Posted on June 8th, 2008 by MrLewisSmile
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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 [...]
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Posted on May 9th, 2008 by MrLewisSmile
I’ve had a couple of emails and comments from people asking what the difference is between Wordpress.com and Wordpress.org, and where they should start their blog.
So here we go….
Wordpress For Dummies
Wordpress is a platform. A big whole pile of code that, when all put together, forms a blog. Wordpress is NOT a website. [...]
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Posted on May 1st, 2008 by MrLewisSmile
Hello hello hello..! Fun post today. Blog your socks off.
“Blogging and lenses go together like Winnie The Pooh and Tigger Too…
So do YOU have a blog for your lenses?”
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FIRSTLY, WHY WOULD YOU WANT A BLOG?
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Blogs are fun. Blogs are free. Blogs are fabulous. And blogs are FINDABLE!
It is extremely difficult now to do a search [...]
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Posted on April 21st, 2008 by MrLewisSmile
What is my all-time favourite module on Squidoo?
Well, it’s got to be the text module But second? The extremely well-hidden Featured Lens module.
You can see it in action on almost all of my lenses (here for example: www.squidoo.com/squidtail). Featuring my other lenses, cross-promoting, and linking to other cool lenses on the same topic.
But [...]
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Posted on March 30th, 2008 by MrLewisSmile
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 [...]
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Posted on February 12th, 2008 by MrLewisSmile
HeyMonkeyBrain.com is a new site launched by Squidoo.
It’s a place to create a lens DEBATING a topic. A place to be the ringleader.
So if you want to tell the world that you think that a BlackBerry is better than an iPhone, this would be a good place to start.
And if you add a guestbook to [...]
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Posted on January 22nd, 2008 by MrLewisSmile
1. Pick an area you like so much…
2. You’d commit to lifelong learning…
3, Where you enjoy spreading the word…
4. With a message you strongly believe in (even if it contradicts accepted norms)
5. You’ll speak and write for free to establish yourself…
(Rich Schefren)
Lewis
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Posted on December 22nd, 2007 by MrLewisSmile
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 [...]
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Posted on October 4th, 2007 by MrLewisSmile
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 [...]
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Posted on July 28th, 2007 by MrLewisSmile
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 [...]
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Posted on July 27th, 2007 by MrLewisSmile
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 [...]
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Posted on July 25th, 2007 by MrLewisSmile
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 [...]
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