Squidoo promotes your lens for you, on Twitter!

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Your Squidoo account is getting more integrated with other social networking sites!
Now, on your profile is a space to enter your Twitter.com username and password. And you save it in Squidoo just like you save your [...]

HubPages - Better than Squidoo?

Hello dear reader. You look lovely today.
Question: Are you a member of HubPages?
You will surely by now have heard of HubPages.
Surely.
If not, get on over to JoinHubPages.com and sign up! HubPages is a site very much like Squidoo. But with enough differences to be able to tell they are not trying to be or [...]

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

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 is getting, and maybe send some of those people to your lens or blog. And once [...]

Cast Your Posts! What is SquidCasting?

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 [...]

The Importance of the Primary Tag

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 [...]

‘Money for nothing, and clicks for free’ (Free UUU Squidoo Ebook from Seth)

I’ve been on a Christmas Mrket Shopping Trip to Frankfurt (Germany) for the past week, so I missed out on updating SquidooCool with LOADS of cool stuff!
So here is Cool-Stuff number 1:
A free ebook about making excellent lenses (that’s my summary of what it’s about), written by the Squidoo creator Seth.
My favourite extract is this:
“If [...]

What Are Tags?

A tag is a word or phrase that best describes your lens. So if you have a lens about drinking water some tags you might want to add to your lens might be drinking water, water, H2O, 8 glasses a day, facts about water, water facts, information about water, water filters, drinking water filters, etc.
The [...]

Lensroll.com Revenue Share

This is an update on Lensroll.com.
And how you can now earn money by promoting your lenses there!
Lensroll.com, as you will recall, is a site just like Digg but SOLELY for Squidoo lenses. That means adding your link to the listings will get you more exposure to other lensmasters who can rate your lens, leave [...]

Tagging Tricks: Adding Tags From Your Stats

It’s good to know where your visitors are coming from, and with the stats upgrade Squidoo HQ gave us it is possible to see exactly what a person typed into google before they arrived at your lens.
And there is also a rather cool use for those stats!
You can automatically add those words and phrases to [...]

How to use Lensroll .com

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 [...]

Join StumbleUpon and submit your lens

StumbleUpon is a website with a difference. It is a Social Bookmarking site like most others, but has some very cool features that the others are lacking.
StumbleUpon is a MASSIVE catalogue of the best websites online, all organized in over 500 categories. The users add cool sites to the rotation database.
To submit your lens you [...]