For all of you recipe lovers out there.. you’re going to be jazzed! Squidoo now has a new module. It’s specifically designed to use with recipes. Let’s take a look.
You can find the module under “all modules” and then under R ~ it’s the recipe module.
Once you’ve added it, open to edit.
You’ll need to give the module a title ~ I went with the recipe name. You can also provide a description here as well. If people can buy this recipe somewhere you might want to include a link in the description area.
Next step is the recipe stats: you know, how many people it serves, how long to prep, how long to cook. All that good stuff.
Next is the actual ingredients. They’ve created a form to fill in. One ingredient per line and if you need more lines just click the “add more items” link on the bottom left of the section.
Once you’ve added your ingredients there’s space to add your instructions. I skipped a space between each instruction… we’ll see how that comes out. You’re welcome to experiment to find the way that works best for you.
After the instructions you can add an image for your recipe. You can also link the image to another place, so if you’re selling a book with this image you will want to use your link with the image as well. 
When you save the recipe your image will be shown with the stats about it right below the image. You will see bullet points for each ingredient, and if you’ve left space between the instructions, that will show up as well.
You can check out this recipe on my 7 Quart Slow Cooker Lens. You’ll see there are a couple recipes on there using the old way, and the Ropa Vieja recipe is the one using the new module.
Good luck! I’d love to see some of your recipes lenses using the new module. Feel free to come by and drop a link to your recipe lens once you’ve tried out the new module.
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Jackie, I have a question. In my dashboard, I see that 2 of my lenses went into the grey minus sign (almost there) status- and the squidoo rankings for both have tanked majorly.
They are 2 good lenses. I added more content to both but still the grey minus sign.
The lenses are:
http://www.squidoo.com/nightmarebeforechristmasfigurines
and
http://www.squidoo.com/german-shepherd-gifts
What can I do? There is nowhere to ask for help on Squidoo.
Whether they have a grey mark or a green check is really irrelevant. That’s just squidoo’s listing. What really matters is how they are doing in Google? They are still visible when someone comes to your lens whether they have a grey mark or a green check. How are they doing in Google?
This module will work great for some of my kitchen gadgets lens’s. Thanks for letting me know
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Jackie,
Your lens has nice a structure. The positioning of your graphics is eye-catching.
If I’m not asking you to reveal too much, how do you embed an Amazon listing within a module? Would I just copy the text w/image code from Amazon?
Your tips are really useful!
Thanks for sharing!
Keisha
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Not sure which amazon listing you’re talking about…
the crockpots are the “spotlight” module. If you add the spotlight module to your lens, all you have to do is grab the ASIN number and add it to the module, you can also add a description. There are actually a few different options for amazon this post outlines the ones I use the most: http://www.squidoochristmascash.com/how-to-add-products-to-your-amazon-modules/
The book images in the recipe areas ~ I did that by using the tools available at Squidutils.com L
Hope that helps…
BTW ~ there’s no secrets about Squidoo… you’re welcome to ask any questions you have. It’s my goal to help everyone make money there.
That looks real good,thanks for sharing this new Recipe Module with us.
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What a great module
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Man, I LOVE ropa vieja! My absolute favorite Cuban food.
This module looks awesome – that’ll be a big help for me in my next few recipe lenses!
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