Choosing your Squidoo Lens URL

After logging back in, you will be brought back to your dashboard. Now, we are going to stop for a second and think of the lens we are about to make. What topic is it on? What is a simple phrase that relates to our new lens?

We are about to choose the url where our Squidoo lens will "live" online. A url is the web address. You get to choose what url your lens gets.

For example:

squidoo.com/you-choose-these-words-here

or

squidoo.com/youchoosethesewordshere

or

squidoo.com/you_choose_these_words_here

What words do YOU want after the squidoo.com part?

For my new example lens, I am going to choose something about learning to salsa dance. I already know that my lens will be on this topic. So I will want to choose something like:

squidoo.com/how-to-salsa-dance

or

squidoo.com/salsa-dancing

or something like that.

With those ideas in mind, I am going to go right up to my browser window (where I would type a web address I want to go to) and type in my ideas.

Confused? Don't be... this is easy.... (yes, I've got pictures...lol)

I would do this:

I would type in the url I want and then click to go to it as if it already existed.

Thing is, it MIGHT already exist. If someone has already built a lens at that url, I will be taken to their lens.

Which is what happened when I tried this first url idea. The lens url was already taken and I was shown that lens.

So, I try another one:

This time, it worked! That squidoo url IS available and I see this screen:

I click "click here to take it over" and now that Squidoo url is mine!