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But Squids don’t have paws!
Sure they don’t.
But your fine furry friend might.
This is a simple, lightweight, warm&happy project that I am releasing for 3 simple reasons:
1. A dog is sleeping on my feet right now.  And that makes me smile.
2. I know I’m not alone.  Some of the top-ranking lenses out there are about animals of all [...]

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Gil is doing a little routine maintenance on the site tomorrow night, Friday Sept 24th, at 10pm EST.
The site will be totally offline for 20-30 minutes.
Family Guy should be on Adult Swim around then. Just saying.

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I threw this together for you guys last night. Some real gems here.
Here you go.
Complete with grape jelly meatballs and everything.

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A quick headsup that we’re working this week with our awesome Google AdSense account rep to try to get a little more juice from the Google text ads that run beneath the titles of lenses.  Bringing a little conversion science to a site with as much traffic as ours = tiny adjustments can have a [...]

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As our Squids well know, we’re always researching ways to optimize ads on lenses while protecting the sanctity of handwritten, non-advertising, original content.
This newest trial run is using the smartly evolving market.io technology to match a lens’s keywords to Amazon items.  So if a lensmaster has a lens about organic pumpkin coffee beans, the market.io [...]

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As our Squids well know, we’re always researching ways to optimize ads on lenses while protecting the sanctity of handwritten, non-advertising, original content.
This newest trial run is using the smartly evolving market.io technology to match a lens’s keywords to Amazon items.  So if a lensmaster has a lens about organic pumpkin coffee beans, the market.io [...]

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Today we’re releasing a whole new vision for Squidoo.
Only, it’s the same Squidoo as ever.
Just plussed.
Plus? Yes. Squidoo, plus a new system of experience points and Levels. Squidoo, plus achievements and trophies. Squidoo, plus Quests. Squidoo, plus new opportunities for you to do more, learn more, get found more, publish more. Plus.
What [...]

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Starting June 7th and running through August 27th we’ve awarded 60 lenses and charities with a $99 a day bonus. This means our lensmasters have given away $11,880! What an accomplishment.
As I promised yesterday, today we are revealing the final lens and charity in our Sunshine Award contest. This lens received more [...]

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When the Sunshine Award contest started, one lensmaster went above and beyond for both the charity of her choice and all partner charities on Squidoo. OhMe, one of our most prolific lensmasters, graciously developed a lens where interested Sunshine Award lens creators could share their lenses with others and make their nominations public: Squidoo’s Summer [...]

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I rarely talk about my speaking events here on the SquidBlog, for many reasons, one being that I don’t like to blur lines, another is I don’t want to interrupt you guys with non-Squidoo stuff.  But I’m breaking my own rules this time, because the BizTechDay conference is a truly spirited, bootstrapped, changemaking event that [...]

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