Lensmastery by Linda

Today I’ve been having fun adding my lenses to my MySpace. I just discovered that our MySpace links in the “Bookmark and Share” section of each lens now put Squidoo links directly onto the front page of our MySpace - and you get a choice of what section to put them in. I think last [...]

Lately I’ve been wondering how to get my lenses to rank higher. Sound familiar? I’ll bet 90% of you are also wondering the same thing! I was focused on this question enough that I took time to go through the entire top 100 list and analyze it. I didn’t look at every lens there (yet) [...]

Recently someone left a link on my lens, How to Promote Your Squidoo Lens. The link was to a new blog that claimed to be the best source of information on how to use Squidoo. I had to move the link to a different area of my lens and while doing so I took a [...]

I’m wondering if I’m the only one with a secret lens - one that is for my eyes only - one that will never be published. My secret lens is called, simply, “Lens Ideas,” and that tells you exactly what I use it for.
I’m still developing myself as a lensmaster, even after publishing fifty-one lenses. [...]

Goals with deadlines are very motivating, but once the day has passed, there’s a huge mental sigh of exhaustion, relief, and relaxation. Shoulders relax, and the mind realizes it can finally go on vacation. That’s what happened to me after I hit the ‘publish’ button for my fiftieth lens, Messenger from the Summer of Love. [...]

Are you a writer? I’m guessing that most Squidoo lensmasters are writers - after all, we have to write to create lenses, right?
Have you heard of the annual Muse Online Writers Conference?
The 2008 conference will be held from October 13 through 19. It is all online, and all FREE.
To participate you must register [...]

What are you feeling when you hit that ‘publish’ button and wait to see what your new lens looks like? Do you feel relieved to have it over and done with? Do you feel excitement? Trepidation? Exhaustion?
Producing a new lens is like having a new baby. At first you look on it as a strange [...]

I now have more than ten blogs on a variety of topics. I also have over 35 Squidoo lenses on similar topics. For example, I have a writing blog at Perspectives on Writing. To that blog I can link my literary arts lenses because the topics are similar.
I have blogs on other topics - for [...]

Like most of you, I have some lenses that get no hits, or very few. I’m going to have to focus on doing things to make these lenses viable.
The most important thing I can do is to make sure these lenses are linked from as many places on the Internet as possible. I’ve got [...]

I’ve learned my lesson. I created a lens about Benjamin Franklin’s amazing books, but nobody visited. Let’s face it - Benjamin Franklin is yesterday’s news, and not everyone is into rehashing history.
The title I gave my lens, Books and Writings of Benjamin Franklin, sounded like we’d be spending an hour in a dusty old [...]