Posted By SquidooFreak on April 6, 2010
Over the last couple of days I’ve been talking about Squidoo’s Lens Rank, asking What is the Squidoo lens rank and How can you improve your Squidoo lens rank?
Today I’m going to look at the importance of the lens rank – why you shouldn’t ignore it – but also when you’re better off leaving things alone.
Let’s start out with the latter of the two. The lens rank does play a part in more than determining the size of the payout you’ll get from the Squidoo Co-op, and when a lens is new there’s a few things you can and should do to work on your lens rank.
The things you should do is to post an article on the main article directories, linking back to your lens. Also, you need to tweet about your lens, post an update on Facebook and send a squidcast. The purpose of this is to get backlinks to your lens, and encourage people to rate your lens via the Squidcast.
If you want to take things a bit further – and you’re convinced that your lens is as good as it can possibly be – go to the SquidU forum, and ask the Squidoo Angels to visit and rate/bless your lens. A word of warning on this one though – if they don’t agree that you’ve build a good lens – they may dink it and that wil adversely affect your lens rank.
Taking these steps will leave your lens in the top 100.000 – ensuring a payout every month from the Squidoo Co-op. At this stage – unless you’ve got more than 25-30 lenses or make $100+ a month from Squidoo – there’s not much point in putting more work into improving your lens rank. In stead you should focus your time and energy on building more lenses, adding to your portfolio.
If you want to proceed with working on your lenses, you need to start getting a bit advanced with internal linking between your lenses, which is why I’m telling you to wait until you’ve got a certain amount of lenses. Add a “Featured Lenses” module to all your lenses, and feature all lenses that are relevant to the subject on each lens. Also, you should take the time to lensroll your lenses between each other according to relevance.
Another internal linking strategy you should utilise is working on your Tags. I’ll go into details on this subject in a guide that I’m going to do in the next few weeks, or a post specifically on this subject, but you do need to put in as many relevant tags as you can on your lens. Squidoo will allow you 40 tags on each lens.
If you choose to, you can now start creating more backlinks to your lens. The best way of doing this is to blog about your lens, post relevant comments in high profile blogs and post more articles in the article directories.
This is going to conclude my articles about Squidoo Lensrank for now – but I’ll be back as and when I learn more – and can domore to help you in your endeavors of becoming a successful lens master on Squidoo.
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Tags: Backlinks, Internal Linking, Squidoo Angels, Squidoo Backlinks, Squidoo Co-op, Squidoo Lensrank, Squidoo Tags, Tagging
