Squidoo Blog by Captain Squid - Tips and Tricks for Lensmasters
Archive for October, 2007

5 Cool Plexo Tips - Squidoo Tip of the Day

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 [...]

Find Free Images for your Lenses

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 [...]

Check all of the Backlinks on Your Squidoo Lens

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 [...]