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100 Tagfoot Tips

As I recently became the first member on Tagfoot to reach a Footness of 100,000, I thought I'd share 100 hot Tagfoot tips with you!

The most important thing to remember is just to have fun. Tagfoot can be confusing when you're just starting out, but...

50 Things you can Reuse

Recycling is very important, but even better is reusing. Recycling actually uses energy and transport time and fuel to get the items to where they need to go. If you can reuse an item yourself, that's more energy, time and fuel saved, as well as...

6 ways to improve your lens, right now!

You've already done the hard part. You've had a big idea, something you want to talk about or share on your lens, and you got started. Way to go.

So, this lens is about what comes next. It's a quick, 30 second overview of just a handful of easy thin...

7 Cool Reasons To Use SquidooFacebookConnect

We're excited to be working with Facebook on something pretty cool for you guys. It's called SquidooConnect, and it uses the popular Facebook Connect application. And it's live now.

The short version is: This new feature will be available to all Squ...

A Month of Thanks Challenge

A Month of Thanks gives lensmasters a chance to be thankful, raise awareness about hunger and make lenses to benefit hunger related Squidoo Charities.

The challenge is being done to help us realize that even in the midst of everything that is going...

About Twttrstrm.com

It's called Twttrstrm (we didn't have enough money to buy vowels). It stands for TwitterStorm.

Ask a question of your Twitter followers and easily gather all their answers in one spot.

It is a Squidoo plug in and a stand alone site that allows any...

Add Your Profile - Make New Friends

Social Bookmarking; Web 2.0; Squidoo - All great new ways to promote your content. Squidoo Lensmasters love to promote their lenses with these sites. Use this site to Add Your Profile address and find other lensmasters profiles on the respective book...

Advanced HTML for Squidoo

The techniques shown here aren't much more advanced then what's in the Basic HTML tutorial. The code being used isn't any more special. But the results and presentation can appear to be more sophisticated. Hence it being the Advanced HTML tutorial. F...

Alabama State Parks, Museums, and Festivals

Alabama is home to many State Parks filled with scenic beauty, fun and adventure. Whether you like the mountains, beaches, forests, lakes or streams, Alabama has something for you and your family.

Just look at the Buck's Pocket State Park sign. Alab...

Basic HTML for Squidoo

Before you start reading all this, you may want to open Advanced HTML in a new tab, because you'll be wanting to check it out as soon as you've finished this!

You can use basic HTML in a few of the lens modules.

Mostly used to create hyperlinks (the...

Books from "The Daily Show" (Current Season)

Jon Stewart invites a lot of authors, moviestars and other folks to pitch their books and movies on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. But do you think you could find a simple list of them and links to Amazon on the Internet? No. Well, I thought that w...

Check these out -- SquidooSecrets.com Members' Very First Lens

As a member of SquidooSecrets.com, you have almost an unfair advantage.  One of those being this lens. 

This lens has one central purpose:  to get a link to your lens from this lens so you can have more traffic and a higher lens ranki...

ClickBank Ads Module

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...

Coast of the Catskills - Unfeathered

Welcome! The Coast of the Catskills - Unfeathered page. We are proud to promote and present trop rock music in and around the Walton, NY area and as far as our friendships reach. We are a collection of folks who believe in "leaving things just a...

Diecast Collectible Cars

This is the place to find some of the best deals on diecast cars. We'll feature our auctions in different categories so they're easy to find. And we'll bring you some of the best diecast cars for sale so you can easily add to your collection. If you'...

Do Squidoo: A much requested guide to creating a successful Squidoo lens

Are you seeking information on how to use Squidoo effectively?  Excellent, because this lens is made just for you!

Find the answers to: 

- How do I do ...?
- Why won't ... work?
- How can I ...?
- Why do you ...?
- Where is the ...?

Finally d...

Do You Twitter, MySpace or Mixx? Increase your Traffic!

If you are like me, you are trying to find ways to get your lenses noticed and increase traffic. I have been surfing around the various lenses looking for networks and ideas to try and increase the amount of quality traffic to my lenses. And I don't...

Firefox & Greasemonkey: Pimp Your Web

I made this lens as an offshoot of my Stuff I'm Into Lens (currently in progress) for folks that might not be interested in sifting through all the other cool stuff I like to get to what they're looking for. This lens is all about the Mozilla Firefo...

Google Chrome

You read that right, Google has made a web browser designed to simplify the web browsing experience and speed up web applications. They designed it from the ground up using webkit and then redesigned the parts they wanted to improve.

Google Searchwiki

On November 20, 2008 Google launched a new feature called SearchWiki. According to the official blog post post it is "a way for you to customize search by re-ranking, deleting, adding, and commenting on search results."

I intend for this lens to be...

Green Lodging - EcoTourism

Green Logding Programs have become poular in several states in the US in the last few years. This site will spotlight the states with Green Lodging Programs and provide links for more information as well as links to the state certified hotels.

From...

Helpful Beginer Information Collection for Squidoo

I understand some of Squidoo, but there is much more. Instead of saving them on my computer for reference, I put them here to share with you what has helped me learn.
I hope this will help other newbies.

I will share how I discovered Squidoo and som...

How To Add Amazon Widgets To Your Lens

Have you wished you could add one of those cool carousel widgets on your lens? Or a contextual product cloud? How about a big preview of your Amazon aStore?

Well, now you can. With a little (actually BIG!) help of Clearspring, the widget network, an...

How To Get Deep Links with RSS Feeds

There are a number of online syndication services that will display an RSS feed as a web page. These will typically contain deep-links to pages on to the originating website, which is a valuable source of backlinks.

I originally wrote about thi...

How To Use Twitter

Welcome to How To Use Twitter! Before we get into the detail let me make one thing very clear! Twitter is a way of connecting with other people who share your interests or who might be interested in what you have to say. Please do not view it simply...

HTML Borders Backgrounds

Have you seen sharp looking lenses formatted with HTML borders and backgrounds and wished you could do the same? There are already plenty of EXCELLENT how-to-HTML lenses available, so I thought I'd do something a little different.

There are two main...

HTML Tips for Color

Color can be applied via HTML tags to fonts, borders and backgrounds.

squidoo.com/basichtml and squidoo.com/advancedhtml show how to implement these colors.

This lens however isn't going to show how the code is applied, but is a repository for the...

I've Been There

I've Been There" is a novel concept for a lens that I thought up a few days ago. I have been thinking of a way to use some lenses about places throughout the world created by other lensmasters, and the idea for this lens gradually took shape.

I thou...

Images of the City of Dubai and Its Huge Growth Rate

I was there a couple times around 1990. This is about the rapid growth of Dubai, UAE between 1990 and today.

Take a look at their amazing construction projects, including a shape-shifting building, and an indoor skiing resort.

What do you think of...

Jimmy Buffett Tickets & Tours!

A Jimmy Buffett concert is like a national holiday for Parrottheads. Is there any better party than the Jimmy Buffett Tailgate scene? The fun loving musical genius is back on the road with 2009-2010 tour dates. He is set to perform in major cities al...

John Galt

For fifty years now John Galt has inspired people all over the world from the pages of  Ayn Rand's magnum opus, Atlas Shrugged. This lens is dedicated to John Galt, his achievments, friends and enemies and anything else relevant that I can find....

La Serena, Chile

La Serena city is located 292 miles north of Santiago. The temperature average is 22° C. in Summer and 14° C in Winter and the average rainfall is 100 millimeters per year. The best time to visit La Serena for peace and tranquility is in March and Ap...

Lens Promotion and Traffic Generating Strategies

One of the most often asked questions in the Squidu Forums is, "How do I get traffic to my lens?"

The most obvious way to generate traffic to your lens is to make sure that it is search engine friendly. But that is a topic that deserves it...

Lensmaster Tools and Utilities

SQUIDUtils.com
Utilities and Tools for the Expert Lensmaster
SquidUtils is 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 func...

Making Money on Facebook

Facebook has long been held as the sacred destination of Internet Marketers. They've longed to turn the website's immense traffic into social marketing gold, but few have been able to break through and monetize the site. Get the jump on everyone else...

My Favourite CSS Tricks on Squidoo

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...

Parrotheads Group Headquarters

Welcome to the Parrotheads Group. Keep up with this growing community here on Squidoo.com. Parrotheads are passionate about Jimmy Buffett and his music as well as their Parrothead Clubs. Now their online fundraising efforts are coordinated and enhan...

Partnership For Safety

Partnership For Safety, headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida is a electronic, anti crime notification system that networks entire communities providing instant notification of crimes or danger in your area. This innovation of technology and our com...

Pendleton, SC

Pendleton, SC is a small town in Anderson County, SC. The town was founded in 1790 and is the largest historic area in the entire United States. The town boasts lovely historic homes and plantations, a town square around a village green, and one of t...

Planet Gumbo

Welcome to Planet Gumbo--A Super Cool Place to Live!
Bill "Sauceboss" Wharton created the 501c3 Non-Profit Foundation, Planet Gumbo, in January 2003, in order to form a group of "Planeteers" who want to provide hope and sustenance...

Single Malt Scotch Whisky - A Buyers Guide

Single Malt Whisky is the purest form of scotch whisky, distilled in traditional ways for centuries in Scotland. There are many varities of Malt Whisky, yet the purist will avoid the blended malts and the cheaper end of the market often found on the...

Squid Etiquette

Squid Etiquette is all about what to do and what NOT to do on Squidoo! It is a very different How To Squidoo than you have probably seen before.

In our enthusiasm to not only publish our first few Squidoo lenses but also get traffic, we may forget...

Squid's Choice Awards

The Squid's Choice Awards originated on Squidoo's Top Ten list but has become so popular that it needed it's own lens.

Each month will have a theme and Squids will have the opportunity to nominate and vote for their favorite lenses within that them...

Squidoo & HubPages

Gil wished for a lens that discussed Is HubPages A Better Squidoo? ;).

As a user of both sites, I've decided to do a lens and discuss the two.  I'll say right off, I'm not really looking to say that one is essentially better than the other, but...

Squidoo Charity Boosters

How do we make the world "a better place"? By contributing our own part - big or small! A 10%- donation of our lens earnings is not too much for most (if not all) of us, but if hundreds or (gasp!) thousands of Squidoo lensmasters come together in suc...

Squidoo Help Center | Squidoo FAQ with PotPieGirl

Learning how to use Squidoo? Having problems? Can Google find your lens? Why isn't your Squidoo lens getting indexed by Google? Why doesn't Google send traffic to your lens? How the heck do you make a Squidoo lens, or optimize one? SOOO many...

Squidoo Modules

This lens demonstrates a selection of some of the most used and useful Squidoo Modules. You'll see them in their natural environment, with content or product included.

Accompanying each is a description of what the module does.

To start with, this is...

Squidpedia: Squidoo Link Directory

There are several sites around that help you promote your Squidoo lens and separate you from the rest of the pack. Getting your lens noticed and getting traffic to it is one of the best ways to get your message out to the most people. The SquidPedia...

Stupid Squidoo Tricks - Publicize Your Lenses

You can do a lot with the Squidoo resource with a little imagination and some trial and error. Edison said genius was "99% perspiration," but he didn't say whose!

Squidoo is constantly "improving" this platform. Some of the strategies outli...

Submit URL: Squidoo Lens Promotion

On this page, you'll find some links to places you can submit your Squidoo lenses to so that you can get more web traffic to your lens.

Google is usually the main source of traffic to my lenses, but to rank well in Google takes other websites linkin...

Tagfoot

I'm not sure if it's the bastard child of Digg and HubPages or the lovechild of Del.icio.us and Squidoo. But it's hot, it's happening and it's HERE.

tagfoot on Twitter

Keep up on the best Tweets about tagfoot. Send one out yourself. Right from this lens. Let everyone know what you think about or how you use tagfoot.

Not familiar with tagfoot? It's the new "no-nonsense social bookmarking, wishlisting, and tagging h...

Tchaikovsky Composer Study

Remember the Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairies? Even if you think you don't, I'm positive that you do! Listen to this midi file and you'll instantly recognize the tune. That famous piece was written by Tchaikovsky as part of The Nutcracker...

The $80,000 Squidoo Charity Giveaway

UPDATE: WE'VE GOT $30,000 MORE TO GIVE AWAY IN DECEMBER! Go vote here.

Squidoo gave away $80,000 to charity in October 2008. Yes, all $80,000 of it. In just a few days, thanks to you.

The 5 charities that got the most votes, and therefore the most...

The 9 Free Things Every Site (or Lens!) Should Do

Rule #1: If you have a site or Squidoo lens, you want more traffic.

Rule #2: You don't have enough money to buy as much traffic as you need.

Rule #3: You've already made your site/lens as compelling as you know how to.

So, what now? Read on for the (...

The CalypsoNuts

For years, people have been begging for entertainment, not just music, but entertainment! The CalypsoNuts are here for just that reason.

But, understand that the CalypsoNuts are more than a variety act - in fact, they are more than anything you've ev...

The Hitchhikers Guide to The Squidoo Lens Creation Universe!

Hi Folks as a volunteer forum moderator of the Squidoo Forum, and Squidoo Angel, over time I have collected a vast knowledge base of lenses and articles pertaining to building great Squidoo lenses. I use this extensive collection of resources to hel...

The Lake Ontario ParrotHead Club

 Welcome to the Squidoo home of the Lake Ontario Parrot Head Club.  
 
The LOPHC was formed in September of 2000 in Brockport, NY.  Our members enjoy a common interest in the music of Jimmy Buffett, and also performs service...

The Library of Congress

The Library of Congress is the United States of America's oldest federal cultural institution. It serves Congress for research. They say it is also the largest library in the world, with millions of books, recordings, photographs, maps and manuscrip...

The Mountain Fund

Why not volunteer in Nepal or Peru!?
We lead medical treks into the remote areas of these countries - it's a great way to help others and also see the countryside. For more info about our current trips, please visit our "Trek4Good" website at www.tre...

the Sauce Boss

 The inventor of gastronomical boogie woogie. Like a cross between Justin Wilson and Robert Johnson. The Sauceboss, subject of Jimmy Buffett's song "I Will Play For Gumbo", cooks up a pot of gumbo right on stage during the show. And at...

The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier

"Here rests in honored glory

An American Soldier

Known but to God"

~The Tomb of

The Unknown Soldier

The United States Of America

The United States of America is a unique country in that it was formed out of the desire for freedom, not out of the desire to conquer another nation.

From the discovery of the "New World" in 1492, the USA and it's neighboring Caribbean and Central/...

United States Squidoo Lensmaster Association

The United States Squidoo Lensmaster Association is your one stop directory to locate lensmasters who reside in the United States of America.

If you live in one of the 50 states or Washington DC, please place a link to your lensmaster profile in the...

Viral Tweet Generator

Viral Tweet Generator is actually an uncomplicated twitter application that has been designed to give you the possibility of creating a viral wave of tweets through your followers as well as your followers followers.

Where can I find the best lenses about... SQUIDOO?

In a determined effort to help Lensmasters, new and experienced alike, I have been creating Squidoo Lenses about... Squidoo.

So have others. And if you are one of those Lensmasters who have made a quality informative lens about a specific aspect abo...

WHO? SquidAngels!

Get to know the SquidAngels! We are a small group of dedicated lensmasters with special powers to bless remarkable lenses for a little LensRank (and ego) boost. We also help to keep Squidoo safe from spam and other bad apples.

Did you know?: Eve...

Why British Beer Is The Best In The World

British Beer has a long history, and has quite distinct traditions from most other beer brewing countries.

Unusually, the UK is one of the very few countries along with Ireland, where ales, beers brewed by warm fermentation rather than lagers, have...

Zimbio: Promote your Blog with Interactive Wikizines

Zimbio is a social networking site that allows you to not only find out about the latest topics that interest you, but promote and syndicate your blog with valuable back links at the same time!