The People Who Make My Day

I've been online for more than 12 years, first with free websites and later with several of my own websites. I've sold online through eBay, eCrater, iOffer, and Overstock; and only had an eCrater store until I closed that too. Next, I tackled blogging in 2004 and still manage to do a bit of blogging although not always daily. On March 21, 2006, I joined Squidoo and began my quest toward the Giant Squid 100 Club.

Today, I have authored over 400 lenses and spend many an hour weekly administering to my lenses, groups, and comments -- while also taking time to visit other lensmasters' lenses to offer my advice, encouragement, or to just plain make a thoughtful comment.

Well, I've had my share of some pretty remarkable comments through the past 3 years. Today, I was particularly touched by the comment I received on my Stuffed Cabbage lens. My reader Erin Baxter wrote:

I remember quite clearly the smell of stuffed cabbage floating through the house when I was a child. My family called it Sodoma (I'm not sure of the spelling) and it was my Great Grandma Fox's recipe. She was of Croatian and Slovenian descent. I never liked it but my mother still loves it although she is disabled now and can no longer make it. I am the one preparing it for her now. I put all of the ingredients together in a crock pot but instead of cooking it at my house, I take it to hers and my father and her not only get to enjoy the taste, but they get the aroma as well. Here's my family's secret ingredient - when everything is in the pot and ready to cook, you pour a pan of bacon grease ( what is left in the pan after cooking a lb of bacon) over the top. How unhealthy is that?! But my family swears by it's deliciousness!!! This recipe and other recipes of old world food MUST be passed down from generation to generation! Food is the international language of love! God bless

Join me on Squidoo! Create a lens or two, participate in the community and meet some great people like I have!

The Worldwide Reach of Squidoo

Ah, The Worldwide Reach of Squidoo - Thanks to Google and the Internet! This is the power of the internet in attracting readers to Squidoo lenses! As you can see, Google has the biggest pull among search engines with well over 55% of traffic! Referral -- other Squidoo lenses and word of mouth -- ranks up there for readers. Yahoo is trying harder to be a strong pull, but doesn't come close yet to Google. Finishing out the pie are contenders for search engine traffic. They are MSN, Direct, AOL, Microsoft Live, Ask, AltaVista, Netscape and finally AlltheWeb.

If you build it, they will come! If you create something of value, make a positive contribution that is interesting and unique, they will come. That is the power of the internet.

The worldwide reach of Squidoo is a phenomenon -- Squidoo was launched in late 2005.

Today, hundreds of thousands of lensmasters have joined Squidoo and account for well over one million lenses and growing at a rate of 2,000 per day!

So, if you are passionate about your hobbies, work, interests or are an expert and want to shout out to the world, you should consider creating a Squidoo lens page.

Want it to get noticed and read worldwide? Well, the trick is topicability!

Yep, when you write about something that is topical, spot-on, relevant or important -- you can get noticed worldwide as this chart shows.

This chart gives you some idea of where the readers are!

As you would well expect, the United States accounts for some two-thirds of readers.

Six percent are from the United Kingdom, 5% from Canada, 3.3% from Netherlands, and 1.39% from France and the Philippines!

Peope around the world are finding Squidoo lenses topicable!

They are reading Squidoo lenses in Australia, Germany, India, Spain, Italy, New Zealand, Thailand, Malaysia, Denmark, Hong Kong, Turkey, Bulgaria, Poland, Greece, Singapore, Indonesia, Romania, Switzerland, Ireland, Taiwan, Hungary, Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, Lithuania, Slovakia, Sweden, South Africa, Chile, Japan, Mexico, Finland, Ukraine, Serbia, Russian Federation, Korea, United Arab Emirates, Portugal, Estonia, Saudi Arabia, Croatia, Egypt, Moldova, Belarus, China, Puerto Rico, Pakistan, Austria, Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Nigeria, Cyprus, Israel, Colombia, Costa Rica, Jordan, Barbados, Macedonia, Malta, Slovenia, Sudan, Venezuela, Latvia, Czech Republic, Bangladesh, Guam, Peru, Cote D'ivoire, Syrian Arab Republic, Panama, Georgia, Fiji, Saint Lucia, Asia, Morocco, El Salvador, Trinidad and Tobago, Norway, Uruguay, Iran, Guatemala, Europe, Mauritius, and Paraguay.

Isn't that just amazing? And, there are readers from other countries -- that's just a partial list.

Yes, the worldwide reach of Squidoo IS surprising!

A caveat -- While Squidoo is a great place to create a lens, interact with other lensmasters, share a bit of community spirit -- there is one thing you SHOULD know!

Well, maybe more than one thing -- that's fodder for more blog posts. But, one thing is important. SPAM is NOT tolerated.

Squidoo is a place for quality -- quality content, quality lenses, quality lensmasters!

So, are you ready to give it a try?

Do you have what it takes to create quality content that is on the topicability scale? That's what it takes to get your lenses noticed.

Come join me on Squidoo. Get started now building that lens. What are you waiting for? If you build it, they will come! If you build something that is topical, spot-on, of quality content, they will come back!