Squidoos Anyone? Or How I Learned to Make My First Blog and Now Can't Stop

I had never even though I could make one. I'd seen other people with theirs but it was something too complicated for me. After all, I'm not even that computer literate. I have problems with HTML and couldn't even set up a decent paragraph. In fact, to this day I have trouble with making paragraphs in emails.


Well I joined a program in which it seemed the other members were jumping on this bandwagon and making these blogs called Squidoos. I had checked the main page out and had seen their work. I only became discouraged thinking I could never make a page like that. I finally though knew I had to at least give it a try. Everyone else on the team was promoting the program I was in which was a program called RIOY.


So I started. First was the set up page for the url, title, and category that it would be put in. That was actually rather simple.


Next was the main editing page. On this page in the upper right hand corner is a place for you to put your signature. This is basically an autobiography of what you will tell people about yourself. You can also put a picture of yourself or something else. I chose something else. After all, the idea of a Squidoo is to get people to look at it not drive them from it.


Also, below that is a place where you can add keywords. Usually the main keywords are in the title however there are many others you can add. This is actually an important step. If you hit on the right words or phrases you can get some nice Google page rankings which of course will add to the exposure your or in this case my Squidoo would get. Then there are the modules. That is what they call them anyway. I have no idea why but ok. These are really cool. There are writing modules, modules where you can put YouTube videos in, and modules where you can have polls if you wish. There are more then that but the thing is and this is really neat: You can move them around. You can except for the introductory module at the top move them up or down. Placing parts of the blog in the order you want is something I find really nice. That way when you add a new article or entry, you can move the older ones down under the new one. That is how I do it anyway.


Writing. Ever since my school days I have detested writing. Now however I did not have a choice. My team was writing. They were making Squidoos. They were getting leads for the program. If I didn't do something I would be left behind. I would feel as if I wasn't doing enough. I would be scorned. Well not really, they are actually very sweet people but nevertheless I had to do it and so I would.


There was one problem though was again that I was not and am still not that computer literate. I did not know HTML at all. I needed to find a site where this was explained. Well I did a good old Google and I found one. One that explained HTML, and also showed examples of it. So I wrote. I was making paragraphs. And goodness gracious I even learned how to put links in the thing!


What is really great is that you can see the product and edit it before it goes live. In fact you can edit it at anytime. I know it's too late but to make a long story short, I did it. I was able to get it made and because of the set up it actually came out rather well ok. I now have 5 Squidoos including an RIOY, Maxegen, and LHN Squidoos. I've even made a few that have nothing to do with money making.


When I started with these it took me a week to make the first. I could now make one a night if I wanted. I had seen in the beginning when I started that some were ranking very high in the Squidoo universe. I never though mine would get anywhere near the top. There are over 500,000 Squidoos out there and I would have been happy to have broken the top 50,000. Well, I just made my Maxegen Squidoo about 2 weeks ago. It is now in the top 100 in its category and the top 6,000 overall. My RIOY one is also in the top 150 of that category. That is dizzying. To not only see them out there but to see them rank like that is stunning.


My marketing career is in it's infancy. I've only been at it for 3 months but now the leads are coming in and the sign ups cannot be far behind. These Squidoos are addictive. But I would have not known about them if it weren't for one person.


She is an inspiration to me. She is a wonderful giving person who became (no, not my wife) my sponsor in the RIOY program. Her name is Laura Licata. She has pulled things out of me that I didn't think I had in me. I won't get gushy here but I will say that I will love her the rest of my life. After all, she led me to Squidoos!


So there is my first article. That's right. She has me writing articles now! And who knows, I may start to like this too.


Writing. I hate it and yet I'm looking at the word counter here and I'm over 900 words. Who knows. I may even start writing books. Well maybe not books. But article writing? Why not. After all, I learned how to make and love Squidoos.