Lens

Why Build a Lens?
The best reason to make a lens: People are looking for you.
Squidoo is a website hosting hundreds of thousands of handbuilt webpages (just to be difficult, we call them "lenses"). Each lens is one person's look at something online. Your take on football or business or the best thai food in town. Lenses are free to set up. Lenses are easy and totally non-techy. Lenses pay a royalty to hundreds of great charities. (Or straight to you! Lots of lensmasters earn hundreds or thousands of dollars a year). Lenses get you credibility and traffic... and lenses ...

Squidoo Lens Value
How Much Are Your Lenses Worth--- Tools to Assess Lens Value
I'm here at Squidoo for both love and money. I love the software, I love the community and I love that I can make money doing what I love. I really loved to discover the lens value tool from Squidutils.com because it lets me assess the approximate monetary value of my lenses and tentatively project how much they can earn at their current status. It also allows me to put an estimated monetary value figure to my Squidoo business as a whole. I can set goals for individual lenses based on increas...

FAQ: General Lensmastery
How do I...? Can I...? Where...?
We often get interesting questions about creating lenses that may not have obvious answers. If you're stuck on the process for making lenses, check here from some great tips and answers to questions other lensmasters have asked. If you were directed here by Tisha, our awesome bug sorter outer, and you still weren't able to find an answer, reply to Tisha's email, and she'll take a further look. Make your lenses sing. Image used courtesy of Creative Commons and Ayton.

Squidoo Lens Traffic Secrets
With Squidoo Lenses More Readers Means More Fun and Maybe More Profits!
One of the keys to achieving success (whether great or minimal) with any website, blog, or even a Squidoo lens is to bring in as many visitors as possible . . . to generate traffic to your pages. This is especially important with Squidoo, since lensrank, and payout for Google Adsense is somewhat related to the number of people who read what you have to say. It's also important to bring in traffic that has an interest in your subject so that the visitors are more likely to click on links that ...

Polishing Your New Lenses
Get your new lenses in shape for promotion!
Whether you're a new lensmaster or a veteran, you've put a lot of work into your lenses! Don't let that work go to waste. By making a few simple changes on your lenses, you can greatly increase the chances that your readers will want to stick around and come back for more! On this list you'll find common mistakes that lensmasters make. The good news is they take only seconds to fix. Before getting a critique on the forum, make sure you review this list! Hopefully you're no...

Othercat's Been Blessed and Starred!
536 blessings and 10 Purple Stars....
During my time on Squidoo, I've been very blessed. In fact, I've been blessed 536 times! I've also been very lucky to receive 10 Purple Stars. On this page, I'd like to showcase all those special lenses along with the lensmasters who blessed and nominated them (well, the ones I know about anyways!).

Blessings from a Squid Angel
A lensography of lenses I have blessed as a Squid Angel
I became Squid Angel in mid-August 2011. At the time I did not pay too much attention to the lenses that I blessed along the way. I was assigned the post of Squid Angel for Preschool and Elementary School Books, so I stuck mainly to this category. Then I entered the two Squid Angel quests in which I could bless lenses from various categories. I didn't really think about keeping a list of the lenses that I blessed until now - September 30. I will be adding to this lens on a daily basis or as ...

Top 5 Lens Overall
Lens Overall
Welcome to the top 5 Lens Overall section of the top 5 directory Here you will find the top 5 Lens Overall that I chose from all the winners of the other categories. Those lens will stay as long as I don't find lenses that I like even more before being changed. All lenses are presented with their original intro picture and intro text. You can't submit a lens for this section, however you can submit in any of the other top 5 directory's other category.

How to write a sales pitch for your lens
Write the proper sales pitch to make sales from your lens
Copywriters often disagree on whether you should use a short sales piece with a lot of white space is better than a long and detailed sales pitch could be the strategy to use. The long and short of the debate is this%u2026 which kind of buyer have you been targeting? You can find basically 2 types of buyers. 1. The Impulsive Buyer This is the kind of guy with "places to travel and individuals to see" instead of a tremendous amount of energy to get it done in. Typically, he'll skim the headli...

Squidooholics Unite
Are you a Squidooholic? Are you addicted to Squidoo? Do you ever ignore family, work, friends, or pets to create or update a lens? Do you ever deny yourself sleep or food because you are Squidooing? Do you sometimes worry you might be squidoodling your life away? If you answered yes to one or more of these questions then YOU might be a Squidooholic