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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 [...]

12Nov2008 | MrLewisSmile | 0 comments | Continued
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New Module: Be a Super Charity Squid!

Squidoo has just uploaded a new module.
Check it out. Edit one of your charity lenses, click Add Modules, and add the new Donations module.
A lot of work has gone into this module, you can tell. Every charity is represented well, with logos and write-ups.
What It Does And How It Does It:

The module opens and looks [...]

8Sep2008 | MrLewisSmile | 1 comment | Continued
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Squidoo promotes your lens for you, on Twitter!

The time has come!
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 name and bio. Then, the next time you publish a lens you will see a little [...]

8Jun2008 | MrLewisSmile | 15 comments | Continued
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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 [...]

4Mar2008 | MrLewisSmile | 10 comments | Continued
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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 [...]

22Dec2007 | MrLewisSmile | 3 comments | Continued
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Squidoo Top 100

I thought I’d post a quick collection of the Top 100 lists that exist, with some cool extras too. All information on the official Squidoo top 100 lists are based on info from the previous 14 days. So on day 15, the new info is incorporated into the rankings, and info from day 1 is [...]

12Sep2007 | MrLewisSmile | 3 comments | Continued
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New Wikipedia Module

There is a new Squidoo module for you to test out!
Go to edit your lens,  click ‘Add Modules’, click the last ‘A-Z’ tab, then click W. And from the list of modules you will be shown, you can choose ‘Wikipedia’.
It allows you simply type in your topic (bagels, or christmas, or wordpress, etc), and the [...]

28Aug2007 | MrLewisSmile | 4 comments | Continued
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How (and Why!) to Add a Poll to Your Lens

This one is super easy.
Adding a poll to your lens.
But why would you WANT to add a poll to your lens?
For these reasons:

To find answers to questions you have about your topic (What’s your favourite color?)
To add INTERACTIVITY! To get your visitors to buy something (the ultimate interaction with your lens), you should first try [...]

7Jul2007 | MrLewisSmile | 6 comments | Continued
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How and Where to Sell Your Lens

Did you know there are some lensmasters who will buy your lens from you?
Why? Because they know they can do something with it, because they know the lens will earn adsense income each month, and because they are absolutely obsessed with Squidoo. The highest price paid for a lens (as of June 29th 2007) is [...]

22Jun2007 | MrLewisSmile | 8 comments | Continued
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Allowing Readers To Contact You (without revealing your email address)

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 [...]

12Jun2007 | MrLewisSmile | 6 comments | Continued
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Making Your List Of Lenses Into An RSS Feed

The RSS module is a wonderful module for publishing fresh content on your lens, but because of a lensmaster called thefluffanutta it can also now be used to display your top lenses, in lensrank order. You know the order you see them on your ‘My Lenses’ screen? Your visitors can now see the links to [...]

31May2007 | MrLewisSmile | 4 comments | Continued
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The First Post: Welcome!

Welcome to SquidooCool.com!
My name is Lewis.
SquidooCool.com has been set up for this reason:
Learning about Squidoo at SquidooCool.com is free.
That doesn’t mean that ebooks don’t have their place.They compile a lot of information, put it in one place, in an understandable order, and in an understandable way. And people are willing to pay for [...]

30May2007 | MrLewisSmile | 14 comments | Continued
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