For those of you still worried about a ‘Squidoo Slap’, here is something interesting to think about. With Google, when you search for a person’s name followed by the word age or birthday you will get a little result (from an authority site) at the top that tells you the date of birth. And here is what Jeff Wend says about his latest lens: “This is a lens I whipped out quickly...

I would love it if Squidoo allowed guestbook comments that were longer than 300 characters! (UPDATE:  SQUIDOO HAS NOW DONE THIS! 2 days after posting here and Squidu, and all your comments, Squidoo raised the limit from 300 to 1000. Woohoo! Thanks Squidoo HQ!!) When I read blogs and see some people writing massive comments in response to the posts, I keep saying to myself ‘It would be GREAT...

Thefluffanutta has just published some helpful tips for using SquidCasts more effectively. Here they are:  ************************ All of the casts you make will be published in the lens RSS feed, and potentially syndicated elsewhere, so make sure your titles are good ones. The title of each cast will be linked to your lens, and search engines will use that as a factor when ranking your lens. Don’t...

Squidoo has updated quite a lot today. One major addition to Squidoo functions is a thing called ‘SquidCasting’. To sum it up in one sentence I would say ‘Send updates, like blog posts or email alerts, to everyone who has added you or your lens to their favorites’. Here is the Squidoo release info on the new tool. What do you think you’ll be mainly using it for? ******************************************* Today...

Now displayed on your… dashboard! If you scroll to the bottom of  your list of lenses, you’ll see that you can now approve or delete comments from ALL of your lenses. This is AMAZING news, because you now won’t miss a single comment, and it’s a LOT quicker than getting the emails in your inbox and clicking to each lens 1 by 1. Very cool. Adding a Guestbook or Duel module to...

Introducing, SquidooCool’s Second Guest Writer! TheFluffanutta writes of the importance of the Primary Tag. So, here he is: The Primary Tag is the first tag you get to define when creating your new lens, and it is an often misunderstood and very under utilised by many Lensmasters. Admittedly, it doesn’t seem do a whole lot, but there are some important points to note: - In some lens formats...