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featured lens What's wrong with this lens?

It's true that it's easier to show examples of what NOT to do on lenses than what you SHOULD be doing. After all, there are a billion right ways to create a Squidoo lens, and the list of specific things not to do is much more clear in many respects....

featured lens Why is my lens "Under Construction?"

Welcome to Squidoo! At Squidoo, we're all about quality, that's why we give you a chance to finish your lens before showing it to the world. If your lens isn't finished yet, when you try to view it, you'll see an "Under Construction" sign. This lets...

featured lens Lens Health Check Tool

Originally developed for SQUIDUtils.com, the Health Check Tool can quickly identify common issues with your lens. The advice that it gives can help improve the ranking of your lens in the search engines. This lens will tell you more about what it do...

featured lens How do I edit my forum signature?

Want to learn how to add an awesome forum signature, or upload an avatar to your SquidU Forum profile? Just follow the easy steps below.

featured lens How do I edit my lens?

If you're here, chances are you're new to Squidoo. Welcome! For some quick tips on how to get back to your lens edit screen, called the workshop, follow the easy steps below.

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2 free ebooks worth reading! 

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CALAMARI: The Official Squidoo How-To
If you're the type who likes to read instruction manuals and guides before dipping your toes in, then this official guidebook is for you!
THE JOY OF SQUIDOO: The Official Recipe Guide
Full of tasty recipes about how to make Squidoo "lenses." Lots of inspiration for newbies and pros alike.

Payment related questions and answers 

featured lens Money Making Modules

You probably knew you could make money on Squidoo, but did you know which modules will earn you the most? Take a quick tour of our moneymaking modules and find out how to boost your earnings and donations power. Image courtesy of thefuturistics and...

featured lens FAQ: Payment Settings and Commissions

Are you confused about commissions? Experiencing donation snafus? Here are the most frequently asked questions about money and earnings on Squidoo. If you were directed here by Tisha, our awesome bug sorter outer, and you still weren't able to find...

featured lens It's Payday!

Just like the Co-Vantage Credit Union commercials, you can step into cash by using Squidoo. You can sell products on your lenses to earn commission, or get into high-paying "tiers" with a well-ranked lens. Read on to learn more about common payday r...

featured lens FAQ: Donating to Charity

Squidoo is a great way to earn money for charity. This lens will answer our most frequently asked questions about how you can send money to charity. If you were directed here by Tisha, our awesome bug sorter outer, and you still weren't able to find...

Official stuff you need to know 

featured lens 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'...

featured lens 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...

featured lens Using Creative Commons Images from Flickr

Creative Commons is a system that photographers can use to license photos for use by others. Flickr helps facilitate this sharing process by making it easy to find and use photos that Flickr users have licensed under Creative Commons. This is great n...

featured lens Top Reasons Squidoo Accounts Get Deleted

Squidoo loves lensmasters, and when they're new and trying new things, we love to give them the benefit of the doubt. But occasionally, we get bad actors who just aren't interested in creating great lenses and insist on breaking the rules. Below we'...

Helpful lenses from your Citizen Squid Mentors 

featured lens Image and Video Mentor

Welcome! I'm Linda Martin, your Image and Video Mentor here at Squidoo. I love working with images and know you will too once you have the right software and a few simple instructions. This lens lists sites where you can find free images on the web....

featured lens Promoting Your Lens Outside Of Squidoo

One of the most often asked questions in the Squidu Forums is, "How do I get traffic to my lens?" The most obvious way to generate traffic to your lens is to make sure that it is search engine friendly. But that is a topic that deserves its own lens...

featured lens HTML And CSS Mentor

Many of you start writing your lenses without any HTML and CSS, but as you start understanding Squidoo, you want to learn how to spice your lenses up. HTML and CSS is just the ticket that you may be looking for. Here, on this lens, you will learn fr...

featured lens Giant Squid Mentor

It's true. Squidoo is a great place to create web pages for free. But did you know that part of the magic of Squidoo also comes from the membership? Since Squidoo started in the fall of 2006, our lensmasters have continued to create great lenses and...

featured lens "Making your First Lens" Mentor

EVERYBODY can Squidoo! You can too! It might take you an afternoon to 'get the hang of it', but that afternoon can be LOTS of fun. You don't need to be an expert in anything 'internet-y' to be able to build a beautiful, useful and successful Squido...

 

featured lens FAQ: Modules and Settings

There's a module for every lens, we like to say! Here are our most frequently asked questions about putting them to good use. If you were directed here by Tisha, our awesome bug sorter outer, and you still weren't able to find an answer, reply to Ti...

featured lens FAQ: Add Code to your Lens

Since Squidoo has gotten bigger and our users have gotten savvier, many lensmasters have question about adding codes to their lenses. Below are some of the most frequently asked questions about adding code to lenses. If you were directed here by Tis...

featured lens FAQ: General Lensmastery

We often get interesting questions about creating lenses that may not have obvious answers. If you're stuck on the process for making lenses, check here from some great tips and answers to questions other lensmasters have asked. If you were directed...

featured lens The Module Mentor

What makes Squidoo different than other help-you-build-it websites? One feature is modules. Modules are sections of a lens that you add depending on what kind of content you want to add. Want to create a list of links? Add a link module. Want to wr...

featured lens Groups Mentor

What makes Squidoo different than other help-you-build-it websites? One feature is groups. Groups are, well, groups of lenses that have something in common. Want to get all the computer lenses together? Or the football lenses? Or the lenses about v...

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