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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...

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...

AllPosters.Com the cutest affiliate program

I do love this affiliate program. AllPosters.com gives you an easy (well doable) way to put great pictures on your lenses that fit your theme. And if people click on them and buy the posters (or other products), you stand to gain affiliate income.

H...

Amulet Pendant - A Gift of Protection

You can give the gift of prosperity and fortune, or harmony and inner peace!  How?  Give that special someone an amulet pendant.  Choose one that matches their personality or personal challenges they may be facing.  Do you know so...

Art Instruction

Having been a working artist for five plus years now, I've learned some tips and techniques along the way, and have listed various art instruction lenses for you:

Acrylic Painting Techniques
Grid Method Drawing
Pointillism Techniques
Mural Paint...

Artist Easel

I guess that it is not surprising that my favorite toy growing up was an artist easel. After all, I do own a gallery now. However, I did not discover my art career until well into my thirties.



Back when I was a child, arts and crafts was just a chi...

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...

Cooking for Christmas

Cooking for Christmas can be a terrible chore or it can be fun. I think it all depends on your frame of mind and doing as much as possible in advance. I don't like last minute rushes on Christmas Day.

There are so many recipes I use only at this tim...

Creating a Bucket List - 100 Things to do Before You Die

Stop putting your dreams off for "some day" . . . Take inspiration from the movie "The Bucket List" and ask yourself: If I had one year left to live, what would I be sure to do? Create a list of 100 things you want to do before yo...

Diary of a Squid Angel (2009)

Dozens of hard-working Squid Angels are looking for the best of the best on Squidoo. The program has evolved a bit since I last took part, and Squid Angels are now entrusted with three Squidoo categories. Here are the ones I'm assigned to: H...

Dinosaur Discovery: A Fun Dinosaur Unit Study

If you're a parent with a child who loves dinosaurs, this is for you. It was designed as a homeschool Dinosaur Unit Study around the biggest theme on Earth - The Story of Life. Teachers can find ideas for lessons and you can have f...

Don't Wash Your Hands... Out of Fear

Are you afraid of catching the flu? Are you worried about what you touch and who you are near? Are you washing your hands or "wringing your hands" in stress? You may need to change the way you are thinking. Fear increases tension. Don't...

Free Homeschool Resources - Fun and Educational!

 

Welcome to our world of homeschool fun.

We take our job as parents and home educators seriously, but that doesn't mean we don't have fun! We hope our children will grow up to kind, caring, and well educated adults. We want them to look...

Free Homeschooling, Parenting eBooks & Teaching Resources

Homeschooling is becoming a more popular choice for a number of reasons for families around the world. However much is still unkown about curriculum, socialisation, parenting, how to cope with running a home, looking after a family and homeschooling...

Frog Unit Study: Hopping to Learn

Take trips to the frog pond. Become a frog and play games and sing songs, gobble up the insect words and swat the fly verbs.

This lens will give you dozens of ideas, resources, hints and tricks to create frog-themed activities for both homeschool fam...

Great Texas Style Chili

This recipe will show you how to whip up authentic and delicious Texas style chili with a modicum of time and sweat invested, and also introduce you to a little bit of Texas culture.

There is a story behind this recipe actually.

Last winter, my mother,...

How To Add Amazon Product Links

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...

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 Be A Complete Failure On Squidoo

Just as elusive as a real live giant squid has been my success on Squidoo.Dreams of online riches hidden beneath a sea of inky blackness. We've all clicked on a "How to make mega bucks online.." lens,those titles alone by themselves will generate ton...

How To Be Happy Today

Pretty much to remind myself of the fact that if I want to be happy, I can't just sit around and wait for someone else to do it for me. No one can make ME happy but ME! And strangely enough I have had that power all along. I can decide to be mise...

How to Play the Roman Game of Rota, Ancient Tic-Tac-Toe

The ancient Roman game of Rota is easy to learn, quick to play. It makes a great kid's game that teaches planning ahead and the points of the compass.

We don't actually know the Roman name for it, but scholars call it Rota, Latin for "whe...

How to Reuse Old CD or DVD

Do you burn CD-ROMs on your computer and get errors, where you have to toss the CD-ROM? Do you get tons of CD-ROMs in the mail from Internet providers and trial programs? I do and all these unwanted CD-ROMs are piling up. You can recycle them but it...

How-To Choose Great Google Keywords for Your Lens

It's a question you hear a lot on the web. If it makes you throw your hands in the air and say "I've no idea what this means!!", then read on...

I wrote this lens to help out anyone who is confused by choosing keywords for their Squidoo lenses. It's...

HTML And CSS Mentor

Many of you start writing your lenses without any HTML and CSS, but as you start understanding Squidoo, you want to learn how to spice your lenses up. HTML and CSS is just the ticket that you may be looking for.

Here, on this lens, you will learn fr...

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...

If you want to become popular on squidoo...

In some ways squidoo is like a popularity contest. I've done pretty well here with as I write more than 760 fans. So I feel qualified to write this lens about the subject.

John Holt: Unschooling

After teaching for several years, striving to keep children engaged and focused on what he was trying to teach, John Holt realized that children learn best when the are learning what they want to learn. He also realized that this could not be accompl...

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...

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 Web Visitors Stay Longer

The longer visitors stay on your web page, the more interested they are in what you have to offer. The sticky page is just that, one that gets readers to stay glued.

The key to making a sticky page is to build a high-quality page. One that is very u...

My favorite purple star lenses on squidoo

When I realized for the first time (this November afternoon in 2009) that I could access the list of all the lenses that have received purple stars - that's 633 as of today - it seemed quite exciting.

I've decided to start at the end of the...

Ohme - That's me!

I have been called lots of things during my 60 years. My dad would sometimes call me "third verse" and my mom would call me "Nancy Lee" and my sisters call me "Nan". In college I was called by my maiden name, "Tate&...

Pastiche's Lensography

This lensography features the most popular lenses on Squidoo by Pastiche - that's me. My newest lenses always appear at the beginning of this lens. Join my fan club - you'll get a Squidcast heads-up when I update one of your favorites.

I&#39...

RocketMoms Images For RocketMoms

These Images are FREE for use for all RocketMoms & on RocketMoms Template Lenses.

If you are not a RocketMom, but would like to use one of these images to make a lens about The RocketMoms or the Rocket Moms Program or about a specific RocketMom. Ple...

RocketMoms Session 3: Project #1 - Favorite Toy Lens

Our first lens assignment is going to be a super fun one and was suggested by Shannon (Shajo)! Toys! As parents we all have our favorite toys for the kids, but what about you? What's your favorite toy from childhood, your teen years or even right now...

She Told Me

There I was just checking out the Squidu Forum as I do every day when a post from Poddys caught my eye. He was talking about something called She Told Me. She Told Me is basically like a social bookmarking site. I decided to pop over and see what all...

Squidoo CSS - my favorite code to spice up a lens

I've gathered my favorite Squidoo-code for later reference. I'm tired of trying to find that specific lens I used a css effect on and then having to go to edit-mode, copy paste, and then go back to the lens I was working on. This lens will he...

Squidoo Curriculum - Using Lenses as Study Starters!

Yup. Like many, I'm addicted to Squidoo. I started one Squidoo lens on a whim - at the suggestion of a friend. And before long, I had more than 140 of the things keeping me busy. And there are more in the works. --sigh--

This is really a dilemma for...

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 Promotional Modules

I'm writing a series on how to use the Squidoo modules to help people create their lenses . . . and to create great lenses. This particular lens is all about what I call Squidoo's "promotional modules" - modules that bring focus ont...

Squidoo Tips: How To Get Your Lens #1 On Google

Every lensmaster dreams of the day that they get listed highly in Google, the traffic just flows in and best of all its targeted, people are coming to your website because they are interested in what you have to offer. But getting there is a long and...

Squidoo To-Do Lists

I am by nature a list-maker. I make lists of everything! As I started learning about Squidoo and making lenses, I started making lists. Return often. As I learn and grow in Squidoo land, I am sure my lists will change also. Join me on this fantastic...

Squidoo Top Lensmasters

Up till now I've just dabbled in Squidoo and my monthly payouts have been around $25-50. It's a thrill to get more than one lens in the top tier that pays out.

But I wanted to find out if it's possible to consistently maintain more than...

Squidoo Traffic Tricks: (how to get more visitors and a better search engine ranking for your Squidoo lens)

Do you have some lenses that don't get as many visitors as they deserve?

Would you like to learn how to get more people reading your lenses?

Wanna know how to make people come back to your lenses again and again?

Would you like to rank higher in G...

Succulent Wild Woman

Sark is the author of wonderful books that I have loved for years. Her books will uplift you, inspire you, and just make you feel good. They are fun, light, playful and honor the woman in you. Yes, I would say her books are more for women then men. T...

Tarot Card Decks

There are literally thousands of different kinds of tarot card decks available.

So how do you choose the one that is right for you?

That very much depends on what you plan to use your tarot cards for. If you're just beginning to explore the whole "...

Tegwen Lewis

Tegwen Lewis was a favourite character in the old mining village of Llanharan. She achieved a high level of fame as a Welsh poet during her lifetime, collecting no fewer than twenty-nine bardic chairs and three crowns.

Tegwen sadly died in 1988 but...

The Green Man Jack O'Lantern...

What's the best way to make a unique Jack O' Lantern?

Grab a steak knife and a big metal spoon,

Then: hand carve a double sided Jack O' Lantern! It's easier than you think!

You don't need the pumpkin carving kits. Save your en...

The REAL "Secret" to success

(that other "Secret" is mere childs play compared to this one!)

Welcome

If you find yourself irritated, aggravated, and annoyed with the world around you, there is hope! A revolutionary new program based on ancient secrets is here to help you gain...

The Share-A-Sale Network

There are currently over 2,000 Merchants in the ShareASale Network. Each of these merchants has a different type of product that they are selling - and each is ready to pay you commission on that sale if you bring a customer to them.

It's really sim...

The Traveling Classroom

Kids are born curious. Their young brains are sponges that greedily soak up all the practical knowledge needed to learn to walk and talk. Yet when it comes to the process of formal education, sometimes the sponges lose their thirst for knowledge. Exp...

Top 6 Reasons to Use Hands-on Projects

Board games, dice, dominoes, cards, arts and crafts, science experiments, nature walks and nature journaling, lapbooking, making models and dioramas, making costumes and acting -- these are all hands-on activities that can be used in education.

Hand...

Transitioning to Living Math

Yes, it's hard. Very, very hard to set aside the workbook and orderly math progression through an outlined curriculum and shift to what seems to be a messy, random bunch of games and hands-on activities.

You love the concept of ">living math. You know...

Utilizing the Blackbox Module

I have been building lenses on Squidoo for over a year now and one of my favorite modules to use is the Blackbox. It's a small module, but it can pack a punch. Until recently I assumed that most people were using the blackbox in a similar manner....

Welsh Cakes - Picau Ar Y Maen

Welsh Cakes - THE most delicious memory of my childhood.

The smell of freshly baked Welsh Cakes is wonderful and the taste is just, well, if you've never had a Welsh Cake, I suggest that you put eating one on your list of "Things To Do Befo...

Why write a journal

Keeping a journal is a great tool for inspiration, creativity or just to sort out your thoughts and feelings.

My book The Butterfly's Song is a book that is of journaling.
It is about a transformation much like a butterfly transforms thus the ti...

Word Puzzles & Games for Word Nerds

Well, as you can tell from the title, I'm a word nerd. That's because I love word puzzles and tons more stuff about words.

I'm also a "Rocket Mom" (you'll see the connection in a second). Rocket Moms is a gathering of the s...

Zentangle

What is a Zentangle? In a word, a doodle. A structured, contained doodle. The term 'Zentangle' was invented by Rick Roberts and Maria Thomas when, one day, Maria described her experience, as she created her art, as feeling timeless, free and...