AJ is Always Juggling

Still coming up with all sorts of topics and strong keywords (I hope) for various Dragon topics, in readiness for Chinese New Year. In fact I now have so many Dragons lenses that I am starting to think it may be better to move them to a niche account – we shall see.

My newest dragon lenses:

Dragons Tattoos

The Meaning of a Dragon Tattoo

Then just recently, I turned my mind to my own Christmas Shopping and the fact that due to a deterioration in my Mother’s health over the past year, we could no longer buy her the gifts we would do normally. I set about looking for gifts for people with Vascualr Damage, due to stroke and then discivered that Alzheimer’s and Dementia sufferers have similar needs.

This resulted in Gifts for Alzheimer’s, which I hope will turn into an “evergreen” page that will be useful to guft buyers all year round, not just at Christmas.

The list of lenses that I have been able to make to tie in with the Chinese Year of the Dragon, shows no sign of running out. I am even thinking of maybe transferring them to a niche account – certainly something to consider.

The latest in the series: Dragon Stories

Finally made it to 200 lenses lenses on Squidoo plus more. It’s not been the ideas I have been lacking, but the time, however, I have managed eight new lenses since I last posted:

Linking to the Chinese Year of the Dragon, I have published:

Dragon Pictures

Dragon Calendar

Dragon Puzzles

In addition I also made a page to prove that it IS possible to make a “legal” page about coloring pages and resources:

Disney Colouring Pages

For that all important 200th page on Squidoo, I this Birthday present for my hubby:

Why I Love You

Then with Christmas Shopping for children in mind:

Radio Flyer

Radio Flyer First Scooter

Radio Flyer Wagons

Continuing my most prolific Squidoo lens Creation since I first joined the site in 2008, I have added three more pages in the last few days, both expanding on niches I have been developing.

The Kindle Color is set to rival the iPad for popularity and it will be interesting to see if the 250,000 ordered so far actually get as far as being delivered – there’s still time for people to cancel the order. I just hope that if they iorder through my lonks that they actually complete the sale!!

My other two new lenses, published just today, are as the result of more keyword research to find products that I can not only link into the Year of the Dragon, but which will also become “evergreen”: Swarovski Dragons and Dragon Jewellry.

Only five more lenses to go to reach my self imposed target of 200.

In all the time I have been on Squidoo, I think last month was probably my most prolific for publishing new lenses. Now I am so close to my goal of 200 lenses, I have the impetus to keep publishing and I am finding it quite easy. I have more WIP lenses than I care to admit to and it is just a question of knuckling down and getting them done.

Here’s my latest “batch”:

Year of the Dragon
Clipart Dragons
Dragon Bedroom
Dragon Bathroom

Followers of Chinese Astrology will know why I have been publishing these lenses – my online friends will be astounded that I have got so far ahead of the game. Chinese New Year and the Year of the Dragon will not be celebrated until January!

My final Halloween lens for this year is Vampire Outfits – probably too late to do much this year, but at least it will be well established for next year.

Amazon are launching a touch screen ereader the Kindle Touch, in November and they are relaunching the Kindle 3 as the Kindle Keyboard, in recognition that not everyone likes a touch screen.

And finally, a dofollow backlink from Squidoo for the new website I have been involved in setting up: Writing Online.

So it’s 192 lenses published with 8 more to go but I will probably wait until I have published a few more before applying to the Giant Squid 200 club.

While I work towards my Squidoo target of 200 pages by year end, I have also been expanding my online portfolio to include two new websites.

Bullying Help is a website that was born out of my determination to try to help the parents of children who are bullied. I don’t want other children and their families to go through what we went through when my daughter was bullied at school.

The other website is Writing Online is one that I co-own with two online friends: Bev Owens and Paula Atwell. The aim is to give people help and tips to enable them to expand their own online activities and start up their own blogs and websites, to compliment what they do on Squidoo.

So it’s 15 Squidoo lenses to go until I reach the 200 target I set myself for this year. At the rate I have been pubklishing these last couple of weeks then I should do it, but you never know!

Two more lenses were added to my Squidoo portfolio this week as I try to plan ahead so that topical lenses are well aged by the time they actually become topical. As a result I have published:

Astrology Calendar

Year of the Dragon

I have to admit that I love creating content, whether it be on Squidoo or Wizzley. I find it very therapeutic!

My most successful lens as far as sales is concerned is Wii Draw. In November and December 2010, I was blown away by the Amazon sales I made for this product, related products and other stuff people bought as a result of visiting Amazon via the lens.

Even after the Christmas Shopping season was over, I continued to make regular sales.

But I had not thought much about related keywords recently until I checked out what new Wii Draw games would be released in time for Christmas Shopping this year. The result is a new page Wii Draw Games.

My other new lens is Cliff Richard Calendar. Cliff Richard is a British institution and I wanted to see if a lens that is targetted at manily the Britsi market would do well.

Last year Cliff had the best selling male celebrity calendar on Amazon UK – and this despite the fact that he is 71!

My lensmaking has slowed down again. A combination of forced editing of existing lenses (I say forced because some changes on Squidoo made it necessary) and then the long Summer school break – six weeks, with the girls at home.

So now I am trying to catch up with a lot of backlinking and publishing new lenses for Halloween. However, unless I get a real move on then it may be too late for 2011!

Since I last posted on here, I have made the following Squidoo lenses:

Best Rated Laptops

Buy a Trampoline

How to write for Profit

Using Images

Best Chicken Wing Recipe

Zazzle Reviews

Chocolate and Cream Recipe

UDraw

Halloween Couple Outfits

PlusSize Halloween Costumes

That makes 191 published pages on Squidoo but whether I will manage another 19 by year end is anyone’s guess at the moment!

Three new lenses this week, two of them Lensographies.

Libra in Love continues the series of Love Horoscopes

Quick Easy Recipes for Dinner brings together some of my recipe lenses

Stars Signs Compatibility is the lensography that links the Love Horoscopes.

That brings me to 173 lenses – I would like to have 200 by my third anniversary on July 10, but I am not sure I will make it.