Have you been visited by an angel lately? On Squidoo that is, although I’m into hearing about the celestial beings too. Well I thought it would be cool to compile a list of things that our sweeties love or don’t when flying around our lenses. Soak it in and get onto building your masterpiece!
- The coolest thing I’ve heard today is that Angels are doing so much more than blessing lenses… they’re also adding those lenses to StumbleUpon, Delicious, rating them, etc. JaguarJulie
- It’s okay to sell things on Squidoo… in fact, it’s highly encouraged. I love to visit commercial lenses, if they’re done properly. But when I see a lens introduction bogged down with hyperlinks to other non-Squidoo sites, my interest declines rapidly. Save those for later, and place them sporadically and tastefully throughout your lens. The same goes for requests for star ratings, favoriteing, lensrolling, etc. Put these toward the bottom of your lens, preferably near your guestbook. KimGiancaterino
- Improving a lens is like swimming against the current. Once you stop it’ll float downstream Squidster
- Overall, I want to be drawn into the lens. I look for visual appeal, original content, variety, and please, please replace all of the default headers with your own! In most cases the lens should have a guestbook, and do avoid including ads that have nothing to do with your subject. Susan52
- I like lenses that flow nicely and that are very easy to read and understand. Janet21
- I appreciate a good introductory paragraph, a lensmaster bio and graphic or pic, well developed content and links to references and resources. Rockycha
- Please remember before taking offense at any well-intentioned comments that suggest you make changes to your “baby” that Squid Angels are only trying to help beautify the Squidoo community. You are under no obligation to make changes; there is no penalty if you choose not to. What we offer is only friendly advice, yours to take or leave at will. XP
- Nope, Angels are not required to give editorial reviews of lenses that are posted in the Angels forum. But if they’d like to, they can. SemperFidelis
- Content and aesthetics. Jeffwend
- I have a hard time blessing lenses with no guest book. I like to have my say, so I love to leave comments.Barkeley
- Put a little Love and Soul into it!!
TheInfamous7
- Something original and beautiful. boredofeducation
- I love to explore other people’s “take” on a large variety of subjects and I respect their opinions. That’s all I have for my life, too – my opinions. I hope to be inspired to change my opinions often, as I learn and grow within this generous community of authors. chefkeem
- A spirit of sharing, informing and facilitation. No coercion. BigJim
- I want to see great material that is original and well researched or thought out. Lenses with good content, a mixture of modules (that fit the topic), and some nicely placed images will always catch my eye. crystalbooth
- I like to see a lens with content and with a focus. Present something different than others have done, or present it in a different way. KAB
- As important, if not more important than giving good lenses a boost is giving SPAM the thumbs down. When I’m on Angelic Missions, I’m looking mostly for garbage to sweep away. calyxa
- Duplicating content is not a good idea. Search engines can penalize one or all sites where duplicate content is found. daoine
- I know from personal experience that I am always happy to hear from someone that one of my lenses is considered good enough to be blessed. It is a great confidence booster and that is one of the great elements of the social ’structure’ of Squidoo. It is nice to know that someone is looking out for you. EverythingMouse
- A lens doesn’t have to be full of technical whizz bangs, or overly long but what is there should be diamond bright and grab my attention. flaminglacer
- The angels are lensmasters like you who volunteered and were selected by HQ to serve for a few months reading and evaluating lenses. They are sort of the class monitors of the term, making sure that spammy lenses don’t stay on Squidoo long and that good ones are recognized and rewarded. That’s a tall order to fill, and that’s why they are called Angels — it takes almost super-human strength. Jimmie
♥ Resource lens for much of the comments here…Angels-r-Us…please visit and leave your comments on this most spectacular work of art!
♥ Squid Angel Video
♥ Ask an angel for a blessing on the SquidU forum
After reflection and a conversation with a friend and mentor on Squidoo, I wanted to share with you my ‘new’ thoughts about adding a tip jar on your lenses. Consider these points and ponder:
Correen (clouda9)
AJ