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Productivity Tools to Make Lens Design a Snap

Most of the info on this lens is from SquidUtils and their blog - '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 functions not included on your usual dashboard.'

Squidoo Co-branding & Club Front Doors

Squidoo.us - A visual map of the Squidoo front doors

Squidoo Lens & Group Search

"Here is a customised search tool, powered by Google, to help you to find anything you need on Squidoo. What makes it really special is that the results are filtered so that they will only show lenses or groups."

Search for Lenses:

Search for Groups:

Lenses You Shouldn't Miss

These guidelines and tips are sure to help you improve your lenses.

Show off your Fanclub

"Get this graphic for your Lensography or Blog"

click to get code

From the link above you can also get an RSS Feed of all your lenses, sorted by increasing Lensrank.

Squidoo Lens Backlink Checker

"This tool while find all the backlinks to your Squidoo Lens, i.e. which websites are have links to it. The links are grouped by domain name - click on a domain to see all the links from it. "

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Squidoo Lens Ping

"This Ping Tool will notify a number of blog search services that your lens has been updated, and is specially optimised for Squidoo. It is probably good for getting new lenses indexed quickly by search engines."

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Squidoo Lens Health Check

"There's very high percentage of lenses on Squidoo that have not been fully optimised. This tool will analyze your lens, and let you know which bits you need to change. "

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Squidoo Lens Table Generator

"This tool will create a table in HTML code that is compatible with your Squidoo Lens."

Squidoo Firefox Add-ons

Official Squidoo Extension
Squidoo Dashboard Extension

The dashboard shows a basic set of information to the Squidoo user, but is this enough? The Squidoo DE will enhance Firefox to show even more information on the dashboard.