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48 Ways to Use the Poll Module

People love interaction, especially here on Squidoo. Readers want to respond to what they're feeling with their own thoughts, and the poll module can be a great way for them to communicate with just the click of a mouse. Make interaction simple for t...

50 Ways To Use Twitter

Twitter is an amazingly powerful tool for promoting your Squidoo Lens, Blog, Business and more. So check out these cool ways to educate, inform, enlighten and amuse people. Just remember, you've only got 140 Characters so stay on your topic!

Add Borders to Your Lens Photos on Squidoo

Would you like to jazz up the photos on your lenses? You can use borders on your images to give them much more impact and to help them "pop." You just need to use a little bit of simple HTML magic.

I have included easy instructions for a variety of...

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...

Ancient Roman Recipes

When we think of the food of Ancient Rome, it's usually images of huge banquets which come to mind. But there was a lot more to Roman food than exotic dishes served by slaves at orgies. Lavish feasts there were, but also perfectly ordinary meals,...

BlogRolling

What is blogrolling? Should you do it? What are the advantages to adding a blog roll o your blog? Answering those questions is the goal of this lens. Let's see how I did.

P.S. Any info about BlogRolling always applies to Squidoo and Lensrolling as w...

Book roundup

A wide variety of topics, but each of them are worth some of your time. Listed here in no order whatsoever, all my royalties go to charity. Books are still the best idea value in the universe.

Boxer Dog Collectible Dog Lover Gifts!

Boxer Dog Lover Gifts, Boxer Dog Pictures, and much more! Find the perfect unique dog gift here for yourself or someone you know that loves Boxer dogs!

If you have the time to check out Google's results or Amazon's results you will find page after p...

Broadway Shows

Musicals or plays, comedies or dramas, if you are looking for ideas for your next trip to New York City you will find all that Broadway has to offer right here. This lens provides an up-to-date list of Broadway shows, info on where to order tickets,...

Complete Guide to Buying Motorcycle Clothing Online

Motorcycle clothing is not just for professional riders, it's essential gear to all motocyclist. Buying motorcycle clothing can be a little overwhelming considering the choices of material, quality and brands available in the market. Do your research...

Create Stunning CSS Backgrounds with Images

Have you heard of CSS Backgrounds? Do you have a Squidoo lens or two? How about a website? A MySpace profile? Are you bored by all those plain old white backgrounds? Here I'm going to show you how to spice up your lenses and pages and create bea...

Dallas Blooms | Dallas Arboretum | Largest Outdoor Floral Festival

Hooray for flowers!! It's time again for the Dallas Blooms festival at the Dallas Arboretum. The 2009 theme is Dallas Blooms a Classic highlighting the incredible beauty of the arboretum throughout the festival. See ya' there!!

Dog Allergy

Dog Allergies, find the many different types of dog allergies - the signs of a dog allergy - and what you can do about them here! All of the dog medicines for dog allergies (like Benadryl) and their harmful side effects are listed here. You can also...

Don't go to business school

APPLICATIONS ARE NOW CLOSED. What an amazing group of people applied. Thank you.

Six intense months working with a few other amazing people (and me.)

There are plenty of reasons to get an MBA, especially in a down economy. I'm not sure exactly what...

Giant Squids Class of 2007: Meet The Finest Group Of Lensmasters Ever

The Giant Squids are an extremely fine group of Lensmasters on Squidoo and I thought that it would be fitting to create a Giant Squid Directory for this wonderful group of people. I've included only the Class of Sept. 2007 on this lens...

However I...

Girl Powered Peace

It is now universally agreed in aid organizations worldwide that empowering the women of a community will empower the children and the men as well. Women are caretakers and nurturers, watching over others. They tend to use practical wisdom to make de...

Grandma's Magic Pan: Adventures in Cast Iron Cooking

This lens is dedicated to my Grandma. She could cook ANYTHING in that old iron skillet and it would be delicious! Heck, she could cook anything period and it would be delicious! Something as simple as a plain chicken breast, dredged in flour, with a...

How To Create A Beautiful Squidoo Lens For Your Zazzle Gallery

Welcome to "How To Create A Beautiful Squidoo Lens For Your Zazzle Gallery".


Here's how you can create a perfect Lens for your Zazzle Gallery with the new Zazzle Gallery Lens Builder!

How to Donate Your Hair

There's been a lot of publicity over the past few years related to hair donation, including Hillary Swank's highly public hair cut on Oprah. Before you take the plunge and donate your hair, however, make sure you do your homework in choosing...

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 Make A Lyrics Lens

Looking for the lyrics for your favorite song? Then do a search at Google and hopefully you'll start to find our Squidoo Lyrics Lenses clawing their way onto the front page of results. (One has made it into the Top 100, in fact it got into the Top 10...

How to make an eBook

I've had a lot of success with eBook publishing and I get asked a lot about the mechanics. Here's my version--your mileage may vary!

How to Monetize Your Website or Blog

The Internet today provides so many opportunities for ordinary people like you and me to make money from websites and blogs. These opportunities range from contextual advertising to affiliate marketing.

How To Promote Your Squidoo Lens

Now that you have a lens, you want to let people know about it. Getting people to read your lens is harder than writing it! But there are many ways to promote your lens, make it more popular in search engines, and make it a success.

In this lens I'l...

How To SquidCast A Group

The SquidCast is a wonderful way of getting the word out about new things happening at your lens, and it would be ideal to be able to SquidCast your groups, but this tool is not available for groups...or is it? Indeed, there IS a way to SquidCast you...

How to Write an Article that Powerfully Drives Traffic To Your Website

To People Who Want To Write - But Can't Get Started

Here is a process that is useful in creating articles that are designed to be of quality, high value and will have a higher rate of follow through by the reader.  This process will easily genera...

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...

Is God Omniscient ? If so, do we have free will?

If God exists, He is all knowing.
That means that in advance he knows what we will do.
If He knew yesterday that today I will do the laundry - am I free to NOT do the laundry today?

There is a conflict between our assumption that we have free will,...

It's Raining! It's Pouring!

As the Rain Pours Down the Learning Soars...

Water, rain, puddles, wetness...

This lens will give you dozens of ideas, resources, hints and tricks to create water-themed rainy activities for both homeschool families and classrooms.

There are endle...

Keeping Current With A Squidcast Calendar

SquidCasts have the potential of bringing visitors to your lens, but they are often used inefficiently and ineffectively. I have found that squidcasts are most effective when there is some incident that prompted the cast to be sent.

Plan your SquidC...

KIVA: For The Love Of Kiva!

About an hour ago I was checking out the Philanthropy blog here on Squidoo and discovered a cool charity called Kiva. They match YOU (and your spare dollars) with people in poorer countries looking for loans to start businesses.

So I decided to lend...

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...

Lone Star State Headquarters

Love This Lens Widget

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...

Make a Fancy Table of Contents

A clickable Table of Contents helps visitors navigate webpages. A table of contents also shows what's on a single webpage, which helps visitors decide whether your page is worth reading! A great table of contents within the first screen is a powe...

Monday's To-Squidoo

My high school marketing teacher always told me that if we skipped Mondays we'd be missing out on 1/7th of our lives. Not only that, Monday is a great way to get an easy start on the week by going through your Squidoo lenses and making a to-do list f...

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...

Paper Plate Craft Ideas - Easy Kids Crafts

Here's some kids craft projects that your children can make very easily using paper plates. If you prefer it, these can also be used as masks. Just stick an iced lolly wooden stick (pop stick) on the end of the plate (using sticky or masking tape).

U...

Purple Women Give Back

Hey, glad you found us at Squidoo! Here you have a chance to participate in a broader community of people online who are interested in the topic of childfree. This is a sister site to the team blog and our chariable effort.

You can help by recommendi...

Search Engine Optimization Guide

Anyone who owns a website and is looking to unlock their site's revenue potential is going to be interested in something referred to as SEO or Search Engine Optimization. SEO is a process of making a website search engine friendly. The end result is...

SEO/Marketing Mentor

This is the official squidoo SEO mentor help lens. You can come here with your questions about attracting traffic to your lens, though I hope this lens will help solve many of them out of the box.

SEO = Search Engine Optimization

In practice SEO can...

Sesame Street News Video Showcase

Those words and the cheesy little raincloud with the "News Flash" graphic signaled yet another report from the intrepid Kermit the Frog on location. Kermit valiantly interviewed a parade of characters from history, fairy tales and nursery rhymes. Fro...

Skelanimals: Dead Animals Need Love Too!!

The cutest bags of bones around are the Skelanimals! They're looking for a home with a special someone to love them, but not just anyone. They need people with lots of love who want to snuggle; after all, they're just bones and need help staying warm...

Skip Barber Racing School

On a national scale, Skip Barber Racing holds a great reputation for driver education and just plain fun. I've read many reviews from those who've been and enjoyed it and am making my own plans to attend. Racers, drivers, enthusiasts, thrill see...

Small Cross-Stitch Patterns

There are many beautiful cross-stitch patterns out there - intricate, detailed, elaborate, tons of colors. But really - who has time to complete something like that? If your goal is getting your projects done, you've come to the right place! I've col...

SquidKiva - A Kiva Community for Squidoo Lensmasters

SquidKiva is a Kiva Community of members from the Squidoo community. Kiva facilitates micro-loans to individuals worldwide that would otherwise not be afforded the opportunity to open or expand their small business.

All squidoo lensmasters are welco...

Squidoo Chat Room

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...

Squidoo Marketing Strategies: Help To Develop and Market Your Squidoo Lenses

This lens is designed to provide resources to improve your Squidoo marketing and increase your Squidoo lensrank.  Here you will find articles, tips, strategies, tools and techniques that will develop you as a Top Squidoo Marketer.

Subscribe to my...

Squidoo Tools, Resources, and Guides

Squidoo Tools, Guides, Lens addons, Linkbuilding tips, and news

This is a collection of free Squidoo tools, guides, and other resources to help you build and market your Squidoo Lenses.

I will also continue to gather various addons that you can ad...

To Blog or Not To Blog?

What is a blog? Is blogging for you? Why should you start your own blog? On this lens I shall explore your options, than you can decide if you should become a blogger too.

Top Wii Accessories

With the huge popularity of the Nintendo Wii games console, there are now a variety of Wii Accessories available to make playing on it even more enjoyable. Here are just a few of the best accessories that you can buy for your Wii.

Traveling Abroad on a Weak Dollar

Yikes!! Have you priced a trip to Europe lately? Even closer-to-home stand-bys like Canada aren't looking like too much of a bargain thanks to the weakened dollar - unless you want to take a cut-rate trip and who wants to wonder if clean sheets are i...

Unique, Odd, Unusual, and Extraordinary Gift Ideas

Looking for an unusual gift for someone? I know there are many people who want to keep up with the Jones's and want the same things that everyone else already has. This page is not for people like that. If that's what you're looking for, you might as...

Using Web Content to Get More Traffic To Your Website

This lens focuses on content on the web, all kinds of web content, and how it can benefit your business and Internet presence.  It talks about writing and creating articles, web sales copy, content driven web sites, copywriting, blogging, rss fe...

What People Buy & How To Get Them To Buy It From You!

PayDay came and went as usual and I was curious today, am I listing the correct items for sale on my lenses? Do people actually buy the stuff I list? What sells? What doesn't? How can I list things that folks actually want to buy? Well, Squidoo keeps...

What you need to know about Yahoo Mail

Yahoo mail is a free email service that anyone can sign up for. Here are some features, according to Yahoo:

Auto-Check
Yahoo! Mail automatically checks for new messages.

Reading Pane
Peek inside any message without leaving your inbox.

Drag and Dro...

Where Do I Find Ideas For My Next Squidoo Lens?

I've been working on lenses for the Fresh Squid Headquarters, and I thought I'd create a resource list of places to look for ideas for your next lens. 

 

Of course Fresh Squid is an excellent place to look, we have a daily list of Hot Topics...