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Money4Mommy
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#21 · Posted: 23 Apr 2008 11:16
My Flower Seed Wedding Favor lens has slowly moved up to #17 in DIY and ranks 290 overall. I now have 3 lenses that rank in top 1000.
I am still working on building traffic but feel pretty good about how things are going so far. I have lots of ideas for new lenses but it's really hard to find enough time to work on them right now so I've been trying to focus on improving the lenses that I already have published.
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BillyPilgrim
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#22 · Posted: 23 Apr 2008 13:45
I've never really cared where my lenses rank in Squidoo. Traffic and sales are what I concentrate on. Anyone have high first page natural rankings on the search engines?
BP
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BillyPilgrim
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#23 · Posted: 23 Apr 2008 13:57
I have the #1 ranking for an article and the #3 ranking for my lens in MSN, #2 for the lens in Yahoo with an article at #4. This is in a massively competitive niche.
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RayvinAndRob
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#24 · Posted: 24 Apr 2008 23:48
I guess I'm not too clear on the whole RSS Feed thing for Squidoo. I was expecting my blog posts to show up on my lens but that's not happening.
How far off am I with my expectation?
H-E-L-P!
Rob Nyte
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RayvinAndRob
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#25 · Posted: 25 Apr 2008 00:12
Woohoo! I figured it out! I had the wrong URL in there, that's all. I put my blog's URL instead of my blog's FEED URL. Sheesh!
Anyway, now the lens will stay fresh with daily blog updates being fed to the lens.
Next task, direct traffic to it by social posting.
Thanks again NS
Rob Nyte
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Joined: 22 Sep 2007
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#26 · Posted: 25 Apr 2008 07:44
Guild,
You're welcome. I'm sure you'll do well with Squidoo as you seem to be quite good at what you do.
Squidoo is both effective and fun. You'll really enjoy it. Let me know if I can help.
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moneyforgreene
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#27 · Posted: 13 May 2008 17:00 · Edited by: moneyforgreene
Hi Newbie!
Some time ago when you started talking about Squidoo I put it on my list of things to do. I went away to concentrate on my new website and I'm at a point where I need traffic. So I popped on over to Squidoo to check it out more thoroughly.
I have to say, it's a lot of fun! I thought it was some stuffy marketing type of website. But it's not. It's all about having fun and talking about and promoting whatever you find interesting! I started a lense about my organizing website, but didn't get far yet. Instead I was really eager to write about something else. I thought it was a perfect platform to share and it wasn't a topic covered yet on their website.
I put together a page, sorry "lense" about eosinophilic esophagitis, a serious condition my son has. He's one of the lucky ones at this point because he can actually eat some foods. Other kids can't eat anything at all and rely solely on a yucky formula for all their nutrients and some require feeding tubes. Anyway, you'll have to check out my lense. It's nothing fancy yet. I just wanted to get something put together while I had a little uninterrupted time. I want to go back and add some more and jazz it up. But my main point is to spread the word. What better place!
[Link removed - Admin]
(I hope it's ok to put this link here.)
Thanks!
Tracy
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#28 · Posted: 14 May 2008 22:57
Hi Tracy,
It really is fun. It's also very addicting
They have a friendly forum over there. Squidoo is a great platform for pretty much any topic you can think of.
It's perfectly acceptable to refer to a lens as a page. I do it all the time.
You'll probably have to drop your link into your sig on this forum. I'd be happy to check it out.
Have fun with Squidoo
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simapr
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Joined: 23 Mar 2008
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#29 · Posted: 4 Aug 2008 13:09
Would anybody care to critique my new lens? It's the first with a video and I was really nervous.
The video quality leaves a lot to be desired, but I'm kind of tech dysfunctional. I'm learning as I go.
Would appreciate any feedback.
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#30 · Posted: 4 Aug 2008 19:00
Hi simapr,
Wonderful lens. I know those techniques work because I use similar methods on my own body each day. I need it because I spend over 12 hours a day on my computer.
I also visited a two more lenses of yours. You have a nice lens collection :)
If you'd like a couple tips, I might suggest that you place relevant keyword phrases on your video module titles, guestbooks titles, and on the title of all modules. That will help with SEO and with improving SERPs.
The foot vid quality is the same on YouTube itself. The only way to fix it is to either re-shoot the vid and re-upload it or change something in your video editing and uploading methods.
The massage vid is nicely done. You don't come off as scared. You seemed relaxed and confident.
I'm not sure what caused the slight stuttering sound in the audio but it shouldn't be hard to fix. Your speech is clear. I'm guessing that the culprit is air blowing on the camcorder microphone (microphones are amazingly sensitive these days) but it may be a technical issue.
You might want to put a little more white light in the room if you shoot it over again.
The vid is a good instructional by the way. The massage method is professional and it really does work.
On your duel modules, make sure that there is text for each vote option (for example: yes on one and no on the other option on your stop animal testing lens).
Nice lenses and let me know how your video taping comes along.
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simapr
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#31 · Posted: 4 Aug 2008 19:08
thanks. you are always so willing to help. i hope you know how much you're appreciated.
i'm going to apply what you've told me as soon as time allows. you always give good stuff to us.
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#32 · Posted: 4 Aug 2008 19:55
Hi simapr,
You're welcome, I enjoy contributing and it's nice when someone expresses their appreciation
Good luck and let me know if I can be of further assistance.
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BillChechel
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#33 · Posted: 7 Aug 2008 21:03
Hey everyone.
I actually made $8 with Squidoo in June!
Well it isnt much but lead generation was my initial reason for making a lens. So if you add up all the leads to my business and the small payout...not bad for a free service!
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lonemarketer
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#34 · Posted: 18 Aug 2008 13:08
A lot of good advice here. I started creating some lenses a little over a year ago. I used to be quite easy to get a lense ranked well in Google, but that no longer seems to be the case. Have any of you old timers had similar experience?
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pcwork
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#35 · Posted: 20 Aug 2008 02:57
Does anyone know how frequently the lenses are updated?
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naturalis
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#36 · Posted: 20 Aug 2008 03:58
I was asking myself the same question.
One more thing... Are you pinging your lenses? If yes, how frequently are you pinging them?
-Jernej
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#37 · Posted: 20 Aug 2008 22:52
pcwork: Historically lenses have been updated every day except Sunday. They are still working on the major site overhaul - including the dashboard. Updates have been a bit sporadic over the last couple of weeks.
naturalis: I pinged each lens after I completed them. I also ping them after each update. Never more than once a in a day or when I haven't updated them.
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naturalis
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#38 · Posted: 21 Aug 2008 05:36
Thx Newbie Shield
If you update the lens, what is it usually that you update? Do you treat your lens equally to a blog? Or do you just add some pics and links just to refresh it?
-Jernej
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#39 · Posted: 21 Aug 2008 19:40
Hi naturalis,
I have four lenses. I've done almost everything I can to them except adjust the images to fit better with the new module width. I'll tackle that some day in the future. I don't really ping them any more.
I usually just ping them a few times in the first week or two of lens creation and tweaking. After that there are no changes to ping.
It's different than a blog. When I'm done I'm done and off to the next thing because there is only so much you can do with a single page.
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pcwork
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#40 · Posted: 21 Aug 2008 23:44
I have noticed that people add their links to my lens. How can I add my link to other lenses?
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