WHAT ARE FEATURED LENSES vs WORK-IN-PROGRESS LENSES?
Featured lenses are the ones with little green check marks next to them on your Dashboard. Congrats! A featured lens has earned the privilege of being promoted within Squidoo at that moment. A featured lens gets 3 distinct benefits: It is included in Squidoo search results and any appropriate top 100 lists, you can send Squidcasts from that lens, and you can join new Groups with that lens. If your lens isn’t featured right now, rest assured that of COURSE it is still discoverable via outside search engines like Google and Yahoo, and of COURSE people can still see it and of course your direct URL will still work. The idea of having featured and non-featured (we call them Work-in-Progress lenses, more on that below) is that it gives you a sense of what lenses are “working” and which are perhaps stale, or not getting a whole lot of traffic, or need a little touching up. Work-in-Progress lenses have the little gray minus sign next to them on your Dashboard. A Work-in-Progress lens is somet
