This is an open blog post that welcomes your Giant Squid tips.

One tip that I'd like to share came about due to the dilemma I kept encountering with creating and publishing new lenses. Quite often I found that after publishing I would be fine tuning the lens for at least a few weeks. Of course, Google often comes and checks out the new lens within 3 days, so if it's not up to speed you might not even get it indexed by Google.

Often I felt I should have had more prep time before publishing. So… Continue

I'm new here, but not new to Squidoo. I look forward to meeting you all!

I just started a new squidoo blog over at the new hub for squidoo bloggers: Crabbysbeach. My new blog there is a tribute to great lensmasters, so I'll be featuring great lenses I come across as well as lensmasters who contribute to the community.

I will of course keep up blogging over at squidtop with my squ… Continue

There's a misconception out there in Google Land that poetry does not do well with Google algorithms, so much so, that most avoid writing poetry on their blogs and lenses. Well, based on my experience writing lenses on Squidoo, this just isn't true. I have written three Squidoo lenses that contain dragon poems, fairy poems, and wizard poems.

Three of my lenses which have poems, written by me, are in the top 2000, one of which is in the top 100 lenses, for now at any rate. It's imperative that y… Continue

The purpose of a Blog on Squidoo Masters is to outline or explain a subject, interest, etc. and certainly link to one of your relevant lens on Squidoo.

But, the primary purpose of my creating Squidoo Masters has something to do with the name "Squidoo Masters". Hint - sharing ideas and information to become a Master at Squidoo.

Hence the Blog area is primarily for posting a blog that expounds on the subject of ideas and information relevant to excelling as a Squidoo lensmaster. Yo… Continue

I'm going to discuss how important it is to add your main keyword tag in your url links in order to get your lens to rank higher in search engines.

Your main keyword(s) tags should be used first and foremost in all relevant url links off your lens for maximum rank and exposure. Needless to say you need to use your main keyword tags in many of your Lens Titles and within the body of your lenses and they need to be relevant within the context of your subject.

Say for instance your main ke… Continue

You probably noticed your Squidoo earnings lower than anticipated for the month of April. Clearly the ad revenue was lower for April, but I have noticed new advertisers have come in since.

One theory I have, is that this was the month that Squidoo started handing out Purple Stars and I also noticed, in that particular month, my lenses jumping up and down through all the jostling about due to the boast given to Purple Star lenses. Now I don't know if that is the reason, or not. I did hear also r… Continue

Several months ago I bookmarked a blog that I ran across. In truth I had read only one of his articles, but was sufficiently impressed to bookmark the blog under "Blogs to Emulate". Yes, its a blog and not a Squidoo lens.

The first article I read was "How to Build a High-Traffic Web Site (or Blog)" and I found it truly inspiring.… Continue