Adding Content To Your Lens

Now you will come to the workshop area of your new lens. While there seems to be a lot of options down the right side, there sure isn't much in the middle, is there?

We are going to be filling up the middle left area. This is the stuff that the world will see on your lens. We will be doing this by adding "modules" to our lens. The option to do that is on the right side.

Modules are like little building blocks for a Squidoo lens. You can choose a module that lets you add a block of text or a YouTube video or a poll or a guest book or eBay auctions......and the list goes on and on and on. There are TONS of unique modules you can use to make your lens stand out and really look great.

For the sake of this beginner guide we are going to use the basics and get your first lens online.

The lens I am going to be creating is about learning to Salsa dance. I have found a product on Clickbank that I would like to recommend to readers who are interested in learning to Salsa - and I am interested in making some commissions if someone decides to buy it...lol!

At this point, I have these things ready in preparation to make this lens:

• an article about learning to salsa dance

• my Clickbank affiliate 'hop link' that I will use to send traffic to

• a few images to make my lens pretty

That's all I need. I am going to copy/paste my article into different text modules to break up the text and make it easier on the eyes and I am going to add images to make it more appealing.

Note: Squidoo requires at LEAST 3 modules (not including the intro module that you already see there and not including a guest book if you add it in). You MUST do this or else Squidoo will not give your lens the "green light" to be seen and listed on site. Squidoo gives lenses the "green light" by awarding it a green check next to the lens name on your dashboard. It can take about 24 hours for that green check to show since Squidoo updates the rank of lenses once per day.

My article has 7 short paragraphs and I will be copy/pasting it into my new lens on individual text modules. I will put two of the paragraphs in the intro module and the rest in another 4 text modules.

Adding Modules

To start doing this, I will first add more text modules like this:

I simply click the green plus button to add 4 text modules and then click add.