Squidoo Resources

The Most Important Thing 

About the limit on "overly promotional lenses"

As part of our recent Squidoo policy update, we're introducing a new limit to the number of links to the same domain that you can have on a lens. Here's a deeper look at our thinking on this issue and how it affects you. Thanks for reading. **Phot...

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...

Locked?!

Squidoo is a place for passionate people to make single pages, for free, to share expertise, personal opinion, recommendations and links to the best stuff online. It's a place for handgathered, unique, useful, recommended, genuine content. Written b...

SquidDon't!

It's simple: given our pedigree, our point of view and our dyed-in-the-wool, we-will-never-change-our-mind conviction on this issue, spam is not okay at Squidoo. This page outlines our thinking on the issue. It supplements our terms of service. Don'...

NEWSFLASH! A Squidoo Policy Update

June 2009 When we started creating Squidoo in 2005, we had a vision of openness, creativity, authenticity and generosity that has guided the Squidoo publishing platform, our company and our community to much success. A few years later, as the numbe...

Make your Lens Better than Ever! 

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

So, you want to learn how to build successful Squidoo lenses (or any sort of webpage), attract web traffic, and get your Squidoo lens found by Google! This three-part tutorial covers: Part I: Ten Steps to Build an Appealing (and Effective) Lens Part...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Don't Stop There... 

Best Lensographies Ever

Think of your lensography as your Squidoo home page. It can be the single URL that you direct people to, and they will have access to ALL of your lenses. Wait, what's a lensography you ask? It's a collection of all of your hard work here on Squidoo....

SquidU's Lensmaster Lounge: Help for New Squids

Newbies! Need help with Squidoo? Choose "SquidU" from "Squidlinks" up top to visit Squidoo's members discussion forum, aka The Lensmaster Lounge. SquidU contains many kinds of resources to help you learn Squidoo. The Lensmast...

Squidoo Payday Questions & Answers

It never fails, every month on payday the same questions are being asked in the SquidU forum. Most of them by new lensmasters, but surprisingly, there's also quite a bit of confusion among some who have been around for a while. Figuring out how...

50 Ways To Use Squidcasting

What the heck is Squidcasting? No it's not fishing for Squid! It's the awesome new interactive tool from the Squidoo HQ team. In a nutshell Squidcasting allows you to interact and react with your fans and fellow Squids. Check out my 50 Ways to Use Sq...

Common Newbie Squidoo Mistakes

Making a Squidoo lens is easy. Making a good Squidoo lens, well, that's another story. A lot of Squidoo newbies ask veterans to critique their lenses, and most of these lenses are not nearly as good as they could be. (There are exceptions!) Hopefull...

Social Bookmarking Lenses 

Del.icio.us Group Headquarters

Del.icio.us Group: This bookmarking service is actually an invaluable marketing and promotions tool. Join in and "friend" other del.icio.us members to boost your network - it's a great way to get your favorite sites or your personal and business w...

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...

Social Bookmarking Sites

Social bookmarking sites are a popular way to store, classify, share and search links through the practice of folksonomy (an Internet-based information retrieval methodology consisting of collaboratively generated, open-ended labels that categorize c...

StumbleUpon Headquarters

The StumbleUpon Networking Group Join in with fellow Squidoo lensmasters and increase your StumbleUpon friend network! Stumble your best lenses, invite others as friends, and visit each other's favorites for the chance of getting some great exposure...

Digging made easy - making the most of Digg to drive traffic to your site

You've seen the little boxes on websites, you've heard of www.digg.com, perhaps you've even already signed up for a free account. Some of you may have already dug your lens from the little Digg It! link squidoo provided on your lens. If you aren't su...

SquidPrograms 

Giant Squids Headquarters

Giant Squids A group for the Giant Squids. To highlight their lensography's, plexography's, and a favorite personal lens or two.

bdkz's Best Squidoo Tips

Welcome! I'm Bonnie, lensmaster bdkz. I'm a Giant Squid & RocketMoms Organizer here on Squidoo. I have created over 400 lenses, been "Lens of the Day" twice and have had 15 of my lens in the Top 100. I have been with Squidoo fo...

SquidAngels Headquarters

A place to meet Squidoo's team of angels.

THE GIANT SQUIDS (and how you can become one)

No, it's not a rock group (but it might as well be). It's the core group of movers and shakers at Squidoo. It's a gathering of influentials, the most dedicated lensmakers on Squidoo. Here's how this whole thing started. One day at Sq...

eBay Lenses  

Where to Find Stuff to Sell on eBay

Have you been thinking about starting an eBay business?  "Yes," you say, "but what will I sell and where will I get it?  Wholesale, drop ship, garage sale finds.  How do I find them and where do I start?"...

Boosting eBay Sales

Within this lens various methods of boosting eBay sales will be discussed. Topics will include, presentation, branding, marketing among many other sales boosting techniques. Auction Templates Some reasons to consider using custom auction description...

SquidBids for eBay Sellers

SquidBids is an awesome new tool from Squdioo for ebay sellers.SquidBids allows sellers to create custom lenses to promote their eBay auctions and stores. This is such an exciting new tool for eBay sellers. Check out what SquidBids can do for you!

Where to Find Inventory for eBay

Finding a source for your inventory on eBay is the toughtest part of selling, hands-down. Customer service, shipping, creating a listing, even HTML are all CAKE next to the difficult task of sourcing. Naturally, other eBay sellers are not willing to...

The Squidoo Answer Deck 

(Pay no attention to the lack of icon and description...it's really there.)

The Squidoo Answer Deck Headquarters

Squidoo SEO 

Where to get Backlinks to your Site

Well, no one...except search engines! If you want to people to read your page on the web, you need to have plenty of incoming links pointing right at your site. Search engines value the quantity, quality, and relevance of these links. The trouble wit...

Web Directories

A web directory is an excellent place to add your URL and gain a quick backlink. Not to be confused with search engines, web directories are compilations of websites categorized by topic. Not only do some offer a backlink, but traffic from directorie...

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...

Targeted Web Traffic

It doesn't matter if you get a gazillion visitors to your website, if they aren't buying, or getting them to do what you want them to do, what's the point? So what should you be doing? Try to get targeted web traffic. This means, in short, that you a...