Squidoo Magazines: Engaging communities around niche content

What do you get?

When a lens in included in a magazine, you get...

• 1An exclusive new lens theme for all GoodVeg lenses. It's fresh and green and designed to link all these GoodVeg lenses together for more browsing, better pageviews, and visual awesomeness.
• 2Someone looking out for you! We've hired a team exclusively assigned to the magazines project. For instance, GoodVeg's managing editor is Stephanie Mangino. She'll be looking at all participating lenses and actively working to feature them on the magazine's homepage, on Facebook, on Twitter, and more. Think of her as your own publicist.
• 3More traffic that is less dependent on the whims of search engines and Google. A big part of our magazine strategy is tight integration with Facebook (more than 10,000 GoodVeg fans and growing!), which brings very relevant traffic from people who follow vegetarian topics there. You don't need to be active on Facebook yourself in order for your lens to benefit from being part of GoodVeg.
• 4Higher quality ads on your lenses. We'll be working with sponsors like BocaBurger and other veg specific brands to match the ad experience with the content.
• 5Basically, you get everything you've always gotten from Squidoo -- but with the chance to get more people reading your good work on important (and tasty) vegetarian topics. Other than the look and feel of the lens, and the publicity perks and probably more traffic, nothing else changes.
  
  But if you'd rather fly solo and don't want to be featured in GoodVeg, we've made it really easy to opt your lens out. Just edit any one of your lenses in the Vegetarian topic, look for the 'Magazines & Topics' sidebar in your workshop, and from there you can remove that one lens or all of your lenses from this magazine. Of course, we're hoping most of you would rather come along for the ride!
• 6The same applies for any of our magazines. If you had a lens in a Halloween topic previously, your lens will be automatically included in our Happy Halloween Magazine, so you can take part in the extra promotion and new social traffic. If you'd rather not be included, you can easily opt out lens by lens, or remove all lenses from the whole magazine in just one click.