Squidoo Tutorials by Greekgeek: Get Traffic, Add Graphics and More!
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A Lensography of ALL My Squidoo Tutorials
I love Squidoo. I love teaching. What do I hate? Seeing newbies struggle and get discouraged. Also, quite frankly, there's more folks around here interested in Squidoo than in ancient Greece.
So I write Squidoo Tutorials. Browse this page to find help with:
- CSS (make lenses look their best!)
- How to get lens traffic
- How to find and use graphics
- Hard-to-find, useful Squidoo features
- General Squidoo tips
- Photoshop Tutorials
Great Ideas for Squidoo Lenses
What Can You Do With Squidoo?
Need some ideas for Squidoo lenses? Just starting out and don't quite "get" what you can do with Squidoo?
See Ten Great Ideas for Squidoo Lenses to help you brainstorm, or check out the lenses featured on Is Squidoo a Scam? for ten inspiring examples of different kinds of lenses others have made!
CSS: Jazz Up Text, Headlines and Paragraphs
Codes for changing colors, font sizes, backgrounds and more
Dress Your Lens For Success
Whether you're a total newbie or just need a CSS cheat sheet, use this easy CSS Codes Tutorial and Quick Reference to change text, colors, paragraphs, backgrounds and borders.
You can do even fancier tricks with CSS. Match Squidoo Themes, Colors and Backgrounds (as I've done here), make a Virtual Chalkboard (above), create Fancy Tables of Contents to link between lenses or between pages on a Page Break lens, or raid my grab bag of tricks in Advanced CSS.
Getting Traffic to Your Squidoo Lens
Monsters are nice, but we want VISITORS!
There's four basic ways to get visitors:
- CONTENT (Also, presentation). Have lenses worth visiting.
- SEO. Search engine optimization. Get search engines to send traffic.
- SOCIAL MEDIA. Twitter, Facebook, forums...there's many ways to advertise.
- COMMUNITY. You draw or repel visitors with every post, contribution and interaction. Participating builds connections, and the web is built on connections.
This three-part tutorial, "How to Get Your Lens Found," focuses on 1, 2, and 3:
Part I: Ten Steps to Make an Effective Lens
Part II: Build Web Traffic Through Social Media
Part III: SEO: Squidoo Search Optimization
BONUS: How to Get More Clicks, Sales
Graphics: Where to Find Them, How to Use Them
...plus, how to add captions
Every lens needs graphics!
They make your point. They draw the eye. But most of us aren't artists. And most images on the web are copyrighted. So what do we do?
Browse Free Web Graphics: Where to Find Them (Legally)! to get great graphics for your Squidoo lenses.
Use How to Upload Images to help you add graphics TO your Squidoo lenses, either by uploading them onto Squidoo, or hosting them on a site like Flickr, Photobucket or Picasa.
Consult this Graphics Layout Tutorial to center a graphic, put a graphic side-by-side with text, or add a caption under a graphic.
Learn about Hotlinking, to avoid getting a virtual wedgie like John McCain did.
Use my Zazzle Graphics HTML Templates to display graphics from Zazzle stores, which will pay you a referral bonus!
Finally, see the Photo Gallery Module Tutorial for a great way to display graphics, plus a lesson on resizing images.
Exploring Squidoo: Stats, Modules and More
Getting the most out of Squidoo's features and tools
Squidoo has so many great modules, features, and tools, but you have to discover them by accident -- unless, of course, you have a TOUR GUIDE.
Guide to Squidoo Categories
Get the Most Out of Traffic Stats
Understanding Squidoo Payouts
A Guided Tour of Squidoo Modules
What Factors Does Squidoo Lensrank Measure?
Miscellaneous Squidoo Tips and Tutorials
All the Rest of My Tutorials (except Photoshop Tutorials...see below)
Photoshop Tutorials and Tricks for Beginners
Glossy buttons, fancy frames, and photo retouching
Click a graphic to learn how to make that effect!
Guestbook for Squids
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Ladymermaid
Feb 8, 2012 @ 5:28 pm | delete
- Your articles are always amazing GreekGeek. You are an example for other to follow and a role model for many here.
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favored1
Feb 5, 2012 @ 3:52 am | delete
- Adding yet another of your lessons to my Help Me lens. Appreciate this so much.
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girlfriendfactory
Jan 8, 2012 @ 2:03 pm | delete
- Nice having these all in one place for easy reference! Definitely worth bookmarking! Thanks for all of the tips and hard work you put into helping others on the road to success!
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anka_n
Dec 23, 2011 @ 2:59 am | delete
- I've started on Squidoo 1 year ago and now I feel the need to go to the next level. Your info are like a golden mine for me. Thanks a lot for sharing!
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HJtheNightOwl
Dec 18, 2011 @ 10:27 pm | delete
- Thank you for putting so much information in one place, I will be spending quite a bit of time absorbing all this.
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