Archive for June, 2008

I’m creative writing challenged. I can wing it occasionally, but it’s not a skill that I’ve practiced much. So it’s a challenge to come up with funny or engaging lens and module titles.
Then I read Shane Amber’s amazing Rubberwood lens. It was featured as a Lens Of The Day back in the [...]

The eBay Stats That Smile Back

Friday, June 20th, 2008

The new eBay royalty stats are awesome! Someone bought a $200 golf club after clicking through to eBay from one of my lenses. The best part? I don’t have any golf clubs listed…it’s not even a golf related lens. The most expensive item in that eBay module is less than [...]

The LOST Book Challenge

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008

While checking the stats on my LOST book list lens today I noticed it’s gotten a lot of referral action recently. Turns out there’s a blog running a LOST books challenge and they linked to my lens as a source for the challenge’s book list! Way cool!
The goal of the challenge is to [...]

It’s Fantasy Football Season!

Monday, June 16th, 2008

Get a jump on your competition! Most fantasy football sites are open for registration and the season is starting. Here are a couple lenses to help you prepare for this season.
Are you new to fantasy football? The Fantasy Football 101 lens has the info you need to master the game quickly. [...]

It’s interesting to read different lensmasters’ opinions on the star rating system. Some like it, some don’t, some want to change it and others are indifferent. And everyone has their own way of assigning ratings.
The best approach for me is to evaluate each lens as objectively as possible. Over time, I developed [...]

Help Your Plexo Descriptions To Stand Out

Wednesday, June 11th, 2008

You think up great descriptions for your Link or Amazon Plexo items, save, publish and what do you see? The first 50 characters followed by more….
D’oh!…all that hard work writing the perfect description and now you have to hope readers will take the time to click more… to read it. For every single [...]