I've noticed an interesting phenomenon  in myself today. I'll read something and say "Yeah, that's good, I can see how I could use that." Then I'll go on and read the next bit of the article or follow a link and say "OK, that makes sense too" At this point I'll have a reasonably clear idea of something concrete to DO. But then, and here's my mistake, I'll read something else or follow another link. Now I'm starting to lose confidence in the first thing because I'm readin

Alright, one more lens up. It is called Beginning Homeschooling In Saskatchewan  The plan (an ever malleable thing) is to build a "welcome to home-schooling" lens for the four Western Provinces. I want to see if I can drive up my google rank by targeting geographically. Also, because the lenses will be similar, I am hoping to repurpose some of the content, although the province-specific links will obviously be different. I can then link these to more general pages to be built in t

Had a couple of shitty days when technical difficulties were frustrating my efforts. Still having a few tech. hiccups but feeling more sanguine today. Looking forward to putting up some more related squidoo lenses and supporting them with I'm not sure what. Perhaps a blog and some bookmarking. Also, because they are of interest to home schooling types I will post some announcements in a home school forum or two. I've been going through something called 26 steps to 15k a day which is a plan to b

Published my first Squidoo lens today. Find it at: http://www.squidoo.com/bestmicroscopesforkids It looks a little sparse. The one image I uploaded doesn't seem to be appearing. I'm wondering if there is a copyright problem since I just used some clipart. I really tried to focus on making the content useful. I can see a few places where I will go back and do some editing. Any comments yo have would be more than welcome. I'm a big boy so please be blunt.

Working two jobs 14 hours a day, taking kids to triathlons out of town and life in general has gotten in the way these last few days. I am still working my way through the action plan. I am now waiting for the time to count down so I can move on to the next lesson (lesson 4?).  I think I'm getting an idea of the big picture here.As affiliates. we create web pages, blogs, squidoo pages, articles, and other content. Using key words and SEO we optimize our content to be found by our potential