I think that to date, the Squidoo Museum is my best lens as far as presentation, although the Fancy Table of Contents lens comes close. I’d like to talk about how I put together the Squidoo Museum. It demonstrates everything I know about graphics, color, fonts, and CSS.
Posts under ‘Squidoo Tips’
Advanced CSS Tricks and Tips: Borders and Backgrounds and Captions, Oh My!
I finally got around to updating my Advanced CSS lens, where I used to post crazy “lab experiments” in CSS. Now I’ve reorganized it and made it more dignified (slightly), and added all the tricks I tend to use most on my lenses: rounded corners, background-images for paragraphs, captions under aligned images, drop caps, dramatic [...]
Updating Squidoo Lenses: Staying Fresh
After 60 (?) days, a lens loses lensrank because it’s not fresh. Also, Google rewards frequently updated content. These are two separate things, but they go together. What are your techniques for keeping lenses fresh? Here’s some of mine. Quick Fix — do one of the following While watching TV, I’ll sort my dashboard by [...]
Squidoo Graphics: Colors, Themes, Black Box Tips
I’ve been thinking. Try as I might, I’m a journeyman when it comes to Squidoo SEO: I have the basic techniques down, I know what I’m doing, but I’ve got the online equivalent of an undergraduate college degree rather than a PhD. Whereas I’ve been doing computer graphics and layout since 1980, HTML since 1993, [...]
Updates to Squidoo Modules List
There have been a few recent modules added to the Squidoo module browser. They’re listed under “new” at the bottom, but haven’t been filed under any category, so the only way to find them is to click “Browse all modules” and then search for them by name. They are: iTunes – earn commission, feature iTunes [...]
Quickly Check Your Webpage for Broken Links
Here’s a handy tip! Squidoo lensmaster carriewhite asked in the SquidU forums for a feature to check for dead links on lenses, and thefluffanutta of SquidUtils said there’s a number of free online tools for that. I tried the W3 Link Checker as Fluff suggested, but its interface is a little intimidating and hard to [...]
“You Have No Right to Traffic”
I was just rereading Seth Godin’s The Nine Free Things Every Site (Or Lens!) Should Do, which is the link SquidU’s Answer Deck gives you if you click “How do I get more traffic?” As usual, Seth is simple and short, whereas my own 3-part Squidoo tips tutorial on how to build web traffic is [...]
Students: Untapped Web Traffic Source
An awful lot of my Squidoo lenses get queries from students. How to Make a Pyramid Kite gets kids trying to build pyramids for a school project. Ancient Greece Odyssey, my travel diary, gets kids needing maps of Greece or information about Greek history and art. My California Sea Hare page gets medical students trying [...]
How Your Squidoo Bio Builds Backlinks
Ooo! Everyone’s always wondering where to get backlinks. One thing people often forget about is that inter-linking counts. That is, links from the same domain as your page count as a backlink! That’s why Squidoo cross-links lenses in so many ways. There is a powerful backlink source hidden right in plain sight: your Squidoo lensmaster [...]
Add Tasty Bait to Search Engine Results!
People find things on the web by searching. SEO helps you get your page in front of people searching for it. SEO is like throwing fishing hooks into a sea full of hungry fish. The more SEO you know, the better you’ll be able to ensure your hook gets seen by lots of fish. But [...]