101 Ideas for a Squidoo Lens!

I find that whilst my brain might be buzzing with ideas for a Squidoo lens during the day I get writer's block by the time I begin to type! I recently had a brainstorming session, writing down a whole variety of possible topics that could be turned into a lens. I have since decided to turn that brainstorming session into a lens. I hope that you find something here to inspire you!

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Funny Memories: If you are like most people, you life will have been filled with humorous moments; an experience that has stayed with you and always brings you laughter when you think about it.

Sad Memories: Unfortunately, life can have its sad moments. Sometimes writing these down can be very cathartic.

Happy Memories: Happy memories can be those big moments such as the birth of your child, your wedding day or your 21st birthday. You may decide to write about those smaller life changing moments, such as overcoming a phobia or finally travelling to a country that you have been yearning to visit.

My Goals: Publicly affirming your goals to friends and family can be a great motivator to actually helping you to achieve your goals. When you publically declare your goals, you are accountable for them, and that just may be the kick you need to keep you moving towards them.

A Day In Life Of: Are you a banker, a teacher, an artist? Creating a lens that details what occurs in a typical day at your job, is a great way to entertain a reader. Think of it like a work diary.

Pet Care: This topic has endless opportunities. You may decide to have a single general lens on dog care, or could have multiple detailed lenses on subtopics such as Caring For a Labrador.

Pet Health: Many people are simple unaware of the many health conditions that can affect an animal. Creating a lens that highlights specific pet related health conditions will target animal lovers.

Cute Animal Photos: Cute animal pictures, especially kittens and puppies, are huge on the internet.

Famous Animals: Skippy, Lassie, Old Yeller, Benji, Babe are just a few of the famous animals out there worthy of their very own lens!

Animal F.A.Q: This type of lens could either take on a humorous tone or a serious one. If you opt for a humorous one, each frequently asked question, could be constructed in a satirical form. If you choose the serious path, your lens could act as an informative guide for new prospective pet owners who are planning to adopt a new animal.

Art History: This one has countless possibilities.

Biography of an Artist: Are you a fan of Picasso, Renoir or Warhol? Writing a biographical lens on your favorite artist is a great way to honor them.

Dissect a Painting: Writing a review on yiur favorite painting a good way to entice healthy feedback banter in your guestbook.

Recycled Art: Do you know how to turn household 'trash' into art? Share your tips in a squidoo lens.

Your Portfolio: Are you an artist? Showcasing your portfolio online is a great way to promote yourself as an artist.

Photographic Review: There are so many talented photographers out there. Choose your favourite photograph and write up an objective review on it. You will not only be promoting a photographer, but you will also be providing your readers with thought provoking content.

Reviews: Are you an avid reader? Have you read a book that you have loved completely or it did it leave you feeling cheated? Share your reviews on a lens and find out other people's thought about the book.

Book Recommendations: There are so many books out there, that finding a good book on any topic can be a time-consuming task. Creating lists that specifically relate to a niche or demographic is a great way to combine affiliate marketing and good content.

Self-Publishing: Do you have any tips for wannabe self publishers?

Audio Books:Audio books can be a great time saver to catching up on the latest books, however, not all audio books are worth the listen. Some narrations can actually put you off the book. Some sites such as Audible.com do allow you to have a preview of the narration, however, the preview is limited to only 30 seconds. If you have listened to a great audio book, you could write a lens on this, making comment to the narration and whether or not it suited the flow of the story.

Autobiographies: I find autobiographies so fascinating. It's always interesting to read about another person's challenges and to see how they have overcome them.

Book and Movie Adaption Comparison:

Top 10 Book Lists: Top 10 horror books, top 10 sci-fi books, Top 10 break-up books... you get the drift.

Fictional Character Biographies:

Starting a Business: Starting a business is a very important time in one's life. Creating a lens that has useful information for businesses in the start-up phase is always a good idea. However, try not to make the lens too general as focusing on a specific business sub topic is more likely to engage your readers.

Business Marketing: Do you have business marketing skills? Creating a lens giving your readers pointers and tips to help them bring more traffic to their business is a great way to encourage return visits.

Business Ideas: Creating a lens that will inspire your readers with business ideas is an invaluable resource for people wanting to start up a business.

What Not To Do In Business: Sometimes, the greatest business lessons are learnt from our mistakes. Sharing those mistakes and the lessons that you have learnt from them makes a great lens.

Car Buying Tips: Buying a car is a pretty daunting experience for most. Writing a lens advising readers on how to purchase a quality car for less is an invaluable read. You could either opt to have a broad lens on cars in general, or focus on specific car models.

Mechanic Review: Unfortunately, many people do not trust car mechanics. Just like with most things, the few minority unethical mechanics, creates a bad name for all mechanics! Creating a lens that helps people to pick out a good mechanic would make a great lens. Alternatively, you could even showcase a mechanic that you know to be trustworthy and ethical.

Car Enthusiast: Writing a lens on certain car models will appeal to the forever growing car fans.

Car Accessories: This could be a broad overview on car accessories in general, or yet again, you could cover accessories specific to each car model.

Software Tutorials: Are you proficient in a specific software ? You can create multiple tutorial lenses teaching your readers how to use the software.

Vista Tips: Do you know how to make Vista more efficient or how to customize it for a specific need? You would be surprised at how useful this information is for those (like myself) who only use the default settings.

Troubleshooting:

Computer Hardware Review:

New Gadget Review: It seems that every week a new gadget hit the market. Do you have one of these shiny new gadgets? Share your objective reviews with your readers in a lens.

Buying Tips: Purchasing new computer equipment or gadgets can be a daunting experience. Writing up guides to help consumers make the right buying choices is always well appreciated.

How To Guides: I have noticed that many people don't give themselves proper credit for their skills. They may think that everyone knows how to do what they do, however, that is not the case. We are all unique and different in so many ways. Some of us may be great in the kitchen, others may know how to fix a crashing computer, or be fantastic gardeners. Creating a lens that shares those niche skills is always a favorite amongst readers.

Specialized Collections: Do you collect baseball cards, badges, stamps? Writing a lens full of information on your hobby is a great way to target a specific niche demographic.

Dress Patterns:

Knitting Patterns:

Crafts for Kids: This one has lots of potential. Create a series of lenses on different craft ideas. Try to focus on a specific niche, for example, primary school kids craft, summer crafts or free crafts.

TV Characters Against Each Other:

Original Movies v's New Remakes:

TV Shows v's Their Spin-Offs:

Books v's Their Movie Adaptations:

TV Show v's Movie Spin-Off:

Movie v's TV Spin-Off:

How to Learn an Instrument: Everyday, there are people picking up an instrument for the first time. If you know how to play an instrument, writing a lens that shares your tips for beginners would make a great lens. You may decide to go that step further and create a series of beginner's tutorial lenses covering the basics of playing a specific instrument.

Hairstyles: You could create countless lenses on different hairstyles for daytime, evening, formal, proms, weddings. Don't forget that for this type of lens pictures are essential.

Create That Make-Up Look: Share your make-up techniques for creating different looks for different occasions. Pictures are also essential here.

Learn a Language: Share a useful lens on some common survival phrases that a person would need to know when travelling to certain countries. Better yet, through a series of lenses you could create a beginners tutorial for learning a particular language.

Learn to... Draw, paint, photograph animals, scrapbooking... I I could go on and on here.

Maths Help: Do you consider yourself pretty talented when it comes to maths. I certainly don't and would have benefited from some mathematic lenses when I was in high-school, especially if it explained difficult concepts to me in a more simplified manner. This lens would also be targeted to parents who help their kids with their homework.

Gig Reviews: Still buzzing after the latest band you saw live? Writing a lens reviewing a recent concert you attended makes a great for their fans.

Cheap Entertainment: Do you know how to have fun for little money. Share those tips!

Profile a Musician: Profiling a local independent musician is a great way to help the local music scene in your community whilst promoting a talented artist. You could use the text module to create a biography and the YouTube modules to showcase them in action.

Specialized Diets: There are many reasons why people are on a specialized diet such as gluten-free, vegan or the raw food diet. If you are on a specialized diet, why not share your experience about how the diet has affected you and the reason behind it. You may also want to write a lens that focuses on local restaurants that cater to these diets. As a person that cannot eat gluten or dairy, I have spent countless hours researching these topics and would love to find a lense that helps me find places that I can eat at.

Favorite Recipes: What's your favorite recipe?

Organic Cooking:

Teaching Kids To Cook:

Recycling Tips: Recycling is always a hot topic these days. Creating lens around the topic of recycling household goods is always a favorite.

Green Living: People love reading about how they can turn their homes 'green' especially if saving money is involved! Think about all the different ways that you are being green in your own home and turn this information into a lens.

Health Prevention: Do you have an active and healthy lifestyle? If so, you can always write a lens offering advice on how your readers can keep a healthy lifestyle whilst preventing certain health conditions.

Health Conditions: If you work in the health industry you are in the perfect position to create lenses on specific health conditions. You should include general information about the condition, a list of symptoms to watch out for and how to proceed with treatment. These lenses could easily be linked to the health prevention lenses.

How to Save Money at Home: Saving money will always be a popular topic. Have a think of all the different ways you save money at home and compile these hints into a lens.

Room Makeovers: Share your room makeover tips with your readers on a lens. Don't forget to include plenty of pictures!

Household Chores.

Vegetable Garden Information: The home vegetable garden is becoming increasingly popular these days. However, just because you want to grown a veggie garden, doesn't mean that it will be a success. If you have a green thumb consider sharing your gardening tips on Squidoo.

Specific Plant Guides:

Top 10 Lists:

Funny Limericks:

Funny Photographs or Signs:

A Funny Thing Happened:


Funny Movies, Shows, Books:

Promote Events: Does your local town hold annual events? Creating a squidoo lens is the perfect no-fuss way to promote the event. Add photographs of last year's events and testimonials for further effect.

Restaurant Guide: Do you know where the best restaurant in your town is located?

Best Cup of Coffee: Never, and I mean never, underestimate a great cup of coffee. If you know which coffee shop brews the best coffee in your town, it's your duty to share this information.

Unknown Facts About Your Town: Every town is brimming with great facts and trivia. Write up a lens promoting your local town.

Hidden Tourist Gems: You can bet that most people will Google their vacation destination before going on holidays.

Movie Reviews:

Television Show Reviews: Writing about television shows that you are passionate can really come across as a great lens and the topic would have a long relevancy all year around as shows air and are in syndication at all different times of year world wide.

DVD Reviews:When reviewing a DVD, always ensure to also review the special features that come with a DVD. Otherwise, your DVD review may as just as well be an ordinary movie review.

Top 10 Celebrity Lists:

Music History:

Musician Biographies:

Learn an Instrument: Many people spend hours on Google finding sites that teach a person how to play an instrument. Creating multiple lenses on this topic can have great benefits and repeat visitors.

Music Theory:

Current Affairs:With current affairs, you'll never be short of topics to create a lens on. Just remember, that there will be plenty of news articles out there, so try to make yours different.

Political Issues:

Current World News Stories

Kids Party Ideas: Have you held your fair share of kids birthday parties? Use this experience to create lens helping parents to organize their child's party.

School Holidays: Are you a pro at keeping your kids happy and entertained during the school holidays? Share your secrets with other parents.

Spotlight on A Local Hero: Do you know someone who is a pretty special person? Maybe the local baker who always makes extra bread to take to the local shelter, or perhaps even someone in your family? Everyone is special in their own way and writing about someone who is not in the public eye can be so much more rewarding - and a better read too!

Famous People in History: There are countless historical figures that work make a great subject matter for a lens.

Current Fashion Trends:

Current 'in' Television Shows: Television shows always make good subject matters for a lens. More so, if the show is currently rating high. After the finale of Lost, hundreds of articles and blog posts covering it were published!

Niche Merchandising: There are always new movies coming out and bands going on major tours. This results in plenty of Google searching for matching merchandise.

Spiritual Book Reviews: Have you read a book that has left an impact on you? The greatest way to honor that is to write a review on it. You could use text modules, a poll, excerpts from wikipedia.

Spirituality /Religion History:

Figures in History

SEO Tips:Do you you consider yourself pretty good at search engine optimization? Share you tips, tricks and techniques in a lens! Whether your lens is focused on a Squidoo lens or on websites in general, it will be bound to be a useful read.

SEO Tools: Share your proven resources and SEO tools in a lens.

Online Shopping Site Profiles:

Shopping Guides: People turn to Google when they need advice for buying anything from simple groceries to the big ticket items. If you are an expert in anything that can be purchased, write a guide for it. Some ideas are digital SLRS, scrapbooking supplies, motherboards - I could go on and on!

Sports Team Profile: Write a profile on a sports team! It could either be a well known team or the lesser knows local teams.

Sports For Beginners: I'll admit I know next-to-nothing on sports. A lens covering the basics on different sports would be very useful for me and the other sporty-challenged people out there!

Tips For A Great Lens: Are you a pro at creating high ranking squidoo lenses? Are you a member of the elusive Giant Squids? Consider sharing the knowledge you have learnt in a Squidoo lens.

Understanding Squidoo: Squidoo can be a pretty daunting place for 'newbies.' Have some tips that will make the transition easier?

Travel Guides: Have you been on a holiday recently? You could write about on your experience. A fun way of doing this is to break the lens like a journal. You could have subheadings such as day one, day two and get into the nitty gritty such about where you stayed and visited and what you would have changed and what you would do again. Photographs are pretty useful for this type of lens,

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Whilst it wont happen overnight, many lensmasters are making hundreds each month and the best thing is, an article you write today could still be earning you money years from now!

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Game Reviews:

New Game Releases:

Top 10 Video Game Lists: These lists can be niche driven, such as Top 10 Action Games, Top 10 Mystery Games Top 10 Movie Spin-Off Games These lens can also be updated as new games are released.

Online Internet Business: This is a biggie. The trick is to write informative, resourceful lens and not ones that are purely promoting, for lack of a better work, pyramid schemes.

Working at Home Tips: Working at home is tough, especially if it is your only source of income. If you know of any tips that has made your working life at home easier, share them in a lens.

Niche Volunteering Opportunities: Do you volunteer in a specific niche area? A lens can be a great way to gain recruits and/or raise awareness of all the different types of charity organisations.

Volunteering for Beginners: Many people want to volunteer but don't know how to get started. A lens depicting what it takes to become involved in volunteer work and the steps a person needs to take would be a great read.