Sneaky Squidoo Lens Label Trick
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Okay, so after spending all day on Sunday re-tagging over 70 lenses (thank my piratey stars that the keyboard shortcuts for fast tagging still work.) based on the results of a test I was running (more on that later..) I’ve come to some conclusions about labels.
1) They save you a lot of time if set up correctly. I thought that having 7-10 labels broken out into groups of 50-100 lenses would help a ton and it did. However, breaking the labels out even further into sub-genres of 10-20 lenses is going to work awesome. That’s going to be my next step.
2) Aggregate Performance #s rock - I care about how groups of lenses perform, not one lens in particular. So, when you can see if a group of lenses is rising or falling in traffic it is incredibly useful. Over time this will allow me to create better and better ‘groups’ of lenses based on the performance results of other groups.
3) A/B Testing - I’ll get into this a bit more tomorrow, but using labels to take a group of lenses and keep one as the control and the other as the experiment can be quite useful…
4) Tier Labeling - This is Huge! Label your lenses in each of the top two payout tiers so you can track them more closely and spend a little extra time on the ones that are slacking off and losing Lensrank. Play the ‘edges’ instead of the ‘middle’.
I don’t think I loaded my lens list that had all of my lenses yesterday except for maybe a handful of times to add labels to lenses.
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Labels are so important, any an all ideas are useful. Your ideas are well thought out and tested - thank you very much!
Thanks for these tips, Captain. I used the “play the edges” strategy with a group of lenses — and you’re right. By keeping the highest one as high as I could, and throwing a little work at whichever was lowest, it seemed to buoy the whole group.
Great tips Captain. I still don’t have enough lenses to really worry about labeling yet. However, I think that I will start now so that I don’t have to do 70 at once