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Thanks Temi!
I'm flattered to have been given such a platform!
Guess I need to surf around a bit and post some more response elsewhere so I can include some useful links here as well!
Unfortunately squidoo seems to suffering from a rare outage this morning, hopefully it won't last for long!
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Now, the first trick in using squidoo I feel is to make your page look professional. Anyone with a basic knowledge of Html can do this, but funny rules do apply!
For some great tutorials on this
Basic Html &
Advanced Html are both worth looking through. Also, if you master that easy enough you may want to check out some
CSS Tricks , all of these will help improve the look of your lens.
Want to use your own amazon affiliate links, or UK ones, but want a way to do so quickly and have them looking professional and in keeping with the squidoo style?
Squidutils does this for a slight cut) easily, it also provides you with a RSS feed of all your lenses which you can then submit anywhere. When you have just published a lens (can take a little while for it too publish the first time) or recently updated it squidutils gives you a dashboard allowing you to ping a number of search engines. There are a few more features, but they are the main ones I use.
Assuming most users here are UK based and are aiming for UK visitors you may not like the ebay module provided as it makes things quite tricky to select items from the UK. Fear not, by using an RSS feed of your ebay search results you can add this to a RSS module, I wrote a tutorial on
Using Ebay RSS Feeds To Earn Commission which I hope you'll like. (I'm considering writing a synopsis of this tutorial for here shortly)
Good places to find other squids? Well
Squidu is the main forum for support and socialising and is worth looking over and a great place to go for help and advice.
Lensroll is a kind of Digg site for squidoo lenses, easiest way of getting a back link, though only submit 2 lenses a day or risk being deleted by them, also has a forum.
Squoogle is another squidoo directory, though combined with submissions from a few other social networks.
Hope y'all find these links useful too!