Waiting on the Giant Squids...

Darn! I was hoping they'd let us know by today.

I've been kept busy though: The Ice Breaker Guide has been popular beyond my wildest expectations, and since I had to make a Guide for Pixel Pop immediately after (They released the two games back to back!), it's been doing relatively well too.

I'm hoping Ice Breaker clears Tier 1 this month so I can start earning a decent amount from my lenses again. My general yardstick for Squidoo is that if it clears more than I'm making in ads from my other site, it's been a good month.

Of course, ads on said other site have been paying out more than usual too, so...

Using RSS Feeds to Make New Lenses

I already use an RSS reader to follow my favorite blogs and sites -- from the usual "Make some Money" types like Problogger to comics like Octopus Pie. I also have... a few other RSS feeds in there.

In this case, Nitrome's company blog. It usually just announces new games and things, but that's all I needed.

Yesterday they came out with their new game, Ice Breaker, so I went right on ahead and made an Ice Breaker Game Guide for it the same day. Already it's not only received several hits, but the searches for the game are bleeding into my other Nitrome game guides -- a sure sign of a hit in the making!

The best part? If I continue to do this for each of Nitrome's new games, that's an extra 20 lenses in my portfolio -- and yes, I already have my 50 for my giant squid application, but since the 100 club can only improve my fortunes (or at least the extra pages would help me should I not make it this quarter...)

Well, that's just gravy.