Have you seen a lens with a banner in one of the modules? Although the effectiveness of banner ads has fallen to an all time low (with text links taking the lead), you may have a banner you just REALLY want to display. Whatever the reason, here is how to insert a banner ad into a Text Module. 1. Add a text module to your lens 2. Paste this code into the box: <p align=”center”><a...

A Long Tail keyword is something that, instead of being a keyword like ‘myspace’, is a keyword like ‘is myspace free to use in china’. In short, Long Tail means that the majority of your lens visitors likely come from people typing in things that very few people type in compared to the search terms that lots of people type in. An example day might be this: 150 people who search...

Adding a link to your lens is as easy as typing the word hello. Let’s say your sentence was this: “Raymond was a loaf of bread, and he liked to travel round the world”. Let’s also say you wanted to make the word ‘travel’ a link to your lens about travel, so it would look like this: “Raymond was a loaf of bread, and he liked to travel round the world”. So...

Did you know that if a visitors clicks an amazon item from your lens, then even if the person buys a different item, you still get paid for the sale? Did you know that if they also buy anything on amazon within about a week, you are STILL paid for the sale? So what can you do to get more of your lens visitors to click from your lens to amazon.com? How about these ideas: List VERY related items, and...

A cool tip that not a lot of people know is when you are editing your ebay module you can tell ebay what auctions to list as well as what NOT to list as well as what auctions to list. You know when you’re editing the ebay module and tick ‘Let Ebay Choose’ to determine what items get added to your lens, and you type in the words you want, like rich dad poor dad book? If when you save...

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 them on your lens in the RSS module. If you go to www.squidoo.com/lensmaster-tools you’ll...