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....

When surfing around loads of different lenses every day it seems that whenever I want to send a lensmaster a note about something, they don’t have any way to be contacted! There is an easy way, and you don’t have to reveal your email address to anyone. Not even to the spammers, and not even to your best friend. Here is how to add the little ‘Contact Me’ link under your bio which...

You know you can add an image to your lens using a normal text module? Did you know you can embed an image into the module without that upload feature? On the left side of the module? Click here to see an example. To embed an image into the module just like the one you see in the example module linked to above (and also the picture of the Squid right here in this blog post) you will need to have...

Have you seen a lens with a banner in one of the modules? Although the effectiveness of banner ads has fallen to an all time low (with text links taking the lead), you may have a banner you just REALLY want to display. Whatever the reason, here is how to insert a banner ad into a Text Module. 1. Add a text module to your lens 2. Paste this code into the box: <p align=”center”><a...

A Long Tail keyword is something that, instead of being a keyword like ‘myspace’, is a keyword like ‘is myspace free to use in china’. In short, Long Tail means that the majority of your lens visitors likely come from people typing in things that very few people type in compared to the search terms that lots of people type in. An example day might be this: 150 people who search...