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Entries Tagged ‘lensmaking-101’

Going Local with Squidoo Lenses

One of the most under-rated uses for Squidoo that ironically has the most utility is using Squidoo to create lenses (webpages) targeted at specific local venues.
Are you trying to make a living with Squidoo? one of the most effective business models you can pursue is to go around town and build lenses for local businesses.
When [...]

T-A-G-S Spells Lens Indexing

I know i seem to cover this idea ad nauseum but I wanted to emphasize (again) the importance of tagging your lenses properly.
Why do we tag lenses?
Tag pages are one of the backbones of Squidoo’s site infrastructure. Not only do many features within Squidoo use the relationships from tag pages (Discovery Tool) but tag pages [...]

A Definition of Evergreen Squidoo Modules

In my writings here on Captain Squid, you will often hear me mention the term ‘evergreen modules‘. I wanted to dedicate a post defining evergreen modules and what it means when I am talking about them so everyone is on the same page.
Evergreen Module – A squidoo module that can be updated either automatically or [...]

What is a Lens Cloud?

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, [...]

Squidoo Tip of the Day: Fast Tagging

Tagging has been pretty extensively covered by Lewis and his Tagging Tricks Lens and the Publishing Video in my Squidoo Training Center.
But here’s a little trick you may not know. When you start to try and tag a lens you can really get on a roll, pressing the ‘Tab’ key to cycle to the next [...]

Squidoo Training Videos Now on YouTube

Just an FYI,
I’ve finally found a way to convert my training videos to a format that would upload on YouTube. If anyone is interested in seeing them again, or putting them on your lenses (hint, hint )� They can be found under Captain Squidoo.
The Next series of videos will be on using CJ [...]

Now Live: Free Squidoo Training Videos

I’ve been perfecting a few simple training videos over the past few weeks to help people get started with Squidoo. I’m proud to announce the first installment of Squidoo Lensbuilding 101.
Lensbuilding 101 is a 7-part series that walks you through setting up a lens from start to finish. Most of the information is pretty basic, [...]