Ok my Deckhands and Swabbies, it’s time to get down to business. Today The Captain is going to share a great promotional tool with you.
Promoting your lens can be one of the most challenging aspects of Lesmastering.
Many people tell you to make sure and ping all the blog services and submit to Del.icio.us and [...]
The latest release of the Squidoo Dashboard Extender by Magicality has added a fantastic feature. You can now ‘tag’ your lenses in order to sort them into groups. This is a great way to manage chunks of lenses instead of having to look at a giant lens list to decide what to do next.
Don’t have [...]
Does your lens need a little loving to have its ranking boosted, and there isn’t a SquidAngel to be found?
Instead, go into your lens and change small, little things about it every day for a week, and republish it every day. Some great examples would be:
Update and refresh your keywords
Re-write your introduction module
Make sure your [...]
Struggling to get a handle on exactly how your Dashboard statistics work?
Check out the great new lens by boardofeducation. He has an excellent summary of the basics of the Dashboard and how to use it effectively.
Captain’s Corner:
Ready to supercharge your dashboard? Download the Dashboard Extender Plugin and get access to even more useful stats. If [...]
I’ve started a few new groups lately and have been noticing an increasing number of new lenses that are nothing more than a long list of advertisements and affiliate offers with no commentary, review, or original content.
It is irrellevant whether I think this is a good tactic or not, it just simply doesn’t work with [...]
With the recent Addition of Squidoo’s Sister Site Squid Who, the Wikipedia Module received a significant facelift. Before, it wasn’t much more than a glorified RSS feed, quite often returning poor information if any on your subject matter.
If you have dismissed the Wiki Module in the past, the Captain recommends that you go back and [...]
This is a basic Squidoo Tip, but I have seen the question come up quite often.
How do you get your lens listed in Squidoo Search Results?
When you first claim a lens it in what is called Work In Progress (WIP) status. That means that your lens needs a little more work before it can move [...]
In order to show you that you can in fact make money with Squidoo, I’ve decided to do something that I haven’t seen anyone else do.
I’m going to provide disclosure of my traffic and earnings statistics on a daily basis.
The Stats are already live and you can find them by clicking on the Squidoo Earnings [...]
There are many third party sites popping up every day in order to help people get more out of their lensmastering.
Here’s my top five in no particular order:
Sell My Lens – This site is a fee free auction marketplace to buy and sell Squidoo Lenses and URLs. With the recent Giant Squid activity usage [...]
When getting started on your Squidoo Experience it is often easy to become overwhelmed at all of the options present to you. Modules, Lens Rolling, Squid Offers… What is all this stuff?
Take a deep breath…. and mosey on over to the Squidoo Forums. Affectionately nicknamed Squid U the forums have the best community I have [...]
