Archive for the ‘Lens development’ Category

Keeping a Squidoo Diary

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

Several lensmasters are publishing their Squidoo dashboard stats on a monthly basis. Basically it's a breakdown of how many lenses they have, how many are in the top 100, how many are in the top 1,000, etc. Some of them even post their monthly earnings. It's really interesting to see ...

40 Tags for Your Squidoo Lens?

Wednesday, February 13th, 2008

One of the best things you can do to help get more traffic to your Squidoo lens is to add lots of good tags or keywords. These tags should be words and phrases that people would be searching for, such as "dog training" or "how to clean a mattress." And, ...

Free Photos from Stock.xchng

Wednesday, February 6th, 2008

One of the challenges of building a Squidoo lenses is finding pictures to use. Some people just grab whatever they find from a Google image search, but unless you're reviewing a product, that's usually not a good idea. You'll avoid trouble if you use royalty-free, public domain images for your ...

Keeping your Squidoo Lenses Clear and Focused

Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008

If you've spent much time glancing at this blog, you know it's all about Squidoo. So how would you react if you suddenly saw a post here about how to apply lipstick? Maybe you'd read on in the hopes that I'd tie it into Squidoo somehow. But if I didn't ...

Developed Squidoo Lenses Go WIP?

Friday, December 28th, 2007

A few days ago, something on my Squidoo dashboard caught my eye: A few of my lenses no longer had a green check mark next to them. That meant they were considered WIP by Squidoo, or "Works In Progress." Officially, lenses with less than 3 modules are considered "unimproved" or WIP.   ...