One more week of my little lensbuilding contest with Grayth and it’s looking like I might draw the short end of the stick! We’ll see how it all works out in the end. (follow contest progress here)
Either way, the contest has given me some great new ideas for templates etc for future lensbuilding, as most [...]
mac33 has an excellent post on lensrank decay on one of his lenses and the impact of traffic on his lensrank.
It is an excellent example of how a few ticks of traffic to your lens don’t necessarily mean you will instantly climb to the top of the lensrank ladder. If your visitors arent engaging with [...]
I’ve been toying with some different ideas on how to have multiple lensmasters ‘author’ a single lens and yet not have to set up a new Squidoo account specifically for the new lens. An example would be a lens with group Q&A sections or expert interviews that constantly change or have new content added regularly.
Here’s [...]
I know some lensmasters like to break out their lenses into different accounts depending on the content of the lens. For example, I know of several that have dedicated accounts for their music related lenses.
I’ve stayed away from this for the most part, mainly because it’s something of a hassle to remember which lenses are [...]
For those of you that haven’t noticed it yet, Squidoo released their new ‘lensmaster profile’ pages yesterday and they look pretty sweet!.
If you check out mine, you’ll notice that you can add some websites about you on the left (including up to 3 of your personal sites), your favorited lenses are shown that you have [...]
Memorial Weekend was very ‘Dip’ like for me. I kept having things break, publishers discontinue their affiliate programs, lenses fall out of google like a rock, etc.
While frustrating, it’s certainly not the first time I’ve had a few days like that and it wont be the last. It did get me to thinking on the [...]
I was just searching around on Squidoo and just for kicks I punched in my Lensmaster name (Loyalis) into the search bar and it returned all of my lenses (plus a few more I’m mentioned in!).
I can also sort by lensrank….
Why this is cool
Can’t remember what the lens name was or was it tagged really [...]
Two years ago this month, Squidoo looked like this:
Courtesy of WayBackMachine
If you click through, you can browse around the squidoo of early ‘06 a bit. Sometimes it’s good to look back on where things were in order to see how far you have come. More lenses have been built in the last 2 weeks than [...]
There are many third party sites popping up every day in order to help people get more out of their lensmastering.
Here’s my top five in no particular order:
Sell My Lens – This site is a fee free auction marketplace to buy and sell Squidoo Lenses and URLs. With the recent Giant Squid activity usage [...]
