Lensmastery by Linda

Did you know you can offer a subscription option for your lens visitors to receive your SquidCasts in email? Recently I wrote a lens to explain this: Offer Email Subscriptions to Your SquidCasts.
In my lens I give step-by-step directions for setting up these emails using a SquidCast feed from SquidUtils, and FeedBurner, a service that [...]

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) [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Here are five things I’ve learned about successful Squidoo lensmasters thus far:
Successful Squidoo Lensmasters Help Each Other - Squidoo lensmasters, the successful ones, are some of the most helpful and encouraging people I’ve ever been pleased to meet. They’re joyfully having a positive Squidoo experience and are aware that there’s plenty of room for others [...]