Lens Workshop Addon for Firefox
Enhance Your Squidoo Experience!
This addon for Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome incorporates extra features into the Lens Workshop and a few other pages on Squidoo. The most significant improvements are: Lensrank updates, colored tags, detailed stats, integrated ping, and more...
Updated Feb, 2013 - Version 2.55
Jump to installation instructions for Firefox and Chrome
Got IE or Safari? Get the Squidoo Toolbar instead...
Ping Lens After Publishing
Whenever you publish a lens, an extra link is added to the box at the top of page: "Ping lens". This will notify a variety of search engines and blog aggregation services that your lens has been updated. The best time to click on this is just after publishing a lens for the first time, or after doing some major rewriting of it. If you've only made a really small change to the lens, then it's probably not worth doing a ping.
Color Coded Tag Editor
When editing the tags for a lens, each one is color-coded depending on it's popularity.
100+ - lots lenses use this tag
21 - 99 - some lenses use this tag
5 - 20 - a few lenses use this tag
2 - 5 - not many lenses use this tag
zero or 1 - no other lenses use this tag
New in version 1.8: underneath the tags will be a list of suggested tags, based on what other similar lenses use for theirs.
It is best to pick tags that are popular, as it increases the number of lenses that your lens will appear on via the Discovery Tool. Make sure that any keywords you pick are directly related to your lens. Avoid using 'long tail keywords' as these will add no value.
For more tips on tags, read Making the Most of Squidoo Tags.
Access to Tools in the Sidebar
One new box is added to the sidebar on the right of the workshop. The box is titled "SquidUtils.com", and it is opened by default. This box contains links to some of the tools on SquidUtils, and will open in a new tab or window.
Edit Dashboard Labels
Dashboard Labels are a great way to organise your lenses in to groups so they are easier to manage. Now, you can assign your lenses to labels within the Workshop itself.
Link to Any Module...
At the top of every module there two extra links: [#link] and [Top]. 'Top' takes you to the top of the workshop, while '#link' to that module when it is published, so that you can provide a link to it from elsewhere on your lens. Simply right-click on the #link, and select 'Copy Link Location' from the menu.
Main Dashboard
At the top of the main dashboard, above the list of lenses, a small graphic will notify you when Lensrank has been updated:In the sidebar, you will find a bunch of links:
Login to SquidUtils - automatically login to SquidUtils
Advanced Dashboard - jump directly to your list of lenses
Lensmaster RSS Feed - get all your lenses in a RSS feed
Check For New Script - get the latest version of the addon
More Detailed Lens Stats
Summary of Lensrank and Traffic
Click-through Stats
When you view the stats for one of your lenses, you'll see some extra links a features:
- just below the lens title, there's a new 'Edit' link that goes directly to the workshop.
- below the graphs is a table showing the actual traffic and Lensrank from the charts.
- the Traffic tab will show the total click-throughs, and calculate the CTR.
How To Install The Addon
Step by step instructions
for Firefox and Chrome
Get The Workshop Addon for Firefox
in 2 easy steps...
- Install the Greasemonkey plugin and then restart Firefox.
(Skip this step if you've already done this before, and are just upgrading)
When successfully installed, you will see a monkey face on your status bar.
- Click on this link to install the script. You should see this popup window:
(if you get a screen full of text instead, check step 1 again)
Click on the Install button, and you're done!
No need to restart - just go to your Dashboard to see the improvements...
Get The Workshop Addon for Google Chrome
If you prefer to use Google Chrome instead of Firefox, then here's how to install it:
- Click on this link and download the script to your computer.
Ignore the yellow warning bar that appears along the top of the window. - Then, go to the menu and click on Tools --> Extensions.
- Drag the file from the download bar into that new page.
- Next, confirm that you do want to install this addon:
- That's it! You should see the new features on your Dashboard and Workshop.
Tested in Chrome version 7.0
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Lensmaster Feedback
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topbuilderlist May 7, 2013 @ 11:32 am | deleteThanks for highlighting here the importance of primary tag. -
Just what I was looking for. Install settings were a bit different for me through Chrome, but I was able to figure it out. Thanks for the great addon. -
Thank you so much for this! I love the tag editor. -
Another great tools I stumbled here at Squidoo. Keep it up and let share things that help us all to grow.
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Wow, I didn't know there were addon for the lenses. Thanks for the info.
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Thank you for the detailed information! -
Just stopping back in to get info to install the dashboard extension post-chrome browser changes. Ahh! feel better with all the bells and whistles working with SquidUtils enhancements! -
A practical note: in re-installing this in the latest Chrome, the download disappeared from the Chrome download menu. However, dragging it from my downloads folder on my PC to the Extensions page worked. -
Awesome tool(s)! Love it! And of course also thanks for this lens :D
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i have installed this addon. The workshop addon will help me in writting very much. Thanks for an usefull lens. -
Hi Fluff. Been using the add-on for years now. Works great on Vista laptop, updates always go on okay, etc. However, trying to install on Win 8 laptop and it's having none of it. I have Greasemonkey installed and enabled. I can see he's coloured up on the top right. He's not showing on the bottom status bar.
Have disabled, uninstalled, reinstalled, re-enabled but am still get page of script when I try to install the add-on. Using FF 19.0.1. x -
Thanks for all the info. The tag editor really helps. -
Thank you fluffanutta! I have used the workshop addon with Firefox but didn't realize there was one for Chrome. Can't wait to use the addon again! -
I am completely new to Squidoo but not to affiliate marketing. After a couple of years with little success I come here determined to succeed. I found this page on day 3 of being here and have added your lovely addon to my desktop and laptop. Thanks so much it is already helping make my lenses more effective and better. I am really grateful, although I know gratitude doesn't pay the bills, but I wanted to let you know nonetheless xxx -
I am trying to install this script. I have greasemonkey installed but whenever I click on the link to install the script, I just get a screen full of code. I have tried again and again. It does not work. Is there a way to do it manually? - Load More
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