Comments on: Getting Frustrated with Squidoo?

By: Shane

Shane — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 01:27:27 +0000

Good points. For me the hardest thing is that I’m not tech savvy, and I knew virtually nothing about marketing until even a couple months ago, so I’m still trying to figure out traffic and affiliates as I go along making good content.

By: Sonia Simone

Sonia Simone — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 23:53:16 +0000

Fred, I think they’re completely different critters. Blogs are great if you have unique content that you can generate 3-5 times a week or more. A lens is more of a static reference. I wouldn’t normally fool with a lens that often–maybe once every other week or so do an update, if that.

They can really complement each other, they each have their strengths and weaknesses.

By: Happy Jack

Happy Jack — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 21:34:19 +0000

Index the chance of returning to some part of the Squidoo site that is of interest gets hard with the kind of direction and help posted. Soon these things will be fixed, just the nature of life and the web. Right now Captian Squid is the best help. From H-Jack enjoy the sea

By: jeffryv

jeffryv — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 07:26:15 +0000

Re: 270 lenses problem
Make more user-ids and transfer some.
I currently have an id for every day of the month

By: Fred

Fred — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 03:37:37 +0000

Do you think that a Squidoo lens is better than a blog? When you you choose to make a blog instead of a lens?

By: Linette

Linette — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 02:51:53 +0000

Squidutilis is a great help for organizing, at least you can alphabetize your lenses. Something to organize by category would be great, or any way to break the lenses down and organize them would be better than lensrank. Course my high traffic, high sales lenses get way more love than the other ones do.

I think Squidoo is definitely a hit and miss. Some of the lenses I’ve put the most love and effort into never get off the ground. Some of the lenses I’ve thrown together on a whim, and just put out there to see what would happen have taken off and done really well (then I have to put effort into them to make them respectable, LOL).

Sometimes a lens will sit with very little traffic, then just suddenly take off. I have a couple doing that right now.

I can definitely see the 80/20 rule in my lenses. About 20% get major traffic, the rest just trickle along.

By: PotPieGirl

PotPieGirl — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 01:44:37 +0000

Great post, Captain…and a very important post, too. Squidoo certainly is not a get rich quick scheme =)

Its funny – I have lenses that see a lot of traffic..and make a few sales. Then I have lenses that see very little traffic, but they convert very highly. I guess the “80/20 rule” applies with Squidoo, too. 20% of your lenses will do 80% of your business.

If your lens isn’t getting the exposure you want, my best advice is to not be too proud to change something. See how the few that ARE finding your lens are finding their way there and optimize for that.

I don’t have nearly as many lenses as you do, Captain, but I sure would love a more efficient way of managing them all from the dashboard – even if we could simply separate them by category or something.

Great blog… always helpful!

Thanks!
PotPieGirl