Welcome to our discussions.

I’m happy to help.

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JD

if you are following along to my squidootricks guide you must have an old version (did you get it aaages ago?). The step by step taught in the latest version works just fine.

Just email me for an update and I’ll get it out to you.

Lewis
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so having aweber or alike javascript or the html code do no good!

What can be done, how does it work now?

Ken

I’m happy to hear that your method still works on Squidoo lenses.

The negative feedback from the Squidoo staff had me convinced that they would be disabling it in the near future, but apparently they haven’t done so.

Thanks for the update.

I’m planning several lenses where it will come in handy.

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JD

I just wanted to say that my method does indeed still work! Opt in forms are still going onto squidoo lenses.

It has worked ever since I released the guide at SquidooTricks.com.

I had to update it one time, but it still works.

Lewis

This was a popular topic on SquidU after Lewis released his report.

There was a topic about it at:

http://www.squidu.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=24849

Please see Gil’s response on 11/14/2008 in that thread. That was the last official response I saw from anyone at Squidoo.

Hang on a second. I’ll do a search to see if anything has been posted more recently…

Nope. I can’t find anything more recent.

I have a bunch of lenses planned for later this year and I want to put an Aweber sign-up form on each of them, but I’m not going to do it until I get official word from Squidoo that it won’t stop working.

I’ve asked the CEOs of both Aweber and Squidoo to develop a module to make this easy, and haven’t heard back since the first of the year.

If they won’t do something official, I’ll develop the webpages elsewhere. I’ve already had to delete 50 lenses when another company pulled the rug out from under my feet.

You can read more about all of this on the original post at the top of this page and some of the comments in this thread.

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JD

The only place I heard about that we here on your blog????

Where did you hear it?

Des

Welcome to the conversation.

I went to your lens and downloaded the guide. I skimmed it, and it looks like it details pretty much the same method that Lewis Smile described.

The last I heard, the folks at Squidoo said that this method would probably not continue to work.

Have you heard anything different from Squidoo?

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JD

I offer the guide on how to add email opt in forms to a squidoo lens, from my lens, for free.

http://www.squidoo.com/How-To-Add-An-Opt-In-Autoresponder-In-Squidoo

The guide was just updated to reflect recent site changes that both Aweber and Clearspring have instituted.

As well, when you download the guide, I will also send you information on advanced form tips like adding images, changing the look of your buttons and adding simple animation.

You can see what I am talking about on my lens.

Take care,

Des

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I got an email from Tom Kulzer, of AWeber, that said, “Someone on our development team is looking into its feasibility.”

I’m hoping they will be able to work something out so that those of us who need this functionality can make use of it.

However, I’m hoping other bloggers will pick up on this and pass the word, especially if they are Squidoo lensmasters and AWeber customers.

I have big plans for greatly increasing the number of mailing lists I’m going to be using next year. I know AWeber will play a big part in this and I’m hoping Squidoo will, too.

I can already put the signup forms on my websites, blogs, forums, communities, and almost everywhere I want to, except for Squidoo.

The main reason I want to be able to do it on Squidoo is because it makes it so easy to create highly-focused pages on a particular topic and they are well indexed by the search engines.

The second reason is because Squidoo changed the RSS feeds of each lens to show the most recent Squidcasts. Now that they’ve done this, we can set up email subscriptions to the lens updates, almost like a miniature blog.

That means I can create a lens about a particular business, product, service, or topic, and can incorporate a mailing list into the mix almost effortlessly – as long as we can have a way to get someone to sign up for the updates.

Then, whenever I make a significant change to the lens, all I have to do is post a Squidcast and it will automatically be posted to the appropriate list using AWeber’s RSS feed to email broadcast function.

It won’t kill my marketing plans for next year if AWeber and Squidoo don’t make it work, but it would cause a significant reduction in the ease of implementation since I’d have to find another way to get a visitor to a lens to sign up for the updates list by going off-site.

So, while it would not be a complete deal-killer if they can’t make it work, it would cause some problems with my plans.

I also have some ideas I’m not ready to talk about in public, yet, because I want to see if I can make them work, first.

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JD

Round and round it goes with bloggers blogging about the situation all asking these guys to work something out…

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