How Squidoo Lensrank is computed is always going to remain a mystery, but there are some very obvious guidelines, which one should follow to improve one's squidoo lensrank.
I have been around squidoo for a while and have most of my lens in the top 10000. Based on my experience, i want to highlight a few tips for improving your lensrank.
1. Fresh,Unique and Updated Content - This is perhaps one of the basic underlying factors in Squidoo. You need to have great content and keep on updating it frequently. To used to oft repeated cliche "Content is King".
2. Traffic - In my opinion, this aspect is one of the most important drivers in the Squidoo lensrank algorithm. If you have superb traffic, then your lens will continue to rank high, even though you dont have any fresh ratings, angel blessings or amazon/ebay sales. I say this from personal experience. One of my lens stayed put in the tier 1 for an entire month without a single update from me, solely on the strength of the regular flow of traffic. In fact if you start getting enough organic traffic, your lens will really be on autopilot and you will just have to keep tweaking it just once or twice a month.
3. Be Nice - The world is a very nice place and if you be nice to people, people will be doubly nice to you. If you look at some of the Giant squids and the most successful lensmasters, they will have rated and favorited 100s of other lens. What you give, you will get in return. One of my endeavours, is to try rating atleast 3-5 lenses a day and leave a comment or a feedback on squidoo. Invariably it does translate into a visit to your own lens, a rating, a comment etc. A word of caution though. Dont do this just to get ratings or comments. Do it with genuine intention of helping other people improve their lens, or give honest ratings and comments. Spam comments can be sniffed from miles away. Be nice to people and your lensrank will definitely improve.
There is a fantastic e-book just recently put together by some of the giant squids which has some really lovely tips for squidoo. Check it out here
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Lens of the Day Winner
Joy and Jubilation.
The 3 lens that i created and then subsequently nurtured for a few months has borne fruit. On November 10, 2008- My lens - How to make a Perfect Omelette was awarded the Lens of the Day by Squidoo. A true honour!
Here's what Megan Casey had to say about this lens.
"Just in time for breakfast!
This isn't just a yummy lens.
It's also an ambitious project to catalogue and organize nearly 100 of the best sites and posts about how to make different kinds of omelettes. From the African Potato Omelette to the Scottish Food Fortnight Omelette, you're guaranteed to snag some new ideas for some old recipes.
And yes, you CAN put all your eggs in one basket."
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Delete Irrelevant Content or Links to improve Squidoo Lensrank
All fellow Lensmasters.
I know it can be an excruciating wait for that daily lensrank update- when you've just tweaked your lens and you wonder whether your lensrank will be positively affected.
I am still fairly new to squidoo - but I think i have realised atleast one factor which does have an impact on your squidoo ranking once you have had a fair bit of Content or Links on your squidoo lens. Delete any Content or Links which are Irrelevant or not connected to your keyword or main topic of your Squidoo Lens. I have done that twice and i notice a decent improvement in my Squidoo Lensrank.
One of my lenses was doing fairly well on traffic and ranking and hence i thought i might leverage on that traffic and so I added links to my other lenses which were in dire need of some traffic. The links were not directly relevant. I thought it would improve the ranking of my other Squidoo lenses. In fact this irrelevant link did the opposite for all my Squidoo Lensrank. The well-progessing lens on which i had added the links to my other lenses, started falling in Lensrank while there was no benefit to the other lenses. Thats when i realised that i should delete those irrelevant links as well as delete all unrelated and irrelevant content from my squidoo lens.
It did work. Once I did delete all the unrelated content, my Squidoo Lensrank started showing signs of improvement. That's just one of tips from my experiences with Squidoo.
I will keep on posting more tips from my personal experiences. But the moral of this story is that we must edit our Squidoo Lenses on a regular basis and do some cleaning up. We must delete all Irrelevant Content or Links on our Lenses and then we will definitely witness an improvement in our Squidoo Lensrank
Do checkout some of my squidoo lenses
Twit This!
I know it can be an excruciating wait for that daily lensrank update- when you've just tweaked your lens and you wonder whether your lensrank will be positively affected.
I am still fairly new to squidoo - but I think i have realised atleast one factor which does have an impact on your squidoo ranking once you have had a fair bit of Content or Links on your squidoo lens. Delete any Content or Links which are Irrelevant or not connected to your keyword or main topic of your Squidoo Lens. I have done that twice and i notice a decent improvement in my Squidoo Lensrank.
One of my lenses was doing fairly well on traffic and ranking and hence i thought i might leverage on that traffic and so I added links to my other lenses which were in dire need of some traffic. The links were not directly relevant. I thought it would improve the ranking of my other Squidoo lenses. In fact this irrelevant link did the opposite for all my Squidoo Lensrank. The well-progessing lens on which i had added the links to my other lenses, started falling in Lensrank while there was no benefit to the other lenses. Thats when i realised that i should delete those irrelevant links as well as delete all unrelated and irrelevant content from my squidoo lens.
It did work. Once I did delete all the unrelated content, my Squidoo Lensrank started showing signs of improvement. That's just one of tips from my experiences with Squidoo.
I will keep on posting more tips from my personal experiences. But the moral of this story is that we must edit our Squidoo Lenses on a regular basis and do some cleaning up. We must delete all Irrelevant Content or Links on our Lenses and then we will definitely witness an improvement in our Squidoo Lensrank
Do checkout some of my squidoo lenses
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