Top 10 Helpful Areas to Search for Help with Lenses

#2 The Answer Deck 

In my opinion, you should favorite the Answer Deck immediately, or tag it in your computer for quick reference. I find myself using the Answer Deck anytime I have questions, it is packed full of valuable information, from A to Z.

The Squidoo Answer Deck Headquarters

#3 Quality Lenses 

Tips for making a quality lens

First, if you are going to write a lens you certainly want it to have the highest quality. You will find a wealth of information on how to do this on Create A Quality Lens
You have to put some time and effort into creating lenses that people will find valuable and enjoy reading. There needs to be a focus and eye appeal, but you have to have great information.

You can also find out a lot more about Squidoo and the lensmasters by visiting Coolest Blogs Featuring Squidoo by bdkz She has created a Blog list on this lens that is a must see.

How To Create A Quality Lens

The word "quality" has come up a lot lately on Squidoo, particularly when it comes to the Giant Squid Program. In order to be accepted you need 50 quality lenses, but what constitutes a "quality" lens? Here's what I think defines quality and how you...

6 ways to improve your lens, right now!

You've already done the hard part. You've had a big idea, something you want to talk about or share on your lens, and you got started. Way to go. So, this lens is about what comes next. It's a quick, 30 second overview of just a handful of easy thin...

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...

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...

#4 Modules and Introductions 

Fantastic advice

Modules are sections in your lenses. You need to spend some time looking at the different modules Squidoo has available. There are many of them that do different things. Here are some lenses that will help you to use these modules and to make better lenses.

The Introduction Module in Squidoo

The introduction module in squidoo has an inbuilt table of content. Do use it! And do upload a picture as an intro image - not having one will stop people from featuring your lens on theirs. And no - just using HTML to put a picture in there does NO...

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...

Make a Fancy Table of Contents

A clickable Table of Contents helps visitors navigate webpages. A table of contents also shows what's on a single webpage, which helps visitors decide whether your page is worth reading! A great table of contents within the first screen is a powe...

#5 Find My Lens 

You spend hours researching and writing a lens. Once you have it published you want people to be able to find your lens. Here are a few lenses that will help you with Search Engine Optimization which will help Google find your lens and that helps people find your lens.

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...

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...

Squidoo SEO: Get Search Engine Traffic

Welcome to Part III of "Greekgeek Squidoo Tips: How to Get Your Lens Found!" This final part focuses on search engine optimization for Squidoo lenses. If you surfed here from the web, Part I was Ten Steps to Build an Appealing Lens (or Web...

SEO for squidoo - getting found in google: search engine optimization

SEO - search engine optimization - has many different facets. This lens goes over the main ones - especially how they effect making successful lenses on squidoo. An elaborate version of this lens, with details about blogging, twitter and more, can...

Squidoo Tips: Building Web Traffic

Welcome to Part II of Greekgeek's Squidoo Tips: How To Get Your Lens Found!  This tutorial focuses on building web traffic with social networking. I'll also recommend some simple tools to improve your lens, so that visitors stick around...

#6 HTML 

There is a lot of information available on HTML. I'm taking baby steps to learn about HTML. I now know how to change my background color, make my text larger, use a different font and a few other neat tricks. I learned how by reading and constantly referring back to the lenses below.

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...

HTML for Squidoo Cobranded Lenses

Welcome! This is the 2nd half of the WiWon School of Wonders HTML Lesson Plan. In the first session, we learned about HTML codes and colors that work with the various Squidoo themes. This time, we're going to cover Squidoo's Co-Branded lens templa...

HTML Cheat Sheet for Squidoo, Blogger & Beyond

Squidoo makes it easy to look good but once you get the basics down, you'll wish that the text/write module would have a place to easily add a link or you might want to bold or italicize your text. Learning basic HTML will give you the added flexibil...

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...

HTML Borders Backgrounds

Have you seen sharp looking lenses formatted with HTML borders and backgrounds and wished you could do the same? There are already plenty of EXCELLENT how-to-HTML lenses available, so I thought I'd do something a little different. There are two main...

#7 CSS and Themes 

The following lenses about CSS are very helpful and the one on Themes.

Advanced css for squidoo - spice up your lens MORE

My lens about css for squidoo often gets the question: how do I combine the code? This lens is an answer to that question.

Squidoo CSS - my favorite code to spice up a lens

I've gathered my favorite Squidoo-code for later reference. I'm tired of trying to find that specific lens I used a css effect on and then having to go to edit-mode, copy paste, and then go back to the lens I was working on. This lens will he...

Using the styles of the Squidoo themes

Squidoo HQ is working on a way to use classes to help us pull the style of the theme into our text/write modules so we can really experiment with them. That is - not having to use complicated CSS, still being able to use the colors and fonts in ways...

#8 RSS 

Wondering if you need a RSS Feed... check out this article, Need for Feeds and this one on the ABC's of RSS This is a wonderful way to display information from your blog, or if you are an artist you can display your work(See Example Below)

RSS Part 3 (Faq's)

Faq's Example below makes a content rich and infomative lens, from just one RSS module.

RSS Part 2 ( Excellent Articles )

RSS Can be Used to... Basically, you can perform any task with RSS that requires search or information retrieval from a server. Automatically and repeatedly./www.squidoo.com/googleearth">

RSS Resources, Tips and Tricks (Part 1)

What's different about RSS feeds vs. straightforward web content? Not much, really, but one key difference is crucial: Content published in an RSS feed is typically set up to send out notifications whenever new material is available. This makes the n...

#9 Lens Ranking 

Being "Popular" does have it's advantages and so does writing quality lenses that people find useful. If you are needing to improve your Lens Ranking...Follow the advice in this lens to Improve your lens rank. I know I'll be studying them even more! (shh...don't tell, but I have so much more to learn)

Squidoo Tips: How To Get Your Lens #1 On Google

Every lensmaster dreams of the day that they get listed highly in Google, the traffic just flows in and best of all its targeted, people are coming to your website because they are interested in what you have to offer. But getting there is a long and...

If you want to become popular on squidoo...

In some ways squidoo is like a popularity contest. I've done pretty well here with as I write more than 760 fans. So I feel qualified to write this lens about the subject.

One More Thing... 

Keyword Research

I have found out that Keywords are critical. This wonderful lens will show you what to do, how to pick better keywords and tells you why. Try to use your keywords often throughout your lens. I thought keywords were the same as tags, but I found out I was wrong.

How to do Keyword Research for squidoo

It is an under statement to say that keywords are important for getting your squidoo lenses (or any webpage really) found in google or another search engine. If you are going to be making a lens to make money, you had better find out two things: wh...