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Good Evening!
I was just doing some things over at Squidoo, and I found out that there have been some very inprotant changes that I tought that you might be interested in knowing about. Some of the changes are going to make your lenses look a lot better, while some of the changes have to do with what they are now allowing ( some would say that they are getting a little stricter).
First off, you can now make your lenses more appealing by applying different themes. Here are three lenses of mine where I have implemented the new themes (backgrounds/colors):
Discount Coach Purses – Purple People Eater Theme
The Office on NBC – Paintball Theme
How to Make the Perfect Mojito – Gone Camping Theme
As you can see, these themes are nice, and they really help ut with making your lens look more appealing to your visitors. Now, every single lens will not look exactly the same, and you can make each lens sort of stick out among your competition. In addition to the ones shown above, they have also put out five other themes in addition to the original default theme.
Squidoo has also done away with the discovery tool. I am not sure if this will help or hurt your lens. I know that I have used it about 50% of the time, so I guess that it all depends on your personal preferences.
In addition to these great options, here are some things that have made Squidoo a little more “stricter.” First of all, they are no longer allowing porn. This does not affect me, but there are a lot of marketers that have made a lot of money in this niche that are going to be upset to see this go. Squidoo has also done away with a lot of their topics to submit lenses to. For a full list of topics that are no longer available, check out www.squidoo.com/squiddont. Last but not least, Squidoo has put new linits on overly promotional lenses. They have decided to put limit to the number of outbound links to the same domain that you can have on a lens. Fortunately, you can still have nine outbound links to the same domian. This is a lot better than a lot of other sites out there, so I am okay with it!
In my personal opinion, the changes that Squidoo has made are going to be very beneficial. I am really not a fan of overly promotional lenses, so this does not affect me, and as you can see, I am already incorporating the new colorful themes!
If you have any questions about internet marketing using Squidoo, please let me know! I will be more than happy to help!
Go Hard or Go Home!
Chris Jensen
Hey Chris,
Nice work in squidoo. You seem to have mastered their changes really well
Thanks for sharing your insights
Take Care
Love and Light
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I’m so glad you posted this! I didn’t even know about it…
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Thanks Jason!
I just went in the other day to make a few updates on some of my lenses when I saw that you could add themes. Then, I started digging around to see what else was going on. I think that there are a couple more changes coming, so I will keep you posted!
Thank you very much Maggie!
I would not say that I have mastered anything! I just like to stay up to date, and I try to do the same for everyone else that visits me!
Thanks Chris,
Didn’t know about the design changes, I was all caught up with the “crack down” lol…
Anyone here have lenses that are on the “banned” list?
What are you going to do about it?
Thanks for the heads up.
Des
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Thanks for the comment Des!
I was more into the design changes than I was into the details that you go into about the new rules. I knew they were getting stricter, but I was unaware of all of the lenses that they would be banning because they do not want any more lenses about certain topics. Everyone reading this needs to be sure to check out Des’ blog to get even more information about the changes that might just be affecting your lenses!