How to Tweak Your Squidoo Lens
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"The End" is just The Beginning
After a story is written down, the author needs to go back in and edit, edit, edit. Writers need to look for typos. They need to look for redundant words. They need to check their grammar and they need to make sure that what they have written down clearly explains what they really meant to say.
In other words, the finished story needs to be polished in order to make it shine.
Squidoo lenses should be treated in the same way.
After you've finished the first draft of your lens, you should go back in and take a closer look at it. Try to see it as your reader would, then give it the final tweak it needs to take it from an average, everyday lens to one that truly sparkles, shines, and screams out to the world READ ME!
Check For Generic Titles
Good Squidoo lensmasters always remove the generic titles from their lenses, (New Amazon Spotlight, New Poll Module, New Guestbook) but sometimes, in the heat of the moment, we forget.It happens to all of us at one point or another, that's why it is so important to go back and check all of your titles. The easiest way to check for this is to use the Table of Contents module. The generics will stick out like sore thumbs.
Goof Proof Business Writing
Goof-Proof Business Writing
Amazon Price: $7.05 (as of 05/27/2012)![]()
Paperback: 192 pages
Publisher: LearningExpress, LLC (May 25, 2003)
Language: English
How Much is Too Much?
Goof Proof Spelling
Goof-Proof Spelling
Amazon Price: $7.70 (as of 05/27/2012)![]()
Paperback: 128 pages
Publisher: LearningExpress, LLC; 1 edition (October 25, 2002)
Language: English
Check for Spelling Errors and Typos
Spelling errors and typos are not always very easy to see after you've just written something. Your mind knows what you meant to say and for some reason your eyes can sometimes see it as correct, even if it's really wrong.The best way to edit for speling errors and typos is to leave the lens sit for a day, (or in the very least an hour), and then come back to it with fresh eyes.
Of course you could always use your wordprocessor with spellcheck on to set up your writing first. That would work too.
Powerful Proofreading Skills: Tips, Techniques, and Tactics
Crisp: Powerful Proofreading Skills: Tips, Techniques, and Tactics
Amazon Price: $8.34 (as of 05/27/2012)![]()
Paperback: 112 pages
Publisher: Crisp Learning; First edition (July 26, 1994)
Language: English
Masterpiece Lenscrafting on Squidoo
Highly Recommended
Masterpiece Lenscrafting on Squidoo was written by our own Margaret Schaut. I highly recommend this ebook to anyone looking to improve the quality of their lenses. Please Share Your Tweaking Tips Here
What's your favorite tweaking tip?
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kathysart
Feb 19, 2012 @ 11:22 am | delete
- Ohh gosh.. one last thing.. Angel blessed lens and of course I Squid "liked" it.
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kathysart
Feb 19, 2012 @ 11:21 am | delete
- fyi.. I bought Masterpiece Lenscrafting on Squidoo today.. looks good!
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kathysart
Feb 19, 2012 @ 10:54 am | delete
- I try to create an ambiance with all my lenses. I think of them as stores that people actually walk into. I am not genius at this in any way which is why I am always tweeking them.
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favored1
Feb 7, 2012 @ 4:41 pm | delete
- Seem I can't leave a lens alone. I tweak some lens too much and they're begging to be left alone :) I can read something a dozen times and weeks after it's published I find an error.
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Tipi
Jan 27, 2012 @ 8:58 pm | delete
- Some lenses i will tweak everyday, and others longer. It just depends on how the lenses are performing.
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Robin Svedi is a Community Organizer and the QuestMaster for Squidoo. You can keep up with her at rms on Squidoo. She's also the author of Eye Popping... more »
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