Despite the fact that I'm extremely busy with my angeling duties, I managed to find time to build to new Squidoo lenses.The first one is a coffee cake easy recipe that has become a tradition in my family: there's no birthday party without this famous cake! Basically made out of Petits Beurres biscuits, coffee, coffee aromatised butter cream and sugar it's a 30 minute work involved cake that doesn't require any cooking time.My grandmother used to prepare the cake for my mother and aunt's birthdays, she made it for my cousin, my sister and my own birthdays, we even sometimes ate coffee cake also   read more

I made decision on not going for Squidoo Giant 100 Club , certainly not by March 31st and not for June and don't think I would go for Giant 100 by September or December either.Firstly, my Angel duties don't allow me to build Squidoo pages - have no time: not only do I browse the collection of Squidoo lenses each day, looking for blessworthy pages, but I also blog about them, then help my friends out with search engine optimization (I love to lend a hand to good web and lensmasters) and then, with my own article writing, posting, social bookmarking, etc. there's no time left to build pages.I also   read more

A task that is important when one is a Squidoo-er is lens polishing. One can build the best lens ever, there's always something to add to it, update, a new module to try, items to change, Amazon or any other selling modules to keep freshOne very important element to keep track of is keyword. Particularly the titles and subtitles of your lens. For instance, I created a Valentine's Day Lens Collection page that lists all my Valentines Day related lenses. When I built the page, Valentines wasn't that approaching and thus the keywords weren't clear. But since we're in January, keywords changed   read more

Along with my SquidAngel duties, yesterday I published a new Squidoo page! This one will complete my Valentine's Day collection but is also a page that can become an any day of the year gift page!So, whether you're looking for an original valentines gift for a man or gifts for the man who has everything, you'll surely find something worthwile on this page!Men's Hot Gifts This Year | Original Valentines Gift for a Man lists a wide range of special gifts for a men: from gift card to magazine subscription, or from outdoor activities gifts to beer related accessories, you're sure to find unusual presents   read more

Last year some lenses of mine entered the Giant Squid Challenge, in the category of Potential Giants. Indeed, I wasn't a Giant yet ;-)Last week, all votes were counted and I got awarded for two lenses:Entertainment : Best Marilyn Monroe Movie Ever: The Seven Year Itch. This lens relates to this fantastic comedy I love so much! I bought the DVD long ago and can't stop watching it whenever I want to watch a movie and that there's nothing interesting on TV. This is the kind of comedy I really enjoy watching because it's fresh, classy, well, it's the famous "savoir-faire" of Hollywood. In my opinion   read more

One thing that one has to do when creating a Squidoo page (a lens) is to always export it when finished and each time ones publish the page.Indeed, exporting allows you to get freshly updated "mirror copy" of the page your created on Squidoo.Set up a special file in your computer and save each Squidoo page into it. Replace it each time you update the page.Exporting your Squidoo pages is as important as making blog back up! So, don't forget his tip when you create a page on this site!Oh, by the way, i posted a new shot of blessed lenses earlier today and hope you'll have a look: My Journey as an   read more

Happy New Year!I've got one of the most wonderful gifts for this new year! Remember that I entered the Giant Squid challenge?I've got it! I'm now a Giant Squid. What a pleasure to discover this nice purple badge on my profile and all my Squidoo lenses!But besides this fantastic badge, I've got another one: the one of SquidAngel!SquidAnge ls are lensmasters who have special powers: they can bless or ding a Squidoo lens. Obviously, they only bless worthy lenses and only ding spammy or junk lenses.I've   read more

Actually, I wrote most of them over 2 months. This was as part of a Squidoo challenge to create 50 quality pages (they call them 'lenses', to keep with the squid theme). Here are my 50, plus a few extras: How To Do Your Family History Research For Free Motivate Online Learners With 4 Easy Strategies Animal Crossing Wild World Guide Taking A Great Self Portrait With Your Camera Use Convict Records to Trace Your Ancestor Online   read more

The Giant Squid Challenge came to an end on December 31st and we've all had the opportunity to take some rest and celebrate the New Year with family or friends.Now what? Well, we're eager to get THAT mail that will tell us that we're getting our new badge. The famous lovely badge any Giant Squid is proud to display on their Squidoo pages!Personally, I'm eager to get TWO emails so get stressed and excited at once. But what do we do in the meantime? Well, we keep building lenses - some of us even joined a challenge hosted by a successful lensmaster. By the way, lensmaster Bev from the UK just   read more

We entered the last week of the Giant Squid Challenge - after that, we're going to polish our lenses and wait after January 1st to learn who's going to showcase the wonderful Giant Squid badge.This week's challenge is to make a shopping lens. Obviously, I don't like shopping lenses as I don't see the interest of such lenses nor real "work" as they generally have almost no content written by the lensmaster and consist into a long list of Amazon or eBay or any other supplier products.To be honest, if I want to buy products, I go directly to Amazon and won't go to Squidooit seems to me like if   read more