Victoria Neely’s Squidoo Diary

Squidoo lenses can always use images. I try to have at least one for every text module; it’s an extra touch that people notice.

Depending on the subject of the lens, almost any kind of image would do. Sometimes I’ve used a series of animal pictures on lenses that have nothing to do with animals, simply because I liked how the animals lightened the message or conveyed the kind of emotions I was looking for. Sometimes I use completely random images that have little or nothing to do with the subject.

That doesn’t mean I will do this for every single lens I create, though. This approach isn’t appropriate for all lenses.

For instance, I once saw a lens that I think was about real estate… you’d expect to see pictures of houses, right? Maybe images of paperwork, or people talking to real estate agents, etc. However, the lens had cutesy, cartoony images of kittens.

My brain went, “Huh?”

That was a case where the images did not complement the tone or subject matter of the lens. It needed a sense of professionalism, or at least a better sense of cohesiveness. I even would have been fine with seeing cartoony pictures of houses.

Make sure that your images complement your lenses.