Big redesign of Squidoo Lenses

Squidoo made some big changes this week and they redesigned the look of the lenses, added some new feautures and removed some previous features. You can read the official announcement of these changes in their blog post.

The majority of changes don't really affect anything, some new features are really great but some cool things has been removed. Below you can see what new and what's not there anymore.

New feaures on Squidoo Lenses:

• Tweet button and Facebook Share button are added to lenses
• 3 brand new (and really nice) templates

R.I.P. features on Squidoo:

• Fan clubs are gone
• You can no longer add lenses to your favorites
• Some html attributes are no longer allowed in custom bio on your lenses
• Lensrolling is no more

Will these changes really affect SEO, traffic and overall rankings? Maybe. We can't say this yet. I really like new sharing buttons and overall look of lenses. I'll sure miss fan clubs and favirte lenses. But one things is for sure - we need some time to accpet new changes, Squidoo is still an awesome site!

And now I want to hear from you! What do you think about new design and features on Squidoo lenses? Do you like them? Do you miss something? Would you recommend something to Squidoo? Share you comments!

3 New Lens Themes

Squidoo introduced three new lens themes and now has 24 lens themes total! This is great way to breathe some freshness in your old lenses or make a new lenses with these brand new designs.

Read the official announcement of this update here.

Below you can see these three new lens themes, their screenshots and some cool features.

1. Big Squid

Big Squid is a brand new lens with Squid in it. Awesome and clean design which is the best choice if you're making a lens about Squidoo, Squidoo tips and topics related to Squidoo.


2. Algae

Algae is a very clean and easy to read theme.

3. Blueprint

Blueprint is a blue theme with blueprint design. Great for lenses about science and technology.

May 2011 Squidoo Earnings

Here is my Squidoo payment for May 2011 (earned  in March 2011).

My May 2011 earnings are as follows from 71 lenses:

Grand Total ~ $66.27

I am really satisfied with this payment and I can't wait to receive my next payments because I really work hard on my lenses since March so I expect bigger payment every future month.

My First Tier 1 Lens

My hard work and a lot of coffee finally took me somewhere on Squidoo. By following tips from some succesful lensmasters and building a network of quality backlinks I manage to move one of my lenses to Tier 1. For those who don't know what Tier 1 is, this is a group of Squidoo lenses with rankings from 1 to 2000. These lenses get the most from advertising revenue each month and April payment for tier 1 lenses was a little less than $30. So you see, it's really good to have some lenses in the highest tier on Squidoo.

The lens I am talking about is Funny and Cool Facebook Status Updates where I made a list and resources of ideas for funny and inspirational ideas for Facebook status updates. Facebook is a trending topic right now and people search for pages with stuff for their Facebook wall. And it seems that a lot of folks like my lens.

5 things that made this happen

1. Backlinks. I made a lot of quality backlinks on different sites. I wrote a unique description on each bookmarking site and add a link to my lens on Squidoo. I also submit these other links with more unique description so I build a small but powerfull network of links pointing to my original lens.
2. Promotion. I promoted the lens on Facebook and Twitter and the news is spreading real quick. My traffic skyrocked and I am happy to announce that I will hit 3000 weekly views.
3. Fresh Content. I added some fresh content to the lens and reorganize my modules so it looks better. New content really boosted its rank.
   
4. Links. Added two capsules for featured links on the lens where I listed links with more sites that offer ideas for Facebook updates. Because the links are related to my lens and people are interested in them the lens have a lot of clickouts and high CTR. This really improve raking.
5. Tags. I first made some research about tags on Squidoo and modified tags for this lens a little. I used tags really related to the lens and traffic really increased because of this.

I hope you will find some of these tips useful. I am still learning about Squidoo ranking so I can't tell for sure what is the most important for a good ranking but when I'll know for sure I'll be happy to let you know.

Getting in Tier 1 is a first big step in my Squidoo 60 day challenge where I intend to build 10 lenses in Tier 1. So this is a first step and 9 remain. But I am exited and really happy to have a lens in Tier 1! And some other lenses are climbing really fast so with some work I expect to have at least 3 more Tier 1 lenses in a week or so.

Great Ben 10 Coloring Pages

I think it's appropriate to post my brand new lenses here from time to time. In the 60 Day Squidoo Challenge I plan to make some new lenses and I think it's cool if I post a quick note about them on this blog. For promotion, traffic and links :)

I made a new lens about Ben 10. I quite like this cartoon and I know that lots of you like it too so I made a new lens about it. In this lens you can find some really great Ben 10 coloring pages for you or for your kids to color and have fun with. There are free printable coloring pictures of Ben 10 on the lens and there are also a lot of useful links to external sites where you can find even more Ben 10 coloring pages, free to download and have fun with!

Great Ben 10 Coloring Pages


Check the link above and you will see if you like these coloring pages. I also included some related lenses where you can find tons of coloring pages of any kind if you are a fan of coloring or your children are.

My Top 10 Lenses about Making Money Online

Making money online is pretty hard, it takes a lot of patience, knowledge and hard work. But when you start making some real money online it becomes quite interesting, fun and exciting :) Squidoo can make you a lot of money online if you work hard on your lenses and if you have patience to wait for thing to start happening.

But there are a lot of other great ways to make money online and that's why making money online is one of my favorite and main niche on Squidoo. I made a lot of quite interesting and useful lenses on Squidoo related to making money online, money making programs and tips to make money online. And here is the list of my Top 10 lenses related to making money online. I hope you'll like them :)

1. More Than 50 Ways to Make a Dollar a Day Online
A list with more than 50 sites where you can make some real money online. Different categories, lots of tips and sites that will help you start making $50 per day with some work and learning.


2. How to Make Money with Photos
On this lens you can find sites where you can make money with your photography.


3. Make Money with Adfoc.us
Adfoc.us is a great service where you can make money sharing shrinked links on the Internet.


4. Make Money with Chitika
Chitika is a great AdSense alternative used by Squidoo and thousands of bloggers and webmasters.


5. Make Money with Adf.ly
Adf.ly is another great service that will pay you to share your shrinked links online.


6. How to Make Money with Backlinks
Tips and sites that will help you to make money by creating quality backlinks. This will increase your traffic, improve your SEO and make you some extra money online.



7. Squidoo Referral Program
Squidoo has a great referral program that can help you to increase your Squidoo earnings by referring your friends to Squidoo.



8. Make Money on Twitter with SponsoredTweets
SponsoredTweets is a great service that will pay you to tweet sponsored tweets on Twitter.



9. Make Money Online with RedGage
RedGage is a great site where you can make money by submitting photos, videos, blogs and links.



10. Make Money on Twitter
Useful lens about making money on Twitter. Tips and great sites that will help you to monetize your Twitter account.

Squidoo 60 Day Challenge

I'm working on my own Squidoo 60 Day Challlenge.A challenge when I want to see if I can really achieve something real with this Squidoo things and increase my earnings to some nice monthly number.

Check out my lens Squidoo 60 Day Challenge for more info, updates and inspiring comments :)

My main goals in this challenge:

1. I want to Make 10 Tier 1 lenses
2. I want to Make 30 Tier 2 lenses
3. I want to Make 40 Tier 3 lenses
4. I want to start selling at least 2 Amazon products per day
5. I want to start selling at least 1 iTunes song per day
6. I will try to become a Giant Squid with my work during the challenge
7. I want to reach the Highest Level on Squidoo
8. I want to grow my fan club and get 500 Fans on Squidoo
9. I want to get a Purple Star :)
10. I want to increase my weekly traffic to 10.000 or more per week

So these are my main ten goals for this Squidoo 60 Day Challenge. I will work hard and try to achieve most of these goals in 60 days or less. And then stay there :) On the lens about the challenge you can find my progress and see where I'm going with tiers and stuff.

And a little more about earnings. My ideas is this: If I create 10 Tier 1 lenses, 30 Tier 2 lenses and 40 Tier 3 lenses I will increase my earnings from Squidoo ad sharing to app. $400 per month.

I hope you like this challenge and you'll check out my lens to see my progress and experiences. I will share my experiences and updates here and on the lens so bookmark them for further reading and updates if you're interesting in this challenge yourself.

Tools and Resources for Squidoo Lensmasters

Ok, let's first list some tools and resources that will surely help you to make better and wonderful Squidoo lenses and optimize them well. Squidoo can be quite difficult if you want to add some style and design to your lenses because this requires some CSS and HTML knowledge. So if you're not familiar with coding or if you want to simplify your Squidoo experiences these tools can really help you to make better lenses.

Check out my lens Tools and Resources for Squidoo Lensmasters and find the best tools to use on Squidoo. I listed a lot of really helpful lenses from fellow lensmasters where you can find a lot of useful and helpful tips and tools for Squidoo deigns, graphics for Squidoo and tips that will help you with CSS and HTML.

On the lens you can find the following:

• Tools for Squidoo
• Best Tools for Squidoo
• RSS tools and tools for Selling modules
• Traffic and SEO
• Squidoo Directories
• Submit to Search Engines
• HTML and CSS
• Graphics for Squidoo
• Making Money on Squidoo
• Best Money Making Squidoo modules
• Best Tips for Lensmasters
• Squidoo tips from Bloggers
• Addons for Your Lenses
• Books about Squidoo

 Image credit: SquidArt Too by Steve Thompson

Welcome to Daily Squidoo Tips

Hello and welcome on Daily Squidoo Tips!

This is the very fist post on this blog so I will introduce myself and made few intro points regarding this blog.

My name is Tilen Hrovatic and I'm an active Squidoo lensmaster. I made more than 150 lenses, a majority of them are high ranked and I'm making money on Squidoo. You can view my Squidoo profile here.

This blog is dedicated to Squidoo and those who like Squidoo and want to learn more about it. I will share my tips about making money on Squidoo, SEO for Squidoo and other Squidoo related tips here. I will try to share my experiences and things I've learned from being an active Squidoo lensmaster for some time. I want to share tips that will help you to make some real money on Squidoo and optimize and promote your Squidoo lenses so they will be attractive to visitors and search engines.

Expect daily posts on this blog. This blog is called Daily Squidoo tips and I will stick to the schedule and post every day, so there will be a lot of useful articles and resources here after some time :)

I hope you'll like this blog and my posts. You can subscribe to the blog (widget in the sidebar and FeedBurner E-mail subscription) to receive the updates and stay informed about Squidoo tips.

Have a nice day!