Ok, so I have been asked about 6 million times by people if I can make them a lens. Most offered money (and some didn’t…)! I finally wised up and joined forces with ex-ghostwriter-to-the-gurus now internet-marketing-extraordinaire Tiffany Dow (author of the first ever Squidoo ebook) and together we have launched www.BuildMyLens.com. Tiffany, trained as a journalist and has had a career...

I’ve had a few questions sent to me after the last post about Lensroll.com about some basic things about navigating the site, so I thought I’d post a few things I noticed about Lensroll.com during beta testing. There are the basic things, like ‘Submit a New Story’ is how you add a lens once you’re logged in, and other things like how to use it for best exposure. So here...

Lensmaster Glen has launched Lensroll.com Go there now, create your account, and promote your lenses for free. It is a site like Digg, but dedicated to your Squidoo lenses. It looks fantastic,  it works brilliantly, and it is growing nicely. So why should you use it?  Because it has a pagerank of 3 already. Which means google has assigned a good value to it already, and every link from Lensroll.com...

As a lensmaster you receive an extra $5 every time someone signs up to become a Squidoo Lensmaster because of you and earns their first $15. Your referral link looks like this: www.squidoo.com/lensmaster/referral/MrLewisSmile (where MrLewisSmile is my username) So how can you utilize this cool Squid $$$ offering to maximize your earnings? Here are some ideas: Cross your fingers, because every one...

This one is super easy. Adding a poll to your lens. But why would you WANT to add a poll to your lens? For these reasons: To find answers to questions you have about your topic (What’s your favourite color?) To add INTERACTIVITY! To get your visitors to buy something (the ultimate interaction with your lens), you should first try and get them to interact with you and your lens in a smaller way....

If you have nearly 20 rubbish lenses, be worried. Well, I say ‘rubbish’. What I really mean is an ‘unimproved’ lens. An unimproved lens is one of those lenses you have with less than 4 modules. Or that lens you haven’t published yet. Or both. If you have 20 unimproved lenses, you can’t register any more lenses. Until you start improving them. So to avoid this, don’t...