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Test 3 - Testing Squidoo lens ranking strategies

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This is part of a series of pages to study how lens rank works.

Test3 - I will add this page to every group that I can. (i.e. the million links page, the everyone please add here page, etc)

About the lens rank tests

Recently I have noticed a lot of pages talking about various suspected ways to raise your lens rating on Squidoo. All of these pages tend to say that they suspect that the ranking is affected by this or that, but they rarely seem quite sure, and I have yet to see any real evidence that an approach works, or how much it works. So, I was curious about what worked and how much. After all, it would be nice to know will a method raise my rank by 1% or 90%. There is a big difference and you want to know what to focus on!

So, my semi-scientific solution was simple. I have created several Squidoo lenses and will check daily to see how they rank. In theory, they should raise differently depending on what promotion tactics I use. Now before you lecture me on the many, many other variables that I don't have much control over, I must admit that I realize that there is a lot left to chance and at the end of this little test, I may end up with no useful data, but I figured that I might as well at least give it a try.

So, I have created the following pages (unless specified, these are all variations of the same basic page) (you can vote below on what order you think that the pages will finish in):

Control1. I added a bit of content and left it.

I tried to link to high ranking content. For example, the CafePress shop is a high volume shop, the books are top selling books.

I will add this page to every group that I can. (i.e. the million links page, the everyone please add here page, etc). "Does the quality of the group matter?" you ask,. I don't know. This just goes for the more groups is better mentality.

Lots and lots of links, but to a single module. In this case, CafePress.

Lots and lots of links to fairly random modules. Is variety really the spice of life?

I will visit it regularly. Does this help at all?

I will visit it regularly and randomly select a link to follow

I will try to add to this page regularly. Likely just more text on how the experiment is going.

I will add guest comments to this page regularly, but no new content.

I didn't even set it up properly. Heck, I'm not even going to bother publishing it. After the first night, I noticed that all the pages went up in ranking quite a bit even though I only set up the introduction. This is just another test control page.

I will donate none of the profits from this page to charity. The rest of the pages all donate a percentage (but not all).

I will donate all the profits to charity.

I will try to add this page's address in comments on other pages on a regular basis (where appropriate).

I will send emails to test accounts telling them about this wonderful page on a regular basis.

I will add more tags appropriate to the content and really try to attract attention that way.

I will set the page to 5 star rating.

Control2. This is just a basic page

Created with the second group. I added a bit of content and left it.

There is a single module (CafePress), and that is it.

I have tried to create them and publish them all as close as possible. They also all contain the same content as much as possible (OK, so it is boring to read them all, but that is not the purpose).

Have a suspected winner or any guesses as to the outcome (other than me getting bored and stopping this silliness)? Feel free to add comments and/or suggestions!

The basic page contains: