Tuesday, September 9, 2008

Out with the Ebay

Today I put together a new lens, but since I can't join any groups, add lensrolls, or do anything fun with it until it's no longer a Work In Progress, I decided to tidy up some of my other lenses. My Professor Baby series gets the least traffic - only 2 or 3 visits a day. It's a hard topic to promote, since I'm not yet a member on any parenting forums, it's not a very searchable topic, and there aren't that many other lenses about it. At least not that I've found.

I'm always looking for other baby and parenting lenses to add to my 'rolls, but most of them are about selling baby products, and have very little readable content. I did come across a really great lens today, though, called Breastfeeding Guru. It's a very long lens, and most of the product modules are nicely squeezed in between helpful content. It has no spamminess at all!

As I was looking over my Professor Baby Prenatal Calendar lens, I decided it was time to get rid of the sloppy eBay modules once and for all. I've come to find that they are totally useless for providing examples of items related to the lens content. Do a search for digital cameras, and you'll end up with cords and other junk that is most definately not cameras.

I'm sticking with Amazon from now on for my non-beading lenses. I liked Amazon modules better anyway, because you can select the thumbnail view, which places a nice row of 5 products that are centered on the page and take up hardly any room. And they (almost) never expire - a definite bonus if you don't have time to scan every single lens you make, everyday.

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