When I first discovered Squidoo I spent the first few moments on every lens I looked at reading the bio of the lensmaster who made it. I was fascinated. It really was one of the things I read first on a lens. Right after the title. Even before the introduction! Writing a bio specific to each lens is not only good, but essential! Try this: 1. Introduce yourself. 2. Thank them for visiting your lens. 3....

Did you know there are some lensmasters who will buy your lens from you? Why? Because they know they can do something with it, because they know the lens will earn adsense income each month, and because they are absolutely obsessed with Squidoo. The highest price paid for a lens (as of June 29th 2007) is $400. I was the one selling the lens. If you have a lens you no longer want, there are several...

I’ve made a lens about this, with the same title, but I’m putting it here to so it’s easy to find. Basically, an image with straight edges looks rubbish on your lens, just like the tiger on the left below. It looks like you’ve just plonked an image there because you had to. Well now you can make those images look a LOT better with only about 30 seconds and the help of one cool...

Do you have more than 3 lenses? Make a lensography! A lensography is a lens that has only 1 purpose: to show off your other lenses! There are lots of lensographies on Squidoo, each one doing a good job of showcasing either all of someone’s lenses, or just their best. Mine is here: www.squidoo.com/lewisography I have just featured some of my favourite lenses, and I’ve written short descriptions...

If you want to re-order your list of lenses on your dashboard based on visitor numbers, amount $$ pending, star rating, title, lensrank, or date last updated, all you need to do is click the title of that column. The dashboard (at this moment) doesn’t give any clue that this is possible, but it still works. This is great because Lensrank is the default order. And lensrank doesn’t mean squat...

You know when you create a lens you get to choose what URL you want? (what’s a URL? Basically, the address of a page). You get to choose whatever goes where these X’s are: www.squidoo.com/XXXXXXX  It is largely agreed upon that having hyphens separating words is a good thing, as far as your google ranking is concerned. Hyphens-as-opposed-to-underscores.  Underscores_are_thought_to_be_not_as_effective....