Welcome to Squidoo!
Are you a newcomer to Squidoo? Just signed in and can't find your way around just yet? Well, let me tell you:
Welcome! You'll find Squidoo as experience addictive, thrilling and fulfilling!
Fresh Squid Headquarters is here to help you in your first steps in this new, wonderful world! How? By free promotion and exposure!
Just read on!
Free Promotion? How?
Join a group!

As you already know - Squidoo offers you a chance and tools to make a lens of your preference - about your hobbies, likes, dislikes, opinions, music, books, etc. - pretty much about anything that comes to your mind!
It also gives us all a possibility to make GROUPS where we can put all lenses that have something in common!
Why to join a group? Well, it gives you exposure - especially if your lens is one of featured lenses and you are one of featured lensmasters in some group!
What this group offers?
You, as new lensmaster and newcomer to Squidoo gets one month to be featured lensmaster and have one of your lenses in featured lenses! After your lens is featured for a month, it will be removed from group and somebody else will get your place!
Also, all lenses that are featured in Fresh Squid group, will be included into monthly Fresh Squid Contest! To give ya all a bit more promotion!
What lens should be about?
What ever you want! Lenses will be featured by category so you can join in with any topic you chooses!
If you are not sure what you can put into your lens, look for possibilities here (it's really nicely explained!):
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Squidoo Modules
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This lens demonstrates a selection of some of the most used and useful Squidoo Modules. You'll see them in their natural environment, with content or product included. Accompanying each is a description of what the module does. To start with, this is...
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Making your First Lens Mentor
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EVERYBODY can Squidoo! You can too! It might take you an afternoon to 'get the hang of it', but that afternoon can be LOTS of fun. You don't need to be an expert in anything 'internet-y' to be able to build a beautiful, useful and successful Squido...
Any Lens Accepted? Nooo......
There are some rules to this game!

And they are here for you! Why? To give you max exposure between your equals and to give you a quick start in Squidoo!
Here are the RULES:
1. You joined Squidoo in past month and / or have no more than 5 published lenses!
2. Your lens is completed! (More about that afterwards.)
3. You must have 'Contact me' button enabled in your profile.
4. You don't get offended if you are rejected - you improve your lens and submit it for acceptance again!
IMPORTANT:
Each lensmaster can have ONLY ONE LENS featured!
Only Completed Lenses!
I don't want to repeat someone else's words so read page that I linked here to find out how should completed, quality lens look like! If yours isn't anything like that - it will be rejected!-
How To Create A Quality Lens
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The word "quality" has come up a lot lately on Squidoo, particularly when it comes to the Giant Squid Program. In order to be accepted you need 50 quality lenses, but what constitutes a "quality" lens? Here's what I think defines quality and how you...
And check out this - IT WILL GIVE YOU STARTING EDGE!
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Read This Before You Ask For Angel Blessing!
An Angel's personal note to all blessing seekers...

Hello dear lensmasters -
Angel blessings are precious. They are meant to be a reward for your efforts to improve the quality of Squidoo.com by creating attractive pages. So, blessings need to be earned.
I'd like to point out a few things that might help you to get the blessings of one or more Squid Angels.
Consider this: Squid Angels are lensmasters like you, who volunteer their time to look at your work, because they love Squidoo and believe in the vision of its founders: to create a space for people to write about their passions and make money for charity and themselves.
Squidoo made it easy to make a simple lens - but Angels look for a bit more than a couple of modules with pasted Wikipedia text and a bunch of affiliate links. Again, Squidoo made it easy to achieve greater sophistication by providing a gaggle of tutorial pages on The Squidoo Answerdeck.
In addition, Squidoo is about communities, relationships, mutual support, generosity, kindness, participation, in short - giving. Giving back, yes - but also: giving first!
Angels - like everyone else - can see if you are participating in our community by visiting and rating lenses, and posting in the forum.
Can you imagine our hesitation when you demand a blessing ("Hey angels - need some blessings!") and it turns out that your lens looks somewhat like this:
- Quickly clobbered-together page with default module headers
- "Content" copied/pasted from outside pitch pages
- Little if any content on personal experiences (and mainly pre-fab hype)
- Minimal creative use of available modules
- No guest book or contact enabled (if you prefer isolation, don't ask the community to
contribute to you in form of blessings or ratings)
- No profile description (are you human?)
- No apparent interest in using the many tools provided (html, css, widgets, etc.) to make
a remarkable lens
- Zero ratings or favoriting of your peers' works
I felt compelled to write this note because many such lenses are being presented in this forum. Angels visit here all the time, yet responses to posts are few. Why is that so?
Too many lenses are simply not ready for a blessing!
Don't get me wrong - we appreciate all of you. We love to have you with us and hope we can contribute to your success as a Squidoo lensmaster.
Two simple steps before you come here and ask for a blessing: go to The Who's Who of Squid Angels and browse through our portrait pages. You'll find out about what we are looking for in a lens. Then grab your tools and tutorials from the Answerdeck and bring your lens up to Angels' standards. Ask for advice in the "Critique me" or "Help" forums, and let us know who you are in the "Introduce yourself" or "Chatter box" forums.
Original message posted by Squid Angel chefkeem in SquidU post
Fresh Squid News blog
If you joined Fresh Squid Headquarters, you got to be fatured at Fresh Squid News blog!!!
Fetching RSS feed... please stand byWhat do you think of this idea?
New lensmasters? You think you have what it takes?
Come and join Fresh Squid Headquarters!
Not a newbie? Still you can share opinion, knowledge, love! ;)
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- oztoo oztoo Oct 17, 2009 @ 6:41 pm
- This is great for all newbies. I wish i had found you sooner but am now working on my twelfth lens and still have so much to learn. Anyway congratulations on a great lens 5*****
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- Sep 20, 2009 @ 3:11 pm
- Wow, squidoo just gets better and better. There are so many opportunities here! Thanks for the great lens for newbies like me. With love Darcie
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- ChapelHillFiddler ChapelHillFiddler Jul 3, 2009 @ 11:36 am
- Willow, thank you so muich for inviting me. Ah, which one to choose? So difficult! I love all my babies!
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- aoife aoife Jun 29, 2009 @ 7:22 am
- Hey I've submitted my first lens after getting pointed in your direction by a few people - I do hope it makes it!
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- chris57 chris57 Jun 20, 2009 @ 1:51 pm
- I just joined the group and hope I get accepted. :-) I am having such a blast here. Everyone's been really awesome. Thanks for all the tips and hard work. :)
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- whitemoss whitemoss Jun 17, 2009 @ 9:18 am
- Thanks for your help. I'm a little nervous about putting any of my 3 little lenses forward just yet, but your help was great and I'm trying hard!
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- Apr 24, 2009 @ 3:18 pm
- This is a great idea. I am joining the group today!!!
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- Apr 15, 2009 @ 1:41 am
- This lens is very informative
5*****Stars and Favoured
Thank you for the tips!
Best wishes
Marisa Angelis
Artist Designer Writer Poet Philanthropist Humanitarian Promoter
Four Nominations including "Australian of the Year 2003" Short List
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- Janusz Janusz Apr 8, 2009 @ 11:36 am
- I love the idea of Fresh squids & no one could have done a better job! Blessed by a Squid Angel :)
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- Michey Michey Mar 19, 2009 @ 11:07 am
- Hi! I wish to have this lens when I started, I am not a beginner anymore, but I am not on top as well, I still work hard to make it.
Thanks for this lens, it will help a lot of new people, it is an excellenyt idea.
Regards
Michey
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