Here’s an interesting idea. Do a google search right now for driving lessons + your city  For example, for me it’s Driving Lessons Cardiff. Stick yours into Google and see what comes up. Knowing what you know about how Squidoo lenses rank in google, do you think you could rank in the top 5? Try something else. Maybe Personal Trainer CITY, or Car Cleaning CITY, or Plumber CITY. Try anything! Can...

Want to be a successful lensmaster? Be unique. Want to earn money on Squidoo? Be honest. Want to rank well in Google? Genuinely help your readers. Want to be a Giant Squid? Don’t give up. Want to be in the Top 100 Lists? Learn from the best. Want a lens that earns $hundreds per month? Make a LOT of lenses. Want your lenses to look beautiful? Use lots of pictures. Want more visitors to your...

Are you doing everything you can to earn money from your lenses? Are you using every opportunity to earn money from your lenses and make every sale you can? Don’t beat yourself up about it. I wrote this lost as a guide for me to begin with. Here are some things to consider: Are you adding affiliate links [to trusted products] within the text, linking keywords and phrases? Do you have a module...

Do you treat your lensmaking as a hobby or a business? I would guess that more than 99.9% of lensmasters treat their lensmaking time as a hobby. It pays rather nicely if you hit upon a great niche idea and write up some great content, but most of the time people are making lenses it’s probably more fun than work. If it felt like work they probably wouldn’t do it as much, in their free time...

Go, Squidoo, Go! Squidoo has added some cool Facebook Connect connections. Here is how the wonderful and beautiful and talented Megan Casey explains SquidooConnect: “SquidooConnect is like a bridge between Squidoo and Facebook. It helps your friends cross over to see your lenses, and helps you cross over to talk to people about your lenses on Facebook. It’s up to you how often you use it!” She...

Are you building a mailing list from your lenses? When someone lands on your lens, how many chances of a sale do you get? Mostly the answer will be… one. If you get the person to look at a couple of your lenses then your chance of a sale doubles and triples. But what if your lens visitors said to you ‘Hey! I like your style! Here, take my email address and send me cool stuff!’ If...

I wouldn't survive without this tool! I use this every day. It's one of the most useful things I have in my toolbox.

You type in your words, change the settings and colors to make it match your site, and voila. You have yourself a professional logo. Instantly.

See the SquidooCool logo at the top of this site? It took me about 60 seconds to build ;-)

Click here to see some more examples