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    The home for lenses & Info & tips on how to maintain or improve any lens on Squidoo! Why have an average lens when you can have a "Splendiferous" Lens? Content, Layout, Design, Resources and more. Great tips & tools to Soup-up, Pimp-out, Spiff-up and Trick-Out your lens from Experienced Lensmasters.

    There are some really great "How-to" lenses and resources on the elements of making a great lens, it is time to gather them all into one place- right here!

    Find all kinds of resources for serious Lensmastering here at the Pimp My Lens HQ!

    Do you have a "HOW TO" LENS about lensmastering tips, tricks or resources?
    We'd love to see it and help you share it with all of Squidoo!

    Word to the Wise: No Jive Talkin'!
    RELEVANT TOPIC LENSES ONLY, PLEASE!

    -All lenses subject to approval.
    -No link is created until a lens is officially approved.
    -Pending lenses DO NOT appear on the list of Member Lenses OR on the HQ Page. 

    Off-topic Lenses will get the big ol' vinyl platform disco BOOT. Seriously!

    In other words- it is a waste of time to submit off-topic lenses, they will only be deleted from the pending list- never see the light of day. RESIST this most FUTILE TEMPTATION!

    Please submit lenses for review one of two ways:

    Submit an EXISTING LENS (finished, published, relevant subject)

    Make a NEW LENS (build one from scratch)

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Experience

The New Way to Pimp 

Are you ready to have the Coolest Lens on the Block?

Pimping ain't what it used to be!

The new urban slang redefines the word Pimp:

Pimp
(verb)
1. To make something cool, fresh, flashy or trendy. The use of accessories to enhance the appearance of something (as in a car), usually in an extreme, highly stylized or gaudy way.

2. The act of promoting something or someone.

Here we will focus mainly on the Design and Content aspects for Lenses, but information on how to Actively Promote your lens will be here too. (Hey, there's even stuff for Groups too!)

Lenses on understanding the various tools and features of Squidoo, official and unofficial, are gathered here too for quick, easy reference.

Now you have your lens all set up and it looks "Pretty darn good", but you want to take it up a notch into "Splendiferous" or even "Awesometastic".

Here is a growing collection of tips and tricks to help do just that!

I can't say that I've tried them all- far from it, but it sure feels like being a kid in a candy shop! In light of this, we invite you to share your experiences with different tricks, advice and techniques found here in the "Rap Session" module below.

Pimpin' Proper: Photos 

Photos on your Squidoo lens is a BIG ISSUE

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

featured lens How to Legally Add Copyrighted Pictures to Squidoo Lenses

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featured 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...

featured lens How to add large photos and audio to your lens

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featured lens Royalty-free images for your website

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Freshest Pimping Info 

Fresh is Best!

Browse the MOST RECENTLY UPDATED LENSES in the Group:

Featured Trick 

One tentacle at a time...

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

ADD some pizazz to your lens. Learn how to change the text color or add a hyperlink like we've done like here!
Play that Funky Music.


Thanks to N376
featured lens Basic HTML for Squidoo

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Word On the Street 

From the Squid Posse: Megan Casey, Corey Brown & Gil Hildebrand, Jr

Live Feed from the Official Squid Blog by Team Squid:

Loading Fetching RSS feed... please stand by

Group Rap Session 

Guestbook for Comments, Discussion, Feedback

Have a comment or a question about Pimping a Lens?

How did a Trick work (or not work) for you?

Please share your questions, comments and suggestions here!

Lensmaster

Pastiche wrote...

WOW! I faved this one - and will be using tips from group members to pimp up my lenses. 5*s

ReplyPosted August 24, 2008

Lensmaster

betsuzie wrote...

Great tricks to make your lens stand out!

ReplyPosted August 06, 2008

Lensmaster

Kathryn-live-2008 wrote...

I'm new and I appreciate you sharing the wonderful information...thanks for taking the time to do this for everyone.

***and if you are reading this..can you please sign my guestbook!!!*** Have a fantastic day!

ReplyPosted July 29, 2008

Lensmaster

BABYKITTY wrote...

Wonderful--informative--great tips. What more can I say? I learn soooo much here at Squidoo that I can apply elsewhere that it almost feels like I'm stealing!!

Keep up the great work! We all appreciate it!!

ReplyPosted June 18, 2008

Lensmaster

Music-Resource wrote...

Excellent tweaking resource for all lensmasters :) ~Music Resource~

ReplyPosted May 23, 2008

 
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Pre-Pimping: How to Begin 

Getting Started

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
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featured lens Your Lensmasters Bio

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

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featured lens 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...

Progressive Pimping 1: The Essentials 

Basic Tools

Specific Features-
featured lens Your Lensmaster Profile

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featured lens 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...

featured lens Squid-Cast: How to Add Modules

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featured lens How to backup your lens

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Progressive Pimping 2: Maximizing Modules 

Get the most out of Modules

One Module at a time-
featured lens 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...

featured lens 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...

featured lens 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...

featured lens 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...

Pimp My Topic 

"How to" Guides to Building specific types of lenses

Need a template?
Here are some great examples:
featured lens 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...

featured lens 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...

featured lens 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...

featured lens 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  ...

featured lens 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...

Pro-Pimping 1: Bling-Bling 

Got Image? Customizing with Primo Images & Audio

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!
featured lens 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...

featured 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!

featured 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...

featured lens 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...

Pro-Pimping 2: HTML Tricks for Squidoo 

The Pimpin' Pros know what works & what doesn't

Custom Coding-
featured lens 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...

featured lens 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...

featured lens 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...

featured lens Basic HTML for Squidoo

Before you start reading all this, you may want to open Advanced HTML in a new tab, because you'll be wanting to check it out as soon as you've finished this! You can use basic HTML in a few of the lens modules. Mostly used to create hyperlinks (the...

Pro-Pimping 3: All Tricked Out 

Beyond the Basics - Not in the "standard issue" bag of Squidoo tricks!

Fly Tricks & Accessories-
featured lens 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...

featured lens 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...

featured lens 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...

featured lens Amazon RSS Feeds for Your Squidoo Lens

There is a special service for Squidoo Lensmasters whom are also Amazon Associates - RSS Feeds containing products from Amazon. You can put these feeds into your lens to show books, DVD, electronics and more from specific categories. "But Why?&qu...

featured lens 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...

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featured lens 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...

featured lens Using Gather to promote your Squidoo Lenses

I'm not going to even start to fathom the depths of how Gather works or ways it can be used all on its own, but strictly from a Squidoo Lensmasters point of view I found it an excellent way to reach a large untapped audience and also increase ones ow...

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

So, you want to learn how to build successful Squidoo lenses (or any sort of webpage), attract web traffic, and get your Squidoo lens found by Google! This three-part tutorial covers: Part I: Ten Steps to Build an Appealing (and Effective) Lens Part...

featured lens 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...

featured lens 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 

Squeezing some Cash Out of Your Squid

Milk those tentacles!
featured lens 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...

featured lens 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.

featured lens 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...

featured lens 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.

Pimping Potpourri 

An Exotic Blend of Information, Commentary and Q&A

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featured lens Squidoo Features Wish List

I decided to create this lens after making several suggestions to the Squidoo team without response. I guess they are very busy!!! Please check in and see what features would be nice to have and would improve the whole Squidoo experience.  

featured lens 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...

featured lens 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...

featured lens Lensmaster Tools and Utilities

SQUIDUtils.com Utilities and Tools for the Expert Lensmaster SquidUtils is the place to find complementary 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 func...

featured lens How To Squidoo And Change The World

Creating a Squidoo lens can help make a difference in the world or your little corner of it. Would you like to raise awareness and/or money for a good cause? Find a missing child? Tell someone you love them? Get an animal adopted? Show people how to...

Pimping Primer 

What does is all mean? Understanding Squidoo Lingo, Culture & Values

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?
featured lens Lens Rating

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

featured lens 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...

featured lens 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...

featured lens 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...

featured lens 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. 

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Everything you wanted to know about groups...and then some. For Lnesmasters and Groupmasters.

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featured lens 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,...

featured lens 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...

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