Well things got busy in the real world for a little while and I got sidetracked from this blog. I did however manage to finish all of my St Patrick’s Day lenses (only one day later than planned!).
I’ve been husband-less for a week now (he’s due back in 4 more days) and I had high hopes for getting heaps of writing done – articles (no!), lenses (not as many as planned) and promoting (oops!) My daughter decided to get sick and then I got sick and then I was cranky because our new neighbour’s dogs were barking from 11.30pm until at least 1.45am and they ignored them! The whole next day was a wipe out for me as I couldn’t think straight and I couldn’t go back to bed after droppping my dd at school because I had appointments to keep – aagghhh!
Anyway this week I’ve been busy creating some music lenses. My first one was on Lady GaGa, I’d heard the songs, but hadn’t realized who was singing it until my daughter asked me to find her video on Youtube that’s when I realized that I actually loved all of her songs. The same cannot be said of her fashion sense however!
This lens has actually caused me some excitement as at it’s first lensranking it went straight into Tier 2, the next day with only 10 visits it went higher up, although still in Tier 2. I really thought I would need more traffic to sustain it, but when I looked at my lens I discovered something interesting – more people had clicked on the links than had visited my lens. Obviously this is another part of the elusive equation.
Today Google have sent a some visitors to the site and I have climbed to the top part of Tier 2……maybe, just maybe we can get into Tier 1 by tomorrow (Mar 1st) and stay there all month!
The other two music lenses are back to the 80s for me and I finished them both last night. No promotion yet so they are just faltering about outside of paying tiers, but I’ll soon change that. I know Bruce Springsteen fans will hate me saying this (because it’s not Nebraska or Born to Run or whatever), but I think his best ever album was Born in the U.S.A. I remember when this album came out and I thrashed it on vinyl, I would play it in the dining room (where I was supposed to be studying at the table!) and sing (or attempt to) really loudly along with him.
When I was getting the video links for Bruce’s lens I got Every Rose has it’s Thorn stuck in my head and after finding the video and listening it somehow ended up on another lens! Power Ballads! I actually loved power ballads, I’ve just been told that adding a Youtube playlist to a showcase can be really good so I should do that today.
Although I haven’t made as many lenses as I would’ve liked or even continued with merging some of my lyric lenses together I have done a few things on Squidoo. I have updated so many of my lenses and I’m ashamed to say that I actually found two that said New Table of Contents – What on earth was I thinking!!!
I’ll try not to leave it so long between posts next time (the 2009 resolution is slipping!!) and I hope you’re all hitting your individual targets.