Religion and Spirituality lenses (and more)

Weblog from Katinka Hesselink on any lenses she may decide to make :)

Archive for September, 2008

» Over 2500 visitors to my squidoo lenses in the last week & other news

It’s time to brag again, I guess. My lenses got a total of 2520 visitors over the last week. This is mainly due to my spiritual quotes lens which is now found by google again. I guess a few extra external links helps a lot. Note that I still haven’t turned on ‘explore related lenses’ [...]

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» How to be a great blogger…

Sorry folks – have you been reading what you write? Most of the blogs here on squidtop are not so great. I’m not going to name any names and some of you do know how to write and keep us interested.
I’ve been making a lot of video lenses lately and decided to do one [...]

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» my most popular squidoo lenses in SECOND tier

Each of these had over a hundred visitors in the last 7 days.
First off: my lens about rosacea: how to get rid of red cheeks (and chin and even ears). This lens has 9 votes, so I don’t know what it’s doing in second tier, but perhaps you all can help?
9 people (the same [...]

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» Tag pages on squidoo – a reminder

For those of you taken in by the endorsement of a lens on tag pages on the ’so you want to be a giant squid’ blog – I just want to remind you all that tag pages are NOT actually going to help you to get traffic from search engines to your lens anymore.
TheFluffanutta [...]

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» Nearing the end of the month – lensrank & editing

As you all know, the (usually small) income we get from squidoo is based mostly on lensrank. Payment is made based in fact on average lensrank over the month, counted per lens.
To that one can add in individual cases the income off affiliates like All Posters.com or Amazon.
While average lensrank is not as [...]

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» Lensmaster quiz

Just wanting to point you all to a great Squidoo lensmaster ‘census’ going on. Great questions and great to see the answers. You would not expect the average age to be over 30 would you? But that’s how it is according to the census so far… Of course giants are over represented – with 40% [...]

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» Alternatives to lensrolling: ways to make friends on squidoo

Brenda asked about lensrolling.
I have to admit: I’m not one to do a lot of lensrolling myself. So here’s what I do instead…

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» Quiting squidoo groups – seems to help in google

I don’t know for sure if this is the cause, but quiting groups does seem the trigger: many of my lenses suddenly got more traffic over the past 48 hours.
Of course there could be some other reason google suddenly likes my lenses – like the new category pages in which many of my lenses [...]

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» About groups – a human or a business approach?

I’ve become more business like in my approach to groups. This doesn’t always feel quite right. So I’d like your opinion:
Do you feel right about having 10 lenses in a group that only features 2 of your lenses?
I’ve just deleted the other (say lenses from groups like that, but it feels iffy. I have [...]

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» Yeah – 100 people rated my top lens :)

This day has been coming for a while – but (partly thanks to the new categories I think) my top lens spiritual quotes and wisdom sayings has 100 ratings, on average a top 5 stars .
[And if you want to become popular on squidoo TOO... check out my lens.]

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