The New Way to Pimp

Pimpin' Proper: Photos

We have some excellent photo resources and advice from experienced lensmasters.

How to Legally Add Copyrighted Pictures to Squidoo Lenses

Learn how to legally use famous, copyrighted pictures and art on websites and Squidoo Lenses! No more worries about searching for royalty free photos to make your lenses look top notch. Whether you're looking for nature photos, celebrities, movie sta...

Add Borders to Your Lens Photos on Squidoo

Would you like to jazz up the photos on your lenses? You can use borders on your images to give them much more impact and to help them "pop." You just need to use a little bit of simple HTML magic. I have included easy instructions for a variety of...

Royalty-free images for your website

So, you are giving away photos? Yep, I am! I have a large, and growing, collection of photographs I have shot myself. Some of them I give away sized for use on websites. Please! Read the conditions below, they should give you any problems, though. Thes...

How to add large photos and audio to your lens

I've been creating Squidoo lens for the past month. It is frustrating to upload an image and find that it is restricted to a small thumbnail size. I tried contacting Squidoo help but they are too busy to respond. I don't blame them with all the lens...

Royalty-free photos

I've been sorting through digital photos that I've been taking since 2001. The only problem being is while I had a good camera for a number of years, it was a film camera. The digital camera I was using was a dinky little one. Just for fun. Had I wan...

Freshest Pimping Info

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Browse the MOST RECENTLY UPDATED LENSES in the Group:

A Guide to Yahoo Pipes, Where Do I Find Ideas For My Next Squidoo Lens?, Adding Links to your Images on Squidoo - An iframe alternative, Squidconomy - The Economics of Squidoo, Chiclet - How to build small buttons for your Blog

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Overwhelmed by the plethora of pimping possibilities? We'll make it easy by featuring and rotating a different trick to try right here!

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Play that Funky Music.


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Basic HTML for Squidoo

You can use basic HTML in a few of the lens modules. Mostly used to create hyperlinks (they are the "live links" to other sites). Though there are also other uses for HTML. If you find yourself in need of quick tutorial on how to do it, her...

Word On the Street

Live Feed from the Official Squid Blog by Team Squid:

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Group Rap Session

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Newest Tricks & Tips Lenses

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Welcome to the PIMP MY LENS: Great Lensmastering Tips and Tricks Group!

Squidoo Links, Tools, Tips, Tricks, Utilities And Resources, 50 Things to Add to Squidzipper Lenses, Squidoo How to Resources, How not to write a Squidoo lens, Groups Mentor

Pre-Pimping: How to Begin

The basics of Lensmastering-

Just the Facts, Ma'am (Frequently Asked Questions): Squidoo FAQ

To stay in the game,
you gotta play by The Rules (Terms of Service): Squidoo TOS

Do Squidoo: A much requested guide to creating a successful Squidoo lens

Are you seeking information on how to use Squidoo effectively?  Excellent, because this lens is made just for you! Find the answers to:  - How do I do ...? - Why won't ... work? - How can I ...? - Why do you ...? - Where is the ...? Finally d...

Squidoo lens design guidelines

This lens is about suggested design guidelines for creating a Squidoo lens. A lens is basically a web page. Any good web design guidelines will apply to a lens. In addition, the lens has some limitations and structure that makes the design of a good...

How to Make Your First (or Second) Squidoo Lens

Step-by-step, here's how to get started, answers to clear up some confusion, and all the basics to help you be a GREAT lensmaster right off the bat! There are FAQs, instructions, tips and techniques, common mistakes, some strategies and some technic...

Lens It!

Got a hobby? Lens It! Got an interest? Lens It! Got an idea? Lens It! Got a story? Lens It! Got a special skill? Lens It! Got a musical talent? Lens It! Got an unusual job? Lens It! Got a favorite family recipe? Lens It! Okay, I think you've...

Your Lensmasters Bio

Make your Lensmaster Biography into a squidlicious appetizer.

Progressive Pimping 1: The Essentials

Specific Features-

Squidoo Modules

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...

Squid-Cast: How to Add Modules

You've made your first lens and want to add new modules.  Here are step by step instructions with screenshots.

Your Lensmaster Profile

Do you want to allow people to contact you through your lens?  Do you want to share your favorite lenses with others? Scroll down to find out how.  

How to backup your lens

Recently, I came across a few posting on SquidU about people accidentally deleting their lens or due to some bug. To avoid future headache, once you have created your lens and are happy with the content, I recommend you take a few extra minutes to ba...

Progressive Pimping 2: Maximizing Modules

One Module at a time-

Instant News: Using the news modules

Squidoo offers many great news modules from a huge variety of sources that will enhance the content of your lens. Each of the feeds below can be found as a ready-to-install module in the Squidoo lensmaking module picker.  Simply add it to your le...

Instant Blogs: Using the blog modules

You don't have to be a blogger to add blogs to your lens.  Squidoo offers many great blog modules that will enhance the content of your lens. Each of the blogs below can be found as a ready-to-install module in the Squidoo lensmaking module picke...

Amazon Module Basics

Squidoo's Amazon module can be used in a lot of ways.  It can, obviously, feature books, toys, games, etc.  You can also modify the look with html, hyperlinks, and graphics.  Read on to see what features are available with examples.&nb...

The Text/Write Module for Anything!

I love the Write module. It's really one of my very favorites... you can do anything with it. It is one of the easiest ways to make your lens stand out. It is the primary carrier of your best content, originally written information or stories, and it...

Pimp My Topic

Need a template?
Here are some great examples:

How to Create an About Me Lens

When I first got online ten years ago there were probably more personal webpages than commercial ones.  Geocities and Tripod ruled and it was fun to play with this new toy that allowed us to tell everyone way more than they really cared to learn...

How to Create a NaNoWriMo Lens

NaNoWriMo is a contest for National Novel Writing Month that takes place each November.  Thousands of writers from all over the world compete to write 50,000 words in thirty days.  If you are participating in NaNoWriMo, get some additional...

How to Create a Genealogy Lens

The Internet has helped genealogy grow in popularity in the last 10 years, and now more and more people are not only finding their ancestors online, they're also creating their own family trees online. Squidoo is a perfect place to create your own fam...

How to Create a Direct Sales Lens

Squidoo is a great place to promote your direct sales business.  Lenses are simple to set up, even for complete beginners, and Squidoo has what we like to call the "Google juice," meaning you'll see your well-designed lens indexed at l...

How to create a Squidbook

What is a Squidbook you ask? It is a way of using Squidoo lens to publish a book. I came up with this idea recently and have started creating my first squidbook. You can check it out here My first Squidbook My second squidbook...on Squidoo  ...

Pro-Pimping 1: Bling-Bling

When you're ready to take it to the next step and really make it shine, here are some tips from the experts!

Find ways to customize your lens using tips and tricks discovered by techies and lensmasters while working on their own lenses!

How to add large photos and audio to your lens

I've been creating Squidoo lens for the past month. It is frustrating to upload an image and find that it is restricted to a small thumbnail size. I tried contacting Squidoo help but they are too busy to respond. I don't blame them with all the lens...

Adding Links to your Images on Squidoo - An iframe alternative

In order to combat those nasty spammers, iframes were disabled on squidoo on July 12, 2007. However, all hope is not lost! If you were using iframes for affiliates, pictures, or other static-type content, here is a work around for you!

Image Processing for the web

I am a digital imaging professional. I have worked in this arena for over 20 years in my previous career with IBM Research. I am also an amateur digital photographer. I have watched the growth of digital imaging with amazement over the last few years...

Royalty-free photos

I've been sorting through digital photos that I've been taking since 2001. The only problem being is while I had a good camera for a number of years, it was a film camera. The digital camera I was using was a dinky little one. Just for fun. Had I wan...

Pro-Pimping 2: HTML Tricks for Squidoo

Custom Coding-

Advanced HTML for Squidoo

The techniques shown here aren't much more advanced then what's in the Basic HTML tutorial. The code being used isn't any more special. But the results and presentation can appear to be more sophisticated. Hence it being the Advanced HTML tutorial. F...

Super Advanced HTML Tips and Tricks to use on Squidoo

These html tricks for Squidoo are not really that super advanced. But they are super cool! Anyone can do this, Yes, you too! This lens would not be possible if it were not for the groundwork of other lenmasters: specifically, Magicality and N376 so t...

Simple HTML tricks to use with Squidoo

Squidoo has a nice editor for your lenses, but things can be improved. This lens will show you some simple tricks to include more than possible with simply using the editor. These tricks should be used in modules like the link list, or the write modu...

Basic HTML for Squidoo

You can use basic HTML in a few of the lens modules. Mostly used to create hyperlinks (they are the "live links" to other sites). Though there are also other uses for HTML. If you find yourself in need of quick tutorial on how to do it, her...

Pro-Pimping 3: All Tricked Out

Fly Tricks & Accessories-

Chiclet - How to build small buttons for your Blog

Hey! I want one of those little blog buttons with my website name on it!  How do I make those? Where can I put them? What are they anyway? The truth is, they are easier than they look because of some great online tools.  These are Chiclets...

Using foreign characters on Squidoo

If you are creating a lens about languages, a multilingual lens or just using some foreign phrases, then this lens teaches you how to put foreign characters on your lens. I have used Turkish examples in this lens because I am designing websites in Tur...

SpideeMail

Would you like to know where everyone who looks at your lens is coming from? I was kind of curious, so I took a SpideeTag and added it to a few of my lenses and it seems to be working quite well. Check out my lens on installing an above ground pool,...

A Guide to Yahoo Pipes

Yahoo Pipes is a powerful composition tool to aggregate, manipulate, and mashup content from around the web. Simple commands can be combined together to create output that meets your needs. For example, you can combine many RSS feeds into one, then...

How to Add PayPal Buttons to Your Squidoo Lens

If you're looking for how to add a PayPal button to your Squidoo lens, here's how. The step-by-step process described here will create a link that is compatible with you lens, while keeping your account details safe and secure. For advanced users, th...

Ready to Roll 1: Promotional Pimping

Get Found!

View the hottest Tags: Tag Clouds

Search Engines Web Site Promotion

Yes the web is full of all the site optimisation information you need but, if you’re like me, they’re all talking in a foreign language - guess what, I’m from your town, I even live in your neighbourhood SO we can and will communica...

SquidOffers

This lens is bereft of opinion. I have gathered together all official mentions of SquidOffers and put them all in the one place so it's easier for you to find and wade through the plethora of information. Use this information to increase your Squid Kn...

Lensmaster Ranking

I have come up with a simple calculation of lensmaster ranking. It is an average number therefore it is merely an estimate and not an exact figure. It relies on the current lens rank which is somewhat inaccurate but all we have today. It is a way to...

GreekGeek's Squidoo Tips: How to Get Your Lens Found

So, you want to learn how to build successful Squidoo lenses (or any kind of webpage), attract web traffic, and get your Squidoo lens found by Google! This three-part tutorial covers: Learn the Secrets of My Squidoo Success!Part I: Ten Steps to Build...

How to supercharge your lens

Getting links to your lens from outside Squidoo is an important part of  promoting your ideas or products. Here is a strategy you can use to leverage your efforts and those of the squidoo community to build traffic . The Squidoo world is still a...

Ready to Roll 2: Pimping for Profit

Milk those tentacles!

Buy and Sell Squidoo Lenses at Auction with Sell My Lens

Finally! A way to turn your long hours of slaving away at the keyboard into some cold, hard cash.  SellmyLens has been developed to enable Squidoo Lenses to be bought and sold without all of the high fees associated with many online sales.

How to Value a Squidoo Lens

As Squidoo Grows and develops, the marketplace for buying and selling lenses is also bound to grow.  The question is, how much is a lens really worth??  Lets explore a couple of classic ways for valuing assets and apply them to the Squidoo...

Amazon Module Basics

Squidoo's Amazon module can be used in a lot of ways.  It can, obviously, feature books, toys, games, etc.  You can also modify the look with html, hyperlinks, and graphics.  Read on to see what features are available with examples.&nb...

Squidconomy - The Economics of Squidoo

Historical Adsense Payouts, Buying and Selling lenses, Affiliate payouts and more make up the mountain of ways you can make a few bucks using squidoo. Here is the history of these things and how they evolve through the life of Squidoo.

Pimping Potpourri

Better than a Squid Ink Milkshake!

Why Squidoo?

If you're like me you need to know the details before you commit. Now that I've seen and weighed it up for myself here's a bunch of good reasons why you should sign up to Squidoo...

SquidU Review Blog/Newsletter

Are you a lensmaster?  Then you qualify!!  Sign up to get your weekly dose of Squidooey goodness by visiting your preferences page, or visit SquidU, scroll to the bottom of the page, and enter your contact info.  (We promise not to sen...

Lensmaster Tools and Utilities

SQUIDUtils.com Utilities and Tools for the Expert Lensmaster SquidUtils is the place to find complementry utilities and tools for your Lenses on Squidoo. Here you can see all of your lenses and groups, with shortcuts to some of the most vital funct...

The Free Squidoo Guide

What I know about Squidoo... I learned at Squidoo!  I put this lens together to start to make better sense of all the free information I've found for how to use Squidoo and how to build better lenses.  My recommendations are based on what I...

How to Help Squidoo Succeed?

Recently, I have come to the conclusion that Squidoo is at a critical point in its development. As lensmasters, we can help in more ways than one. It is well known that the Squidoo staff, though brilliant, are swamped with work. This is the price you...

Pimping Primer

Squidooers come from all over the world, but we share some things in common.
How do you say in Squid-Speak?
What do all those symbols and terms mean?

Lens Rating

Squidoo has a user system of rating lenses according to their quality. Only registered Squidoo users can vote on other members lenses. 

Lensrank

Just how does the Squidoo Lensrank work? Is it important? If you make it into the Top 100 Lenses should you celebrate by popping open the champagne or chugging down a beer? All these questions won't be answered in this lens on Lensrank. All we'll be...

PayRank

PayRank scale is based on a lensmaster's average LensRank and traffic. This lens collates all the mentions of Payrank so you can determine for yourself what the elusive term means for you. 

Unimproved Lenses

Whoops! Looks like you have too many "unimproved" lenses right now (this means lenses that are probably empty, unpublished, or have fewer than 3 modules). Please work on your existing lenses before starting a new one. Thanks for helping us...

Squid-Stats

Squidoo provides lensmasters with a great deal of information about people who visit your lenses.  This information includes where visitors are coming from, where they go, and what they purchase. This information can be used to increase the traff...

Meet Our Master Lens Pimpin' Pros!

A rotating Gallery of Experienced LensMasters, Talented Techies and Official Squidizen
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• KimberlyDawnWells KimberlyDawn...
• Darby Darby
• jackclee jackclee
• boredofeducation boredofeduca...
• Margaret_Schaut Margaret_Sch...

• Loyalis Loyalis
• Peter.Murray Peter.Murray
• Magicality Magicality
• Greekgeek Greekgeek
• thefluffanutta thefluffanut...

• Pandrogas Pandrogas
• Euryale Euryale
• BobSteen BobSteen
• Randell Randell
• N376 N376

• Euryale Euryale

And our Funky Graphics Guru JanusZ:
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• Janusz Janusz

Group Pimpin'

Not just for Groupmasters-
Essential info for Lensmasters and Group Members!

A Guide to Groups for Lensmasters

Groups are collections of Lens, usually focused on a particular theme or interest. Groups are run by Groupmasters, to maintain and promote them. The are a large number of Groups on Squidoo now, so deciding which ones to join can be a difficult task,...

Make your Group's Headquarters Interesting and Beautiful!

You've created a group, and it's sure to be the next big thing. Now, what do you do with it? We all want our group pages to be a favorite landing spot of many visitors. THE place they'll want to visit again and again.  I've studied the best groups...

Squid Who? Squid U!

SquidU
Featuring:

The Learning Library
-You, too, can speak Squidoo!

The Lensmaster Lounge
-A funny thing happened on the way to the Forum...

The SquidU Review
-Sign up for the official scoop! Squidoo's weekly email newsletter, edited by:
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• SquidUReviewEditor SquidUReview...

Tickled Purple

Thank you, Team Squid, for the LOTD honor!
(Oops, I think I just "inked" myself!)

July 27, 2007

In the words of the late Godfather of Soul:
"Ain't it Funky Now!"

What makes a great lens?
Check out the latest Lens of the Day honorees to see some fantastic examples:

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Funky Music for Lens Pimping

-VOTE for your favorite
-CLICK on the image or title for more info or to purchase from Amazon.com.

Choose your format: CD's or Downloads for your ipod/ MP3!

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James Brown - Star Time

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It Will Take You Years to Understand This Much Funk - Five stars are barely adequate to describe how monumental this box set truly is. With seventy tracks spanning thirty years of prime James Brown0 points

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James Brown - 20 All-Time Greatest Hits!

Essential Listening for All Human Lifeforms!!! Unl more...0 points

Essential Listening for All Human Lifeforms!!! Unless you happen to have every single tune on this album because you have a monster record collection, there is no excuse in the world not to own this CD. James Brown is a towering figure in modern American music - - period. He IS to American music even now wh...0 points

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Rick James - The Definitive Collection

The Brother was the Last King of the Funk. Rick Ja more...0 points

The Brother was the Last King of the Funk. Rick James had his own Gumbo of the Funk. you always knew the Synth Bass grooves and His trademark Horns. Mary Jane,Bustin Out are still Slammin.Dance Wit me is still Bumping. 17 is cold with that Break down. cold Blooded is still Cold.Ebony Eyes with smokey Robinson is classic.Rick James never sugar coated the Funk,He always kept it real.0 points

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VH1 Behind the Music: The KC & the Sunshine Band Collection

Shake shake it! Today's funk has lost yesterday's more...0 points

Shake shake it! Today's funk has lost yesterday's sound. It's so good to find K. C. and the Sunshine Band's music. This is music made for dancing, of course. But I recommend listening to this music with a good pair of headphones. This way you will find lots of tiny funky sounds like piano / guitar vamps, snare tricks, etc. Nevertheless yes, you can do it: crank your stereo up to the roof. Shake it. Flow with the music, close your eyes, let grow up your...0 points

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Play the Funk

This Funk Disco band was one of the best, and Hey, more...0 points

This Funk Disco band was one of the best, and Hey, I hated disco, but they put enough funk and guitars into their sound to satisfy even me. They had 4 albums (Wild Cherry, Electrified Funk, I Love My Music, Only the Wild Survive) and got better with each album. I gave this CD a 4 star rating because all the songs are great and they included at least one cut from all 4 albums.0 points

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Get the RSS feed: Keep an eye on this Plexo list. See who wins. And who's left in the dirt.

Get the widget: Add this Plexo list as a widget on your blog, site, forum, whatever. Be an influential. Show off your great find.

Get this on my lens: Attack of the clones! Grab this Plexo module for your own lens. Get YOUR readers to vote for their favorites.

• Add to Bloglines
• Add to My Yahoo
• Add to Google
• Add to Technorati
• Add to NewsGator
• Add to My MSN
• Grab the XML

Please pick your widget size and display. Then click "Make the Widget" to get the code that's just right for you.

Small size: Best for blog sidebars and areas 250 pixels or less
Standard size: Best for blog posts, and areas greater than 250 pixels wide

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Voila: Just copy and paste this code into your own site. Have fun!

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Master Index & New From the Squid Hatchery

There's a lot more here that doesn't always show on the HQ Page (not enough space!), but you can still access them here:

Browse ALL titles! Handy Index of:

ALL Pimp My Lens Group Lenses

The Most Recently Created Lenses:

Squidoo Links, Tools, Tips, Tricks, Utilities And Resources, 50 Things to Add to Squidzipper Lenses, Squidoo How to Resources, How not to write a Squidoo lens, Groups Mentor

Squidoo Lensmaster & Groupmaster Companion BLOGS & Websites

Sharing the SquidLove

Do you have a Companion BLOG or Website on Squidoo Lensmastering or Groupmastering featuring ideas, tips, tools and resources (or even pet peeves) that is helpful to creating and improving Squidoo Lenses and/or Groups?

No big surprise, with all the talent here, many lensmasters do!

SquidBloggers, please add your Squidoo-Related BLOG or Website to the list below!

This is for BLOGS & WEBSITES ONLY-
Please submit Lenses at this link: Submit an Existing Lens. Thanks!

All submissions subject to approval.

Add to this list Grab this list

Get the RSS feed: Keep an eye on this Plexo list. See who wins. And who's left in the dirt.

Get the widget: Add this Plexo list as a widget on your blog, site, forum, whatever. Be an influential. Show off your great find.

Get this on my lens: Attack of the clones! Grab this Plexo module for your own lens. Get YOUR readers to vote for their favorites.

• Add to Bloglines
• Add to My Yahoo
• Add to Google
• Add to Technorati
• Add to NewsGator
• Add to My MSN
• Grab the XML

Please pick your widget size and display. Then click "Make the Widget" to get the code that's just right for you.

Small size: Best for blog sidebars and areas 250 pixels or less

Standard size: Best for blog posts and areas greater than 250 pixels wide

How many list items to show? 5 10 15 All

Make the Widget!

Voila: Just copy and paste this code into your own site. Have fun!

Oopsey! Please login to Squidoo in order to add this module to your lens.

Add more links

Submit

Type or paste links below (one per line):
(Ex: http://www.cuteoverload.com) Help me find links

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Dreaming of one BILLION Lenses...

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