Little Debbies World

The increasing insecurity of my internet content has been smaking me in the face a lot. I’d be a total idiot not to notice all the separate instances and start adding them up for a larger view my ultimate goals.

I looked at my Squidoo lenses last night, and realized that among the 93 separate lenses (one page web sites), I have 27 of them that are bringing into Squidoo 7,735 visitors a week.

My ultimate goals? Be my own boss. Control my own internet real-estate in every way. I cannot do this with Squidoo. I have given them a year of my devotion and my unique original articles. They have given me a free opportunity to learn and hone my skills about internet marketing, and an income.

My year’s worth of work is not secure. It is in the hands of others, and I have absolutely NO input of any changes that would affect my work. My articles, their availability of up-time, java-script, access to css, meta tags, and everything else is in control of others, and can change at their whim.

It’s time to change gears, if I want to continue building my reputation and ultimate work at home success. I’ve seen a few others do it. I spent 2 days reading everything a couple of Squidoo lensmasters claim they have done. I even emailed one, of course she claims to be wanting to teach and show other’s how to become independant, but the bottom line is she’s hawking her e-books, and her friends e-books.

Oh, she’s pumped herself up, claiming she’s a very successful Squidoo lensmaster, when in reality, I’ve created more lenses than she has, that are more successful than hers are, in terms of visitors from search engines and Google’s PR ranking. HA…….needless to say, she didn’t answer my email, which just asked her opinion on the direction I should start……1 website, or a bunch of them, to cover my various topics.

Last night, I stayed up just searching the internet. I found that to insure a ‘duplicate’ tag is not put on my content, if I want to transfer it to another domain, I should use a 301 redirect. I cannot do that with Squidoo, because they don’t give me the access. So there sits all my original articles, one of which is on page 1 of google in 2 places, and again on page 2 of google in 1 place………AND I DON’T OWN IT. SQUIDOO HAS CONTROL OF IT. Believe me, I will find a way to own my content and have control of it, without hopefully loosing the PR and visitors.

To relieve my frustrations, I started looking in my Clickbank account, and searched for ‘Squidoo’. WHAT A BUNCH OF SHYSTERS AND LIERS!

There’s two scumbags, with 3 other scumbags that have made a circle of interlocking tools, videos, ebooks, websites, blogs, lenses, bookmarking sites, and services.

Then there’s the lone-rangers, that have made a ebook of the greatest secrets and tips to becoming successful with Squidoo.

The biggest and main thing that ties them all together is the fact that they’re FEEDING on lensmasters. They’re not on Squidoo to make an affiliate income by producing their unique original articles. NO. They are on Squidoo to push the normal desire of a group of people (with the bonus of other people outside of Squidoo) to make money, and to take an easy way out of doing that.

They are vulchers, swooping down on their target, that Squidoo has very conveniently gathered together for easier pickings.

The thing that is hilarious, and repeats itself throughout all of them is their bogus claims of how successful their Squidoo lenses are, and their outright lies, which of course, are all weaved in to make the reader think that they can produce those stats and that money too.

2 particularly offer screen-shots of their lenses. One’s screenshot is bogus, the lens does NOT exist. The creator of the newest ebook talks of how poor he was in the UK before he figured out how to game Squidoo. Reality is the man is a banker.

Another one’s screenshot of his supposed lens on the 1st page of Google is also a lie. It is not on the first page, in fact, the lens has had only 1 visitor in the last week. If you look at the image he offers of the lens, the lensmaster name is bogus, but if you look at the other lenses he recommends, you’ll find the real lenses’ urls………..and also find that he has dominated the topic by signing up his family members and more additional accounts, and ‘created’ numerous lenses with the same topic.

To finish off my lovely bit of detective work, I decided to check out the service of having others make a Squidoo lens for you. I looked at the lenses these ‘guru’s’ were producing for people, at a very high cost. WHAT A JOKE! Every lens they’ve produced contain amazon links (produced by a buddy that has inserted a code to receive a commission of the sale), and stitched together very general ‘content’ that anyone can find on the internet. I must say tho, that one particular lens they created for a price did stand up to my qualifications, I had actually admitted it into one of my groups; but I now hold no respect for the lensmaster, because they weren’t the one that created the lens……..the lensmaster bought it.

Flowergardeners Herbal Medicine and Herbal Remedies

My little Herbal Medicine group is #1 of 600 in Squidoo’s Health & Medicine Category. The group consists of only my lenses (26), covering natural herbal medicine alternatives for women’s health, men’s health, and children’s health. Plus I’ve created lenses to cover Pet Medicine, namely dogs, and their health problems, like heartworms, ringworm, allergies, skin problems, arthritis, fleas, etc.

My newest addition to the group is Mushrooms for Cancer, and I plan on finishing the lens today, although it’s already got the famous Stamets 7 mushroom extract featured; I plan on explaining what each medicinal mushroom that you see towards the bottom of the lens is used for.

I think it’s a very exciting topic…….as there has been scientific research that shows certain mushrooms can both stop cancer growth, and if you practice supplementing with Stamets mushrooms, you can prevent getting cancer!

Hey all! I received a shock a couple of days ago. I was looking at the stats of my Dog Medicines And Their Side Effects Squidoo lens, and noticed Seth Godin-Typepad listed with 4 visits. Needless to say, I followed the link!

What I found was a free ebook created by Megan Casey and Seth Godin titled Calamari, containing the Official Squidoo How-To, walking lensmasters towards success with Squidoo.

I thought to myself ‘what the hell?’ and ‘how am I getting visits from this?’

As I scrolled to page 8 I found IT, low and behold, rub my eyes and look again, my lens link, on top of 2 others, with just the short description of each link being masterpieces in their own ways.

Now it may not seem as much of an accomplishment to you………but to me? Little ole’ me living in a backwards dinky town in the Midwest?

It was just what my heart needed. It was just what my confidence needed too, coming from a man that multitudes hold in high esteem and want to emulate.

You can carve out a piece of the internet with Squidoo! You can achieve whatever your goals are by using Squidoo’s platform. It won’t happen over-night, but if it’s worth working for, it’s worth waiting for.

That one lens gets about 1,500 visitors every week, and it’s not even my highest traffic lens! Dog Medicines And Their Side Effects was created to help all dog owners. It’s not loaded to the brim with products. It’s a gift of my time and research, and in return, I have a wonderful landing page for my other dog health lenses.

Oh yea! I’m now a member of Triiibes, created by Seth. I’ve joined a couple of groups there, and hopefully the one on ‘blogs’ will be able to help me learn how to make little debbies world an awesome, interesting, informative spot that you’ll want to keep tabs on!

Haven’t been over here in awhile, as there has been so many things going on in my life. Very happy to report tho, that this blog now has a PR rank! It’s a ‘2′, but at least it’s a start!

This has been a trying time for me, and I’m still mulling over my next directions, feelings, goals, and home life. I do know that I want this blog to take on a life form of it’s own……..possibly with a huge amount of pages for the products and lifestyle I believe in.

My own .com…….littledebbiesworld.com………..no one can tell me what I can or cannot post or create. No one can block my attempts of creation, just because it holds ‘no-no’ words, like Vioxx, drug, drug company.

I have a beautiful page at Squidoo. It’s locked. I’m a Giant Squid. I believe one of the perks is that I won’t have locked pages. What The……???

I have a ‘Knol’ now. Huh? It’s Google’s newest beta platform, where you can create a knol on just about any topic you have knowledge of, kinda like the web 2.0 social hot spots like Squidoo. I just may create a whole bunch more.

My knol is titled This Holiday Season……..and within it’s first 4 days of life, received a click and a commission on the purchase of a fruit basket! COOL!

Just put an rss feed of Squidoo bloggers onto my ‘blogging buddies’ page. If you want to be on it, get on over to Jeffry’s page and sign up. Very cool! Put the java script on your blog too!