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FINALLY: Why Squidoo Tags Are Useless
Finally! My post about Squidoo Tags is ready. There has been a LOT going on in my life since I wrote that last post, but bit by bit I’ve been chipping away at this beast.
So here goes
Why Squidoo Tags Are Useless
Things change. Goal posts move. And it is our job to [...]
New: Categories!
Exciting times.
Squidoo has just created 10 new categories for us to play with.
They have added a couple that probably could/should have been added from the beginning (like Home & Garden!) and they added a couple that are more of an experiment than anything else (like Duel and the potentially-troublesome Work at Home).
Here is the [...]
Tweet Tweet…! New Squidoo Module.
Just a quick note about a quick and easy new module.
TWITTER!
I posted about Twitter here not long ago, about how to set up an automatic Twitter blog that auto-posts when you update your lenses.
Well now you can feed any twitter account onto any lens with the new Twitter Module. Click Add Modules, then A-Z, the [...]
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 [...]
Hey, MonkeyBrain!
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 [...]
Squids Can Fly! Squidoo blitzes the charts!
Have you heard of the website Compete.com?
It’s a website that tracks how popular different websites are.
And they just released their numbers from last year… naming the Top 20 Fastest Growing Websites of 2007.
And out of all the possible websites in the world…. IN THE WORLD… Squidoo was the 14th fastest growing in 2007!
According to Compete’s [...]
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 [...]
Approving Comments: Now displayed on your…
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 [...]
‘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 [...]
Squids are Flixing! Get paid for your SquidFlix movie reviews
Squidoo launched a new site yesterday - SquidFlix.com. A cool new lens design for lenses about movies.
The idea: you go to SquidFlix.com, you fill in the spaces about your chosen movie, and Voila! Squidoo will MagicBuild you a lens about the movie using stuff it already knows about the film, and the stuff you typed [...]
Module Makeover: The New, The Bad, And The Good
Squidoo has had a module makeover! Some for good, some modules have vanished, and some new modules.
Vanished Modules?! Well, kind of. You can only find the Featured Lens module at the moment by typing it into the search box on the A-Z tab. It’s not listed under F. Hopefully this will change. I use that [...]
Wooo! SquidZippers, and new category? What have I just found…?!
I was just looking through the different categories on Squidoo and noticed a few new things…
1. There is a new category. Local. My guess is that this is in preparation for a new Squidoo project like SquidWho.com, SquidBids.com, SquidVids.com, and ever.com. What’s missing? A location one! I was thinking SquidWhere.com, but….
2. The domain [...]
Squidoo Loves ME!
SQUIDOO LOVES ME!!
I just received this in the mail from Squidoo HQ themselves!
See the cool T-Shirt I’m wearing? It’s official. I love Squidoo, and Squidoo loves me!
How did I get the T-shirt? I won the competition for the best love letter to Squidoo. I won with my lens at here.
Maybe I should hold [...]
ALERT: Google Pagerank Update!
Google has FINALY updated their pagerank numbers, which means you can also see what the pagerank is for your lenses.
What is pagerank? The number (from 0 to 10) that Google assigns to a webpage. Pagerank 10 is best. For a list of some Pagerank 10 websites, click here. Pagerank is basically how Google ranks [...]
Best, Funniest, Coolest, Weirdest, Huh?
Do you love something? Hate something?
What are you passionate about?
What’s your favourite website?
What’s the oddest blog post you’ve ever read?
What’s the zaniest hairstyle you’ve ever seen?
Who’s the sexiest supermodel?
What’s the greatest football team?
What’s the worst restaurant you’ve been to?
Start making your list of the the best and worst and favourite stuff… because you’ll need it [...]
NEW: SquidVids.com!
Squidoo has a new SUPER cool layout for you to test and try. And it hasn’t even been officially announced yet…
It is SquidVids.com, THE place to build your own TV channel on the web.
I just made my own featuring all the good Squidoo How-To videos available on YouTube made by Squidoo fans.
It’s at www.squidoo.com/squidoovids [...]
New SquidooCool Module!
Well well well…. woohoo!
SquidooCool now has it’s very own module on Squidoo!
If you go to your lens editing screen, hit Add Modules top left, then look under the ‘New!’ tab. And there you’ll see it.
The all-new super-sexy SquidooCool module.
If you add it (then click to edit it) it will feed the latest posts [...]
New EveryZing Module
Quite a clever new module is now live under the ‘New’ heading.
You heard it here first
EveryZing.com is best described as a podcast search engine. But it does do more than just podcasts. They cleverly get text transcripts of the audio files and videos uploaded, and some other stuff.
Here is there very confusing unclear [...]
4 Cool Squidoo Facts
Some super cool Squidoo facts! I hope Megan can get some updates stats for me to post here, as some of them would definitely now be more impressive, but here are the latest numbers we have:
1. Squidoo gets over 10 million page views each month.
2. It is in the Top 500 most popular [...]
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