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 copy Squidoo. There are as many differences as there are similarities, and this will be a short...

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 you’ve set it up, it continues to do it’s thing… day after day… automatically. OK....

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 tool. What do you think you’ll be mainly using it for? ******************************************* Today...

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 some important points to note: - In some lens formats...

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 you build a page and use almost no effort,...

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 basic idea is to add tags that your lens would be useful for if someone was searching for one of...