This Week For Me on Squidoo

I know. Another new blog. They're all for different audiences though. Really they are. This one's for keeping up to date with everything I'm up to on Squidoo at the moment. Onwards...

After spluttering coffee across the room, seeing the lensrank update this morning, only to calm down when I arrived at the forums, it was time to get down to work. Earlier this week, I set my goals for Squidoo in 2011. They include a plan for another 300 lenses this year. (12th of January, I've done 16 - decent start) One of the goals was a quiz per week - I enjoy writing them and they see traffic and so why not. Anyway, the first one rolled off the production line today - all about Uglydoll.

Meanwhile, as anyone on Squidoo will know, the main thing I write about is the card game YuGiOh! We're due another booster in early February, and my goal is to write individual lenses on as many of the individual cards contained in it, in time for them being heavily searched.

There's a couple of flaws, of course. There'll be a hundred different cards for a start - obviously a hundred lenses is beyond me in a short timescale, so figuring which cards will generate most interest is important. Secondly, you can kind of get a head start - but only to a point. Without getting into too much of a technical explanation, 80 of the 100 cards have already appeared in the Japanese version of the same booster pack. The flaw is that the card names have only been translated by fans - they'll have many of them spot on, but some will change. Of course the lens text can be changed, but the URLs can't, without rewriting the lens from scratch. Hey, ho.

Anyway, the booster is called Storm of Ragnarok, and you can find the links to the individual card lenses (14 so far) from there.

Meanwhile, over on SquidU, there's a game to update a lens that begins with consecutive letters of the alphabet each day. C today. A bit stressfull - I'm missing a good few letters of the alphabet and you probably know how competitive I am. It was also payday the other day and another record for me :) Could Squidoo pay my mortgage eventually? A long way to that kind of sum, but who knows, eh?