Lensmaster Tools and Utilities

This new browser toolbar from SquidUtils.com puts powerful tools at the finger tips of Lensmasters. Featuring quick links to all your Squidoo accounts, lenses and groups, and easy access to all the social functions, this toolbar will be indispensable...

This addon for Firefox 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 improved support for Groups. See t...

One of the (many) secrets of getting a good Lensrank is the star ratings that other Lensmasters can give to your lens. Getting them to actually visit your lens is hard enough, yet sometimes they leave without clicking on the stars at the top. This w...

This Clickbank Module will enable you to display paying ads for digital products that match the topic of your lens. When a visitor clicks on one of these links and buys something from ClickBank, you get a share of the commission (up to 75% of the sal...

If you're looking for a way to add a dynamic and interactive social bookmarking widget to your lens, you've come to the right place. Powered by AddThis.com, this widget appears a single button that supports almost all of the social networks. Stick t...

If you are a member of one or more affiliate programs, like Amazon, then you probably already know how put static links on your lenses. However, over time these links can become outdated or even broken, and you could be losing revenue because of this...

It used to be possible to embed the official Amazon Product Links into a lens (if you were an Amazon Associate). However, since the support for IFrames was withdrawn from Squidoo, this is no longer an option. At SQUIDUtils.com there is a special to...

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...

Searching for Squidoo lenses on a search engine can be a real pain sometimes, as the results are very often filled with non-content pages like tags. Finding the best groups for your lens to join can also be very tricky. Here I provide two custom sea...

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,...

Squidoo has launched themes for your lenses. It's as quick and easy as editing your lens, selecting your theme, and publishing. The hard part, however, is deciding which theme is best for your lens. This magical lens can help you with that...

Originally developed for SQUIDUtils.com, the Health Check Tool can quickly identify common issues with your lens. The advice that it gives can help improve the ranking of your lens in the search engines. This lens will tell you more about what it do...

The <table> and associated tags are not permitted on Squidoo, and if you attempt to put these into your lens, they will get stripped out. The Table Generator will convert CSV data or a HTML table into code that is compatible, and looks just as...

Widgets are a fun way of adding interactivity to your lens, and making it more exciting for your visitors. There is a directory of Squidoo Friendly Widgets at WidgetSquid.com, which has a growing library of widgets that you can use right away. If y...

There are many ways that you can add links to your Lens, improving the experience of your readers. How you add those links often depends on what those links are for. This Lens explains the different types of links, and the techniques available to you...

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...

Squidoo provides pretty good statistics about how many visitors come to your lens, and what they click on. There are some 3rd party analytics services that can give you a little bit more information, and they are easy to setup. On this lens I have r...

The basic tools provided by Squidoo will do pretty much everything you need to get your content out to your audience. But sometimes you want to format it a little differently, and this is where inline CSS comes into play. Here I show some of the tric...

Hang out with other Squidoo Lensmasters, swap tips and get critiques of your lenses in the Squidoo Chat Room. Started by Captain Squid, this chat room is open to all Lensmasters and does not require any software to use. Just click on the entry form...