Editing suggestions for your lenses - to give your lens a lensrank boost

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A checklist to improve your lenses...

Lenses get payed out based on average lensrank of each lens over the whole month.

Since lensrank is based, at least partly, on how often lenses get edited - this lens is here to give you some ideas about what to do when you go over your least edited lenses.

Obviously: if you have something to add that will make your lens better: that's your best edit by far. But if you can't think of anything, the following are some things you can do that will improve your lens, improve its chances of being found in the search engines and - because it's a legitimate edit - improve it's lensrank to boot.

Improve key words 

Improving the key words on your lenses will help:

  • Get you squidoo traffic

  • Get your lens found in google

  • Improve lensrank (because you get more traffic)

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Add the same (new) module to all your lenses 

I have several modules I want to have on all my lenses. Adding them is one way to give your lens an upgrade & edit.

You could:

  1. Add a thank you module:
    to thank all the people who support you.

  2. A support me module.
    To remind people to vote, link etc.

  3. A link plexo to all your related lenses, or all your newest lenses

  4. A sales module: amazon or ebay for instance.
    If your lenses aren't monetized much, this is a good time to spice things up a bit.

  5. A flickr module:
    get some pictures to make your lens look better.

  6. A Google Blog posts module.
    Get related info on your lens. Makes your lens look nice and fresh to google - which is a great bonus.

  7. all your lenses should have a guest module



And make sure your modules have custum titles: appropriate to your topic, not generic.

Find your new module 

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Some things to do to improve your lenses 

What's your favorite? & feel free to add your own.

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Focus on lenses that might rise or fall a tier

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Improving the look of your lenses

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Improve keywords

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Check 'Explore related pages'

Are the lenses listed actually related to yours? A more...3 points

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Interlink related lenses

using the featured lens module or a link plexo (fo more...2 points

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Fix any broken links or missing amazon products

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Delete any old information

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Add the same module to all your lenses

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Lens Bio & Pic

Update your biography and or avatar-picture for di more...0 points

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Add subtitles to modules

Include more keywords on your lens by using those more...0 points

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Optimizing tags

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Improving the look of your lenses 

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Improve the look of your lenses 

  1. Make sure you have cute pictures in the introduction module. Perhaps pick or create a new one.

  2. Add pictures to your other modules, or add a polaroid module

  3. Use some CSS to make your text look better

  4. Add a picture to your guest module

Focus on lenses that might rise or fall a tier 

If you have many lenses, the ones to look at are the ones that are near the border of a pay out tier. That is: around 2000 or around 10.000.

Of course the best way to make lenses jump a tier and stay there is to get them more traffic. Think about not just editing that lens, but promoting it as well.

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Check 'Explore related pages' 

If you have lenses on the same topic, go check out whether they are actually showing up under 'explore related pages'. If not - change your tags or simply add low ranking lenses of your own.

More editing ideas? Anything unclear? 

Post your questions on this Squidoo topic below, and I'll do my best to answer them for you here.

Lensmaster

Ramkitten wrote...

Just came across this lens in the Answer Deck. Great advice.

ReplyPosted July 04, 2009

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RosemarieFransen wrote...

Thanks Katinka for your great suggestions - as a newbie I find that there is so much yet to learn and I appreciate people like yourself who can show us the way.

Have a blessed day!

ReplyPosted June 17, 2009

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CheekyMonkey wrote...

Another really useful lens. Thanks. I didn't see you mention going to the stats page for your lens and seeing what frequently used search terms may be added as tags.

ReplyPosted June 09, 2009

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Spook wrote...

Great was doing well but am now back to square one. What happens if you have already added everything you can think of, surely thers a limit?

ReplyPosted June 08, 2009

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FunGifts4All wrote...

Thank you for the tips. Good info here.

ReplyPosted June 07, 2009

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Astrieanna wrote...

Thanks for the tips! =)

ReplyPosted June 03, 2009

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Mountainside-Crochet wrote...

Lots of good advice. I've just done one lens so far, with more planned soon, and your advice will help so much. Thank you! .... Learning as I go :-).

ReplyPosted April 24, 2009

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Swisstoons wrote...

Excellent tips, Katinka! Thank you for posting!

ReplyPosted April 14, 2009

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BevsPaper wrote...

Splendid advice that I will start implementing. Thank you!

ReplyPosted April 11, 2009

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Gee-Whiz wrote...

you offer excellent advice. i'll use this information in building my own lenses. thanks!

ReplyPosted April 08, 2009

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chefkeem wrote...

Welcome to the SquidAngel Team, Katinka! It's so great to have you with us, finally! :) A heart-felt blessing for you and this great resource lens.

ReplyPosted April 06, 2009

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spirituality wrote...

in reply to Jimmie I know - isn't it fun?

ReplyPosted April 06, 2009

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Jimmie wrote...

You're and angel!!! Congrats!

ReplyPosted April 06, 2009

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clemency wrote...

Great lens. Thanks for the help - you've given me some good ideas.

ReplyPosted March 27, 2009

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aj2008 wrote...

It's that time of the month again when I need to try and maintain the lenses that are averaging in the top 2 tiers, so back to refresh myself on what I should do.

ReplyPosted March 26, 2009

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rms wrote...

Excellent ideas for editing a stale lens! Nice work.

ReplyPosted March 13, 2009

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Amyji wrote...

Very useful information that I will come back to again and again! Thank you.

ReplyPosted February 28, 2009

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kiwisoutback wrote...

Great editing tips. I'm always finding things that I missed from lenses that I made when I first joined Squidoo. The biggest thing I missed back then was filling in the subtitles -- I was really missing out. That, and my tagging was all wrong and very specific. Also, the Discovery module really is a big help with brand new lenses.

ReplyPosted February 18, 2009

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GrowWear wrote...

Very helpful as usual!

ReplyPosted February 10, 2009

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AdrienneJenkins wrote...

I've even found editing out non related copy, so less is more has also helped sometimes with lensrank.

ReplyPosted February 07, 2009

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Aquavel wrote...

Excellent and informative lens! Great resources too! 5*s!

ReplyPosted February 02, 2009

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Superwife wrote...

great tips, thanks

ReplyPosted February 01, 2009

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Steve-SEO-UK wrote...

Just what I was looking for. Many thanks.

ReplyPosted January 26, 2009

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3c86a4 wrote...

Great tips, thank you.

ReplyPosted January 21, 2009

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stargazer00 wrote...

Always something to learn on Squidoo! Thanks for the tips.

ReplyPosted January 12, 2009

 
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