So you’ve finally decided to create a Squidoo Lens on a topic that is near and dear to your heart.

Just like most of the top content managemenet system, like Joomla, Drupal, phpBB, etc. you’ve been searching for templates to make creating your Squidoo Lens easier.

Easier!?!?!

Are you kidding?

For now, there are no templates for Squidoo that I’m aware of and even if there were, there don’t appear to be any way to import them into the Squidoo system. There is an Squidoo Lens XML Export option in the Squidoo Lens editor but no import.

Regardless, lack of a template system is part of the Squidoo Lens magic. Because of the consistancy of creation, Squidoo is very easily spidered and indexed by the search engines like Google. In fact, Google loves Squidoo so much that you will likely see a Squidoo lens or two in the top 20 results for virtually any topic. Checkout two of the Warcraft Riches Lenses on Google. That’s an easy example and if you start searching, you’ll find many, many more.

Getting back to templates for Squidoo Lenses…

There seems to be little need for templates for the initial creation of a Squidoo lens.

Look at these screenshots for the first four (and only) steps to create a Squidoo lens:

I think that people searching for Squidoo templates are actually searching for the magic formula to create a lens that people will be attracted too and want to visit and come back too. Also, one that Google will index.

There is a package called Ultimate Squidoo that has lens clipart, articles and instructions on how to create, manage and promote Squidoo Lenses. That is probably more inline with what people that are looking for “Squidoo Lens Templates” are looking for.

Original post by Vivevtvivas