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The Home Improvement Angel At Squidoo

Improving the Home Improvement section of Home & Garden here at Squidoo by voting up the quality lenses I find. In my position as the Home Improvement Angel, come along and see what goodness I've been able to vote up in the Home Improvement section and its subsections.

The plan for this page is to keep it updated with the latest 100 lenses I've blessed -- The Home Improvement Angel's Top 100.

If you're interested to know what I look for in blessing lenses, it's simple really: the lens gives to the reader, it offers them something for their time by giving information they can use or simply by satisfying their curiosity about the subject. It also recommends products for sale, but doesn't have to. ...Lenses I don't bless and just move away from are such as those laden with typos, or that are too short or have incomplete information.

Here's to a happy home improvement area for our writers and our readers here in Home & Garden. Happy Squidooing!

Update: Angels no longer have "neighborhoods" and are free to roam the whole of Squidoo looking for quality work to bless.

Home Improvement Needs Improvement

Perfection cannot be, but passion is a must

So far, here are the most common reasons why I cannot bless a lens:

The lensmaster's avatar is still the Squidoo default
The bio is still the Squidoo default bio of "Hello World"
The lens needs proofreading — lots of grammar and spelling errors
The lens content is mostly just Wikipedia copy
The lens offers no information except as an advertisement for the writer's business — The "Here's a lens just to link you to my site" type of lens
Recommended sales items are unrelated to the lens topic
Lens topic not focused enough — too much additional, unrelated information
Photos are not credited
Common grammar errors such as "your" when "you're" should be used or "it's" when "its" should be used — No, a couple of instances on an otherwise great lens will not run me off without blessing it first
Lens may be exceptional, but no matter how I look at it, I can't see its being categorized in the neighborhood of Home Improvement— which is where my first obligation is

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50+ Blessed Home-Improvement Lenses

Home Improvement and its sub sections

Advice To Newbies

The #1 Thing To Do At Squidoo

Learn how to write lenses — The Answer Deck will give you a great start.

Second #1 thing to do: If you're a business, write and promote how-to lenses—not "here's-my-business lenses." More help at this page:

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fulltimehockeymom May 31, 2011 @ 9:54 am | delete

Great lens form an even better Squidoo pioneer!

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renttoownmyhome Apr 4, 2011 @ 3:50 pm | delete

Great Information Here! DIY Around The Home Is A Great Way To Save And Have A Little Fun To Boot.

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lollyj Mar 29, 2011 @ 8:17 am | delete

Hubby and I aren't very accomplished DIYers. Maybe some painting at best, so guess we won't be building a shed any time soon. Loved the lens.