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Squidoo lens building can be tricky when you take the extra step to customize your lens a little more than what the site offers as plug and play devices. If you’re knowledgeable about enough code to add a link here and there, then a Squidoo lens can help deliver lots of targeted traffic to your domain once it’s ranked well in Google.
One common problem Squidoo lensmasters have is in trying to add code to their lens and having it disappear once they click Save and Publish. HTML code to make live links is usually created with a link that begins with this bit of code:
a href = “http://
What usually causes the HTML code to drop is that the user pasted his or her links into their code and forgot to delete the extra space that sometimes shows up here between the apostrophe and where the http begins like this:
” http://
The same issue arises at the end of the URL code. When you’re building links in Squidoo, and you save and publish and the code didn’t “take,” try to make sure the extra spaces are eliminated in your code so it can work properly on your lens.
Some codes are no longer allowed on Squidoo. For instance, the iFrame code that was so coveted by marketers who hoped to build a list with an opt in box right on their lens has been removed from the site. Spammers made it impossible for Squidoo to continue allowing iFrames.
Check to make sure you’ve coded it exactly and then if it still doesn’t work, submit a Bug report to the Squidoo staff. They’re all very amicable and helpful in getting Lensmasters up ad running whenever they encounter an obstacle in their lenscrafting journey.
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Written by tiffadmin on October 9th, 2008 with no comments.
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Me personally, I kinda like it! They’re trying to give us more flexibility in managing our lenses, which is good when you like to have task lists and you have a ton of lenses like I do spread out across multiple accounts.
When you log into your lensmaster account, you’ll see is your daily digest. It’s a quick snapshot of your lens health – what’s thriving, what’s sinking. It’ll tell you how many lenses you have and what their visitor count totals were.
On the left sidebar, you’ll see certain lens lists – you can click to see what needs editing, what lenses are earning the most co-op money (or the least), and you can click through on the label lists.
See now, you can attach labels to your lenses. I love this feature! So I might have a label that says, “IM lenses” for all my Internet marketing lenses or “Charity lenses” for my missing children’s lenses, and so on. I’ve been waiting for this and SquidStaff delivered (as always). Lenses can be labeled with more than one label, by the way.
The second tab at the top of the page brings you back to more of what you’re used to – the list of all of your lenses, complete with the rank, ratings, earnings, etc.
Then you can click on the stats tab to see stats (but why not just click through from you’re my Lenses list)?
“My comments” is where comments go before you approve them if you have your guestbook set up that way. And like My Groups, My Profile, and My Favorites – they’re all the same as they used to be for the most part.
The big changes I see (that I like) are the daily digest and ability to label and categorize your lenses to help you better manage them.
So go test it out – it’s a great way to stay on top of your lens management!
Tiff 
Written by tiffadmin on May 31st, 2008 with no comments.
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Squidoo’s always changing things up module-wise. But let’s talk about each module and see how I feel you can maximize your use of them when it comes to marketing and making money online.
The Write/Text module is of course, a staple for every lens (or it oughta be). You have one built into your lens in the form of an introduction module, but you need to add more (I never add less than 2 more along with other modules before I publish).
Here’s an example of a Text/Write module:
If you’re only going to use the single, built in image option, then keep your module short - like the one above. If it goes any longer, upload an image to your server and use HTML code to insert a left-aligned image halfway down the content. You’ll notice in the above image, I’ve included the standard photo option, but I also have bolded text and hyperlinked text (to a ClickBank product). I used basic HTML code to do that as well.
What else can you do with a Text/Write module?
You can use the space to hyperlink an image of your opt in box to your landing or squeeze page. I do this on my lens at Information Entrepreneur. We used to be able to have iFrame in there to actually capture the name and email addresses, but it doesn’t work like that anymore.
Here are the codes you can use in your Text/Write modules (make sure you change the brackets [] to arrows <> in all of these examples):
To hyperlink text to a website: [a href="http://www.yourdomain.com" target="_blank"]Text you want hyperlinked[/a]
To hyperlink an image (like an opt in box): [a href="http://www.yourdomain.com"][img src="http://www.URLofImage.JPG" alt="keyword" align="right" hspace="5" /][/a] - Now on this one, the alt tag can be whatever keyword the image represents (or the niche). You can change the alignment to left if you want it on the left side of the Text module. And you can play with the hspace until it’s as big or small as you want it - this is the space between the picture and the text that wraps around it.
Other codes you need to know: [b]bold[/] or [i]italics[/] or [u]underline[/u]
Take time making your text module attractive and not so monotonous. Break it up with links, images, and fonts that keep the flow of reading moving.
Enjoy!
Tiff 
Written by tiffadmin on May 28th, 2008 with no comments.
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Sometimes I talk about feeder lenses when making your Squidoo account shine. But some people don’t understand what this means, so I thought I’d share my inner mind map.
Whenever I decide on a niche to tap on Squidoo, I start with a broad topic. Like weddings. We’ll use that as an example. You’ll begin by brainstorming a list of various wedding sub-topics. So what could go into here?
Wedding flowers
Wedding dresses
Wedding favors
Wedding destinations
You get the picture. After I have my list of sub-topics, I break those down even more. Let’s use “Wedding destinations” as our break-down sample:
Island weddings
Backyard weddings
Wedding chapels
Hawaiian weddings, and so on…
Keep breaking each one down until you have a good outline of every topic that will help you dominate your niche. The list directly above that starts with Island weddings will be your feeder lenses that feel into the Wedding Destinations lens. The list that starts with Wedding flowers will feed into the lens about weddings in general.
All of your feeder lenses cross-promote one another. It creates a web of good information for you to provide to your viewers. Be as comprehensive as possible and with every broken down topic, get narrow and specific so that it will help you rank well in the search engines.
You can do this with any niche. Make sure you use keyword tools like WordTracker to help you think of things other people have thought of that you didn’t!
Tiff
Written by tiffadmin on May 18th, 2008 with no comments.
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Hey lensmasters!
Awhile back I reviewed a lens creator tool that I bought for like $7-17 JUSt to test it because so many people asked my opinion of it. I tried it on ONE lens. It sucked.
Well several new tools have come out, and I believe the old one was even revamped. I haven’t tried them - don’t need to. Making a lens is fast enough. But read my post here about what Squidoo’s planning for the software tools:
Squidoo Software Ban
If you use them, good luck!
tiff
Written by tiffadmin on May 4th, 2008 with no comments.
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I have lots of passions - from helping kids who are mistreated to gushing over my husband. I don’t just use Squidoo for business purposes, and neither should you. In a web 2.0 world, people want to get to know the real you. They want to know more than just “how you said goodbye to your boss.”
I see some people recommending that you split your personal and professional lens creations into different accounts, but that could backfire on you in Squidoo and other social networks! I have lenses all about my PLR site, my eBook sites, and even writing.
But whenever someone finds me on Squidoo, they almost always check out what other lenses I’ve created. They like seeing my Tiffany Dow lens that tells how I went from (very) ugly duckling, to swan, and back to ugly again (LOL)! They like reading why I believe I have the best husband in the world. They join in when I help search for Madeleine McCann or another missing child, or when I talk about the Bee’s Colony Collapse Disorder.
Go ahead - showcase who you are on Squidoo. It won’t hurt, I promise. Become real to your customers and let them see that you’re not some shady spammer hiding behind a lensmaster name - you’re a real person with a conscience!
Tiff
Written by tiffadmin on December 18th, 2007 with no comments.
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In my now infamous debate about Jonathan Leger’s golf lens case study, Donna had a question about a comment I made - where I told Jonathan to disable the description so that vsitors wouldn’t see the competing URL and type tht into their browser.
Before I give the explanation, let me reiterate that I deeply respect Jonathan and am, in fact, one of his $7 script customers! I in no way meant to disparage him or his attempt at creating a lens - in fact, I praised him for doing better than 99% of the people out there.
Someone gota little irritated thinking I was attacking him, which I wasn’t. She (not Donna) said that “most people” aren’t making money on Squidoo. True - and most entrepreneurs who try, can’t earn 6 figures with Internet Marketing period. But I do, I can, and I’m willing to help teach you how - so that’s all this was - a tutorial using Jonathan’s case study as my example.
Okay, back to the original question at hand - to disable your description. Let’s say you find a great YouTube video to put on your lens. Only problem is, they’ve (smartly) added their own URL to the description, which will show up in your YouTube module. We don’t want that - we just want the video, the title, and the rating.
Do the following:
1.) Log into your dashboard and into the lens you want to edit.
2.) Choose to Edit the YouTube Module.
3.) Click Display Options
4.) UNcheck Description.
5.) Save
6.) Republish your lens.
That should do it!
Hope this helps.
tiff
Written by tiffadmin on December 4th, 2007 with no comments.
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