Advantage of Popular News Items: Amy Winehouse Dead
I am overdue for an update on my Infobarrel Challenge, but first wanted to share a tip on getting paid 2 write online--take advantage of the headlines! If there is a big news item that you know will be getting a lot of internet searches, jump on it and write something! Especially if it is about a celebrity and there's no bigger celebrity news than a celebrity death (except maybe a celebrity wedding or break-up!)
It was recently announced that Rehab
So I wrote my first "Amy Winehouse is Dead" article for Triond: Amy Winehouse: Dead at 27. I then backlinked this article on SheToldMeSo and RedGage. I even backlinked the SheToldMeSo and RedGage backlinks to themselves. With RedGage, I even uploaded a blog post with a trackback link to Amy Winehouse: Dead at 27 and submitted it for RedGage's knowledge based content. (I've put examples of these backlinks at the bottom of the blog post.)
Then I wrote an Associated Content article, only to realize that while in the past "Display Only" articles on Associated Content went live automatically, there is now a delay...boo!
I then created a Squidoo lens about Winehouse's death: Amy Winehouse Dead at 27. This was an opportunity to also backlink my Triond article as well as try to gain some revenue from purchases of Amy's CDs and singles which I promoted on the lens. I also was able to use the Google News module and the Twitter News module to provide up to date content on the lens about Amy's death. I also of course, backlinked Amy Winehouse Dead at 27 with SheToldMeSo and RedGage.
When publishing Amy Winehouse Dead at 27, I quickly threw something together and in the future will continue to add more and expand the lens. Ideas include more detail about Amy Winehouse's life and struggles, utilizing my affiliate programs, such as AllPosters and Zazzle and promoting their products about Amy Winehouse and also creating new lenses and articles that can be backlinked through that site and backlink to that site, topics include surprising celebrity deaths and the dangers of drug an alchol addiction.
This is an example of how you can take an hot news item and work it to your advantage to gain views to your articles and webpages.
Here are my backlinks related to Amy Winehouse's death:
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Wednesday, July 13, 2011
My Most Successful Squidoo Lens: Daily Deal Sites Like Groupon
Before starting my Infobarrel Challenge, I wanted to give a bit of love to my highest ranked Squidoo lens, Daily Deal Sites Like Groupon. As many of you may know, Groupon is a popular "deal of the day" or "group coupon" site. Daily Deal Sites Like Groupon lens gets the most traffic and is my highest ranked lens. It is consistently a tier 2 lens and is inching its way towards tier 1 (hence why I want to give it some love). If you don't know, Squidoo lenses are all ranked and lensrank determines how much revenue you received from the Squidoo adpool. The higher the rank, the more you earn. I will shortly post a blog entry about Squidoo and how the tiers and lensrank work, but right now my goal is for this blog post to serve as a good backlink for my Daily Deal Sites Like Groupon lens, so in order to have relevant keywords, etc... it's best if I talk about that lens.
Groupon has spawned many popular "Groupon clones" like LivingSocial or Social Steals. Most recently, Google got into the daily deal game with Google Offers. My Daily Deal Sites Like Groupon lens, offers a comprehensive guide to the many Groupon clone sites that keep popping up and describes each of the daily deal sites so you know what they offer and what cities they offer them for. If you don't know what Groupon is (have you been living under a rock?!--jk!), well Groupon sends daily e-mails with group coupons that harness the power of social buying and offers discounts of 50 -90% off the best things in your city, such as restaurants, bars, salons, spas, and other retailers. So if you haven't signed-up, sign-up for Groupon and go check out my Daily Deal Sites Like Groupon lens so you can learn about and sign-up for all of the other Groupon competitors--and hopefully help push my Daily Deal Sites Like Groupon lens to tier 1!
Groupon has spawned many popular "Groupon clones" like LivingSocial or Social Steals. Most recently, Google got into the daily deal game with Google Offers. My Daily Deal Sites Like Groupon lens, offers a comprehensive guide to the many Groupon clone sites that keep popping up and describes each of the daily deal sites so you know what they offer and what cities they offer them for. If you don't know what Groupon is (have you been living under a rock?!--jk!), well Groupon sends daily e-mails with group coupons that harness the power of social buying and offers discounts of 50 -90% off the best things in your city, such as restaurants, bars, salons, spas, and other retailers. So if you haven't signed-up, sign-up for Groupon and go check out my Daily Deal Sites Like Groupon lens so you can learn about and sign-up for all of the other Groupon competitors--and hopefully help push my Daily Deal Sites Like Groupon lens to tier 1!
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Thursday, July 7, 2011
My Real Housewives Obsession
I am a huge fan of Bravo's The Real Housewives and when I say I'm a fan, I don't just mean that I sort of like the show and it's my guilty pleasure, I mean I'm obsessed! My obsession for all things Real Housewives has spilled over into my Squidoo lens making and as a result, I have made several Housewives lenses about the different shows, about the books they have written and about the latest news about all things The Real Housewives. I only wish I had started making Real Housewives lenses sooner as now there are so many franchises and there have been several seasons--not to mention spin-offs. ( I love Bethenny Frankel!) So please check out my Real Housewives lenses below (all of which are constant works in progress). Let me know what you think and if you are a Housewives fan, let me know what other lenses you would like me to create or things you would like me to add. If you haven't seen The Real Housewives, well you are missing out, but don't worry there are plenty of links on my lenses to watch episodes of The Real Housewives instantly on Amazon.
General Real Housewives Lenses
The Real Housewives...
Real Housewives News
Books Written By The Real Housewives
The Real Housewives of Orange County
The Real Housewives of Orange County
Real Housewives of Orange County News
RHOC: Season 1
RHOC: Season 2
RHOC: Season 3
RHOC: Season 4
RHOC: Season 5
RHOC: Season 6
Spin-off: Date My Ex
The Real Housewives of New York City
The Real Housewives of New York City
Real Housewives of New York News
RHONYC: Season 1
RHONYC: Season 2
RHONYC: Season 3
RHONYC: Season 4
Former NYC Housewife: Bethenny Frankel & Her Spin-off
Bethenny Ever After
Bethenny Frankel News
Bethenny Frankel's Empire
The Real Housewives of Atlanta
The Real Housewives of Atlanta
Real Housewives of Atlanta News
The Real Housewives of New Jersey
The Real Housewives of New Jersey
Real Housewives of New Jersey News
The Real Housewives of D.C.
The Real Housewives of D.C. has the distinction of being the first and only Real Housewives series to be cancelled. For that reason, I have not prioritized making D.C. lenses.
The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills
Real Housewives of Beverly Hills News
The Real Housewives of Miami
Real Housewives of Miami News
International Real Housewives Series
The Real Housewives of Athens
The Real Housewives of Israel
General Real Housewives Lenses
The Real Housewives...
Real Housewives News
Books Written By The Real Housewives
The Real Housewives of Orange County
The Real Housewives of Orange County
Real Housewives of Orange County News
RHOC: Season 1
RHOC: Season 2
RHOC: Season 3
RHOC: Season 4
RHOC: Season 5
RHOC: Season 6
Spin-off: Date My Ex
The Real Housewives of New York City
The Real Housewives of New York City
Real Housewives of New York News
RHONYC: Season 1
RHONYC: Season 2
RHONYC: Season 3
RHONYC: Season 4
Former NYC Housewife: Bethenny Frankel & Her Spin-off
Bethenny Ever After
Bethenny Frankel News
Bethenny Frankel's Empire
The Real Housewives of Atlanta
The Real Housewives of Atlanta
Real Housewives of Atlanta News
The Real Housewives of New Jersey
The Real Housewives of New Jersey
Real Housewives of New Jersey News
The Real Housewives of D.C.
The Real Housewives of D.C. has the distinction of being the first and only Real Housewives series to be cancelled. For that reason, I have not prioritized making D.C. lenses.
The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills
Real Housewives of Beverly Hills News
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More eHow Articles on Bukisa: How to Tell if Fruits are Ripe
One topic that I used to write about a lot on eHow were articles on whether fruits were ripe. I guess this was one of my "niches." It started simply enough. One day, my boyfriend, who had recently purchased a mango asked me how to tell if a mango is ripe. Neither of us knew and I figured if neither of us knew, there were probably plenty of people on the internet who had the same question. So I did some research on how to tell if a mango is ripe and wrote an eHow article about it. Very quickly it became one of my highest paying articles. That's one of the tricks to getting paid to write, write about things people want to know. You can have as many backlinks and sources driving traffic to your articles as possible but if no one cares about what you're writing about, no one's going to read your articles.
After I found success with my "How to Tell if a Mango is Ripe" article, I wrote several other articles about how to tell if fruits are ripe. I have chosen to migrate these articles to Bukisa because Bukisa has their own "how to" format and I didn't think the articles were meaty enough to turn into Infobarrel articles. Also, as a way to create backlinks and also have a separate paying source, I created a Squidoo lens "How to Tell If Fruits Are Ripe" and linked to all of my Bukisa articles. This will be useful to people who want an ultimate guide to whether different types of fruits are ripe and will send them to by Bukisa articles.
After I found success with my "How to Tell if a Mango is Ripe" article, I wrote several other articles about how to tell if fruits are ripe. I have chosen to migrate these articles to Bukisa because Bukisa has their own "how to" format and I didn't think the articles were meaty enough to turn into Infobarrel articles. Also, as a way to create backlinks and also have a separate paying source, I created a Squidoo lens "How to Tell If Fruits Are Ripe" and linked to all of my Bukisa articles. This will be useful to people who want an ultimate guide to whether different types of fruits are ripe and will send them to by Bukisa articles.
Monday, June 20, 2011
How To Prevent & Eliminate Blackheads
Well, I found a Squidoo-worthy eHow article. So instead of putting my article about how to prevent and eliminate blackheads on Bukisa or Infobarrel (I'm still waiting for the first article I migrated from eHow to Infobarrel to get approved), I decided to put my articles on how to prevent and eliminate blackheads on Squidoo. No one wants blackheads and once you get them, they can be a pain to get rid of. So be sure to check out the article for great ways on both how to prevent and eliminate blackheads.
If you have any tips that I missed, please share them in the comments section! And if you're a Squidoo member please "like" the lens. If you're not a Squidoo member, sign-up here and start making lenses & getting paid!
Here's the article: How to Eliminate and Prevent Blackheads
If you have any tips that I missed, please share them in the comments section! And if you're a Squidoo member please "like" the lens. If you're not a Squidoo member, sign-up here and start making lenses & getting paid!
Here's the article: How to Eliminate and Prevent Blackheads
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Best Romantic Comedies
While I'm in the process of moving my eHow articles to new homes, I thought I'd share a lens I wrote on Squidoo (on Squidoo you create "lenses" instead of writing articles--lenses allow you to include various modules & offer more freedom than a traditional article) about romantic comedies a.k.a. chick flicks. This lens is about the top romantic comedies by actress. Therefore, I've compiled some of the most popular romantic comedy actresses, such as Julia Roberts, Sandra Bullock, Jennifer Aniston, and Katherine Heigl, and compiled their best romantic comedies to make an ultimate list of the perfect Friday night chick flicks to enjoy.
Please check out my lens, Top Romantic Comedies by Actress and let me know what you think.





















Please check out my lens, Top Romantic Comedies by Actress and let me know what you think.
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Sunday, June 19, 2011
eHow Ends WCP & Where to Go From Here
I my spare time I have been writing articles online and gaining revenue both passive and active for these articles. My biggest earnings came from several eHow articles I wrote when the Writers' Compensation Program ("WCP") was active. Sometime last year, eHow stopped allowing writers to contribute new articles unless they applied to and were accepted to their Demand Studios writing program. However, they continued to pay WCP members residual income for the articles they had written. Starting May 5, 2011, they stopped paying WCP members their residual income and offered either a bulk payment for your articles or for you to remove all of your articles from the site. I felt my offer wasn't worth what I could make on other sites, tTherefore, I had all of my eHow articles removed from eHow and will be migrating them to other sites. That's where the tricky part comes in--where do I move them to? I already write for Associated Content (no Yahoo! Contributor Program), Bukisa, Squidoo, and Hubpages. However, none of those sites pay as much as eHow did--nor have I put as much work into them. Associated Content is great for upfront payments, but not so great for residual income (only 1.50 for every 1,000 views). Bukisa has switched over to an adsense format so I'm still seeing how that is working out. Squidoo lenses and Hubpages hubs are tailored differently and I'm not sure are the best place for simple eHow articles. I am hearing good things about Infobarrel so I have recently joined them and will likely put my articles in a combination of Infobarrel and Bukisa. I will let you know how it goes and as I post new articles I plan to do blog posts advising how it's going and which sites have give success. I plan to use sites like Shetoldme, Best-Reviewer, Squidoo and Hubpages to get backlinks to my articles.
Are you a former WCP member? Did you accept eHow's offer or are you moving your articles somewhere else? What type of success have you had so far?




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Are you a former WCP member? Did you accept eHow's offer or are you moving your articles somewhere else? What type of success have you had so far?
Saturday, March 19, 2011
Squidoo March, 2011 Payout
For the March, 2011 Payout, I did not meet the $1 minimum for payout from Squidoo, but I did generate earnings in January, 2011 that went to my "reserve hopper" for the next payout. These earnings came from two Tier 3 lenses (Daily Deal Sites Like Groupon and Top Romantic Comedies & Top Romantic Comedy Actresses) which each earned $0.26.
Total Earnings: $0.52
Total Payout: $0
Total Earnings: $0.52
Total Payout: $0
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