This Blogging Bites Blog is formally a Squidoo Lens called HowSquidooYouDo, I've moved over to Blogger for Bloggers better features and better integration with other applications. Blogger is better!
Blogging Bites is about the little things that I have learned to do with blogging. When I didn't know how to do these things, it was so hard to know even what to look for or how to format or ask the questions via the search engines.
I used to ask questions like; 'How do you put email on blogs?' Now I realize how stupid that question must have sounded and how inaccurately it described what I was trying to ask. I was trying to ask; -
How do you capture email addresses from people that visit your blog?
(I'll be covering that subject later this summer 2011, I am still transferring Squid Lenses to Blogger at present).
Its called Email Capture! Doh. It may sound stupid now, but to a newbie, things like this are difficult. They say, the only stupid question, is the question you don't ask! But then, how can you ask a question, if you don't know what it is you need to ask, or how to format that question.
On another issue, I have discovered and use many other types of blogging platforms now. I used to post about Hub Pages and Blogger on Squidoo too.
So, not only by way of an update to the blog, but also because of the fact that Squidoo themselves, have tightened their rules about affiliate maketers using Squidoo to make money with their blog. I think they have gone over the top, since this was always a reason people started Squidoo Lenses!
The basic Idea was to make money from your blog by selling products from sites like eBay and Amazon and to be able to raise money for a charity of your choice too if that was your desire. Basically, all I get now from Squidoo, is a policy message whenever I try post or update an old post!
I'm lucky, in that I only have about a bakers-dozen of Lenses at Squidoo. A friend of mine has over 50 Lenses and I do know that many people have many hundreds of Lenses in some cases. I hope they have some sort of special deal or better treatment than I am getting. Since I have had no direct response to emails where I've asked what's going on? No answers, just default pages about terms and conditions.
Why is it that my 13 Lenses, were OK for several years, climbing the ranks of Squidoo, have suddenly become non-publishable? I don't get it! My friend who I mentioned, has literally the same similar blog as me, same topic, different stories of-course, all similar tags and categories. Yet their site was removed, or 'unpublished' as Squidoo say. Its a bit like a Google Slap isn't it.
Anyway, I expect to get my lenses 'unpublished' anytime soon, so I'm moving all my Lenses over to the more powerful and better by far;- Blogger!
Andy..
