I feel that the YouTube module is one of the most poorly used modules as a whole across Squidoo when it has the potential to be one of the most powerful.
What is your goal when someone visits your lens? To learn something new? To buy a product or service? To get them to go visit [...]
If you’ve built a lens today you may have noticed that the module picker has gotten a bit of a facelift. Although this makes a portion of one of my Squidoo Training Videos obsolete, I still think it’s for the best.
One of the modules listed on the default ’starter package’ tab is called Yelp. It [...]
One of the keys to having the Big G or Yahoo! or MSN come back to your lens over and over again is having unique content on your lens that also updates regularly. Contrary to popular belief, several modules do NOT help you with spiders when they crawl your site.
Here’s a rundown of the most [...]
Quick tip from the captain today.
EVERY time you fill out a module, make sure and fill out the second heading line with another keyword-rich sentence. This is important for 2 reasons:
1) the subtitles are in what are called ‘header tags’. H1 tags are the REALLY BIG titles you see at the top of the lens.� [...]
This is Part Two of the Commission Education basics for Squidoo Lensmasters.
Amazon is probably the most popular vendors used on Squidoo. Why not? They have everything, an easy to use website, and are trusted almost as much as a brick and mortar store (i.e. Wal-Mart or Sears or Barnes and Noble) . Let’s see how [...]
In the past few months, the Squid Team has come a long way in making plexo modules cooler…. much cooler.
Here are the Captain’s Top 3 Tips for Plexos:
The YouTube Plexo can hold up to five full length videos. (a’la SquidVids) This means there is absolutely no reason you should send visitors away from your lens [...]
A new module has been added very quietly in the past few days to Squidoo amid all of the hubub with server gremlins and such.
The Module is for Movie Listings and here’s how it works:
The module can be found under the ‘New!’ Module tab when looking for modules.
The Module edit screen looks like this:
The results [...]
One of the most common things you see on Squidoo that doesn’t work effectively are big giant boxes and paragraphs of text. These immediately cause people to unfocus their eyes and move on to the next page.
Other times you’ll notice how people will have ordered lists, numbered lists, block quotes, bold, italic, and more [...]
With the recent Addition of Squidoo’s Sister Site Squid Who, the Wikipedia Module received a significant facelift. Before, it wasn’t much more than a glorified RSS feed, quite often returning poor information if any on your subject matter.
If you have dismissed the Wiki Module in the past, the Captain recommends that you go back and [...]
