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Why You NEED To Be a Giant Squid – without fail!
A Giant Squid is a Lensmaster who Squidoo is in love with. The minimum requirement to become a Giant Squid is 50 really great lenses.
50 REALLY GREAT lenses. Original ideas, beautifully executed, that you are proud to put your name to.
Once you get to 50+ great lenses you can submit your name to Squidoo HQ [...]
Your left sidebar and your lensmaster profile: You LIKE?
Hey!
How’s it going?
We’ve all had a few days now living with the new lensmaster profiles. How do you like them?
Personally, I LOVe them! We have more control than ever before over what people see when they click on our username, and we even get the whole left sidebar to ourselves. To list links to wherever [...]
Squidoo Testers Needed! [NOW CLOSED!]
This is now closed! Sorry everyone who didn’t get in. It filled very quickly indeed.
If you didn’t get in but wanted to you can stay updated by subscribing to this blog or just keeping one eye on the updates here You’ll find out when/if it’s open again for more testers.
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Hello All You [...]
Win a lens, MonkeyBrain!
Tiffany Dow, Lensmaster Extraordinaire, is hosting another contest on her blog!
And you can win a custom-built lens from BuildMyLens.com if you come first!
So what do you have to do to win? Make a MonkeyBrain lens, and post a comment at Tiff’s blog to enter!
So here are the links you need to know:
To create your MonkeyBrain [...]
RSS Explained (plus, setting up your rss reader!)
I just finished a lens about how to set up the Google RSS Reader.
Google reader revolutionised my online life. It lets me subscribe to loads of great blogs without having to manually check back every day for update. An RSS Reader is like an inbox for the web. Pulling in the content you want from [...]
Getting your lens higher in Google using Bumpzee
Here is the short of it:
1. There is a site called Bumpzee.com
2. It is a directory for RSS feeds
3. Your lens has an RSS feed
4. So you can add your lens to Bumpzee
5. Bumpzee ranks high in Google!
And it ranks very quickly. So head to Bumpzee (I’m there as mrlewissmile if you want to [...]
5 Steps to establish yourself as an expert..
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
SquidCasting Tips (getting more visitors, and spreading your links)
Thefluffanutta has just published some helpful tips for using SquidCasts more effectively.
Here they are:
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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 [...]
11Jan2008 | MrLewisSmile | 2 comments | Continued
From a Squidoo Nobody to a Squidoo Somebody
Susan52 wrote a great post the other day about what it means to be a ‘Squidoo Nobody’. No bio, and you don’t let other people contact you.
And she’s very right!
Both easy to fix, in less than 3 minutes.
You can read more good posts at her blog, and here is what she says about becoming a [...]
Squidoo Dueling Question Fights! Questions are the answer :)
A GREAT new module has just been created, and you can find it by searching the A-Z page for ‘duel’.
The module lets you ask a question (with a two-choice answer), and let people vote and leave a comment. It’s a bit like a poll merged with a guestbook, with a nice twist. The comments [...]
Hello, my name is Lewis :)
I never knew I could make money from squidoo. However, It has earned me a few bucks that I am ...
Hey there thanks for the info. I was looking all over the place for a squidoo group and could not ...
Its sad in one respect - that the backlinks to lenses and groups was great for ranking.
On the flip side ...
Hope I am not too late to join in this discussion which was in October. I have only recently ...
Pingoat is having issues again. It's now pingoat.net 
Wow, Lewis. This is good. Glad you made this post. Part of the reason why I leaned toward one over ...