December on Squidoo

Wow, it is hard to believe that we are in the final month of 2009, and what for many of us is the busiest month of the year every year. For my retail business, it is always true, and this year after my first full year of being a Squidoo lensmaster, I can see that my year's work is really paying off in the visits to my lenses, and purchases.

I have some lenses which didn't do well last year at the same time, soaring this year, and the holiday season has really only just begun. Most people don't really get serious about Christmas shopping until the last two weeks of December. So to start I wish all of you lensmasters a successful Squidoo shopping season.

This is not the time to stop tweaking and improving your lenses, nor should you stop creating new ones. If all your holiday lenses are doing well, then starting making lenses for Valentine's Day or St. Patrick's Day. Give them time to percolate and mature.

Continue to update and improve your existing lenses by adding products, making sure your links are still good, or writing articles and creating backlinks to them. The more work you put in, the more success you will reap from your work.

I did want to let you know of another site I have been recently introduced to that you can earn Adsense and Amazon income from, YouSayToo.com which was recommended to me by an excellent source. This is another place to publicize your writing and blogs, and get backlinks. So check it out, it is easy to use.

Happy Squidcember, everyone!

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Now is the Time to Brush Up on Your Fall and Winter Lenses

Today is August 27, 2009, and now is the time to dust off, improve, and publicize all of your holiday lenses, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Chanukah, and any other holidays that I have left out.

As we all know the biggest gift giving holidays of the year are Christmas, Halloween, and Valentine's Day, in that order. Two of them are coming up, and that means that if you want to make money from them, you need to get ready now.

It takes time for people to browse, bookmark, decide, and buy. It also takes time for backlinks to establish, search engines to find your sites and lenses, and word of mouth to spread. These activities should be ongoing on your part, continually publicizing your lenses, and other sites, but we all know that it is inhumanly possible to do these things at a high rate all of the time.

Summer is usually a lull for most of us, and what I am saying is that if you aren't going to do this any other time of the year, now is that time. Focus your mind, come up with a strategy, add backlinks to lenses that have been sitting, update the rest, make new lenses, and DO IT NOW! Give your lenses time to be recognized by search engines and people.

In the spirit of this push to holiday lenses, I invite you to read my favorite holiday lens of my own, A Christmas Story's Leg Lamp: The Wackiest Christmas Gift. I live in Cleveland, Ohio and the Christmas Story house is here. So the Christmas Story is a big tourist item here.

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