Citizen Squid Squidoo Angel - Spirituality

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I was a squidangel from April till Oktober 2009. Now (starting Nov. 17th 2009) I'm a Citizen Squid: I'm the SEO mentor. This means that I regained my blessing powers. Which is great: I love finding and rewarding hidden treasures.

This lens is about my policy as squidangel.

What's a squidoo angel? 

A squidangel is a lensmaster who has the power to 'bless' lenses: that is, to give them a lensrank boost.

Squidoo angels are one of the ways squidoo HQ has to make sure quality lenses get promoted (and payed better) and low quality lenses aren't seen too often.

We get a sneek preview at new lenses - so if you want your new lens blessed, make sure it's great right from the start.

 

That is: a squidangel blessing gives a TEMPORARY lensrank boost

featured lens Lensrank explained (really)

Well, squidoo lensrank has, by common consensus (at least) the following factors: Lens freshness. sales made through money making modules like amazon and ebay. visitor numbers. star ratings. favorites. whether you've been blessed by an angel. whethe...

My criteria 

I will bless lenses that are of 5 star quality - and have something extra included. In other words, your lens should:

  • There is some picture in the introduction module

  • Have unique content - not copy pasted from all over the internet

  • Be illustrated appropriately: depending on your content. I especially like it if pictures on your lens look like you made them yourself - they should have a unique style.

  • Be personal - lenses that show your character have a far higher chance of being blessed than lenses that just summarize your topic. Though if you summarize well, you might still be blessed.

  • Have enough content: I don't think I've ever seen a bless-worthy lens with less than 5 text/write modules

  • Is well organized

  • Is to the point: don't elaborate on issues that don't fit the lens title.

  • Don't have sales modules or affiliate links that sell stuff not related to the content of your lens

  • The contents of the lens are truthful and wholesome.


In other words: Quality over quantity

Does sucking up help? 

Well, sort of

If you want to get my attention, writing comments on my lenses is sure to do it.

However: your lenses will still only get blessed if they are worth it.

& I bless many lenses where I had never seen the lensmaster before.
featured lens Hidden secrets - spiritual inspiration you weren't looking for

I have made a lot of pages on squidoo about religion and spirituality. Some of them have done quite well. The most popular gets more than 600 visitors a week. Some however are ignored by search engines. These all got less than 5 visitors recently -...

featured lens My least popular lenses

Some of my lenses do great. I have lenses that get over 100 votes and more than 1000 visitors a week. The below are from the opposite end of the spectrum. Hardly any visitors and usually few votes as well. Just giving them some TLC.

Make your lenses better & more successful  

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How important ARE squidangel blessings anyhow? 

Well - let's just say other things are more important

Like traffic.
featured lens Would you rather have a squidangel blessing or a quality link?

Would you rather have a squidangel blessing or a quality link? I'd rather have a quality link. A quality link makes it more likely that my lens (and from that my website) gets found in google. That will ultimately do my lens more good than a sq...

Dinging lenses 

Squidangels have a dark side. It's not just our job to promote good content, we also have a duty to discourage spam.

Personally I have dinged lenses that were:

  • On spammy topics

  • Spreading information that I knew to be untrue

My generation of squidoo angels 

Here are lenses about being a squidangel by the current squidangels. If I forgot any, please add them in the guestbook.
featured lens WHO? SquidAngels!

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featured lens Squid Angel, Semi-Retired

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featured lens I've Been Blessed by a Squid Angel! (or hoping to be)

Have you been blessed by a Squid Angel? Or are you wishing for an angel blessing? Are you wondering what the blessing actually DOES? This is the right place to be! I'll try to unveil the mystery of the Angels program. My time as an angel is over....

featured lens No Angel

At least not in the sense I imagine angels to be. I would like to clear up a few points. Firstly, angels are sexless creatures. This just isn't true in my case, I'm definitely a woman. I did once read that angels are composed of ethereal matter, an...

featured lens Is A Squid Angel Looking Over Your Shoulder?

Have you been Blessed by a Squid Angel? Did you even know that there is a group of lensmasters on Squidoo who are Squid Angels? You may never even have heard of the Squid Angels. Or perhaps you know that they exist but know little about them. Well I...

 

featured lens 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...

featured lens Squid Angel Blessings from Kiwisoutback

Squidoo Angels have a huge responsibility on their shoulders, and that is to keep Squidoo clean. Not only can Angels bless a lens that's a remarkable piece of work, but they can ding a bad lens that doesn't deserve to be seen. You don't need to be a...

featured lens Squidoo Angels

When I first joined Squidoo in July 2008, the Squidoo Angels were a small group of dedicated Lensmasters who volunteered for the post when a message was posted in the SquidU Forum. Things changed in April 2009 and although the Squid Angels is still a...

featured lens Squid Angel

SquidAngel Blessing | If you have found your way here you have probably been 'Blessed By A Squid Angel!' What just happened? Read on to find out more about Squid Blessings and more about SemperFidelis. Perhaps some randomness, as well!

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featured lens Blessed by an Angel

As you may heard, I've became Squid Angel. Invitation to become an Angel came to me as pleasant surprise and I'm very grateful to Squidoo HQ to find my work here, on Squidoo, worthy of such a honor. But, this lens is less about my role as an angel (...

featured lens A Squid Angel Blessings Log (Blog)

This is the current list of lenses that I have blessed during my tenure as a Squid Angel. I knew once I heard about becoming a Squid Angel, that I would want to follow in the angel steps of my Squidoo pals and Angel Mentors, Kim Giancaterino and Che...

featured lens I Was Blessed By Treasures By Brenda, A Squid Angel!

Each Squid Angel has a different picture in their mind of a bless-worthy lens. The purpose of this lens is to share with you what I'm looking for when I bless a lens (or what I am not looking for!) I'll also share some links to more information abou...

featured lens ... and a sprinkling of Angel Dust

You may have arrived at this lens because you found a link in your guestbook or you may simply have stumbled across it in your exploration of Squidoo, either way, I hope you find it informative and helpful. I don't speak for all the Angels, the...

featured lens Margaret Schaut Squid Angel

Squidoo is a UNIQUE place. I've spent a LOT of time here. I've helped out as Citizen Squid twice, and will probably do that again in the future. I've had LOTD. I've had lenses up for awards. Because of my Squidoo pages I've been contacted by journali...

 

Some male angels - yes, we have a few

featured lens Squid Angel Blessings by Chef Keem

With a Squid Angel Blessing your lenses will get a boost for your lens rank, which might improve your earnings and lead to more traffic and recognition. Not bad, huh? But what does it take to receive a Squid Angel Blessing? In general, our group of...

featured lens ThomasC Angel Blessings

There is a group of people at Squidoo who have volunteered their time to help Squidoo remove spammy lenses and promote quality lenses. Squidoo Angels use a thumbs up and thumbs down system to help good lensmasters and their lenses rank better and als...

featured lens Janusz a Squid Angel

Welcome to my Angel Lens :) I thought after bieng awarded LOTD & making Giant, it just couldn´t get any better... BUT it just did :)) Yes, I´ve been awarded my wings & will be flying around the Squidoo Community bestowing Blessings where deserved...

featured lens MobyD's Angel Lens

I became a Squid Angel at the beginning of April 2009. Prior to that, I became a Giant Squid at the beginning of July 2008 and a member of the Top 100 Club at the beginning of October 2008. I've been pretty active on the SquidU forums, where I've lea...

Squidangels I've interviewed 

On my thank you lensmaster blog

Semperfidelis
I think we are involved because it's a family effort for one, and for two, we can give away to charity. So far, we've never received a penny from Squidoo. All our earnings have been contributed to the various charities.
Brenda, Squidu top contributor (wasn't an angel yet when I did the interview)
Treasures-By-Brenda is, as are all lensmasters I'm interviewing this week, a top contributor at squidu. She's unique in at least one other way: I've been mentoring her. Not many people can handle my direct style of feedback, I'm afraid. Perhaps it's that Canadian thing...
Jimmie
This is going to probably be one of the last squidangels I get to thank. Jimmie is also a giant squid and a homeschool mom.
Rockycha
Just when I thought all squidangels who were going to had answered my interview questions - rockycha came along and answered them anyhow :). For which I'm glad. I'm honored that she started out saying
Whippettalk - some sales tips!
Introducing Whippettalk - squidangel and the first lensmaster I've seen who has a purple star on her profile (though perhaps that's just a coincidence?).
Chef Keem - a German Squidangel
Chefkeem is one of the new squidangels. He has blessed a few of my lenses, for which I'm grateful of course. But as a squidangel he also blesses a load of other lenses, for which each of those lensmasters owes him their thanks.
Susan52
Introducing Susan52 - arguably the lensmaster with the cutest lensmaster avatar :) Seriously though: she's a giant, and a squidangel and I'm thanking her on behalf of all squidoo lensmasters for her blessings.
BDKZ
Today I'm thanking BDKZ who is a giant, a squidoo oldtimer, and Giant Squid Community Organizer. She also has one of the more popular squidoo blogs: So you want to be a Giant Squid?
Top squidu contributor AJ2008 (wasn't yet an official angel when I did the interview)
AJ is one of the lensmasters I feel closest too, so I was quite happy to have an excuse to thank her. (Yes, I know, needing an excuse to thank someone? But well - I try to be objective about this blog). Known on squidoo as aj2008 she is best known I think for her lens about bullying (see below). I've left her UK spelling intact :)
A_Willow - was only an unofficial squidangel when I interviewed her
A_willow hadn't yet been made a squidangel when I interviewed her... but now she has, and with good reason.
Jaguarjulie: now a former squidangel
Jaguarjulie must be one of the most popular lensmasters around. Her whopping 680 (aka 1444 by now) fans are testimony to that. The fact that she still finds time to rate and comment on lenses like my Dutch ones is amazing to me. With 380 lenses she's also one of the most prolific lensmasters around. Reading her interview is a bit disconcerting. Her most underappreciated lenses still have 28 and 25 votes respectively. Now wouldn't we all love to have that problem? In fact - if you were wondering if she has lenses that haven't been voted on%u2026 I couldn't find any. [And she had the courtesy to send the HTML code for this interview - which obviously means less work for me. I can't believe it]
Kim Giancaterino
Does Kim require an introduction? Long time squidangel - she has helped so many lensmasters it's amazing.
Kiwisoutback, squidangel and travel expert
While kiwisoutback's lensmasters handle suggests a New Zealand origin, he tells me one of his niches is road trips in the USA. Looking for answers to this conundrum, I checked out his lensography and found out he's married to one of our greenest lensmasters: TheGreenerMe.
Joan4 - squidangel, giant, rocketmom etc.
Joan4 is one of those lensmasters that just can't make you stop smiling. It's not for nothing that a lens has already been made in her honor :) She's a giant squid top 100 member, a rocket mom and one of the new squidangels.
Lakeerieartists - one of the new squidangels
Lakeerieartists is one of the new squidangels, a rocketmom, a giant squid and of course she blogs here on squidtop. I also have to thank her for referring regularly to my blog on her posts on squidlog.
Everything mouse - thanking a Disney lensmaster
EverythingMouse is not just an angel, but a giant squid top hundred member too (194 right now).
Susanna Duffy aka susannaduffy
How exciting! An interview! Heavens, I hardly know where to start - things have just happened so fast for me on Squidoo that I can hardly keep up. I'd scarcely recovered from the thrill of making the 100 Club when, out of the blue, I had a Lens of the Day followed soon after by another lens scoring a Purple Star award. In between the LOTD and the Purple Star I woke up one morning with Angel wings.
I keep pinching myself to make sure I really AM awake.
Janet21 - wahm, squidangel, blogger etc.
Janet21 is what most of us want to be: a self sufficient online entrepreneur. Surprisingly she's only made 92 lenses to date, which goes to show that online income really is about quality more than quantity. Added to that of course her other online ventures.
Vbright105, aka Veronica Bright for being a squidangel
Veronica shares my passion for spirituality and paranormal phenomena, but also makes lenses about politics, where she lives and so on. As a giant squid she was already a credit to squidoo, but now she's a squidangel too. Here's her interview.
Squidster - giant squid and squidangel
Took her a while, but this old time squidangel who finally agreed to be interviewed.

Some lenses I've blessed 

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Green lenses 

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Religion, spirituality & folklore 

Blessed lenses

featured lens Learn About Family Constellations

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featured lens Fairies and Folklore

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More blessed lenses - featured on my blog 

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Time for me to bless some great lenses with more than a squidangel blessing, but with a link as well. These are in my favorite niche: religion and spirituality. It's quite a collection - I guess there are many great lenses made about this topic.

When I go on a lens blessing spree... about being social... 

Generally I will bless any quality lens I come across. BUT - when I go on a lens blessing spree, I will seek out lensmaster profiles first, from someone's list of fans for instance. I will look at less lenses by lensmasters who don't rate other people's lenses.

I think a 10:1 ratio is fair: 10 lenses rated for every lens made. More is better, of course. So if you've got 3 lenses, you should make sure you rate at least 30. And if you make 50, rate at least 500. The easiest way to get to this is to actually take a look at lenses around squidoo and make a habit of rating them when you're looking.

You don't have to give 5 star ratings - if a lens is lousy, why not give it 2 stars? But DO rate it.

And if I look at more of your lenses, chances are I'll rate and bless more as well. So make sure you rate other people's lenses! Chances are an angel is watching and may reward you for it down the line...

Squidoo tips lenses you might have missed 

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