Anybody using Squidoo??

[New Look]

Squidoo is the popular publishing platform and community that makes it easy for you to create "lenses" online. Lenses are pages, kind of like flyers or signposts or overview articles, that gather everything you know about your topic of interest--and snap it all into focus. Like the lens of a camera, your perspective on something. (You're looking at a lens right now).

It's a supersimple, fun and powerful way to share your interests, build your online identity and credibility, and connect with new readers and friends. It's all free, and you could even earn a royalty for charity or yourself.

Because there's so much you can DO with Squidoo, we know it can get a little overwhelming when you're brand new and still poking around. So many different ways to make a page, different themes and colors and ... what was that about money?

So, while there's a ton more to know (and you'll figure it out over time, never fear) we wanted to put together this overview page for you. It's got some vocabulary, some examples, and a basic lowdown on what you can expect from Squidoo. If you look. . . . Read More

Squidoo : Welcome to Squidoo

 

[Mark]

Great, I will need you to come by and give us a training session with Squidoo!

 

[New Look]

Great, I will need you to come by and give us a training session with Squidoo!

LOL....I am just diving into it (Squidoo). Ken Fenner would be the one to talk to about it. I also think Jen from Gulf Coast PW is using it. Mayb they will chime in and give us the "highlights" of it.

Crazy weather we are having....huh?

 

[Jen GCPW]

Yep, just published our first lens a while back. The site however, had a bug and I couldn't get my account verified for a while. Finally after a few emails to their tech support, the issue was corrected. Squidoo is actually run by only 4-5 people so it took a while for them to get back to me. Crazy huh?

I wanted to test it out so I took an article I wrote about us a while back for the NCE newsletter, modified it a little and started with that. It takes time to set everything up on your first lens, but according to Kenner on another post, it is worth it. Our lens went from ranking in the millions to about 300,000 under Small Business almost overnight after it was published. I had several hours here at the FT job on nights to work on it (lol) and once I was finished, I was pretty happy with it.

Now that I am familiar with the process, I will be publishing a few more lenses. I just need to find all my old articles

 

[New Look]

Thanks for the insight Jen.....I am going to try to get into Squidoo over the weekend and check it out!

 

[PressurePros]

Squidoo, because it allows you to make complex articles, list references and have active links to your site, is a powerful SEO tool.