The Squidoo It Yourself Blog

This blog is recommended reading and tracking. I find that the articles are well written and comprehensive, whereas mine are shorter and to the point ! :( . I kinda like this blog. It makes interesting reading. There are several good postings here. Let me reproduce a section which I like, this concerns building fresh and relevant lenses, posted on March 17th, 2006 by Richard.

Unless your lens is deliberately archiving content, you will want to write original material whenever possible. This content might take several forms. One method is to feed your own blog postings into the lens via an RSS feed. This provides fresh content on a regular basis, without any additional effort from you on the Squidoo side.

Other shortcuts to building significant original Squidoo content include posting previous articles you have written into your lenses. Our only caution here is that you will probably want to make these postings an introduction to the article, rather than reposting the entire article itself. Although there is no limit to the amount of content you can add to your lens, it will become difficult to read and cluttered with longer, intact articles. Our suggestion is to write a short abstract of the article and then link to it elsewhere - using the text link module - to an instance of the full piece hosted on another site or blog.