Squid Utils Facelift - Improved Squidoo Lens Promotion
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The Fluffanutta has recently done a total facelift on Squid Utils. We first talked about using Squid Utils and Zimbio to quickly promote all of your lenses as RSS feeds. Now, some new features have been added, allowing you to manage your lenses even more effectively.
Combining multiple tools in one place is something the Captain is a big fan of, and I must admit, Fluff has done an admirable job doing just that.
Now, when you click ‘edit‘ on any one of your lenses from the ‘Advanced Lensmaster Dashboard‘ you are taken to a screen that has your lens framed in and a menu of great options on the left hand side:
Full Lens Info: This will return pre-formatted HTML code for your lens as well as BBC code for use in forum signatures. Your lens name, category, update time, URL, and description are all posted, allowing you to see how your lens is displayed at a glance.
Lens Maintenance: You can now edit, Publish, and view your lens from one place without losing the Squid Utils navigation.
Lens Statistics: Check up on your traffic, royalties, and other stats for each lens from here.
Lens Promotion: This is super useful, allowing you to do many things to promote your lens very quickly. This includes the Add This bookmarking tool, Lensroll.com submission, Isle of Squid Squidoo Link Directory Submission, as well as a Ping feature to notify all the major crawlers that you’ve got new content.
Search Engines: With a few quick clicks, you can double check to see that your lens is indexed in the major search engines. Extremely useful!
If you haven’t stopped by Squid Utils to check out the new management tools, you probably should. There is maximum piratey goodness for minimum price (currently free).
-The Captain
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Seems to be a glitch in adding lenses to the Isle of Squid. It won’t accept my email address! What happened to PR for the lenses? I enjoyed seeing that!