Free Giveaway Picture Collage Maker Pro

With this photo software, you can make your own photo cards and collages.. So easy that even non-computer savvy person (like my husband) can start making unique and special photo gifts right away.

Generate ordinary pictures into a spectacular gift or keepsake. With the holiday season coming up, send out some photo cards that give out Season Greetings on all ready made templates. Just add the pictures and you are done, ready to print them out.     
     
Picture Collage Maker Pro Christmas Gift photo software, you can make your own photo cards and collages.. So easy that even non-computer savvy person (like my husband) can start making unique and special photo gifts right away.

Generate ordinary pictures into a spectacular gift or keepsake. With the holiday season coming up, send out some photo cards that give out Season Greetings on all ready made templates. Just add the pictures and you are done, ready to print them out.

What else can you make with Picture Collage Maker Pro?

Photos are used in scrapbook pages, calendars, greeting cards, and posters. Use your imagination and create something special and unique with a pre-made or plain template to start from scratch.

For the easiest and fastest way to create beautiful photo art, Picture Collage Maker Pro has 130 deluxe photo collage templates that are easy to download from their website.

These templates include template packs for Baby, Wedding, Birthday, Anniversary, Calendars, Pets, Sports, Travel, Graduations, Congratulations, Friendship and many of the holidays.

Read on how you can get Free Picture Collage Maker Pro here!

Beauty of Autumn

It is Autumn, so why is there snow outside!!! Seriously, 2" of snow fell yesterday. That isn't too bad when up north 6 to 9 inches fell. But it is too early for snow. I want to enjoy Fall a little longer.

To put me back into the Autumn season, I would like to share a few of my Autumn articles and gifts.

Beautiful autumn posters show the transition between Summer and Winter. The leaves begin to change color from green to colors of gold, brown, orange and red. It is a beautiful time of the year. Taking a brisk walk along an autumn trail is invigorating.

We love to drive up north (north eastern) where the leaves first change color. It is also there where there are an abundance of trees lining the water of Lake Michigan. The colors that reflect off the lake are nothing short of spectacular. Read more and see the beauty of nature on Autumn Posters and Prints.

Autumn colors in psychedelic, funky, soul, art deco, pop art, vintage, retro, music of the 60s and 70s, are the theme for these posters. Go back in time where being a hippie meant free love, sex, drugs and living off the land.

Psychedelic colors were the art form and has revived itself in present time. History repeats itself with fashion and artwork. We love vintage and retro. It takes us to a more carefree and happy place in our mind. Read more and get your grove on at
Autumn Psychedelic and Funky Posters

Autumn recipes that are delightfully delicious and the right time of the year to include the Autumn Rise Cheesecake and Old Fashion Brownies. Add an Autumn Caramel Glaze to the brownies and enjoy the chocolate and caramel goodness that will keep a smile on your face. These recipes make great gifts to send from house to house in my recipe card collection on Zazzle. Read more and check out the cool recipe cards on
Autumn Recipes and Cards

Personalize Recipe Boxes to hold your recipes. These gift boxes come in two sizes. The 6x6 inch box holds 3x5 cards or the postcards from Zazzle. Create your own recipe cards. Many recipes on postcards already made in the Zazzle Marketplace and some on Sandyspider Gifts too. Buy several of these for desserts, main dishes, appetizers and more. Change the "RECIPE" word on the box to your own. Add your favorite recipes in these decorative recipe boxes. The 6x6 recipe box will fit your recipe postcards. Read and see more of these unique gifts for your kitchen on
Personalized Autumn Recipe Boxes.

Thanksgiving clothing on Zazzle has never been more fun. So many different styles and sizes available of t-shirts, sweatshirts and hoodies to choose from, with just a few clicks you can change the design you like to any of the 65 different styles of women, men, kids, toddlers and baby shirts, not to mention colors to choose from. All without having to leave the product page which you had selected. How many sites can you say have that option? See and read more of
Custom Thanksgiving Clothing on Zazzle.

Delighted when one two Facebook friends and a few Hubbers shared their pet photos with me to add to my Halloween Kingdom of Animals Shop on Zazzle. If you too have some pet photos that you would like to share with me in this way, I will add backlinks to your site within the descriptions and articles. The articles that have been made of these pets with a voting poll added for your favorite is

Vote for Favorite Pet Photos on Halloween Hats

Pet Photos on Halloween Stickers

Pet Photos on Halloween Magnets http://bit.ly/oyaRU1

The Key to Earning Money on Squidoo

I started earning money as opposed to getting some pocket change as my Nana would call it when I realized what niche actually meant. I used to think okay I’ll write about the eighties that will be my niche…….. a niche is a much narrower idea than that which I refer to as a theme.

My first real niche lens was about one product only – Bonnie (our super Rocket Mom – it was for a Rocket Mom’s assignment) called it a super, super niche lens.

What happened? It started making sales! I had such a super niche as not only was I focused on one product I was marketing it at a particular color of that product so that when people searched for it they were ready to buy.

Writing niche lenses is where the keyword research side of the debate sometimes comes unstuck. This particular lens was written with no keyword research as I hadn’t really understood how to do that side of things at that time and yet it worked. If I had done my keyword research instead of following my instincts and writing about something I wanted that was very specific then I probably wouldn’t have done the lens at all.

Why? There were less than 100 searches made per month for my main long tail keyword, I would get about 10 visits per week, but the majority of them were buying off of the lens whereas another lens of mine was pulling in 1000s of visitors per month, but not buying a thing!

Am I saying not to do keyword research?

Absolutely not! However, sometimes you need to ask yourself whether you need to get a lot of traffic with every keyword or whether you can convert over 50% of the traffic you will get.

My niche a/c has 33 lenses in it at the moment and this week it’s gotten 469 visits in total which averages out to 14 visits per lens – not a lot. However, my amazon a/c has made 5 sales of the product this week and I’ve got 2 sales on my dashboard for the week along with 3 ebay sales that aren’t showing up in the $$ column yet. It’s not enough to live on (yet!), but I have only had this niche a/c for 8 months and with life getting in the way I haven’t been as active with it as I had planned.

This niche has so much competition for the high traffic keywords that I’m deliberately trying to target lower traffic and more niche keywords for the lenses and then using Featured Lenses to try and draw traffic to a couple of high competition lenses. It’s slowly working and if I spent more time I’m sure it would work really well.

A great example of using your keyword research wisely is to make sure you’re targeting the word/phrase that people are actually typing in to Google and not what you would call it, this is especially important when doing a lens on a single product. For example when I was researching a Lego set that I wanted to write about the actual set name only showed double digits traffic for the month when the Lego product number showed a few hundred – at other times this is the reverse.

My advice today is to make sure you write super niche lenses and link them to a niche lens ie if you want to write about Bruce Springsteen’s music make that your niche lens that ties your super niche lenses together……..make super niche lenses on each individual album. By the way this is just an example I haven’t found music lenses to be the most profitable although they are fun to write.

Research your keywords to make sure that you’re using the best possible ones for your lens, but make your own decision over how much traffic you need to target. If it’s the type of keywords that you would type in when you were merely looking for information then you’re best to aim for a lot of traffic, but if you feel they are ‘buying’ keywords then you actually do not necessarily need a lot of traffic.

Sermon over! If you’d like to find out more about earning money on Squidoo then I’ve written some lenses to help you out so pop over to How to Earn Money on Squidoo.

Today's blog guest is lou16 on Squidoo. Thank you for your contribution.

Footage of the news events played out. The third airline that crash into the Pentagon and the heroes of United Airlines Flight 93, the passengers who prevented the aircraft from reaching the hijackers' intended target. Where Were You That September Day http://bit.ly/oGsNGl

On that horrific day, 2,977 people killed through the terrorist suicide attacks on United States soil. President George W. Bush signed the resolution into law on December 18, 2001 and proclaimed September 11, 2002 as Patriot Day.



Show your pride with 9 11 stickers in this article Remembrance of 9-11 and American Bald Eagle Stickers http://bit.ly/nPyvmo

Poke in the Dark

Poke in the Dark: "July 26, 2011 at12:30 a.m., he gave out the grin that I have seen so many times before. Yes, I knew what that grin meant. He said, 'I am going to bed. Coming up?'

Sitting in the living room, I looked over at our college age daughter.Brittany, seemingly oblivious of her surroundings, her fingers were working overtime at frantic speed, texting on her phone. Then I look at the laptop in front of me, with thousands of email to go through. Oh how I have fallen behind online. Becoming harder and harder to keep up. 'No, I need to get through some of my email. Then I will come to bed.'"

Read more here Poke in the Dark.

June I began posting my Zazzle sales for that month along with blessings all tied in one article Zazzle June 2011 Sales and Blessings. It may not look like a lot, but it was a profitable month. My largest sale was 33 t-shirts. For the month of July, I have followed the same posting. So far in the middle of July it doesn't come close to June sales. Tell me what you think on July's article. Zazzle July 2011 Sales and Blessings. http://bit.ly/qmrCNJ

On July 4th was my 3 year anniversary on Squidoo. Since then a lot has changed with Squdoo and my writing. I would like to think it has all gotten better. The day has passed but you can still help me celebrate. Three Years on Squidoo. http://bit.ly/puYh6A

Back in 2008, my dog Buddy ran for President along with his cousin Ringo as Vice President. Again he is running. Now you may think this is crazy, but this country has gone down hill with politicians. I believe any pet can make a better governor, congressperson, president and any other office held. Prove me right or wrong in the debate duel. Enjoy some from gifts too. Election Pets Zazzle and Debate http://bit.ly/qpIlRG

Can't believe we still haven't gone camping this year. It is always fun taking the dog along. One night after setting up the tent, we will sit around the camp fire and roast hot dogs and later marshmallows. The following night, we will go to the outdoor theater. Of course shopping is fun at the homemade fudge shops. Before we go, I will check my article about My Top Ten Camping Essentials. http://bit.ly/raHBzG

Help me should I decide to dip into my profits and buy t-shirts for my family. Help me decide which ones you like best. Pick up to three t-shirts. $6 off t-shirts today (July 13, 2011) on Zazzle. USE PROMO CODE: ZBDAYTSHIRTS when ordering. Course the awesome thing about Zazzle is if you miss the $6 off t-shirts today to help celebrate Zazzle's 6 birthday, there will always be special codes for products. But why wait! This is a great deal! Beside, with every purchase, Zazzle will give you $5 towards your next one. http://bit.ly/oBRk9D

Two Years on HubPages

Two Years on HubPages: "Two years ago, I joined HubPages from a person I knew on Squidoo and he is more popular here on HubPages. You know him as bgamall.

Being on HubPages has been a rollercoaster for me. Chugging along the rail to reach the top, getting closer and closer to the first peak (can you feel the excitement)"...

Please leave your comment and answer the poll on the article above.

Will My Traffic Be Lost to the Ever Evolving Squidoo

My 3-year anniversary is coming up on Squidoo, I joined on July 4, 2008. This is an easy date to remember, since Americans celebrate Independence Day on that particular day in July.

Squidoo has evolved more than any social network that I know.

When I first joined, Squidoo had groups. It took me about a year to discover this. I joined every group that I could, hopping to bring more traffic to my lenses (articles). I even listed these groups on my lenses for backlinking. Those groups have dissolved since then.

Moving modules on Squidoo was a little difficult to do. A vast improvement has been made since that time.

Many other changes that I liked and didn't like. One of the latest, which we have now been given a little more time to fix is the page breaks. I believe firmly in the KILL system. Keep It Long and Lengthy. I found these page breaks very helpful to some of my lenses.

I have fixed a number of my lenses on the page break thing. This one took me more than week to finish and I wanted to publish my new lenses all at the same time.

Why?

Because they all tied into one another with my Internet Addiction lens, which I broke down to 5 additional lenses. Theses are the lenses plus the new and improved Internet Addiction lens. Please, please visit and add to the plexos.

Are You an Internet Addict?
Blogging and RSS Addiction
Addiction of Facebook and Other Social Networking
Websites and Internet Addiction
Shopping Online Addiction
YouTube Addiction

Now I am wondering if all this work is worth it. Hardly anyone so far has been to these new lenses. The Squidteam has made it harder yet to get traffic. Custom bios, fan club and Squidcast were taken away a few days ago.

What is a Squidooer to do?




Note: At the moment this lens still has page breaks on it. I still don't know what to do with it. Sandyspider on Squidoo.

Squidoo Will Get Rid of the Page Break Module

Getting an email yesterday for Giant Squids, it broke my heart and turned it blue. Why is it that every time I like something it is taken away?

More than a year ago, Squidoo introduced the Page Break module for the Giant Squids to try out. Since I am one of those lensmasters who tend to write very long lenses, this was ideal. I started with my ever-growing lensography and broke it down into pages. Since then I have done a number of lenses with page breaks. My latest one with my Squid Angel of Zazzle lens, with the idea for this one to have the main information of being a Squid Angel and what I would be looking for. Then the following pages would be those who I blessed for certain months.

Now Squidoo is doing away with the Page Break module. In the information given, we have a week to change our lenses or create new lenses. That really doesn't give much time.

The Squid team stated that nothing would be lost on these lenses. The page breaks would be turned into text modules. Of course, where I have throughout links to the other pages won't make any sense and will have to be taken out.

Last night I decided to start making new lenses, starting with the one I thought would be the easiest. My Squid Angel of Zazzle has two additional page breaks for the months of Feb./March and April/May. I created a new lens for Feb. and March blessings. If it was going as easy as transferring the information from one lens to another, that would be great. However, it is not, modules need to be recreated, though the information can be copied into those modules. After two wasted hours with my new lens and foreseeing many more hours of work involved, I deleted the new lens.

I think I will just let them be for now and fix them or break them off into other lenses if need be down the road. It is not like these lenses are getting heavy traffic as is anyway.

These are some of the lenses. With over 260 lenses, if is hard to find all of them. Read them before they are changed. Give me suggestions on how to break these up into smaller lenses too.

nternet addiction disorder (IAD) is excessive computer use that interferes with daily life. It becomes a compulsive behavior that completely dominates the addict's life. Internet addicts make the Internet a priority more important than family, relationships, health and work. Just like gambling, excessive gaming, a growing sexual addiction or compulsive shopping. Read more, take the test and add to the plexos at: Are You an Internet Addict?

The print on demand shop, Zazzle has been an addiction for me since 2009. Living in the snow belt of Wisconsin where the weather can be harsh, can warp the mind! That is why my designs look a little twisted. I started my Zazzle site when we were having a record-breaking snowfall for the winter of 2008-2009. I envisioned this snowflake with a wicked face. It is how I felt about the weather. Read more on the product lines in this article of Sandyspider Gifts Zazzle Showcase

Have you seen a spider crawling around? Perhaps a creature that is a little unusual, offbeat or twisted. How about one with a gray body and a human face? If so, then you have seen a sandyspider; a strange but virtuous spider. She will not tangle you up in her web of deception. Nor spin you around and around with strands of her fine threaded silk. Even if it is only to help feed her little ones. No! There is no reason to be afraid. This spider won't even bite...MUCH! See most on my lenses featured here on the worlds longest article. Sandyspider on Squidoo

Blessed by many angels since being part of this wonderful Squidoo community back in July 4, 2008 and I have often thought what it would be like to be a Squid Angel. The confirmation came on Feb, 12, 2011. Now I am ideally an Angel for: the neighborhood of Internet > Ecommerce Tips > Zazzle Sellers and Tips.

If you have Zazzle lenses that really didn't have a place to fit, now you do. See the lenses for the months of Feb., March, April and May that have been blessed. Also read what it takes for me to find your Zazzle lens. Squid Angel of Zazzle

If you have stumbled on here and don't know what Squidoo is, it is a Social Network where you can write about almost anything and get paid royalty. It is free to join and extremely addictive. Don't take my word for it!
Join Squidoo here!


Squidoo books to help you get started:

Seek and You Shall Find Seekyt

Seekyt is a backlinking, revenue sharing, social network site. It is (I believe) less than a year old and is already doing well in Google search engines.

The article editor is rather plain and you will not find all the widgets that other social networks have. But it is a growing site with friendly members and admin. As long as you can wite a quality article with at least 400 original words and no spam, this is the place for you.

I find that it is easiest to write out my article with photos on word first then add it to the editor. I explain how to do this in one of my articles. Once you get the hang of it, you can produce some attractive looking articles.

Seekyt offers Adsense (70%) and Amazon sharing revenue. I still have not been able to get many followers yet, but I am sure that will come in time. Moreover, you are not writing for the members of the site that you are on. You are writing for a much larger audience on the internet.

Unfortunately, you have to be a member to leave a comment. After corresponding with admin, he did have it opened for everyone at one time. But a lot of spam came in. This is something that he is working on.

Here is a list of articles that I have on Seekyt. You can join off any of these article links too.
Sunshine Cheesecake
History of the Easter Bunny and Gifts
Design Your Own Keds Shoes on Zazzle
How I Add Screenshots and Photo Images on Seekyt
Picture Collage Maker Pro Review

Mother's Day is a celebration to let mom know how much she is appreciated. Special cards, a bouquet of flowers or giving a box of candy are only a few ways to tell her how much you care. Have you bought your mother a nice card yet? Mother’s Day Celebration Cards http://bit.ly/jBO25u

Toy Story Birthday Party

Toy Story is a big hit with girls and boys of all ages, including adults. As an adult, I have watched all the Toy Story animated movies. I am a big fan of Woody and Buzz Lightyear.

What make Toy Story a big hit with adults are the nostalgic toys within the movies. Toys like the ones we played with as children and our parents toys.

Woody is a simply cowboy doll that talks when pulling the string on his back. He is very devoted to the boy, Andy. Buzz Lightyear is a more modern toy, who first thought he was a real astronaut. That's right, these toys come to life when no human is present.

What child would not want a Toy Story theme birthday party?

Read more at http://www.squidoo.com/toy-story-birthday-party

Green is a nice tranquil color, but reference to green does not always mean the color green. When we think of green, we see money, emeralds, living green, hippies, using recyclable bags, St Patrick's Day, green beer, green animals and feeling at peace.



Green is makes great gifts on Amazon and Zazzle too.



Read more on Green Gifts and Articles http://bit.ly/hfRvOK

As a Squid angel, I knew on April Fools day I would be flying around blessing lenses. I had twenty lenses from my neighborhood of Internet > Ecommerce Tips > Zazzle Sellers and Tips all lined up.



The April's prank was on me. As an angel, we were to bless twenty-five lenses outside of our neighborhood. Since I am an animal lover, it was not hard to figure out where to go. These might not all be in the same sub-topics but the main topic is "Pets & Animals". Below are the twenty-five lenses blessed on this prankster's day from this Zazzle Angel.



Read more on Animal April Fools Angel Blessing http://bit.ly/heSuaR

Being a perfectionist means striving to be the best. To do everything in a meticulous manner, analyzing each project thoroughly right down to microscopic details before even starting the project, is a sickness of the perfectionist. .



A perfectionist will set high standards for themselves. She or he will experience great pain or guilt for not achieving those standards. Many times the goal is unachievable, because there is no such thing as perfect. At least in the perfectionist's viewpoint!



Read more on Life as a Perfectionist http://bit.ly/euyfoX

Animal April Fools Angel Blessing

As a Squid angel, I knew on April Fools day I would be flying around blessing lenses. I had twenty lenses from my neighborhood of Internet > Ecommerce Tips > Zazzle Sellers and Tips all lined up.

The April's prank was on me. As an angel, we were to bless twenty-five lenses outside of our neighborhood. Since I am an animal lover, it was not hard to figure out where to go. These might not all be in the same sub-topics but the main topic is "Pets & Animals".

Join me here to see all the blessed animals lenses.
Animal April Fools Angel Blessing

Recover Soon Doc

Nancy, I have known you on Squidoo for more than two years now. I know DOC from your tribute that you have written about him. He seems like such a special man and husband. My thoughts and prayers are with both of you. My thoughts and prayers and wishing DOC to get recover soon.

Types of Back Offices

Types of Back Offices

There are three types of back offices. The first two are positive. The third one...well let us just say that you will be looking forward for the weekend off.

First, there is the online back office. This is a good thing and a plus for anyone trying to market him or herself.

The second would be a home office. This could be for a hobby or for the self-employed. The great part of working for yourself is that you are your own boss. You choice your own hours, take breaks when you need to, and no boss from hell. Unless you are the boss from hell and really, really, treat yourself like the devil. This does happen when we expect success to happen overnight.

Find out what the third one is and read about the humorous look between working at home and outside of the home. Click on the link above.

Home office furniture:

Squidoo Clean up Month and New Lenses

March is clean up week on Squidoo. The Squid Team is encouraging everyone to go through their older, lower ranked lenses and clean them up to what they have learned on how to write better lenses.

Plus, just like another social network that I know of, the Squid Team will be on the look out a little more so for spam take and substandard lenses. I believe my lenses are safe. But I have to admit that out of my 250 plus lenses, more than half of these can be fixed up or broken up into smaller lenses. I tend to overdo and overkill, not knowing when to stop. This even applies to my latest lenses. Well, some dogs are hard to train!

I have cleaned up several lenses, but these below had major overhauls and probably took more time to clean up then it was to write the first time around. In addition, the last two are new lenses, which I also cleaned up. You will see some long lenses here. I am not good at using the KISS System.

All comments, bookmarking, sharing and giving thumbs up are welcome on these lenses. One of my goals this year is to get a LOTD. Only you can make this happen. (Note: If you are not a Squidoo member, you can still comment and give a thumbs up.)

Gifts for All Occasions
The print on demand shop, Zazzle has been an addiction for me since 2009. Living in the snow belt of Wisconsin where the weather can be harsh, can warp the mind! That is why my designs look a little twisted. I started my Zazzle site when we were having a record-breaking snowfall for the winter of 2008-2009. I envisioned this snowflake with a wicked face. It is how I felt about the weather. Read more and find some great custom gifts on Sandyspider Gifts Zazzle Showcase

What is Internet Addiction Disorder?
Internet addiction disorder (IAD) is excessive computer use that interferes with daily life. It becomes a compulsive behavior that completely dominates the addict's life. Internet addicts make the Internet a priority more important than family, relationships, health and work. Just like gambling, excessive gaming, a growing sexual addiction or compulsive shopping. Read more, take the addiction test and add your links to this page on
Are You an Internet Addict?

Chocolate Gift Ideas
This is a collection of my Chocoholics Unite! product line on Zazzle and Sandy Mertens on Amazon. Additonal chocolate on Zazzle is found in Chocolate with Sandyspider. Anyone who appreciates the taste of this luxurious treat, will enjoy seeing these creamy, rich, mouth watering products. But be careful! The major side effect of viewing this Zazzle shop is weight gain. Share some love and give the gift of chocolate found in this article Chocoholics Unite Gallery of Gifts

These are the two newer lenses but have already been cleaned up since first published.

Bi-Winning, Rock Star and Tiger Blood Apparel
The online print on demand world of Zazzle and CafePress has gone wild with Charlie Sheen inspired quotes. Amazon and other shopping sites have gotten in on the bandwagon. He was fired from "Two and a Half Men". It is sad to say goodbye to this show that first aired in 2002. Nevertheless, no one can take Sheen's place. See some wild Charlie Sheen t-shirts from his own quotes and some of mine on Inspired Charlie Sheen T-Shirts

For the Love of Green
Green is a nice tranquil color, but reference to green does not always mean the color green. When we think of green, we see money, emeralds, living green, hippies, using recyclable bags, St Patrick's Day, green beer, green animals and feeling at peace. See all the green products on
Green Gifts and Articles

If you are a Squidoo Member,these and any of my other lenses can be nominated by you for a Purple Star and LOTD. If you are not a member you are still welcome to add you comment in the guestbook and give it a like up. Squidoo is free, fun and a wonderful place to write. If interested you can
Join Here!

Smells Like HubPages

I published this article on Qondio on March 16, 2011. After fixing 24 of my hubs in order for them to not be deleted by the editors according to the new rules for articles. The warning was that there were to many Amazon products on these hubs. The new rule is one Amazon or eBay product per 50 words. As in the brag as much as you want with your Zazzle products on Squidoo, the Amazon and eBay products seemed unlimited on HubPages. Well this is not the case any more! These are all fixed (took all day), except one which is a recipe hub and will be a new recipe lens on Squidoo soon. You can leave a comment and rate this on Qondio Here!

Bellow is the article I published.

Smells Like HubPages

By Sandy Mertens

New rules on Hubpages have made me love Squidoo even more!
Having never really understood HubPages and their point system, I have asked for help with some of the masters there. I followed their advice with getting more involved with the forums, groups, contest, commenting voting up hubs, keywords, adding more content, staying active on HubPages and promoting as much as I can. My score remains in the low 80s.

For a very short time, my hubscore was in the low 90s. If your score is not 100 or near that, no one will find you from the main page.

I can't help but feel that HubPages is a good old boys club, if you are not in it, too bad for you.

I know people with a few hubs and a high score on their main page. These people are not as active on HubPages either.

Scoring does not mean you don't have well written content. I have seen many hubs from popular hubbers with near perfect scores that were short and substandard. Yet the score on their hub was high. Now I am not trying to take apart any particular hubber. There are many talented writers there. However, the scoring does not add up. I have been following one hubber who happens to be a doctor. She writes about all different medical problems in terms a layperson can understand. Her hubs are always well written and informative. At the time that I am writing this, her score is 1. That is right! A single digest number score. Maybe she hasn't participated as much as I have or added as many pretty pictures in her hub. But does she deserve a 1 in her main profile page?

New rules added to HubPages will make it harder to enjoy this social network site.

1. All duplicate content hubs will be eliminated from their site. Fair enough, I believe in originality and not duplicate content. Out of my 80 hubs, one is label duplicate. It is a recipe hub. The article links the editors sent me where not even close to my recipe. There were similarities, but all recipes will have this. I love this recipe and I am sure the people on Squidoo will too!

2. There is now a limit to how many Amazon and eBay products that one can have listed in your hubs. These also reflex on the word content verses products in your hub. Nothing wrong with that unless your article is about those products and Squidoo recently enforced a limit to Amazon and eBay products as well. But Squidoo is more flexible if your main purpose is to have a product lens. In fact, selling Amazon products is encouraged.

I have many gift hubs that now have this warning. If I don't fix it by March 25, 2011, these hubs of mine may not be in existence.

Not a new change but something you should know, HubPages only allowed two links to an outside site, unless you were able to RSS it. While Squidoo, it is nine. If you are a Zazzler it is hard to promote your shop on HubPages. On Squidoo the link limit does not apply to Zazzle products. You can promote and brag away.

It looks like a lot of overhauling on HubPages or moving my hubs to friendlier places.

Here are some Kindle and paperback books on Hubpages, Squidoo and social networking.

Inspired Charlie Sheen T-Shirts and RocketMom

These are my two latest articles on Squidoo. The first one is my latest on funny t-shirts from one funny actor who may be having a meltdown.

The online print on demand world of Zazzle and CafePress has gone wild with Charlie Sheen inspired quotes. Amazon and other shopping sites have gotten in on the bandwagon. He was fired Two and a Half Men. It is sad to say goodbye to this show that first aired in 2002. Nevertheless, no one can take Sheen's place. See the funny t-shirts inspired by Sheen on Inspired Charlie Sheen T-Shirts.

Second article is a compilation lens about the articles written for for Session 12 of RocketMoms. This is also a main lens that will used for future lensographies of my RocketMom lens.

The first time I saw a RocketMoms lens was from lensmaster OhMe. How did she get that? It looked so different and unique than all the other type of lens templates.

Through her, I discovered RocketMoms and joined with the Second Session. Since then I have participated in all sessions except a couple during the summer of 2010. Read more about this on RocketMom Sandyspider.

Governor Scott Walker Stripping Workers Rights

Governor Scott Walker Stripping Workers Rights: "The state of Wisconsin is broke. Governor Scott Walker claims his Budget Repair Bill is the only answer to getting Wisconsin back on its feet. However, what he really is doing is taking away workers rights in collective bargaining, busting up the unions, taking 50% of the pensions from hard working teachers, nurses and other public employees."

Read more about it here Governor Scott Walker Stripping Workers Rights

(This is not a Squidoo article, but it is something heavy on my mind since I live in the state of Wisconsin).

Travel Seattle, Super Bowl, Chocolate and Toys

My latest lenses on Seattle, The Super Bow Champions, Zazzle Gifts and My Little Pony, are featured below. To read more, go to the links to the articles.

Everyone can leave a comment on these Squidoo lenses. Squidoo is the best place to promote your business, shops and more. Free to join here!

Planning on a Seattle family vacation?
Seattle has electrifying energy. A big city filled with life. Easy to sightsee on foot and by monorail to see many of the main attractions that this city has to offer. Be prepared for walking up and down steep hills. Read more on things to do in Seattle here Seattle Attractions

The Green Bay Packers Won the Super Bowl
National Football Conference (NFC) champions Green Bay Packers defeated the American Football Conference (AFC) champions Pittsburgh Steelers at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas on February 6, 2011 for the Super Bowl championship. Read more on this great victory on Super Bowl Champions XLV

The Amour of Chocolate and Hearts
Being a chocoholic, I admit on eating too much of this delightful, sinfully, delicious candy. I am in heaven with chocolate truffles. Give me a box of chocolates in a heart shaped box and I will love you forever. Read more on this yummy lens on Chocolate and Hearts

My Little Pony is a Great Toy for the Imagination
My Little Pony was one of my daughter's favorite toys when she was little. She was a collector of every single one out there. Then there were the Little Pony accessories. She would often get together with her best friend from day care, both ready to play an adventure with their little ponies. See more of these colorful ponies on My Little Pony for Girls

New Squid Angel of Zazzle

On Feb. 12, 2011 I became a Squid Angel. My neighborhood being in Internet > Ecommerce Tips > Zazzle Sellers and Tips.

I am one busy person and taking on such a task confirms the fact that I am crazy after all. However, I decided to take on as many as I can each day. Not every single lens with Zazzle has to have me visit it all in one day. For anyone who knows me, this is a hard challenge for myself to not overdo. I tend to go full force online.

Flying around on Squidoo, I have seen many fantastic Zazzle lenses still in a different topic category than the above mention topics. This is new with the topic and subtopic that recently has been added. I am thinking that not too many people are aware of it yet or feel their lens is better suited elsewhere.

I have blessed many so far in the Zazzle Seller and Tips area for subtopics, however when I see a great Zazzle Tip lens or Zazzle lens elsewhere, this Angel will be there to bless the lens. I have even few outside of my neighborhood for a blessing here and there.

As I take it, this neighborhood that I am blessing is Zazzle lenses and Zazzle tip lenses. So for everyone who is reading this, please check to see if your lens is a good fit and make the changes in your lens setting. This way, I can find you.

You never know when a "Squid Angel of Zazzle" will be hovering over your masterpiece lens.

My Angel lens has been divided into page breaks. The second page shows the lenses that I have blessed for the months of Feb. and March. Right now, the lenses are shown as featured lenses, but I will probably have a combination of both (featured lenses and plexos) in order for the page not to get too long.

Zazzle and Squidoo go hand in hand. The best site to brag endlessly about your Zazzle. Join Squidoo for free and start bragging today.

Read more about this on Squid Angel of Zazzle

(Note: If you would like to be a guest writer for any of my blogs, send me a message.)

Rid the Clutter from My Life

Getting rid of the clutter in my life is one of my New Years resolution goals. I am a pack rat. It is hard to separate the junk from what I should keep. The same goes for my online work.

November 2007 I started my first blog called Embrace the Hill. Then I bought my first Domain with the same name. Not really sure where I was going with it. Did I like the name?

Who knows what my mind was thinking. The blog is now about getting older and the funny side of it. The name has been changed a bit along with the URL. You can find it by clicking on the spider lady found here where it states about me or above.

The Domain with the same name sat for nearly a year before I figured out what to do with it. 2008 was an election year. Many of us have become dissatisfied with the government. All in fun, I created an alternate party called the Canine National Party. So now, the website has gone to the dogs with Buddy and Ringo.

Neither blog nor website has gotten much traffic. I haven't worked on either of them for the longest time. Should I get rid of these and are they cluttering up my life?

This same holds true for all my blogs, websites, and social activity. This blog is a collage of clutter.

Needing to have a blog for all my writing and social activity, but do I need another blog? I could change the name on this one, but then I would change the URL and change it all over the internet. Life of a pack rat produces a whole load of clutter droppings.

Below are my latest ten articles on Squidoo, including two goal setting lenses. Click on the links to read about unique gifts, goals for 2010 and the Green Bay Packers.
Things Coaster Would Say
Things a Keychain Would Say
Setting Goals with Color
Acheiveing My Goals with Color Therapy
http://www.squidoo.com/vintage-valentine-ladies-cherub-desk-clocks
Unique Valentine Desk Clocks
Unique Valentine Tile Pen Holders
2010 NFC Champions Green Bay Packers Collectibles
Things a T-shirt Would Say
Things a Shoe Would Say

2010 NFC Champions Green Bay Packers Collectibles

2010 NFC Champions Green Bay Packers Collectibles

It came to no surprise when the Green Bay Packers blew away the Chicago Bears Sunday, Jan. 23, 2011. The Packers played their best the first quarter of the game. Then it became intense. Keeping in with the Green Bay Packer fashion, the offense weaken the fourth quarter allowing Chicago to run the ball. In the end, the Packers won with a 21-14 score.

Feb. 6, 2011 they will play the Pittsburgh Steelers in the Super Bowl for the Lombardi Trophy.

Read more from the link above and telling me in the guestbook, who you think will win.