http://www.squidoocool.com The blog to be an expert lensmaster! Wed, 20 Aug 2008 23:58:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en For the past 14 months Tiffany Dow and I have been building beautiful lenses for customers of BuildMyLens.com – our custom Squidoo lens building service. We have earned thousands and thousands of dollars doing something we enjoy for people who appreciate it. Does it get much better? Actually, yes ;-) We have been ... http://www.squidoocool.com/buildmylens-affiliate-program I have a set of images I pretty much use on each lens I make. You may well recognize some of them. One of them is the RSS image you see just to the right here. The ball. It's a cool looking RSS image, don't you think? So what do I ... http://www.squidoocool.com/rss-image-code Don't you hate it when you're trying to figure out how to do something on Squidoo, but you have trouble finding answers to all of your questions? Squidoo has created The Answer Deck to come to your rescue. The Answer Deck is designed to help the people who need ... http://www.squidoocool.com/answer-deck The super-genius thefluffanutta, creator of SquidUtils.com, has just created something else. The things he makes are always easy to understand, simple to use, and really really cool. And one of his latest creations is a nice little image you can put on your blog/lens/website that will display how many people are in ... http://www.squidoocool.com/squidutils-squidlet Hey guys! If you have been reading this blog for a while you will know of my past few posts about the power of blogging. And I had a whole bunch of people email me asking for help setting up their blogs. So, I did something about it! I have just launched a ... http://www.squidoocool.com/yournicheblog 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 ... http://www.squidoocool.com/twitter-promotion 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 ... http://www.squidoocool.com/hubpages-better-than-squidoo You know when you build a lens and you scoot around the web finding links, flickr pictures, youtube videos, amazon products, etc etc etc....? Well I found a site recently called FoxyTunes.com.  It's basically a search engine all about music. So you're at FoxyTunes, you type in a band name or ... http://www.squidoocool.com/foxytunes 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 ... http://www.squidoocool.com/wordpress-blog-help 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 ... http://www.squidoocool.com/testers 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?" ****************************** FIRSTLY, WHY WOULD YOU WANT A BLOG? ****************************** Blogs are fun. Blogs are free. Blogs are fabulous. And blogs are FINDABLE! It is extremely difficult ... http://www.squidoocool.com/blogging-your-lenses What is my all-time favourite module on Squidoo? Well, it's got to be the text module :D 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 ... http://www.squidoocool.com/featured-lens-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 ... http://www.squidoocool.com/twitter-module I stumbled upon a great idea yesterday. Lensmaster Extraordinaire and Giant Squid AND Squid Angel bdkz wrote a post at Squidu a couple of days ago about a new lens of hers. She used SquidWho.com to make a family tree lens. And how does it look? Fantastic! It's one of the best uses ... http://www.squidoocool.com/squidwho-family-tree 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 ... http://www.squidoocool.com/twitterfeed-squidoo 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 ... http://www.squidoocool.com/new-monkeybrain-contest Before I set up a lens just for this (and start a campaign for more money-maker modules), cast your votes! What money-maker module do YOU want Squidoo HQ to develop next? An eBay UK module? How about converting the Indeed Jobs module into a pay per click module (just like the ... http://www.squidoocool.com/money-maker-modules 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 ... http://www.squidoocool.com/rss-2 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 ... http://www.squidoocool.com/getting-your-lens-higher-in-google-using-bumpzee 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 ... http://www.squidoocool.com/new-squidoo-layout