Squidoo Tips And Tutorials

Why Squidoo? Really. Why? 

It's the greatest thing since...oh, I don't know...ever?

How To Squidoo And Change The World

Creating a Squidoo lens can help make a difference in the world or your little corner of it. Would you like to raise awareness and/or money for a good cause? Find a missing child? Tell someone you love them? Get an animal adopted? Show people how to...

Why Build a Lens?

Squidoo is a website hosting hundreds of thousands of handbuilt webpages (just to be difficult, we call them "lenses"). Each lens is one person's look at something online. Your take on football or business or the best thai food in town. Lenses are f...

Why Squidoo?

If you're like me you need to know the details before you commit. Now that I've seen and weighed it up for myself here's a bunch of good reasons why you should sign up to Squidoo...

I'm a Lensmaster! What now?

This lens deals with the ins and outs and tricks and tips that will help you make your next (or first) Squidoo Lens. Other information you should read (if you haven't already)... All About Squidoo: What others have had to say about Squidoo, and it...

Working with Squidoo

This lens describes three ways to work with Squidoo. As you can see from this graph, our traffic is trending up... and we're finding partners to share that traffic with.

O.K. - We know the "Why". But "Where" do YOU Squidoo? 

Where do you Squidoo?

Squidoo now has more than 262,000 registered accounts. Given that some of these numbers represent multiple accounts which have been registered by the same people, a question still presents itself as to where all of you are. The purpose of this lens i...

Squidoo Secrets Revealed! FREE Squidoo Tutorial For Instant Download! 

Learn how to Squidoo from the masters!

EelKat's Secrets To Squidoo Success

On April 17, 2007 I joined Squidoo and had no idea what I was doing. Now on April 17, 2008 I have gained Giant Squid status, had lenses reach the coveted Top 100 List, and am making enough of a steady income to run the Pidgie Fund on my Squidoo incom...

Free Squidoo E-Book: Newbie Tips And Squidoo Tricks

Free download of this comprehensive Squidoo Guide for newbies and experienced lensmasters alike! Do you have problems with making lenses in the new Magic Builder? Looking for an easy step-by-step tutorial for efficient Squidoo lensbuilding? Want to l...

Watch These Video Tutorials On Lensbuilding  

by Captain Squid

Squidoo Video Training

Captain Squid is proud to present his free squidoo video training class. Below are a selection of videos from the series. For the full series of free videos, head over to the Free Squidoo Training Headquarters for full screen, interactive versions o...

Helpful hands are reaching out for you... 

We show you every step of the way!

How to Make Your First (or Second) Squidoo Lens

Step-by-step, here's how to get started, answers to clear up some confusion, and all the basics to help you be a GREAT lensmaster right off the bat! There are FAQs, instructions, tips and techniques, common mistakes, some strategies and some technic...

The Free Squidoo Guide

What I know about Squidoo... I learned at Squidoo!  I put this lens together to start to make better sense of all the free information I've found for how to use Squidoo and how to build better lenses.  My recommendations are based on what I...

The Text/Write Module for Anything!

I love the Write module. It's really one of my very favorites... you can do anything with it. It is one of the easiest ways to make your lens stand out. It is the primary carrier of your best content, originally written information or stories, and it...

SquidU's Lensmaster Lounge: Help for New Squids

Newbies! Need help with Squidoo? Click "SquidU" at the top or bottom of a Squidoo lens to visit Squidoo's fabulous discussion forum for its members, aka The Lensmaster Lounge. SquidU contains many kinds of resources to help you learn Squidoo. The Le...

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...

A little HTML will go a long way 

Get step-by-step instructions here

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...

Amazon Module Basics

Squidoo's Amazon module can be used in a lot of ways.  It can, obviously, feature books, toys, games, etc.  You can also modify the look with html, hyperlinks, and graphics.  Read on to see what features are available with examples.&nb...

HTML Squidoo Tricks How To Lens with sample codes step-by-step

HTML Squidoo Tricks How To Lens with sample codes & step-by-step instructions to change fonts, background colors, table of contents, modules & images.

Simple HTML tricks to use with Squidoo

Squidoo has a nice editor for your lenses, but things can be improved. This lens will show you some simple tricks to include more than possible with simply using the editor. These tricks should be used in modules like the link list, or the write modu...

Bulleted and Ordered Lists

You can easily make bulleted or numbered lists in the Text List module. Too easy! But if you want more control and more of a say on how the information is presented you'll need to learn to use three HTML tags. Lets say you want to display a list in...

RMS Titanic - Ship of Dreams 

RMS Titanic, Ship of Dreams

On April 14th 1912 the most luxurious passenger liner on her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York hit icebergs and sank in less than 3 hours later. 1,500 people lost their lives. The Titanic sank in Canadian waters, about 400 miles off the coa...

Squidoo Tips from 5 Giant Squids 

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...

Lensmaster Tools and Utilities

SQUIDUtils.com Utilities and Tools for the Expert Lensmaster SquidUtils is the place to find complementry 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 funct...

Kathy's Squidoo Tutorials

This lens includes all my Squidoo Tips Tutorials.  As new topics are completed they will be added here. Be sure to check back from time to time as I plan on adding more in the near future. Squidoo has updated their lenses recently (I lo...

What Can You Do With Squidoo?

Congratulations! You are the newest member of Squidoo. You have edited your profile, uploaded your picture and now you are faced with the task of creating your first lens. Or maybe you've already made a couple of lenses and now you can't think of any...

bdkz's Best Squidoo Tips

Welcome! I'm Bonnie, lensmaster bdkz. I'm a Giant Squid Organizer and a Squid Angel. I have created over 400 lenses, been "Lens of the Day" twice and have had 14 of my lens in the Top 100. I have been with Squidoo for over two years and I wanted to...

Angels Are Watching Over You - Squid Angels! 

Find out who they are, what they do, and how you can get their blessings...

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...

Ten Tips for a Bless-Worthy Squidoo Lens

Being a Squid Angel is a responsibility I take very seriously. I'm currently serving my second term as a Squid Angel, and am thrilled to have an opportunity to recognize and reward Squidoo lenses worthy of a boost. It's exciting to meet new lensmaste...

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.

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...

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!

Learn about Copywriting and Graphics, plus... 

...a very special love letter to Squidoo!

Royalty-free photos

I've been sorting through digital photos that I've been taking since 2001. The only problem being is while I had a good camera for a number of years, it was a film camera. The digital camera I was using was a dinky little one. Just for fun. Had I wan...

Royalty Free Art Clip To Download - Where to Find Copyright Free Clip Art

No matter what kind of online work you do, there comes a time when you need free clip art or a copyright free image, photo, or graphic to complete your project.  Listed below are the best places to find royalty free clip art or a royalty free im...

Free Web Page Graphics: Free and Almost-Free Graphics for Webpages, MySpace or Blogs

Nothing brings a web page to life faster than pictures.   That's why the Squidoo planners made it easy to add pictures to lenses.  And "MySpace Graphics" and "MySpace Free Graphics" are searched on about 1000 times...

All Squidoo, All The Time :: My Squidoo Love Letter

My Dearest Squidoo, You've brought so much joy to my life I couldn't wait a single minute more to tell you how I feel. I love you, Squidoo! Others think I'm bold, but they don't know you like I do. I first heard of you as a whispered name on a fl...

Copywriting Tips for Beginners

  It Can Take Just One Letter ... or One Word To Double or Triple The Response To YOUR Next Advertising Campaign. Whether you are searching for information on copywriting in general, are wanting to become a copywriter, want to write an...

More Graphics Tutorials... 

Drawing and Painting with GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program)

This is a collection of GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) tutorials and resources to help even non-artists express creativity and enjoy drawing and painting images.

How to make your YouTube videos look great! 

Tips from our resident flick master

How to Make YouTube Videos Look Great

The key for YouTube to display your video the best possible way, is to upload the best possible quality video that meets or exceeds their requirements. That is by encoding videos the right way.  I'll show you a few ways on how to encode, c...

Advanced lens design tricks and all about modules 

Put on your fancy pants!

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...

Squidoo Modules List

Modules are the building blocks of Squidoo, like widgets in blogs. Each module has certain settings you can change and customize to fit your lens (web page). For example, there's modules for photo galleries, displaying a Youtube video, polls, lists...

Cute modules to spice up your lens

Cute modules that will help your lens stand out. Go beyond the text-module and the link-list module and use some color. These modules are built into squidoo and really make your lens look good. Some are hard to find, so I added descriptions on where...

Advanced CSS: Layout Tricks and Lab Experiments

Columns! Images! Colored boxes! This lens is my CSS sandbox, where I'm testing fancy layout tricks to make Squidoo lenses look great. As I figure out new CSS techniques, I'll share them with you, so you can use them on your lenses! This lens assumes...

Ta-tah! The Squidoo Brass!  

Go, say "Thank You"!

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Bring back the light of the righteous to those on the front lines.

All About Gil

I like the simpler things in life. A cold brew, a big screen tv, and a Barbara Streisand live in concert DVD are all I need to get through the day. While I don't yet qualify for celebrity status, I do hope to one day be as popular as the likes of Gar...

Seth Godin!

WRITER of bestselling books about marketing. SPEAKER with a unique style and great reputation. ENTREPRENEUR with a track record. Seth's blog just reached its 3000th post. It is currently ranked by Technorati as the #1 blog in the world written by a...

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 (...

SquidSpam: Zero Tolerance

... that everyone deserves a voice online, and a free service for sharing and spreading recommendations, ideas, products and passions. Not just the gatekeepers. Not just paid editors. Not just A-listers and  marketers. Everyone. We also believe...

How to make $$ on Squidoo 

Part 1: Affiliate Marketer Tips and Tricks For BIGGER Check$ (a small collection of advice, learned from experience)

Being a successful affiliate marketer has nothing to do with how old you are, your race, gender, or what grades you got in school. So if you're looking for an arena where you can show off your PHD, forget about it. Being a successful Affiliate Markete...

How to make a MILLION dollars (and what to do if you don't!)

So.. you want to earn $1,000,000! You will be pleased to learn it is simpler than you thought. But simple is not necessarily easy! Just like walking is simple. But walking 1,000,000 miles is not easy! But it is simple. One step after a...

Kathy's eBay Tutorials

This lens includes all my eBay Tutorials.  As new topics are completed they will be added here. Be sure to check back from time to time.

Squidoo Profit System - How I Make Money with Squidoo... No Secrets Here!

I make money with Squidoo.  Even though Squidoo is not my SOLE source of online revenue, it is slowly becoming a VERY large part of my monthly earnings for my home-based online business. In fact, as I've gone quietly about my online business, I...

Bookkeeping Basics for Beginners for Online Sellers

One of the areas that most beginning online sellers know little or nothing about is how to keep the books for their new online sales venture.  Uncle Sam wants his portion of your profits, and it is probably most common for sellers to file a Sche...

Who wants more money? 

How to Run a Successful CafePress Shop (and make lots of money!)

CafePress is THE online place to become your very own entrepreneur quickly and easily.  All you need is a computer, Internet connection, and a graphics program, and you are on your way to making major money!  Get all the CafePress goodness...

Are you a Stay at Home Mom (or Dad) Interested in Earning a Monthly Income?

Okay, I am sure you are all thinking, "What's the catch?" Don't worry, there isn't one. I promise. I am a stay at home mom and I will show you how Squidoo is helping me earn a monthly income while still being home to take care of my children. What i...

Making a Living on Squidoo Group Headquarters

Making a Living on Squidoo Group Explore this Group fully and you will find everything you need to know about how to get started and make money on Squidoo. Free Resources and Books by Seth Godin (Mr Squidoo)! Please vote in our Poll and let us k...

How to Generate Income Online

Are you a stay at home parent, college student? Or perhaps you have health issues that prevent you from working a 40 hour week job. Maybe you would like to add to your monthly income? This helpful guide will get you started. But I don't know compute...

Aweber - tips, tricks, how-to, stats, and reviews (PLUS Submit Your Own Review!)

So you want to automate your email follow up? Want to automate your MLM recruiting? Are you looking to start a newsletter? A Sequential Autoresponder is a GREAT way to save time that you could otherwise spend building your business in other ways....

Be a Learner from a Top Earner! 

And marvel at a powerful young entrepreneur

The New Affiliate Marketer

OK. So I'm a wannabe entrepreneur from Manchester (UK) and I thought I would attempt to make money through affiliate marketing. Now for anyone who has had the fortune (or misfortune depending how you interpret it) to stumble across this lens and doe...

Make Money With Clickbank... Finally!! Learn Niche Affiliate Marketing

Niche affiliate marketing is a proven way to identify smaller and more tightly focused segments of a larger market. This method of identifying smaller markets is a key way to make money with Clickbank. Niche affiliate marketers identify whether the c...

I found these lensmasters who get found often, and they want you to... 

...find out how you can get found, too. How do you find this title?

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...

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...

Building Website Traffic 101

It also keeps your websites, marketing schemes, or affiliate programs from crashing and burning to the ground! This lens showcases the in's and out's of learning how to increase your website traffic! Let Me Teach You What To Do With That Traffic On...

How to Submit your URL to Search Engines, Google

"How can you index your website in the search engines?" This is an often asked question for any website owners, Squidoo users, Bloggers, and eBay sellers. There are several top search engines to think about, the obvious being Google and Yahoo. Index...

GreekGeek's Squidoo Tips: How to Get Your Lens Found

So, you want to learn how to build successful Squidoo lenses (or any kind of webpage), attract web traffic, and get your Squidoo lens found by Google! This three-part tutorial covers: Learn the Secrets of My Squidoo Success!Part I: Ten Steps to Build...

Guess what? It's all a Team Sport! 

Lenses on social networking

PotPieGirl says - Let's Make Money with Squidoo !!

Hello!  My name is Jennifer.  I live outside Atlanta, GA and I am a serious "lens-aholic"!  I am a firm believer, and living proof, that you CAN make money with Squidoo!  I've recently released the Squidoo Profit System...

Blogging Advice - How To Blog and How to Get Readers to Your Blog

When you want blogging advice to learn how to make money from a blog, where do you turn?  There are so many "how to blog" products out there - which one works?  It took me awhile to get into the blogging scene - I kept putting it...

10 Simple Steps To Increase Web Traffic for your Lens

Personal Social Networking it's the key to success in 2009 and future years. This little guide will teach you how to use social networks to bring loads of targeted web traffic to your lens to increase web traffic and create your own personal social n...

Blogging Starter Checklist

Many of my close friends are entering the blogging world. I am so happy for them. I started blogging in Feb 2005 and I have learnt that we need to do a few basic things when we start a blog. I learnt it the hard way but you don't have to. I have put...

How to Get Traffic to Your Squidoo Lens | Top Free Traffic Generation Ideas

Hello.  My name is PotPieGirl and I am a "Lens-aholic"... and I need more free traffic to my Squidoo lens!  Do you? There has to be a way to increase traffic to your lens like you would try to get free web site traffic, right...

MySpace and Squidoo 

More tips for networking...

MY MySpace

 Welcome! Are you a MySpace user? I am. In fact, I probably use it more than I "should". Over the past several years I have monitored and maintained 12 different profiles, each for a specific purpose, different aspects of my life and i...

Arrrgh! My computer crashed! What the !@#$% now??? 

Calm down! Help is right here:

How to backup your lens

Recently, I came across a few posting on SquidU about people accidentally deleting their lens or due to some bug. To avoid future headache, once you have created your lens and are happy with the content, I recommend you take a few extra minutes to ba...

Help! My Mac Crashed!

Almost every problem has at least one solution, and that rule holds true for Apple / Mac computers as well. No matter what computer you're using or what brand of computer you're using, the first thing to do is take a deep breath and step back for a m...

Here's lensmaster bdkz with another super tutorial! 

And then look into some triathlontraining...

50 Awesome Squidoo How-To Lenses From A-Z

Here's a handy little directory of the best Squidoo How-To Lenses from A-Z. Find out how to: Build a lens, improve your lens, add photos, use HTML, Twitter, Squidcast, sell a lens, make a lensograpy, make a profile, find out what it takes to be a Gi...

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...

All my lenses live in Texas... 

Chef Keem's own Top 5

Molded Chocolates, Chocolate Candy and Truffles

Molded chocolates are the most popular chocolate candies in the world. If you follow a few basic steps, you can make these wonderful confections yourself. It's easy. Fancy decorations for wedding cakes, handmade chocolate truffles, elegant candy con...

Are You Yodeling?

Female country singers, male country singers, Swiss yodeling, a Korean yodeler star; Germany, Bavaria, Austria, America - international vocalists with stellar talent can be found on this Squidoo.com lens. I'm not a yodeler. I can't even sing without...

Organic Flavored Agave Nectar and Diabetic Sweetener - Low Glycemic Agasweet

Recipes and information about Agasweet, the original healthfully flavored agave nectar, currently causing a nation-wide buzz of excitement due to its wonderful taste and incredible versatility. Please note! When I state that agave sweeteners are "su...

Diary of a Small Business Owner

This lens shall provide small business resources and an overview of business ownerships and what it takes to run a small gourmet food company. Furthermore, I intend to chronicle past and current business events: pratfalls, successes, trials and error...

Culinary Arts Alaska With Chef Keem - Fishing, Cooking, Salmon, Bear!

Alaska cooking jobs - dream jobs! Ihave a lot of cooking fun, but I'm also fly fishing, bear chasing, adventure hunting, beach combing, and picking wild strawberries. I entertain my guests with my chef's comedy routines, and I develop recipes for wil...

Casey & Co. Brainstorm Headquarters Presents: 

Ideas for Awesome Lenses!

49 Ideas For Awesome Lenses

...or 10 or 100! It's pretty easy, non-techy, and of course, free. Right? Right. Sure, to make your lens a real knockout it takes some time, but chances are you've already learned the basics and are looking to do more. Congrats. That's the best pl...