As some of you may have noticed, there is now a new ‘Squidoo Lens Tools‘ section of Captain Squid. Over time, I will be building this up with some personal scripts that I have written as well as some of the great tools I find online.
The first addition to this new section of the Captain [...]
This is Part Two of the Commission Education basics for Squidoo Lensmasters.
Amazon is probably the most popular vendors used on Squidoo. Why not? They have everything, an easy to use website, and are trusted almost as much as a brick and mortar store (i.e. Wal-Mart or Sears or Barnes and Noble) . Let’s see how [...]
I’ve noticed a lot of curiosity on the Forums lately about how commissions actually work with eBay and Amazon.
I’ll cover each Affiliate Program in separate posts so as not to get them confused and to let everyone in on how it all works.
The eBay Commission Process
A visitor to your lens clicks on an ebay [...]
In the past few months, the Squid Team has come a long way in making plexo modules cooler…. much cooler.
Here are the Captain’s Top 3 Tips for Plexos:
The YouTube Plexo can hold up to five full length videos. (a’la SquidVids) This means there is absolutely no reason you should send visitors away from your lens [...]
Crystal Booth asked in the forums recently if you can use images pulled straight from a Google image search. Without getting into a bunch of copyright issues, you can only use one of these images if it is ‘fair use’.
From the Copyright office:
the various purposes for which the reproduction of a particular work [...]
Whenever I want to check the backlinks, bookmarks, and indexed pages of a lens The Captain heads over to Xinu Returns.
Simply enter your lens URL into the box and click go. In a few seconds you can see what social bookmarks it has, if it is indexed in the major search engines, and a backlinks [...]
A new module has been added very quietly in the past few days to Squidoo amid all of the hubub with server gremlins and such.
The Module is for Movie Listings and here’s how it works:
The module can be found under the ‘New!’ Module tab when looking for modules.
The Module edit screen looks like this:
The results [...]
Today was my favorite Squidoo day of the month: Payday.
Unfortunately, the lingering effects of the Google Slap were still being felt in this payout, with the payout ‘tiers’ being reduced again from last month.
The Tiers for this month were:
Tier 1 : $3.32
Tier 2 : $0.56
Tier 3 : $0.03
For more information on what [...]
The Captain has been out sailing the past few days, but he has returned home to several new changes in the Squid Landscape that all of you aspiring Squid Pirates must be aware of.
Seth Announced the newest member of the Squidoo Family : SquidBids. Lewis Smile also mentioned it over at SquidooCool. Mashable also did [...]
As many of you know, it’s possible to make money on Squidoo through Squidoo in a few different ways.
Every Month your lens earns money from Adsense and SquidOffers. This money is distributed on a three-tiered system to all of the lensmasters.
When you put a ‘money maker’ module on your lenses and someone buys something from [...]
