Squidoo lens

[artgotc]

Hello , any one made squidoo lens? how much traffic it is getting ? I am wondering maybe squidoo lens is better then writing articles . Because I saw that squidoo lens ranks higher in SE then article posted on ezinearticles

[artgotc]

i made this squidoo lens . Looking for tips from squidoo masters http://www.squidoo.com/golf-swing-video_/

[Ronbo2007]

I've had mine out a few days, but i'm still trying to polish it up before i start sticking it out there to get visitors.

you can checkit out if you want and give some advice. the original idea wass to make it a how to, but the format of the site makes it hard to get very much info onit it a legibal and informative way. It's more of a blog. and so far there hasn't been any random traffic at all. yknow i dont even have the link available on hand to give.. shwos how well im doing.. give me a min and i'll post again with it

[Ronbo2007]

Ok here it is http://www.squidoo.com/Ronbo2007/ go check it out for me if you will. i could use some advice.

Thanks!

[artgotc]

my squidoo lens is indexed but it dos not rank well :/

[tdm004]

yea guys... I just made my first lens yesterday and it def. seems like it is going to take a while to clean up. Have you all become affiliates of any major retail websites yet and directed them to your lens? If so, how long did it take them to approve your site?

[DMedley]

Interesting Question:

I do have Squidoo Lenses, actually I currently have 14 of them.

I do not feel they get more traffic or better rankings than Article Writing. I use Article Writing + Blogging + Squidoo as a system. I have lenses that are google ranked higher than articles and I have articles that are higher ranked than lenses.

Squidoo is a fabulous resource but you still need to apply normal traffic building processes to it.

for a list of my lenses on squidoo see below

[rocker rokstar]

One of my squidoos is currently ranked 1600 out of 200,000 lenses so that is good. As far as traffic I have 350 visitors for that lens.

I consider the rank to be real good. What do you guys think. How is the visitors calculated. I notice the number updates now and then. Is that the number of visitors for a week or a month? Just curious.

I am not sure where this lens is ranked in the search engine.

I do have some other lenses that are ranked on page 1. But those are for longtailed keywords. That get little traffic. My top lens was created not long ago. So that tells you that you still can get some traffic from squidoo. I created it after the Squidoo Slap just to see if it would effect new lenses. My theory was that lenses that were fresh and updated would still do well. So far that seems to be the case. You need to do a little more seo for your lenses than you did before. The lenses I had before did well just after a few weeks. They would get indexed fast and be on page one more than likely if I targeted longtailed keywords. I used them as a door way page to my main site or to get affiliate commision.

Anyways, squidoo is still doing well. I am still playing around wtih my lenses. The good thing is that there is less compition since most people left after the squidoo slap. It is easier to rank higher now. At least that is my thoughts.

What do you guys think.

[DMedley]

One of my squidoos is currently ranked 1600 out of 200,000 lenses so that is good. As far as traffic I have 350 visitors for that lens.

I consider the rank to be real good. What do you guys think. How is the visitors calculated. I notice the number updates now and then. Is that the number of visitors for a week or a month? Just curious.

I am not sure where this lens is ranked in the search engine.

I do have some other lenses that are ranked on page 1. But those are for longtailed keywords. That get little traffic. My top lens was created not long ago. So that tells you that you still can get some traffic from squidoo. I created it after the Squidoo Slap just to see if it would effect new lenses. My theory was that lenses that were fresh and updated would still do well. So far that seems to be the case. You need to do a little more seo for your lenses than you did before. The lenses I had before did well just after a few weeks. They would get indexed fast and be on page one more than likely if I targeted longtailed keywords. I used them as a door way page to my main site or to get affiliate commision.

Anyways, squidoo is still doing well. I am still playing around wtih my lenses. The good thing is that there is less compition since most people left after the squidoo slap. It is easier to rank higher now. At least that is my thoughts.

What do you guys think.

I do not think many people left and the problem has gotten sorted out. Three days ago we were messing around on the forum and figured there are 100 lenses per hour being created.

1600 is a pretty fair rating. Traffic is far more important than the ranking but with enough people clicking the little stars and visiting the lens the ranking will go up.

[rocker rokstar]

How do you guys get people to click the stars. I never get any clicks on most of my lenses. How is the visitors calculated by the way. I have not figured that out yet. What does the stat mean when you see visitors for your lens in the dashboard.

[PotPieQueen]

Hey all...nice thread


Ok, I took a look at some of the lenses that have been posted here. Now, here is my disclaimer - I am in no way an "expert"; I've just spent quite a bit of time on this subject and would like to share my thoughts with you.


Art - Nice golf lens I am a big time golfer and it is a serious addiction of mine.

Some suggestions-

- Yes, looks like you got indexed on 7-22. Unfortunately, your lens got indexed before it was completed (I can tell by looking at the "cached version" of your lens). Try "pinging" your lens to get Google to crawl it again.

- Add a guest book. Remember, Squidoo is a social site - offer viewers a place to be "social". You NEED stars and comments to improve your ranking within Squidoo.

- Be more keyword specific in your bio. The intro module and it's title, your lens title, and your guestbook are power places for keywords. Let them work for you

-Add at least one more module. Either link to other golf help books or add an amazon module that offers golf books or equipment (this works - I know this first hand )

- Get out there in Squidoo and visit/sign/rate other lenses on the same topic as yours. This will "invite" reciprocal traffic to your lens.

All in all, Art - really nice lens!


Rob -

Also a nice lens. here's my 2 cents (take it or leave it, lol)

- Your title is "7 things you should know about".. and I am left wondering, "Know about WHAT?". These pages on Squidoo are called lenses...like the lens on a camera. What does a lens on a camera do? It FOCUSES in on a subject. A lens on Squidoo should do the same thing....focus in on a topic. I see you only have 4 tags and none are related. Pick one..and expand on it with long-tail keywords. Then, make other lenses for the other topics.

- The intro module is just about the most important part of your lens. This should be keyword rich (not keyword stuffed..lol). Tell Google exactly what your lens is about.

- Your amazon module doesn't seem to be working - I didn't see any content below it.


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Couple of things to remember about Squidoo.

1- No, it's not dead.

2- Yes, we lost a few spammers, but the quality lensmasters are still cranking out quality lenses. As with any presence on the 'net - original, high quality content wins. Be focused with your content. if your lens is about dating, don't go off about car repair. Stay on topic, and create another lens for different topics.

3- Squidoo is a SOCIAL site. Add content modules that invite participation - things like guestbooks, polls, etc. In order to rank well within Squidoo, you NEED viewer participation. Squidoo, like Google, is a popularity contest.

4 -I think it was rocker who said the he combines Squidoo with article marketing and blogs - BINGO. Squidoo can be a stand -alone income opportunity, but it is a power house when used in conjunction with other free methods of marketing.

5- Ping your lens when you change the content.

6- Bookmark your site with social bookmarking sites. This will get social traffic and provide your lens with a one way link IN to your lens from a high PR site.

7- Interact in the Squidoo community. Other lensmasters, such as myself, will purposely seek out the lenses of someone who took the time to rate and sign my lens. These things REALLY help your lensrank.

8- When choosing keywords, choose long-tail keywords. If you get too broad a topic, just like a new site, blog, or article, you may get lost. Research your keywords properly....you can make all the lenses you want to.

9 - Whether you get one extra visitor or 100.... ANY extra exposure to your site, blog, or affiliate attempt is a good thing. It can take a month to really get a lens rocking. Tweak it, love it, and link your lenses together as well as leave links to your lens on other relevant lenses on Squidoo. Now, I am not saying to SPAM other lenses - leave valuable feedback like you'd like others to do on YOUR lens.

Ok, thats all I got right now. Hope this helped someone

[Ronbo2007]

OOhhh! Thanks Pie! See i ws thinking it was more of a "make your own webpage" site type of deal. The idea was to give advice on home repair. But your right it leaves to much hanging. I'm still trying to get around to fixing it.

[Ronbo2007]

Hey by the way , what do you mean by PING it?

[JerryMarketing]

Once again, great info from potpiequeen..
thanks!

[myolay21]

7- Interact in the Squidoo community. Other lensmasters, such as myself, will purposely seek out the lenses of someone who took the time to rate and sign my lens. These things REALLY help your lensrank.

I got an idea.. maybe we all can do some Link Exchange to our squidoo between Ewealth members

What do you guys think??

regards,
myo

[ferrisbueller]

I,m now ranked 4667 which I am pleased about. I,ve noticed that Squidoo love new content - so, keep it coming, interesting etc. Also use bookmark sites like Stumble Upon, Digg It, Delicious.

I did have one question - can you 'claim' a squidoo lense through Technocrati ??

[artgotc]

Hey by the way , what do you mean by PING it?

Use ping services like http://pingomatic.com/ or http://pinger.blogflux.com/

I bookmarked my lens with 15 bookmarking sites . Maybe ill get higher positions after then google will update my site in their SE

[artgotc]

I have question for you PotPieQueen . How squidoo lens rank is important? One of my lens rank is 8,505 and other is 9,600 . Is this good? And how long it takes to get some traffic from SE?

[PotPieQueen]

Hey all...sorry so long to reply. Was very busy today with lots to try and accomplish. The only way for me to do that is to close out everything else. I have a slight case of IM ADD

Ok, let's see if I can remember some of the questions...

pinging your lens

Pinging your lens means using a program (free, web-based online) to send a "ping" to your lens or blog to let the search engines know it's there and to come index it. This is big-time important especially if you don't have links to your new lens from your already published and indexed lenses. This makes it easier for the search engines to find it, and quicker to index.

The two pinging services listed above are both good. I use www.pingoat.com

Social Bookmarking

Also, very important to gain strong one-way links IN to your blog and generate social traffic. There are TONS of these sites out there. One hint: also use www.onlywire.com This service bookmarks to 19 other sites for you and all are PR 5 or higher.

Importance of lensrank

Lensrank and Google are two separate popularity contests. Lensrank is only relevant within Squidoo and won't have much effect on your ranking within the search engines. Yes, a higher lensrank (one that is at least Top 100 in a category) will provide more traffic from Squidoo itself.

For example, one of my best performing lenses (that actually squeaked in the over-all Top 100 the other day) has decent traffic to it - but virtually NO traffic from Google. Why? I made that page for Squidoo and it's not optimized as well for Google. Therefor, the lensrank is really good which attracts other lensmasters wanting to sign my guestbook to get a link back to their lens, or others are just checking me out..lol

My busiest lenses are not ranked all that great within Squidoo. It can be tough to accomplish both a top 100 over-all lens, and big traffic from Google.

Stats

Your stats dashboard shows a cumulative traffic count for the last 7 days...exactly the last 7 days combined...down to the minute. So, for example, it is 12:26 am EST right now. my stats will pertain to traffic from 12:27 am EST 7 days ago and in a minute, it will pertain to 12:28 am EST 7 days ago and so on.

Does that make sense?

Your stats are very helpful for "tweaking" your lens. You can see what keywords people use to find you (and that is awesome). you can use this information to make your lens even better (that is a hint)


Ok, what else?

[rocker rokstar]

Thanks Pot Pie nice info.

[PotPieQueen]

Thanks Pot Pie nice info.

You're quite welcome

[onlinedownloads]

These days squidoo has lost its higher SERP with Google. Some say Google has slapped squidoo for spamming.

[andyz]

I do not feel they get more traffic or better rankings than Article Writing. I use Article Writing + Blogging + Squidoo as a system. I have lenses that are google ranked higher than articles and I have articles that are higher ranked than lenses.

Squidoo is a fabulous resource but you still need to apply normal traffic building processes to it.

Normal traffic building - no... with articles you can't use social bookmarking, you can't get comments and no backlinks in the way you can get with squidoo. So I think if you make an EXCELLENT lens, you should get more traffic than from an article.

[PotPieQueen]

True, Andy. The days of "easy" traffic for little effort are gearing down for Squidoo users. Is that a bad thing? I certainly don't think so. I think that Google has leveled the playing field back to the point where quality content wins for ALL sites..and that makes me happy. Nothing like being beat out in the SEs by someone tossing up a few banners and some scraped content!

Now, if you want to take advantage of the free resources that Squidoo offers, you need to know what you're doing. Thankfully, I learned that a long time ago - even though I find I am learning more and more each day

Also, regardless of all the nay-sayers that cry about Squidoo being dead, I still believe that the recipe of Squidoo + Article Marketing + Blogging is just about the most powerful FREE platform mixture one can use to really get good organic traffic and exposure.

Just think if you had articles, a blog, AND Squidoo lenses all focused on the same keyword.... can you say CA-CHING?

Now that all the sp-ammers are high-tailing it away from Squidoo, and those that won't make the effort to really learn how to put it all together are believing the chants of "Squidoo doesn't work", now is an awesome time to get in there. Seriously, it is a free resource that pays YOU to use it. As Andy said, you can social bookmark it, you can link TO it FROM articles, and you can link TO anything (even aff links) FROM your lens on Squidoo. To me, who believes in ALL free" resources to make money online, well, it's just dumb to NOT use it.

My two cents.

[artgotc]

I love that this thread is still live . Here i will share you some success , I made one squidoo lens one week ago . Yesturday I have got over 15 unique visitors from SE google and yahoo . Its good for that new lens!

[devincrump]

Hello , any one made squidoo lens? how much traffic it is getting ? I am wondering maybe squidoo lens is better then writing articles . Because I saw that squidoo lens ranks higher in SE then article posted on ezinearticles

Its been a while since I have visited any forums and I have no idea what a squidoo lens is. I know squidoo is a site but what is a squidoo lens. Thanks

[andyz]

It's a page in squidoo... when you have a lens, then you are a "Lensmaster"!

[mdiz]

I am new to this. What is the squidoo?

[rocker rokstar]

www.squidoo.com

It is just like a blog that you can easily add amazon and ebay affiliate stuff to your site. To get some cash. Just go to squidoo and check it out. You can easily add videos to your squidoo lenses also. Each lens is a focused topic you are writting about. Thus kinda like a blog on a subject or mini site on the subject.

[devincrump]

www.squidoo.com

It is just like a blog that you can easily add amazon and ebay affiliate stuff to your site. To get some cash. Just go to squidoo and check it out. You can easily add videos to your squidoo lenses also. Each lens is a focused topic you are writting about. Thus kinda like a blog on a subject or mini site on the subject.

Ok. Thanks for the responses. Any suggestions on topics? Should I start with something of personal interest?