My Squidoo Dashboard Wishlist
I’ve been trying to pound out some lenses today and have been struggling (as usual) with the unwieldy size of my dashboard. Having 300 lenses listed in one place is great for my ego, but not for getting anything productive done. Opening multiple accounts doesn’t really solve much but forcing me to remember more logins and passwords (as if I don’t have enough of those already!).
That being said, here’s how I would fix the dashboard:
- Once you hit a certain number of lenses (50,100?) the dashboard would automatically change to a new format. HQ could afford to make the new dash more feature intensive because many fewer people would be using it, allowing the Squid Servers to keep up.
- This Dash would allow me to one-click publish my lenses. ( a pipe dream but it had to be said).
- Ability to edit keywords, title tags and republish without leaving the Dashboard.
- Sort by primary tag. Why? Lots of reasons.� Read The Importance of the Primary Tag by Fluffanutta for an overview.
- One Screen lens creation. I absolutely hate having to load 4 screens to create a lens. After doing it over 300 times I pretty much have those little sayings memorized. Creating lenses from the dashboard functionality would add extra bonus points.
- Ability to define groups and folders for lenses. Easily view groups and folders of lenses. The Dashboard Extender by Magicality currently does this, but the load times are so horrific for a large group of lenses that it’s not worth turning on.
- Advanced sorting and search functionality. I want to be able to view all of my lenses that have less than X visitors and fall between X,XXX and XX,XXX Lensrank. This is huge for maintaining a large group of lenses and difficult to do currently.
- Access to the Lens RSS feed as a link from the Dashboard. Why don’t we already have this?
- Lens specific earnings reports by day. I want to see which lenses made sales yesterday and through which affiliates.
- Aggregated click through reporting. How many clicks did I send to ebay and amazon yesterday? What lenses did they come from?
- Ability to create Module Templates. I almost always select ‘I want to do my own thing’ and then load in the exact same modules, especially when I’m doing a group of similar lenses. The ability to roll my own pre-set module groupings would be amazing.
- Back up all lenses as a ZIP file.
- Have a ‘Saved Plexo’ list. Goes back to creating similar lenses. Keeping another window open for the sole purpose of grabbing the same plexo over and over is easy to fix.
- Easier Co-Brand creation. Instead of going to each co-brand home page to create a lens, how about a drop down on the dashboard (or new one-page lens making screen) that lets you select your co-brand?
Perhaps I’m not using squidoo as intended, but I am more concerned about overall performance and performance of clusters/themes of lenses than I am with the performance of any one lens. Before I go and build 20 lenses to flesh out an idea, I like to have enough data to tell if that idea is going to make money and scales well. Up to now, doing that is kind of painful just for the number of screens I have to load and the amount of manual calculation I have to do.
What would you add? what’s on your Squidoo Dashboard Wishlist?
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Great post Captain. Squidoo really needs to beef up its statistics. I want to be able to see which modules got clicks, what products were clicked, ect. This is crucial for tracking.
Maybe it’s not on the dashboard, but I would like to lensroll my old lenses to my new lenses in a little easier way. They recently made changes so that you can add new lenses to old quite easily, why not vice versa?
I would also like to see my lensmaster rank (maybe using Fluffanutta’s feed?)on the dashboard.
Just a thought…
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The Top 3 on my wishlist are:
Ability to create Module Templates.
Easier Co-Brand creation.
Lens specific earnings reports by day.