![]() I have other lenses in the Top 1000 over-all that don’t get NEAR as much traffic, BUT they are targeted, have a lot of activity….have a lot of click-outs…. Oddly, while I make top tier payout each month from Squidoo for those lenses, those lenses make next to nothing otherwise. They rank in Google exceptionally well for the nifty little keywords I picked out (Note: “Nifty” means hot). ![]() Thats out of what… half a million lenses? Two of them just get SICK amounts of traffic. I have three lenses right now in the Top 100 OVER-ALL on Squidoo. It gives power in rankings… it gives power in getting advertisers… traffic rules. However, traffic is power in the website game. and I imagine that formula changes from time to time (I know I would change it and tweak it). There are also VERY few people who know EXACTLY what improves the lensrank of a Squidoo lens…. Needless to say, there is only one man that is THE Seth Godin. I wonder if there is a lensrank “bonus” for getting traffic to a lens from OUTSIDE of Squidoo, as opposed to inter-site traffic (just thinking out loud)… maybe for links around the internet that point to a lens, also? I would also think that if your lens makes money for the site as a whole, you just might see a boost. Comments, clicking on links, bookmarking, making it a favorite, leaving stars, emailing, etc. Agree?Īs I think about this and mix in the things I’ve noticed and tested, it seems that activity on a lens can help lensrank, too. I think it is safe to say that traffic plays a decent part in determining your lensrank. You can run a hundred, a thousand, or more tests on various lenses and the majority of the time you will see that following a decent improvement in traffic one day, a lensrank boost will be seen the next. This lens saw a smaller rush of traffic one day….īut still saw a nice little jump in lensrank the next day…. While these stats are public, I don’t have permission to post WHAT lens these stats belong to.) These are random tests I ran on Squidaholic. Interesting, huh? But now that was a BIG wave of traffic, so let’s see if I can find another random lens to look at. Now, look what happens to the lensrank of that lens the very next day. Maybe it got ‘Stumbled” or something, but it is a BIG surge of traffic. You can see that this random lens had a REALLY BIG surge in traffic on the 24th. Good! I’m glad you want to see some proof instead of just taking my word for it! You ARE smart! While no one on the ‘outside’ will know for certain what elements make up the formula for lensrank, nor how heavily each factor weighs… I think we can all feel pretty darn certain that traffic figures prominently in the Squidoo lensrank formula. ![]() Isn’t that what EVERY web site wants? Traffic? Lots and lots of traffic? I know I do! You? You’re a genius, of course you want traffic! I imagine that if you owned Squidoo, you would want each contributor (now named ‘lensmasters’ thru your genius mind) to: Stop for a second and think about this AS THE OWNER OF SQUIDOO (not as a lensmaster). What would factor into the formula that you have decided will be called ‘lensrank”? You certainly can’t do it objectively, or by opinion… you can’t automate opinion, now can you? You need a formula that ranks these pages based on facts and stats – not opinion. How do you decide on a formula that rewards the best contributors and gets the contributors to work even harder to have better pages? Now then, how will YOU decide who has the best page on your site? How will YOU decide to rank these web pages with some sort of a formula, an algorithm, that is automated – because, being the genius you are, you know that you can’t do all that by hand simply due to the fact that you know YOUR site will be wildly successful and VERY big. You thought of creating this cool site that enables ANYONE to make a page on your site on just about ANY topic they want – For FREE! YOU are also a financial whiz and have decided the best way to attract people online to participate is to share revenue with each of them. This brain-storm session may give you great insight as to how to improve the lensrank of a Squidoo lens. I know, I know… it’s a bit odd to play make-believe, but bear with me. If you owned the website, how would you run things? How would you reward your lensmasters for a job well-done? What would YOU base lensrank on? Today, you are going to pretend you are Seth Godin, creator of Squidoo. Get Free Training, TWO Free Blogs, and Free Tools Help For Bloggers | Get Daily Pinterest Tips Thinking About Starting Your OWN Blog? If YOU'D like to learn how to make money blogging with affiliate marketing like I do, feel free to read my Free Blogging 101 E-Course here.
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