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.

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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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Improving the look of your lenses

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Focus on lenses that might rise or fall a tier

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Improve keywords

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Check 'Explore related pages'

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Interlink related lenses

using the featured lens module or a link plexo (fo more...3 points

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Add the same module to all your lenses

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Fix any broken links or missing amazon products

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Delete any old information

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Lens Bio & Pic

Update your biography and or avatar-picture for di more...1 point

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Add subtitles to modules

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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? 

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