*The Forum Rules.
Yep, rules. Read 'em. Abide by 'em. Or your sea creature powers may be revoked. Temporarily, or for good.
1. New to the lounge? Get started here. Learn which category to post your note in, and create a forum signature.
2. Spam: just don't do it. Thou also shalt not fill the forums with multiple threads on the same topic or sockpuppet.
3. Thou shalt not flame, harass, denigrate, spam, malign, or otherwise finger-point and name-call at ANYONE. This one's a biggy. This too can get you banned.
4. Squidstaff love interacting with smart front-line people, so they stop by the forums from time to time to hear your ideas and share updates. However, this isn't the place to post bugs or solicit admin action. Please send those requests through our feedback link.
5. The SquidU forum is a place for users to interact, to share ideas and inspiration (and yes, gripes... maybe another lensmaster can help) and have fun with their lenses. Try searching for an answer or visiting The Answer Deck.

All of us are about promoting our lenses. Promoting some product, service, and/or concept is what Squidoo is all about. Having said this, the introduction forum is not the place to promote your lens! The introduction forum is for introducing yourself to the SquidU community.
If you are new, and find your introduction deleted and or modified, then you are probably guilty of the above. If your intro was deleted, we still want to hear from you! With self promotion in check, please post again. ![]()
We all want to promote our lenses. Using discretion, here are a few ideas to promote your lens in the forum:
Consider asking the members to critique your lens in the Critique Me Forum.
Adding your lens to your forum signature (in your SquidU profile, go to personality).
Requesting a blessing from a SquidAngel in the Angels Forum. But first, your lens needs to be worthy of a blessing!
Last, but certainly not least, contribute to the discussions in SquidU.
Remember, promote with discretion.
Let us have a wonderful experience in Squid University. Welcome aboard! ![]()
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Excellent points!
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Here, Here! ![]()
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thanks for the tips - I was wondering how to put my lens details into my posts. mystery solved, many thanks! :-)
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Good points. However when I see someone new in the Introduction section I usually click on their profile and take a look at their lenses anyhow, just to see what they are interested in, and I'm always looking for some new and unique lenses.
You don't always have to directly promote yourself to get lens traffic.
Last edited by poddys (04/17/2008 5:51 am)
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Hello,my name is Maggie and i am very new to this site ,i just want to say hello to everyone.
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Hi, Maggie. Welcome to the Forum. You'll like it here.
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I just joined Squidoo in the last couple of days! Wrote my First Lens! Not sure how, what, why or where but will listen and learn and hope I follow the rules!
Thanks
marymac
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Hi fellow Squidoo's. I am new to the "U", and I would appreciate any help you may have to offer to get my lens' seen.
jojo57
Last edited by jojo57 (04/26/2008 5:24 am)
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Hey to fellow Squidooer's.
I am here, I am a newbie, and wow! I made my first Lens! I shook in my boots when I pushed the publish button. Anyhow, I have been all over Squidoo and am having the time of my life reading and learning and reading and learning and ...... I can see that addiction to lensing is an understatement. I can't wait to make my next one. The ideas are keeping me awake at night. OMG what is happening to me? I just had to say hi to all.
Last edited by tripznow (04/28/2008 2:00 pm)
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Tripznow said... "I can see that addiction to lensing is an understatement. I can't wait to make my next one. The ideas are keeping me awake at night. OMG what is happening to me? I just had to say hi to all."
Lol... this definitely sounds familiar. I have often run into my office to scribble down an idea before I even go down to breakfast. One idea simply triggers another one. I don't think that there is a topic on Squidoo that hasn't been written about... twice!
Glad to meet you btw ![]()
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Yep, it's like a whole new world! Welcome and good luck :-)
I've been on squidoo for just a couple of weeks and am already well and truly addicted! I sit down to just check my email and then have a 'quick peek' at my squidoo stats .. then I realise another hour has gone by and I've been looking at lenses, reading,learning, laughing...
Enjoy!
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Well, I am glad to be here. I friend showed me Squidoo and now I have a feeling I'll be hooked.
And learning the thing NOT to do is always helpful! ![]()
With warm regards,
Timothy Carter
My brand new lens: http://www.squidoo.com/bloggingsecretfortraffic
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Hi
I'm Mick. Live in Tucson. Moved here in 2001 from Atlantic City NJ
Tucson is a nice city. Very friendly people, well laid out, easy to get around, reasonable prices among other positive features.
Several days ago I submitted a lense: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner in Tucson. I've spent quite a few hours trying to learn the best way to benefit.
The information on this sight looks very helpful but it overwhelms me somewhat.
So here I am taking one step to get to know others and get any kind of assistance I can
In another area, politics, I may be able to give assistance, advice or help in some form.
I'm a junkie, formerly had my own tax business, and feel that I know the politics of taxes quite substantially.
I also have a political website that takes a great deal of my time.
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Hi not sure if we just use our screennames or real,i'm donnyfish, i feel like i'm standing in the doorway of a nice restaurant or fine dinner party wondering what i should do? I just figured out what i need to do, i have to check my profile i think my registr. date is mixed up w/my bday
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Hi I'm aliun. thank you for the good tips.
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Hi, I'm James and I live in the UK.
I joined in early April although my profile says "Registered: 01/01/1970" ![]()
I'd heard people say this is addictive and I think they could be right. I don't think a day has gone by when I haven't been here looking to improve a lens or create a new one.
Doh. I shouldn't have put this as a reply should I. How do I delete this post?
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Hi everyone. My name is Kurt. I'm a fiction and poetry writer. I seek to enlighten and entertain.
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Hi!
I'm Kristina Jover. I'm new here. Just dropping by to let my friends and others know I just signed up...
Scrolling around to read your squidooz!
Last edited by kristinajover (05/22/2008 10:26 pm)
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thank for advice
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I joined some monthes ago on Squidoo and I do not know, why I did not find the forum earlier... ![]()
Now I'm here and, of course, like to introduce myself. I'm grateful for the tips here and I hope everyone would excuse my not perfect English - I'm from Germany... Thanks a lot for your understanding.
I in this moment saw, that my profile says, I were registered since 1969...
Can anybody say me, where I can change it? In setting my profile I could not find a possibility to change this date. Thank you!
Last edited by hesika (05/26/2008 12:40 am)
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Hallo, I´m from Argentina and I want to know if it is allowed to make a lens in spanish, Thank´s,
Tommy
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Thank you, great points, we are here to serve one another first, and everything else second
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Hello all. Newbie tradewt here. Rah, rah, rah! Go State!
Glad I ran across this nugget. Perfect.
Thank you.
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Hello. I am new, too! I joined Squidoo about a year ago. It wasn't until recently I started to make the time and focus on making my first len and really explore the site. I made and published my 1st lens several weeks ago. Just getting around to introduce myself. I appreciate the tips and support the Squidoo community provides to it's members. Thank You.
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