Glen’s Blog over at Lensroll has a great new post on what some of the top lensmasters do before publishing a lens, including yours truly.
It’s definitely worth a read. I thought it was interesting that there was a definite split between some who viewed the question as mechanical, i.e. what steps do you take in [...]
As many of you have probably heard, Mashable is having their Open Web Awards right now and Squidoo has been nominated for two categories – Mainstream Social Network and Non-Profit Causes.
I’ve adapted the widget for use on lenses so you guys can get out the vote for Squidoo! remember, you can vote once per category [...]
I’ve noticed a lot of renewed interest in buying and selling lenses on the lens marketplace at SquidU lately. As a result I sat down this weekend and reworked the entire interface of Sell My Lens.
The new Lens Auction area is super easy to navigate, has an RSS feed for lenses currently for sale, and [...]
I know some lensmasters like to break out their lenses into different accounts depending on the content of the lens. For example, I know of several that have dedicated accounts for their music related lenses.
I’ve stayed away from this for the most part, mainly because it’s something of a hassle to remember which lenses are [...]
Oftentimes as you browse the web looking for tips or tricks to improve your websites, lenses, blogs, and other digital online ’stuff’ you run into perhaps two of the most cliche sayings on the internet in the web development space: ‘content is king’ and you need to have ‘unique content’.
Since neither of these phrases really [...]
I hit my 500th published lens yesterday.
It’s been a huge pile of fun, a huge pile of work, and i’ve met people I never would have any other way.
18 months in I still feel like I’m just starting on my Squid Journey here. Every day I learn more and more, the curve never seems to [...]
A Lens Cloud is:
A group of highly similar lenses that all have unique content related to one topical ‘theme’ or niche. These lenses are all connected to most or all of the other lenses in the cloud using either static or dynamic linking resources within Squidoo such as lensrolls, Discovery Boxes, Featured Lenses modules, Plexos, [...]
Learn. Work. Scale. Repeat.
Small words, big meaning. People get caught up a lot in ‘Squidoo is going to make me rich’ or ‘my blogs are going to make me rich’ or ‘my favorite GPT site / survey / ebook is going to make me rich’.
So far I’ve only found one thing that really set me [...]
