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, [...]
I’ve found a great way to use graphs and charts to illustrate your point on your lenses. The best part is that the graphs and charts will automatically update when you update the data in the spreadsheet for the chart or graph.
I stumbled across this while I was playing with google docs a few weeks [...]
The Captain has been hard at work following the announcement about the animoto module last week. After scouring the web for various piratey Squidoo tools that we can all use to make more money and draw more traffic to our lenses I’m proud to announce the launch of a site dedicated to Squidoo Widgets – [...]
I look at a lot of lenses.
Tons.
I would say without a doubt the single thing that turns people off to lenses, hurts conversions, and causes visitors to hit the back button is how the page is written.
Common mistakes on lenses I run across all the time:
Non-specific module headers – If I’m looking through your lens [...]
Okay, there are 8 plugins that you absolutely can not live without if you want to create Squidoo lenses and manage them effectively. I find myself using all of these quite often for various tasks.
Squidoo Lens Editing
Greasemonkey – This lets you add little mini scripts to your browser (don’t worry you have to push one [...]
Okay, in Part 1 of the series on PepperJam lenses we found our new affiliate program – Jimi Hendrix Clothing.
Today I went ahead and created a lens titled ‘How to Dress Like Jimi Hendrix’ . Honestly, it’s the first thing that popped into my mind that wasn’t something like ‘Buy Jimi Hendrix..blah..blah..blah’ .
When crafting titles, [...]
As promised, I’m going to walk everyone through a sample lens built with a Pepperjam affiliate program. If you haven’t already, learn how you can sign up with Pepperjam and get 10 bucks free so you can follow along. Not totally sure what type of affiliate network PepperJam is? Read my full Pepperjam Review.
Now, I’m [...]
A few months ago (right around 2 to be exact) I wrote a post on Captain Squid about ‘Dips’ that you run into on Squidoo. And then, a month later I wrote a bit about Setting Goals on Squidoo.
I think that this month, the light is showing at the end of the tunnel for several [...]
Sometimes I’ll see some advice on ’succeeding with Squidoo’ that just makes me shake my head in wonder… especially when it comes to basic SEO advice for lenses. Now, I’m not really an SEO but I’ve built a giant pile of lenses and I’m starting to get an idea of what works and what doesn’t.
So, [...]
