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N376 · 07/23/2007 10:51 pm

If you have a lens on 'how to squidoo' please post it in this thread.

It doesn't have to be an a - z on squidooing. In fact the narrower and more specific the better.

Write a one, two sentence or one paragraph description to give a brief overview.

If there are two or more lenses dealing with the same subject matter (eg: lensrolling) that's fine. So long as the information is original and well presented.

I don't have time to review each lens myself and write an overview so be sure to give a good and honest description.

BEGINNERS

Why Squidoo? is to introduce the uninformed and the uninitiated to how Squidoo works. If you need an introduction as to what Squidoo can do for you, this is a good start.

I'm a Lensmaster! What now? is like taking the squidmobile for a test drive. You get a taste of the features and benefits. Need to know more? There's a few links in there to take you to other lenses that expand on what's been lightly touched on or briefly mentioned.

How To Squidoo And change The World For the beginner (but others could learn) covers: why create a lens, what are favorites, lensrolling, star ranking, groups, how to get content, photos, great resources on Squidoo and off, how to get traffic, examples of great lenses.

First Lens: How to Make Your First Lens

WIP: Work in Progress

MODULES

Squidoo Modules: This lens demonstrates a selection of some of the most used and useful Squidoo Modules. You'll see them in their natural environment, with content or product included.

Squidoo Module List: A complete list of all modules, divided by category. Includes easy-to-print quick reference sheets summarizing what each module is for and what tab it's filed under, plus a list of "dead" modules.

YouTube Module: How to use YouTube on Squidoo; problems, tricks and ideas.

Write Module: The Write Module for Anything

News RSS: Add Your Own Feeds Compared.

HTML

Basic HTML: Changing font colors, adding hyperlinks, banner ads and a bunch of other stuff that you can't live without. It's all here.

HTML Tricks are small tricks to be used when trying to make your lens look better.

Advanced HTML for Squidoo: Lets get tricky! Some interesting effects and functions in this lens which is a continuation of the Basic HTML lens. Stop by and learn some new tricks and techniques and make every punch count.

HTML Tips for Color Color can be applied via HTML tags to fonts, borders and backgrounds. This lens lists colors in both the name and the hexadecimal value. Pick and choose and colors and color themes and copy and paste the code to your hearts content while using any of the How To HTML lenses here on Squidoo.

Bulleted and Ordered Lists You can easily insert bulleted or numbered lists in Text/Write List modules. Three simple tags gives you more control on how you display and present your information.

How to put a table of contents on your lens. A very simple, yet detailed explanation on how to create a table of contents on Squidoo lenses using the text/write module. Pretty basic stuff, but I don't find them to be very common amongst a lot of lenses. So, I figured I'd make a lens dedicated to creating one.

HTML Squidoo Tricks: How to lens with step-by-step instructions and sample codes to improve the appearance of your lens.

More CSS Tricks to Spice Up Your Lens: Here are just a few of my favorite ticks that I use to improve my lenses just a tiny bit, including the subtle and sympathetic use of Squidoo Orange and Squidoo Blue.

GROUPS

Pimp My Lens: Lens Improvement Central Group: The home for lenses & Info & tips on how to maintain or improve any lens on Squidoo! Why have an average lens when you can have a "Splendiferous" Lens? Content, Layout, Design, Resources and more. Great tips & tools to Soup-up, Pimp-out, Spiff-up and Trick-Out your lens from Experienced Lensmasters.

Headquarters Tips: Make Your Headquarters Interesting and Beautiful

Transfer a Group: Learn how to transfer a Squidoo Group over to a new lensmaster painlessly.

A Guide to Groups for Lensmasters: Guide on why joining groups is a good idea, and which one are the best to join.

IMAGES

Image Link - How to create linked images anywhere on your lens. (Intermediate)

Chiclet - How to build small buttons for your Blog - How to add 'chiclets' and 'add me' buttons to your lens and profile.

Aligning Graphics on Web Pages (such as lenses)! 1. Squidoo's built-in graphics features. 2. Where to find and upload graphics on free image hosting services. 3. How to align images left, right, or center. 4. How to add captions.

MAKING MONEY

Making Your First Lens Step by Step guide to making your first (money making) lens.

Getting the Best Results in the Squidoo Ebay Module Includes OR searches, getting mutually exclusive results in multiple ebay modules, and using wildcards.

How To Make A Living On Squidoo looks at various ways and means to make a living on Squidoo.

How To Create A Beautiful Squidoo Lens For Your Zazzle Gallery

How to use Squidoo to Promote eBay Stores This is for newbies to Squidoo that would like to make a lens to promote their eBay items, and has a quick summary of what you can do on Squidoo.

How To Add Amazon Product Links A replacement for the iframe version of the "Amazon Product Links".

How to Value a Squidoo Lens - Different ways to calculate an approximate value of your lens based on different factors. (probably closer to Expert - some light math involved)

How to Add PayPal Buttons to Your Lens: If you're looking for how to add a PayPal button to your Squidoo lens, here's how. Please be aware of the risks involved, as you will have to disable the Encryption feature.

http://www.squidoo.com/affiliate-marketer

Amazon RSS Feeds: For the expert Lensmaster and Amazon Associate - dynamically updating feed of products from any category, listmania list or matchin ASIN.

PROMOTION

Social Bookmarking Sites Social bookmarking sites are a popular way to store, classify, share and search links. Links such as your Squidoo lenses.

Using Gather to promote your Squidoo Lenses An excellent way to reach a large untapped audience and also increase ones own backlinks and exposure to search engines.

OTHER

Squidoo Tagging Tricks: how to get more visitors and a better search engine ranking using only tags

Your Squidoo Lens and The Long Tail: How you can use the Long Tail concept and apply it to your lenses

Cool Pics: Making Your Lens Pictures Look AMAZING

How To UnMax a Lens: So you don't like the look of the most popular lens layout on Squidoo? Then there is another choice.

Blessed By A Squid Angel

Best Lensographies Ever? Things to think about if you want to make one of the best lensographies ever.

So You Want To Make A Lensography!

How To Do Squidoo is about how to Squidoo & is a home for all of 1SquidAddict lenses on Squidoo and other people's helpful lenses on: How to make your first lens, How to get started on squidoo, How to profit from squidoo, How to promote your lenses & Everything you need to know about Squidoo

Greekgeek's Squidoo Tips: Ten steps that one lensmaster used to build a lens that quickly made Lens of the Day and the Top 100, plus ten steps to attract more traffic. Includes polls for lensmasters to report their typical traffic and lensrank.

Squidoo Guide: Linking Tips: Some of the special links you can create on your lens, e.g. Lensroll, Favorites, Contact Me, etc.

Lensmaster Tools: Tool for advanced lensmasters to get an RSS feed of their lenses, and other tools.

How To Lensroll: How to lensroll.

SquidWho Guide: SquidWho?, SquidHuh? Intro Guide to SquidWho

Squidoo Tips From A Giant Squid

How To Find Lenses and Groups: Here are two custom searches (by Google) that are optimised to only return the searches that you want to see; just lenses or just groups.

DIRECTORIES AND SOCIAL BOOKMARKING

www.lensroll.com: A Digg like site where the community vote up, or down, submissions. The best rises to the top and is Published on the front page. The rest still have some Search Engine advantage. How to use Lensroll.com

www.isleofsquid.com: an article directory. About and FAQ page

www.squoogle.com: an article directory. How to Squoogle.

* don't go submitting half complete lenses to these services. Make sure they're top notch. Otherwise the submissions can be rejected or voted down.

BLOGS AND TIPS

www.squidoocool.com

www.lensroll.com/blog

www.captainsquid.com

TOOLS AND DISCUSSION

squidutils.com: the place to find complementry utilities and tools for your Lenses on Squidoo.

www.lensroll.com/forum: Advanced Strategy and Tactics

Last edited by N376 (06/19/2008 10:52 pm)

Magicality · 07/24/2007 12:45 am

http://www.squidoo.com/HTMLtricks/ are small tricks to be used when trying to make your lens look better.

1SquidAddict · 07/24/2007 3:17 am

http://www.squidoo.com/how-to-do-squidoo

This lens is about how to Squidoo & is a home for all my lenses on Squidoo and other people's helpful lenses on
How to make your first lens
How to get started on squidoo
How to profit from squidoo
How to promote your lenses
& Everything you need to know about Squidoo

http://www.squidoo.com/making-your-first-lens
Step by Step guide to making your first (money making) lens.

http://www.squidoo.com/how-to-make-a-living-on-squidoo
This lens looks at various ways and means to make a living on Squidoo.

Last edited by 1SquidAddict (07/24/2007 5:28 am)

Greekgeek · 07/24/2007 5:49 am

Greekgeek's Squidoo Tips: Ten steps that one lensmaster used to build a lens that quickly made Lens of the Day and the Top 100, plus ten steps to attract more traffic. Includes polls for lensmasters to report their typical traffic and lensrank.

Margaret_Schaut · 07/24/2007 8:27 am

Here's a good collection Pimp My Lens: Lens Improvement Central Group

thefluffanutta · 07/24/2007 8:42 am

I have these:

Squidoo Guide: Linking Tips
Some of the special links you can create on your lens, e.g. Lensroll, Favorites, Contact Me, etc.

A Guide to Groups for Lensmasters
Guide on why joining groups is a good idea, and which one are the best to join.
(Spotted which type of group I never mention? Avoid them!)

Lensmaster Tools
Tool for advanced lensmasters to get an RSS feed of their lenses, and other tools.

How To Add Amazon Product Links
A replacement for the iframe version of the "Amazon Product Links".

Enjoy!

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thefluffanutta · 07/24/2007 8:46 am

N376 wrote:
If you have a lens on 'how to squidoo' please post it in this thread. It doesn't have to be an a - z on squidooing. In fact the narrower and more specific the better. Write a one, two sentence or one paragraph description to give a brief overview. I'll add them to the first post. I may end up making the thread a sticky. If there are two or more lenses dealing with the same subject matter (eg: lensrolling) that's fine.

When you make your post, can I suggest that you group them into categories? For example: Newbies, Intermediate and Expert (or the SquidU equivalent).

It would be good to have a group to put all these in too.

Margaret_Schaut · 07/24/2007 9:09 am

I think that's the reason that KCStargazer started the group, was to get all the best stuff about lenscrafting in one place.

She's pretty rigorous in her selection, to be sure, but that's why her other groups are so interesting.

Loyalis · 07/24/2007 3:21 pm

Ok here's a few:

www.squidoo.com/imagelink/ - How to create linked images anywhere on your lens. (Intermediate)

www.squidoo.com/squidoo-lens-value/ -Different ways to calculate an approximate value of your lens based on different factors. (probably closer to Expert - some light math involved)

www.squidoo.com/chiclet/ - How to add 'chiclets' and 'add me' buttons to your lens and profile. (Intermediate)

Edit: Edited for difficulty level

Last edited by Loyalis (07/24/2007 3:22 pm)

N376 · 07/24/2007 3:56 pm

Margaret_Schaut wrote:
Here's a good collection Pimp My Lens: Lens Improvement Central Group

Can you give me am appetising description for this?

N376 · 07/24/2007 4:01 pm

thefluffanutta wrote:
N376 wrote:
If you have a lens on 'how to squidoo' please post it in this thread. It doesn't have to be an a - z on squidooing. In fact the narrower and more specific the better. Write a one, two sentence or one paragraph description to give a brief overview. I'll add them to the first post. I may end up making the thread a sticky. If there are two or more lenses dealing with the same subject matter (eg: lensrolling) that's fine.
When you make your post, can I suggest that you group them into categories? For example: Newbies, Intermediate and Expert (or the SquidU equivalent).

It would be good to have a group to put all these in too.

Good idea. If people can rate them themselves and mention it in a new post (but point out it's to add the rating so I don't get confused) that would be excellent.

I'll be adding some of these to www.squidoo.com/where and as Margaret points out, there's a group dedicated to it too. There's probably several in fact.

But the main aim of this was to get a one stop shop here in the forums to expose it to new converts. So they can come up to speed incredibly quickly.

I'll probably move the thread to the Introduce Yourself sub-forum and sticky it in a week or so.

Margaret_Schaut · 07/24/2007 4:34 pm

This is KCStargazer's description:

Pimp My Lens:
Great Lensmastering Tips & Tricks!

The home for lenses & Info & tips on how to maintain or improve any lens on Squidoo! Why have an average lens when you can have a "Splendiferous" Lens? Content, Layout, Design, Resources and more. Great tips & tools to Soup-up, Pimp-out, Spiff-up and Trick-Out your lens from Experienced Lensmasters.

There are some really great "How-to" lenses on elements of a great lens, it is time to gather them all into one place- right here!

Find all kinds of resources for serious Lensmastering right here!

Margaret_Schaut · 07/24/2007 4:35 pm

If KCStargazer doesn't make fabulous lenses, nobody does!

Christene · 07/24/2007 4:57 pm

http://www.squidoo.com/transfer-a-group/
Learn how to transfer a Squidoo Group over to a new lensmaster painlessly.

(Intermediate) (?)

Last edited by Christene (07/24/2007 5:00 pm)

LindaJM · 07/27/2007 11:25 pm

Thank you for the information and links.

Last edited by LindaJM (07/28/2007 12:09 am)

N376 · 07/28/2007 12:14 am

Christene wrote:
http://www.squidoo.com/transfer-a-group/
Learn how to transfer a Squidoo Group over to a new lensmaster painlessly.

(Intermediate) (?)

Added.

Thanks!

Margaret_Schaut · 07/29/2007 6:54 am

http://www.squidoo.com/write_module The Write Module for Anything
http://www.squidoo.com/headquarters_tips Make Your Headquarters Interesting and Beautiful
http://www.squidoo.com/first_lens How to Make Your First Lens

Then I suggest you take a look at jackclee's roster- he has oodles of great lenses about Squidooing.

dinodino · 07/29/2007 7:41 am

How to lensroll:
http://www.squidoo.com/how-to-lensroll/

News RSS: Add Your Own Feeds Compared
http://www.squidoo.com/news-rss/

Thanks.

N376 · 07/29/2007 7:15 pm

An update. I've also added it to the first post of the thread.

Write Module: The Write Module for Anything

Headquarters Tips: Make Your Headquarters Interesting and Beautiful

First Lens: How to Make Your First Lens

http://www.squidoo.com/how-to-lensroll/: How to lensroll.

http://www.squidoo.com/news-rss/: News RSS: Add Your Own Feeds Compared.

Squidoo Modules: This lens demonstrates a selection of some of the most used and useful Squidoo Modules. You'll see them in their natural environment, with content or product included. (Beginner to Intermediate)

Animated arrow gifs taken from here.

wenfri · 08/16/2007 12:31 pm

Ok everyone I have been through the links provided above.

How's about a lesson for the Introduction segment

I am still fighting trying to get an image loaded and working in the intro part.

Here is my html code
<img src="http://splash-a-thon.com/misc/obacube.gif" height="50" width="50" align="left" />

I am also under the assumption that we can't change the colour of text in there either

I been switching to html part of it but no go and saving it Still end up with all the html code still and nothing changed Cept now I gotta go back and delete what I inserted

Wendy
Sorry for asking such dumb questions

Euryale · 08/16/2007 1:00 pm

The Free Squidoo Guide - my advice to lens novices based on what's worked for me in lens building

Squid Theory - Lens advice for the intermediate lens builder, fine-tuning your lens, figuring out your exact retail sales (apparently this last one has been a really popular tip!)

My fave group for lens advice has always been Kimberly's Addicted to Squidoo!

boredofeducation · 08/16/2007 7:24 pm

Would these count?

Amazon Module Basics
Learn how to go beyond a simple list of products picked by Amazon.

How to Add Modules
Step by step guide to adding modules. (Needs to be updated.)

Squidoo Tutorials
Links to YouTube tutorials created by top lensmasters on how to get the most out of Squidoo.

sonia_simone · 08/16/2007 8:08 pm

The introduction module works a little differently than the text modules do, but beyond that I don't have any good advice for you. I use their default image uploader for the intro image, but there might be other ways to do it.

This lens will tell you how to change text color: http://www.squidoo.com/basichtml/

thefluffanutta · 08/21/2007 9:07 am

I've created How to Add PayPal Buttons to Your Lens - should be self explanatory.

N376 · 01/30/2008 1:33 pm

Added Basic HTML for Squidoo and Advanced HTML for Squidoo. I somehow forgot to include them in the first posting.

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