Lydia's Blog: Squidoo

Today I made my first lens on Squidoo.  So I thought I would add my thoughts on this social networking resource.

How I found out about Squidoo.
I had read a few things about Squidoo, mainly on a long REW forum thread about it.  It's a site where you can make your own pages, kind of like MySpace or Facebook.  The twist for Squidoo is that the individual pages are called 'lenses'.  And you can make as many lenses as you want.

I wasn't really interested in Squidoo, because every time I visited a lens, it was covered in ads.  It looked spammy and unprofessional.  I decided that while there might be some SEO benefit to it, it just wasn't worth my time.

Then the other day I found out that Joe Lane, who posts under the name 'Spoken Gently' here on REW,… Read Full Post