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What Could Be Improved On Squidoo?

From the lens Fresh Squid Graduation Class October 2008.

In your own opinion?

  • MrDarcy Feb 18, 2009 @ 7:38 am | delete
    Many small things like allowing to choose a longer excerpt in a blog feed, or the mentioned earlier star rating system.
  • TheGreenerMe Jan 28, 2009 @ 8:24 am | delete
    Some of the Squidoo sister sites like "Best Ever" have low, low traffic and load a little bit slow.
  • WebSpinstress Jan 21, 2009 @ 1:41 pm | delete
    If I had to pick one feature that could be improved, it would be the star ratings system. Some of my best lenses have most of the traffic pulled from outside sources, but visitors without a Squidoo account are not able to rate lenses. However, I know there may not be a solution for this as it leaves a wide gap for playing the system...
  • RichMann Jan 8, 2009 @ 2:59 pm | delete
    The most frustrating parts of lens building was the fact that there's not enough support for using HTML and CSS. When editing lenses, the save function rewrites the code and really messes up the layout by adding end tags>where they don't belong. A great deal of the tutorials aren't clear as to how to use HTML and CSS and the very limited support for these layout features. It's very hard to get Google page rank for a lens even if it's optimized for the search engines. There should be support for those that want to add Opt-In forms to their lenses. There's many ways that this can be done without compromising security by using IFrame. There should be support for RSS submission to the various RSS ping engines.
  • CASU Jan 6, 2009 @ 12:49 pm | delete
    Well I think that when I was a newcomer I was totally lost.so maybe when they first join Squidoo you could give more direct help with getting started.You know basics it takes alot to fugire out were to start. but once you get into it with a little help from Squid U.
  • CherryShrimp Jan 6, 2009 @ 10:48 am | delete
    I guess is the traffic. Seems like Squidoo sometime do get slow respond in login and page reload. I guess is mainly due to high user rate.
  • stephen001 Jan 6, 2009 @ 10:28 am | delete
    Their payouts.... Must give little more to everyone specially lensmasters in top level.
  • kathypi Jan 6, 2009 @ 12:48 am | delete
    Maybe a central page, with more links in one area, would make it easier for new people to find what they are looking for would help.
  • Flynn_the_Cat Jan 5, 2009 @ 4:25 pm | delete
    A few glitches here and there. not made me lens of the day yet... can't think of much
  • terez07 Jan 5, 2009 @ 3:19 pm | delete
    Well, so far I have no complaints as of yet.
  • lravidlearner Jan 5, 2009 @ 12:23 pm | delete
    The front page should be tweeked to make it more friendly to first time visitors. The search box should be more prominent and "Make a Page" less prominent. People need to see what the site is about and what a lens is before they're going to jump into making a page. I also think the major Squidoo categories should be on the front page to make it easy for users to browse through their favorite topics.

    Heidi Reina
    LearningReviews.com
  • masoncutey Jan 5, 2009 @ 8:57 am | delete
    I haven't worked with Squidoo long enough to know what needs to be improved (if anything).
  • MaryB2010 Jan 5, 2009 @ 8:07 am | delete
    I guess I just don't know enough yet to be a judge for improvements. I just love Squidoo and will continue to make it an important part of all my online adventures.
  • leacharlton Jan 5, 2009 @ 7:47 am | delete
    I wish that it was easier to earn money with Squidoo, and that they would concentrate more effort of SEO on our behalf.
  • Jan 5, 2009 @ 2:37 am | delete
    i hope its just easy to switch the "type" for a lens. I read it before that you can choose the "typet" of a lens in creation page and you cant change it anymore. But, until now, i still dont know how to. But here's a link of what i mean "types" of lenses:
    http://www.squidoo.com/lenstypes
  • thesolowriter Jan 4, 2009 @ 7:25 pm | delete
    can't really say anything meaningful. maybe I just don't know enough yet. :-)
  • dustytoes Jan 4, 2009 @ 3:44 pm | delete
    I love the new Zazzle module! Thank you...It would be nice if we could add that module from the side panel, but I realize there might not be that big of a need.
  • Heinani Jan 4, 2009 @ 3:25 pm | delete
    I just want squidoo to keep creating modules so that I don't have to spend my time learning the rules of coding.
  • jfield Jan 4, 2009 @ 1:20 pm | delete
    Occasionally when I go to reply to a comment, I can't. Not sure why. That's a very minor concern, however. I'm really pleased with the recent revamp of the workshop area--so thank you to all who worked on that for us all!
  • Cajean Jan 4, 2009 @ 1:15 pm | delete
    Well, I like it so much and haven't really seen any huge needs for improvement yet. I'll leave that up for those visionary tech heads. :-)

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