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How to Fill Out Your Squidoo Profile Hi, this is Anna and this is another video
tutorial about Squidoo. In today's video tutorial I am going to talk to you about Squidoo's
profile page and what you should do and what you shouldn't do. So, if you are interested
in finding out something more about this you should keep watching this video. For those
who watch my videos, it's like I have thousand of them and not only two, you know that I
have those stories that are off topic and this is not an exception to the rule I obviously
have. So, I have two stories that are off topic. If you watched the previous video you
have heard my story about butterflies, and as I promised, I removed the butterfly from
my desktop background and changed it to something else, and I have only a small picture of a
butterfly. This is one thing I wanted to talk to you about, and the other thing I wanted
to do is to share something with you, and this is a song by Mariah Carey, It's Like
That. There is the original version, and then there is my version, and what I wanted to
do is play to you the first part of this song, the original one, and then sing my version
of this song. So, I hope you like it. Now, listen carefully. (That y'all) That y'all
(That y'all) Like da da da da, I like that y'all (That y'all) I came to have a party
be? Okay, that was the original song, and here is how my version of it sounds. It goes
like this: I came to have a party, instead I'm article writing, boy I am so excited what
this tutorial is about going to be. I had to come up with something, didn't I? So, those
were the two off topic stories and we can now get serious, and back to our Squidoo tutorial.
What I want you to do is to not pay too much attention to my vocal range, my singing abilities,
and only focus on the lyrics as I know I am not that great at singing, so don't pay attention
to that. Now, let's back to our tutorial. The first things you need to do is to login
to your Squidoo account, and right on your dashboard, you can see your activity stream.
Here you will find your points, HQ news, and one thing HQ news include is actually the
lens of the day. In case you know nothing about the lens of the day, it's the lens that
has been chosen as the best or the most popular lens for a particular day. In this case, the
lens of the day is Popular Domestic Duck Breeds, and that is only one of the things you will
see in HQ news. Now, I want to talk to you about this filter. It is set to show everything
that has been going on on Squidoo. And in case you do not want to see all that, you
can click this button 'points', and it will show only your points. It's simple as that.
So, you can see here that we got one hundred points for joining Squidoo, we got forty points
for verifying our email address, and then I've been a little liar, and I've been logging
in to Squidoo, and earning myself ten points, then another ten points, and yes, I also squidliked
one, two, three lenses and subscribed to the Lens of the Day newsletter and those are all
the things I did behind your back. And I'm ashamed, and you can hate me for that, you
are free to hate me, it's free, so hate for that. However, I will try to make it up to
you and share with you everything I did in order to earn those points. So, this is an
honest tutorial, and I will not hide anything from you. Now, aside from seeing only your
points, you can also see only HQ news, like that. And if you want to see quests, okay
for us there are no quests at the moment, but there will be so keep watching my videos
as there will be quests and we will have a lot of fun. As far as sales go, there are
no sales as we haven't created any lenses, so it's only logical that we haven't made
any sales, so about that later as well. Now, the most important thing about this tutorial
is our profile. If we click on this link 'settings', we will be presented with this window, and
here you will find your account information. The first thing you will see is your username,
and in my case this is Squidoo Tutorials. And as I've talked about this, about usernames
in one of my previous videos, you can change it only once as it says here the exact same
thing. So, if I wanted to change my username to the infamous Squidoo butterfly, I could
do that, but I do not want to do that. So, for now my username will stay as is Squidoo
tutorials. The next thing you can see is your email address, but it is not shown publicly,
so you don't have to worry about that. You can choose to link your Facebook and Twitter
account to Squidoo , and it is totally up to you to decide whether you want to do that
or not. From this page you can also change your password by pressing this button 'change
password'. And there is the option to communicate with other lensmasters and readers through
your email. Here, it is set to 'don't allow readers to contact me', but you can change that in case you want to interact
further with lensmasters and all your readers. And here is one thing I did behind your back,
and this is the fact that I have subscribed to the Lens of the Day newsletter, and this
got me ninety nine points, so you should check this: yes, I want the email about which lens
won the Lens of the Day award. So, you should check that. There is also the option to set
your Google Analytics account and fill in all the data needed, but I will talk about
that later. And lastly, there is the option to leave Squidoo, and press this Delete Account
button, but I'm sure you do not want to do that, as that would be such a sad thing. You
don't want to leave Squidoo in tears, so don't pay too much attention to this Delete Account
button. Now, our profile. Here is where you should pay the greatest deal of your attention.
So, you should fill in your first name, and your last name, and it will not be shown publicly
so you do not have to worry about that. And the only name that will appear on your lensmaster's
page is your username. So, your real name will be kept secret. Another thing you should
do is fill in this About You section, and write something about yourself whether this
is something you like, something you don't like, something unusual about yourself, or
any other thing you think other lensmasters might want to know about you. And the last
thing you should do is to upload your photo. I have already done that. Another thing I
did behind your back - hate me, hate me. I will change my photo only to show you how
you can do this. The only thing you need to do is to click on this button Upload an Image,
and select the image you want to use for your Squidoo profile. I will, as you can guess,
change a blue butterfly to purple butterflies, and wait for Squidoo to upload my picture,
my image. When this is done, the only thing left for me is to press Save. What I want
to tell you, and this is very important is that you do want to fill out these fields,
as if you don't you might be seen as a spam user as they have a tendency to leave all
the fields blank. They usually don't have a profile picture, no bio, no first or last
name. They only fill in the information that they must fill in. So, if you want to be as
a lensmaster who is there to stay you should definitely fill out your profile.