Popular Lenses on Squidoo Tips

SEO/Marketing Mentor (LensRank: 37) This is the official squidoo SEO mentor help lens. You can come here with your questions about attracting traffic to your lens, though I hope this lens will help solve many of them out of the box. SEO = Search Engine Optimization In practice SEO can...

Vote Now for the 2009 Giant Squid Awards (LensRank: 51) Welcome to the 2009 Giant Squid Awards! We've hand picked over 100 Giants in 22 Categories for you to vote on along with "Best About Me" and "Best Potential Giant Squid Lens of the Year". Now sit back, relax and take a look a...

Squidoo Support Sites Mentor (LensRank: 56) Because Squidoo has such an amazing & easy to use format for making web pages, more and more great support sites are popping up every day. Support sites are non-squidoo sites that are specifically designed to help Squidoo lensmasters succeed. There...

The Tools Mentor (LensRank: 102) Welcome! I am Jewelsofawe, your tools mentor. Tools are a wonderful way to make your squidoo experience easy and fun. It can help your experience here be a better one. I will list the tools that I can help you with and that will help you have a bette...

Basic HTML for Squidoo (LensRank: 111) 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...

Getting Started With Squidoo (LensRank: 118) Squidoo is the popular publishing platform and community that makes it easy for you to create "lenses" online. Lenses are pages, kind of like flyers or signposts or overview articles, that gather everything you know about your topic of interest--and...

THE GIANT SQUIDS (and how you can become one) (LensRank: 175) 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...

Angels Unaware (LensRank: 219) These flowers are called angel trumpets.  Aren't they beautiful?  They are dramatic too.  This lens serves as my angel trumpet to call attention to the great lenses I have found.  Angels are message bearers so this is my messa...

The Squidoo Pay-It-Forward Challenge (LensRank: 301) Squidoo is a community.  We help each other.  Whether it be by offering advice in the forums or offering words of encouragement in a guestbook, we stand by each other.  I truly believe that when we give, just a little, we recieve more...

Free Images and How to Use Them (LensRank: 307) This is a listing free image resources to use on your lens or website. Also, it includes several detailed How-To sections on how to add the necessary HTML to control and enhance the images in your pages (or lenses). Examples included. If you do fi...

Borders Dividers and Separators (LensRank: 323) I love to use borders, dividers and separators to dress up my lenses. Borders can break up long blocks of text to make your lens more readable. They can add a splash of color and some visual interest. I have three lenses of borders, dividers and sep...

Image and Video Mentor (LensRank: 361) 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....

Fun Photo Effects (LensRank: 406) Finding unique images that can be used on your website is not always an easy task. For the novice webmaster; it can be a nightmare trying to understand the dynamics behind copyright issues. One of the easiest ways to get around this is to use your...

Squid Angel -- Blessings to YOU! (LensRank: 451) This is the first instance on Squidoo that I've actually written about my Catholic upbringing in Cleveland, Ohio, and what an impact it had on my spiritual being. You see, it was the nuns and priests that I encountered in elementary and grade sc...

HTML Borders Backgrounds (LensRank: 456) 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...

Making your First Lens Mentor (LensRank: 637) 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...

ClickBank Ads Module (LensRank: 735) This Clickbank Module will enable you to display paying ads for digital products that match the topic of your lens. When a visitor clicks on one of these links and buys something from ClickBank, you get a share of the commission (up to 75% of the sal...

Christmas Photo Effects (LensRank: 757) With Photo Effects, it has never been easier to create one of a kind images which can then be used on your holiday pages. Or use your imagination and come up with another use for them. Most of these are pretty straight-forward when it comes to creat...

Lens Workshop Addon for Firefox (LensRank: 1,048) This addon for Firefox incorporates extra features into the Lens Workshop and a few other pages on Squidoo. The most significant improvements are: Lensrank updates, colored tags, detailed stats, integrated ping and improved support for Groups. See t...

Love This Lens Widget (LensRank: 1,117) One of the (many) secrets of getting a good Lensrank is the star ratings that other Lensmasters can give to your lens. Getting them to actually visit your lens is hard enough, yet sometimes they leave without clicking on the stars at the top. This w...

Optimizing tags for squidoo (LensRank: 1,120) Tags are a great way for websites like squidoo to organize their content. They are used on tag pages and in the 'related lenses' feature at the right hand side of each lens. Doing tags reasonably well is easy, doing it perfectly is quite hard...

bdkz's Best Squidoo Tips (LensRank: 1,189) 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...

Browser Toolbar for Squidoo (LensRank: 1,247) This new browser toolbar from SquidUtils.com puts powerful tools at the finger tips of Lensmasters. Featuring quick links to all your Squidoo accounts, lenses and groups, and easy access to all the social functions, this toolbar will be indispensable...

How to Legally Add Copyrighted Pictures to Squidoo Lenses (LensRank: 1,638) Learn how to legally use famous, copyrighted pictures and art on websites and Squidoo Lenses! No more worries about searching for royalty free photos to make your lenses look top notch. Whether you're looking for nature photos, celebrities, movi...

Squidoo Tools, Resources, and Guides (LensRank: 1,683) Squidoo Tools, Guides, Lens addons, Linkbuilding tips, and news This is a collection of free Squidoo tools, guides, and other resources to help you build and market your Squidoo Lenses. I will also continue to gather various addons that you can ad...

How To Add Amazon Product Links (LensRank: 1,710) It used to be possible to embed the official Amazon Product Links into a lens (if you were an Amazon Associate). However, since the support for IFrames was withdrawn from Squidoo, this is no longer an option. At SQUIDUtils.com there is a special to...

Why is my lens "Under Construction?" (LensRank: 1,746) 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...

Are You a Squidoo Nobody? How to Become a Squidoo Somebody in 6 Easy Lessons (LensRank: 1,811) Who is this little orange guy? That's what everyone wants to know! So, why are you leaving us in the dark? "This is my bio. I can edit it later." Well, little orange guy, later has arrived. The time is now! Come out from behind your orange anonymity...

My Favourite CSS Tricks on Squidoo (LensRank: 1,817) The basic tools provided by Squidoo will do pretty much everything you need to get your content out to your audience. But sometimes you want to format it a little differently, and this is where inline CSS comes into play. Here I show some of the tric...

How to Use Squidoo to Raise Money (and engage your volunteers) (LensRank: 1,822) Squidoo is a free web platform that makes it easy for you (or your donors or anyone who supports your cause) to earn money, day after day, by building useful web pages. This page will explain how it works and how to get started. Our current Squidoo...