Setting up an automatic Twitter Feed Profile for your lens (for micro-blogging super-promotion!)

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Hey,
Have you been to Twitter.com lately?
There really is a ton happening over there. And Google is paying lots of attention too.
So with that in mind, here is an easy way for you to take advantage of the traffic Twitter [...]

Win a lens, MonkeyBrain!

Tiffany Dow, Lensmaster Extraordinaire, is hosting another contest on her blog!
And you can win a custom-built lens from BuildMyLens.com if you come first!
So what do you have to do to win? Make a MonkeyBrain lens, and post a comment at Tiff’s blog to enter!
So here are the links you need to know:
To create your MonkeyBrain [...]

What Money Making Modules Would YOU Like Created?

Before I set up a lens just for this (and start a campaign for more money-maker modules), cast your votes!
What money-maker module do YOU want Squidoo HQ to develop next?

An eBay UK module?
How about converting the Indeed Jobs module into a pay per click module (just like the indeed jobs affiliate program would [...]

RSS Explained (plus, setting up your rss reader!)

I just finished a lens about how to set up the Google RSS Reader.
Google reader revolutionised my online life. It lets me subscribe to loads of great blogs without having to manually check back every day for update. An RSS Reader is like an inbox for the web. Pulling in the content you want from [...]

Getting your lens higher in Google using Bumpzee

Here is the short of it:
1. There is a site called Bumpzee.com
2. It is a directory for RSS feeds
3. Your lens has an RSS feed
4. So you can add your lens to Bumpzee
5. Bumpzee ranks high in Google!
And it ranks very quickly. So head to Bumpzee (I’m there as mrlewissmile if you want to [...]

New Squidoo Layouts - how do you like them?

If you haven’t seen them already - check them out!
Squidoo lenses still have 2 basic layouts - maxed and unmaxed - but the maxed version just had a MAJOR overhaul. Remember how it was the 3 columns? Well check it out now!
Here is my Tagging Tricks lens maxed, and here is my ‘how to unmax’ [...]

Another reason why I love Squidoo

Because they are constantly improving!
Improving everything!
The Squidoo HQ team is small, but you probably wouldn’t guess that.
It’s like 4 or 5 full time staff.
There is a great new feature for Giants Squids that I just posted about because I thought it was a feature everyone got (but I took the post down when I [...]