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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!):

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!

 

And check out this - IT WILL GIVE YOU STARTING EDGE!

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

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