My lensography Books Make Great Gifts

Lensographies (lists of Squidoo lenses) are usually not very interesting although they can be useful. This is more likely if you do lensographies on individual niche subjects.  It is also possible to make them interesting and attractive to visitors looking for information on the topic of your niche too.

First of all, don’t use the word lensography in the title or text because this means nothing to anybody outside Squidoo. Think of a good title using relevant keywords and that is going to sound attractive to someone searching on Google.

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My favourite climbing plants

Here in the UK, we are enjoying beautiful, warm, sunny weather. It’s much more like summer than spring and not what we expect in April.

As usual when there’s a sudden warm, sunny spell, we all change to summer clothes and start thinking about our gardens. Garden centres are doing booming business and people are busy digging or weeding their neglected flower and vegetable beds as well as sowing seeds and putting in plants – let’s hope none of them are tender because we could still have hard frosts at night.

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I finished a Squidoo lens called Quiz: What Do You Know About the Old American West a couple of days ago.  I made it as a companion to an orphan lens (orphan because it’s the only one I’ve done on the subject) so that I could link between the two. That one is called Legends of the Old West and I made it as a Senior Squids group challenge. That’s why I never made anymore on the subject.

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I had so much trouble writing my latest lens, Celebrate National Women’s Friendship Day. I struggled with it for days and I was on the point of deleting it even though it was kind of finished. I just didn’t think it was particularly good.

As a last resort I posted a link on the Fresh Squids Forum and asked for help and got some good suggestions which I implemented. I’m delighted to report that the page was awarded a Purple Star yesterday.

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I finished a Squidoo lens yesterday called Novelty Clocks – Useful and Fun. It was inspired by my kitchen clock, a picture of which I use in the introduction. I’ve had this clock for about eight years and I still like it very much.

It’s a straightforward sales page but I have written something about each clock I feature so it’s not just copy and paste.

One of the reasons I wrote it was because I wanted relevant pages for Unusual Novelty Teapots and Local Time and Railway Time. I’ve struggled for about a year to find something relevant to go with the page about Railway Time. I know novelty clocks aren’t very relevant but they both have something to do with time so that’s good enough for me!

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Look at this great Squidoo recipe lens for an Easy Blackberry Cobbler. It’s written by Sylvestermouse, an outstanding lensmaster on many different subjects currently with 187 pages to her credit.

Cynthia starts her introduction on a personal note, telling us that her husband and daughter love this dessert. Then she goes on to say that it is quick and easy to make, again relating the task of making it to her and her family’s pleasure in eating it.

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I’ve been through a strange period over the last couple of months. I just haven’t been in the mood to write at all. That’s probably why I made the Quiz lenses in November – they required very little ‘real’ writing. I even did another one at the beginning of this month: What Do You Know About Musicals? At least it is a companion for My Top Ten Musicals.

I kept meaning to write a post here about the new quiz but just never got up enough enthusiasm even to open this blog, let alone write anything. There have been other Squidoo related topics I’ve had in mind to comment on here but, again, haven’t written about them.

Right! This has to stop now. I’m going to make myself write here and on Squidoo. I know once I start I enjoy it.

Books Make Great Gifts

I write book reviews of fairly obscure books – never those in the top 100 best sellers, probably not even the top 10,000! This week I decided to publicise them a bit with a Squidoo mini lensography called Books Make Great Gifts.

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I decided to be sensible and write a lens on Christmas gifts for children. It’s the right time of year, it might even be a little late now but not very much so.

When I started the lens, I wrote an introduction and put in a graphic. I even wrote content for another module and did one Amazon Spotlight. Then I was hit by overpowering boredom with the whole thing. The idea of having to write about several more products was more than I could bear. I haven’t deleted the lens. It sits there reproachfully in WIP, a reminder that I should finish it.

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We all know that updating our Squidoo lenses is important. Google likes fresh content is one reason, another reason is it helps our lensrank. One thing that is worth remembering, when updating, is to check any dates of events that you give on the web page.

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