A Guide to Squidoo Lens Labels
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I see remarkably little written across the various blogs, forums and other sites that populate the Squidoo community about lens labels. I can only assume that not very many people use them in their accounts or they are not used very effectively.
This is truly a shame as I find that lens labels are perhaps one of the most useful aspects of the dashboard. They easily allow you to slice and dice your lenses into smaller groups and let you track cool things like the traffic that a particular subset of lenses is receiving.
So, for those of you that don’t really use lens labelling, here’s 5 reasons to start:
- Sort by affiliate program - Create a separate label for Commission Junction, Pepperjam, etc. and place lenses that use each program under that label.
- Lens Cloud labels (see ‘What is a Lens Cloud?’)- Every ‘cloud’ I make has it’s own label. Sometimes, i even have labels for sub-clouds etc. This cuts wayyy down on fishing around for the right lens.
- To-Do - When I’m sitting down for a session of lens editing I always begin by assigning all the lenses I want to work on to a ‘pending’ type label. As I complete what I hoped to do for each lens, I remove it from that label.
- Lenses can have multiple labels!
- Tracking Lensrank - During some months, I’ll label every lens I have in the top tier with one label and every lens in tier 2 with a second label. Then, I’ll check it every week to see which lenses are rising or falling. This is great for helping me pick out trends that are occuring within my lenses.
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I use labels, but have fallen behind in applying them. I like your idea about putting lenses in affiliate categories; that topic will help when I get notifications about discount coupon codes.
I agree. Labels can be very useful. For many of us though I think the reason we don’t use them is because we have too many other things to do and labels are seen as just another way to use up our time.
Great ideas. I posted about this in this post on the Howling Squid Review, but your ideas are even better with more specifics. 
With over 100 lenses, I simply could not manage without labels. I have a label for obvious things like holiday lenses, or family lenses. I have labels for certain groups of lenses with the same subject matter or the same affiliate program. I like your idea about categories and colors and rankings. I will try that too.
Having labels helps me find lenses quickly for updates or if I am searching for information I have posted “somewhere”.
Can I ask what your best producing affiliate program is right now? I’m exclusively using Clickbank at the moment, I like it because of the high commission rates and the number of products available for promotion, and I’m not really aware of anything that’s better (please, anyone who can correct me on this, please do so I’d be interested in hearing).
Cheers,
Howe
I have been so busy learning about other aspects of Squidoo that I had just ignored the labels but after reading this blog I am going to have to check them out.
I am still a little confused as to how you are using all these labels.
I just went back to do the lens cloud on my lens. This is what I have been searching for for a long time. I was trying to figure out how to get backlinks to a specific module and now I have the module number. I do not understand how to add more than 3 lens in the lens cloud however.
I am going back to re-read the lens cloud and see what I can figure out.
I would like to know how you set all mulitiple labels and lens tracking.
When you are talking labels are you talking about tags?
I’ll have to go back and look at my lenses. I’ve let them sit for far too long with any updating. I know I have a few that don’t have any labels on them.
I am not sure what a lens label is. I have been making lens for a while but some of the aspects of lens building still elude me. Thanks for this post.
I do use labels, yet obviously not to their full potential as I had a chance to realize after reading your post. Will take care of this, I promise!
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I used to use the labels for categorising my lenses into subjects but now I use them for marking which lenses need improving, updating and additional promotion