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Squidoo Plexos : Super Tool or Old and Busted?

I think that the ‘Plexo’ modules on Squidoo are probably one of the least understood aspects of Squidoo. I have always been kind of ambivalent towards all of the plexo modules just because I never really saw how they could benefit me. Until Now.
The Real Facts about Plexo Modules:

Votes are pooled across all versions of [...]

Create your own Squidoo Co-Brand Page

Squidoo HQ has been a busy group of guys and gals the past couple of months, releasing what they call ‘co-brands’ or ‘front doors’ to Squidoo. These doorways offer some different formatting as well as some auto-magical lens building abilities that can get you started on your lens.
The Co-Brands are nice, but what if you [...]

Getting Frustrated with Squidoo?

Squidoo can be really frustrating at times. Perhaps you have tons of great content and you still aren’t getting more than a trickle of traffic. Perhaps you’ve tried submitting your lens everywhere under the sun with less than spectacular results. Maybe you just can’t make that first sale off of your eBay or Amazon modules.
I [...]

Squidoo Tip of the Day: Squidoo Product Descriptions

If you are building a new lens with any kind of Amazon, CafePress, or other products that Squidoo allows you to add descriptions to, add a short description.
Many people often forget that if the picture is a giant stuffed elephant and the title says ‘plush toy’ or something similar, Google thinks that is a picture [...]

5 Common Misconceptions about Squidoo

I’m constantly amazed at the people I find on forums that are still stuck in last summer and convinced that Squidoo is worthless as a tool for promotion or for making money. Their loss, my gain I suppose..
However, there are some common lensbuilding and squidoo techniques that many people use that are just plain wrong. [...]

New RSS Feed of Squidoo Lenses for Sale

This weekend’s update to Sell My Lens includes RSS feeds for all the lenses currently for sale. Right now, only the title of the lens for sale is included in the feed, but I hope to add descriptions to it in the very near future.
Just add the RSS feed to your favorite lenses, or your [...]

Have you Remodeled your Squidoo Lens Primary Tags?

Just wanted to give everyone a heads up and a reminder: If you haven’t remodeled your Primary Tags, Do It!
Fluffanutta has written an exceptional article on Primary Tagging as a forum post. I’m going to repost it here after offering a few of my thoughts on Primary Tagging.
1) If your lens is about polka dotted [...]

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 [...]

Looking for a way to Buy and Sell Squidoo Lenses?

I’m happy to announce the official top-down remodeling of Sell My Lens. I originally designed this site over 8 months ago, but it was wayyyy to early, Squidoo wasn’t ready. But now, there’s been a lot of renewed interest in buying and selling lenses, and I’ve spent all weekend and a good chunk of last [...]

How to Promote All your SquidCasts at once

Ok, the new Squidcasts are pretty awesome. Let’s talk about why for a minute.

You can now communicate directly to your visitors with little thoughts and tidbits. This is awesome.
You can announce new events or updates across the squidoo universe (well, YOUR squidoo universe)

This is good. Really good.
But how do you promote your squidcasts to [...]