Squidoo Blog by Captain Squid - Tips and Tricks for Lensmasters

Are Lens URLs THAT important?

The URL of your lens is your identifier, how people and search engines alike know where your lens is located. On a scale of 10, the importance of your lens URL is probably in the 3-6 range.
Use one to three words separated by a hyphen. (hyphens are easier to remember and faster to type than [...]

Are you Using Jumptags to tag your lenses?

I’ve been using Jumptags a lot lately to bookmark my lenses as I complete them. They have a very nifty Firefox or IE extension that allows you to right click on any web page you are on and bookmark it.
It pulls all the info from the page and you just have to click submit.
Note: Make [...]

Yahoo Launches New Bookmarking Site to Compete with Self

As many of you probably know, Yahoo! is the owner of the del.icio.us bookmarking service which is hugely popular across the internet.
As I was trying to submit a site to Yahoo’s Site Manager yesterday, I was instead redirected to a new Yahoo Bookmarking site at beta.bookmarks.yahoo.com.
Interested as always in a new bookmarking site, I thought [...]