27 Reasons Why Squidoo Rocks

01 You can make lenses about your blog! Use the awesome RSS tool to feed your blog right into any lens.

02 Promote your charity! Squidoo works with tons of great charities, but there are always room for more. Make a lens to promote your own charity, local, or maybe on a bigger scale.

03 Promote more on your store! Squidoo works with Zazzle and Cafepress to have their own headquarters, making it easier to promote your stores! Check out the CafePress headquarters and the Zazzle headquarters.

05 Earn money from commission sales using the CafePress, Amazon, Zazzle, eBay and many other money-earning modules!

06 Use websites like All Posters and Commission Junction to earn money through third party advertisements.

07 Make money when people click on the ads that Squidoo already has put in for you! You get money through Google AdSense without having to sign up for it!

09 Access to the secret Giant Squids blog and RSS feed, full of first-looks at new features and insider tips.

10 A private email address to reach Megan about Lens of the Day submissions.

11 A Giant Squid badge on all your lenses. (And your bio/profile page too).

12 Your face (and a link to your top-ranked lens) smack dab on the Squidoo.com homepage. Lots of traffic, lots of acclaim. Why? Because we believe that new people to the site should learn from seeing the best. And that's your lenses.

13 Gold stars on all your published, featured lenses. Gold stars not only look nifty to your readers, they also give you a little LensRank boost.

14 Your shot at making The Giant Squids Top 100 list, a list of the top Giant lenses, sorted by LensRank.

15 A Custom Lens Template tool. This one's BIG. You can have multiple customized lens templates, to help you pre-populate new lenses with modules and copy that you like. Makes making lenses faster.

16 Did we mention first crack at our coolest new tools and features? For example, the Giants got to hear about HeyMonkeyBrain, Squidaholic.com, the new dashboard, the Lensmaster Bio redesign, MagicBuilder, Prediction module, and lots more--days before the rest of Squidoo.

17 A special Dashboard just for Giants.


18 A chance at being featured on the Giant Squid Community Showcase.


19 The power to nominate! When it's time for the next round of new Giants to join the ranks Giants can nominate the people they think really deserve it.

20 No daily lens limits. Here's another big one! You can start as many lenses a day as you want, and you can have as many unimproved lenses under construction as you need. We trust you. We know you're going to build them out eventually.

21 Greenlighting. Have you heard of, or run up against, our SquidDon't spam filter? It checks lenses for language and topics that are not welcome on Squidoo. But quite often, while we're playing it safe, there are false positives. And that can be frustrating. So we're greenlighting all our Giants, so you never get stuck in the spam filter again.

22 Bonnie, Patti and Robin: your Giant Squid Organizers. Heck yes they're a perk (to quote Napoleon Dynamite). They're in your corner, constantly representing and supporting and growing the Giants program. That might be an intangible, but it's an important one.

23 Make lenses about what you love, and people will find your lens and get info from a real expert on the subject (or close enough).

24 Get practice writing! Writing a lens is like writing articles or blog posts, and it really helps with your skills.

25 Express yourself! Whether you're doing the Hey MonkeyBrain duels or Twttrstrm, you can always express your opinion on Squidoo (as long as you do it the polite way!).

26 Squidoo has tons of unique modules that are easy to add and format. Fun widgets that spice up your page, easy to format text modules, photo gallery modules so you can add your pictures, and interactive poll modules and duels! There's something everyone can use to spice up a page in an easy way.